Paul Rooney (artist)

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Paul Rooney
Born 1967
Liverpool, England
Alma mater
Occupation Artist
Awards Northern Art Prize (2008)
Website www.paulrooney.info

Paul Rooney (born 1967 in Liverpool) is an English artist who works with music, voice, video and text.

Biography

Paul Rooney studied at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating with an MFA in 1991. He was a founder member (1996-2002) of the artist's group Common Culture[1] showing at EAST International with them in 1999[2] and at Tate Liverpool in 2002.[3] In 1998 his solo practice shifted from painting to music, with the band Rooney (which ended in 2000, after which a US band started using the name), exploring the relationship between music and everyday life.[4]

During the 2000s, Paul Rooney's art practice — primarily music but also including video and writing — developed through a period of residencies and fellowships at institutions in the UK and abroad,[5][6] including Tate Liverpool[7] and Oxford University,[8] and through commissions for organisations such as Sound and Music and Film and Video Umbrella.[9][10][11][12] His art works evolved towards exploring the difficulties inherent in the representation of 'place', permeated as it is with the traces of subjective memory, shared mythologies and historical remembrance that fitfully make themselves present.[13][14][15] The curator Claire Doherty wrote that: "Rooney asserts [the] occupation of place through real and fictional occurrences, acknowledging the overlooked and proposing the equal status of urban myth and lived experience."[16][17]

Rooney was the winner of Art Prize North in 2003,[18] the Northern Art Prize in 2008,[19] and the Morton Award for Lens Based Work in 2012.[20]

Music

CD music albums under the band name Rooney (not the US band of the same name),[21] were broadcast from 1998 to 2000 by BBC Radio 1 (John Peel Show) and BBC Radio 3 (Mixing It) amongst others,[22] and the track Went to Town reached number 44 in John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1998.[23] As well as a solo recording project, Rooney became a performing band in time to record a Peel session in 1999, but the project ended after a third album was released in 2000. Rooney continued to perform or work with other musicians after this however, touring a 'variety night' and a 'rock opera' amongst other performance projects.[24] He returned to releasing records in 2007 with the red vinyl 12" Lucy Over Lancashire, a 16-minute dub anti-hymn to North West England, this time as 'Paul Rooney'.[25][26] It was specifically made for broadcast on BBC Radio Lancashire,[27][28][29] but BBC Radio 1[30] and BBC 6 Music were amongst the other stations who broadcast the piece, and it reached number 5 in that year's Festive Fifty (now organised by Dandelion Radio).[31][32][33] The Rooney Peel session was repeated in 2016 on Gideon Coe's BBC 6 Music show.[34]

Exhibitions

Paul Rooney: La Décision Doypack (commissioned by Radar and Matt's Gallery), 16mm film still, 2008.

Electric Earth: Film and Video from Britain, a British Council exhibition which toured internationally from 2003, included early video work by Rooney.[35] In 2004 he curated a UK touring exhibition dealing with the relationship between music and 'the everyday', an interest which emerged from his own art practice. Pass the Time of Day included works by Arab Strap, Mark Leckey, Rodney Graham, Susan Philipsz and Phil Collins amongst others.[36][37][38][39] The following year Rooney's work was selected for the survey show British Art Show 6,[40][41] which toured the UK in 2005–2006. Rooney has undertaken solo shows at venues such as Site Gallery, Sheffield (a two person show with Susan Philipsz, 2003); Matt's Gallery, London (a sound work with 16mm film co-commissioned by Radar, Loughborough, 2008);[42][43][44] and the 2012 Liverpool Biennial official programme.

Writing

Texts (as art-works) by Rooney were published by Serpent's Tail in 2006,[45] by Whitechapel Gallery in collaboration with MIT Press in 2009[46] and 2011,[47] and in 2012 a short fiction collection, Dust and Other Stories, was published by Akerman Daly/Aye Aye Books.[48]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.frieze.com/issue/review/common_culture/
  2. ↑ http://www.eastinternational.net/east/artists/pages/1999_pages/commonculture_1999.html
  3. ↑ http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/shopping-century-art-and-consumer-culture
  4. ↑ http://www.air-artists.org/artists/jobs_and_opps/article/518272/631755
  5. ↑ http://www.dundee.ac.uk/pressreleases/prmar02/paulrooney.htm
  6. ↑ http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~in5127/40ad/events%20exhibitions%20posters%20image58.html
  7. ↑ http://www.air-artists.org/artists_talking/article/83669
  8. ↑ http://www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/research/detail/arts_council_england_oxford_melbourne_fellowship
  9. ↑ http://www.grizedale.org/artists/paul.rooney
  10. ↑ http://www.fvu.co.uk/projects/detail/artists/paul-rooney
  11. ↑ http://www.soundandmusic.org/projects/thin-air
  12. ↑ http://www.grundyartgallery.com/programme/past/2012/
  13. ↑ Kivland, Sharon; Sanderson, Lesley; Cocker, Emma (eds). Essays by Randolph, Jeanne; Thorp, David. Transmission: Speaking and Listening Volume 3. Sheffield Hallam University; Site Gallery, Sheffield. Includes Rooney artists’ talk transcription.
  14. ↑ http://www.neilmulholland.co.uk/drive/?p=585
  15. ↑ http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=jafl
  16. ↑ http://placeinternational.org/images2/publications/The_Work_of_Paul_Rooney.pdf
  17. ↑ Cowley, Julian. ‘Cross Platform – sounds in other media: Paul Rooney’. The Wire. Jan. 2010
  18. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3173914.stm
  19. ↑ http://www.northernartprize.org.uk/2008-prize
  20. ↑ http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/pages/exhibition_frame.asp?id=296
  21. ↑ http://www.cosmik.com/aa-september01/reviews/review_rooney.html
  22. ↑ http://mixingit.hubmed.org/shows/1999/03/15
  23. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/festive50s/1990s/1998/
  24. ↑ "Grizedale rock opera".
  25. ↑ http://coffeetablenotes.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/paul-rooney-lucy-over-lancashire-suemi.html
  26. ↑ http://massivecrushonmusic.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/paul-rooney-lucy-over-lancashire.html
  27. ↑ http://www.isthismusic.com/paul-rooney
  28. ↑ http://otwradio.blogspot.co.uk/2006/11/playlist-18th-november-2006.html
  29. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01lcs2t
  30. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/huwstephens/tracklistingarchive.shtml?070503
  31. ↑ http://dandelionradio.com/2007festive50.htm
  32. ↑ http://louderthanwar.com/quick-fire-john-peel-related-questions-to-dandelion-radio-djs/
  33. ↑ http://louderthanwar.com/the-festive-fifty-the-dandelion-radio-years-plus-how-to-have-a-say-in-this-years-edition-of-the-chart/
  34. ↑ "Gideon Coe track listing.".
  35. ↑ http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/whats-on/exhibition/11/15892
  36. ↑ http://www.royaljellyfactory.com/davidbarrett/articles/artmonthly-list.htm
  37. ↑ Barrett, David. ‘Pass the Time of Day’. Art Monthly. March 2005
  38. ↑ Falconer, Morgan. ‘Painting with Sound’. The Times. 22 January 2005
  39. ↑ Thatcher, Jennifer. ‘Pass the Time of Day’. Flash Art. January–February 2005
  40. ↑ http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/british-art-show-6
  41. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2006/01/24/280106_rooney_bas_feature.shtml
  42. ↑ http://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/rooney/exhibition-1.php
  43. ↑ Milliard, Coline. ‘Paul Rooney, Matt’s Gallery’. Modern Painters. July/August. 2008
  44. ↑ Charlesworth, JJ. ‘Paul Rooney, Matt’s Gallery’. Art Review. June/July.
  45. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jan/06/art
  46. ↑ http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/31/product_id/411
  47. ↑ http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/31/product_id/980?session_id=13940183745acd521ef7dffa8e149881d0a61eed76
  48. ↑ http://bookmunch.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/the-treachery-of-stories-and-words-dust-and-other-stories-by-paul-rooney/

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