Art Walk

The Collection is comprised of a wide range of donatedart works—paintings, prints and sculpture. Works in The Collection are installed on campus so thatstudents, faculty, staff and visitors encounter original works of art everywhere—in public areas, such as hallways and common rooms, as well as in private offices throughout the University. As a result, art has become apart of the daily lives of everyone at Sacred Heart University. To assist in appreciating a selection of the art displayed on campus, the essay Looking at Contemporary Art is included in this brochure.

Art Walk Map & Works on Loan

Photos and descriptions of some of the outdoor sculptures on display on the campus of Sacred Heart University and a map of the locations of these and other works of art

Landscapes 2001 - 2003, 3 solo exhibitions, London, Budapest and Brussels

Landscapes 2001 - 2003 consisted of three exhibitions of the same large scale framed gallery photographs (approx 30 pieces) made with medium format cameras from 2001 - 03. The exhibitions were 'New Pictures', Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 2003; Trafo – House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest 2003 and Sint Lukas gallery, Brussels 2004. Images were made in landscapes in the UK, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Pakistan and Ethiopia. A key aim of this work was to expose the artists practice to new subject matter. There was an accompanying photobook of the work published in 2007 by Dewi Lewis and with an essay by critic, writer, curator and presenter Sacha Craddoc

Photographic Work Exhibited in 'Pictura Britannica', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney curated by the museum's director Bernice Murphy (22 August - 30 November 1997) touring to Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (19 December 1997 - 1 February 1998) and Te Papa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington (27 February - 26 April 1998)

Work from Billingham' series 'Rays a Laugh' was exhibited in 'Pictura Britannica', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (22 August - 30 November 1997) touring to Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (19 December 1997 - 1 February 1998) and Te Papa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington (27 February - 26 April 1998). The exhibition comprised 120 works by 47 British artists, and was one of the largest surveys of contemporary British art organised by Visual Arts. It was curated by Bernice Murphy, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and was the first show of British art to be seen in Australia since the early 1980s, and formed the main visual component of the newImages festival. Alongside well-established names such as Rachel Whiteread, Sam Taylor-Wood, Damien Hirst and Douglas Gordon were works by lesser known artists such as Jonathan Parsons, Critical Décor, Joan Key, David Cheeseman and Nicky Hoberman. For the showing in Sydney Ceal Floyer, Anya Gallaccio and John Frankland created site-specific works in the gallery, Floyer’s discreet interventions were in marked contrast to Gallaccio’s dramatic outdoor installation using crushed colour glass and Frankland’s elegant lift lobby. A fully illustrated catalogue was published by Museum of Contemporary Art, with texts by Bernice Murphy, Patricia Bickers, Stephen Snoddy. John A Walker, Tony Bennett, Kobena Mercer, David Barrett, Nikos Papastergiadis and Patrick Boylan. ISBN 1 875632 53

Richard Billingham International Solo Touring Exhibition: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham UK; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen; Brno House of Arts, Czech Republic; Hasselblad Centre, Göteberg, Sweden and Kunsthalle Willhelmshaven, Germany

Billingham was shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2001 for his show at the Ikon Gallery Birmingham 2000. It was the most comprehensive exhibition of work by the artist up to the year 2000 and constituted an intimate portrait of the artist’s life and close observations of the world around him. It included photographs from the award -winning series of family portraits (1990-1996), earlier black-and-white family photographs (1990-1991), a new series of urban landscapes (1992-1997) as well as video stills and four short video pieces: Ray in Bed (1999), Playstation (1999), Liz Smoking (1998) and Tony Smoking Backwards (1998). There was a fully illustrated catalogue of the show with catalogie essay by Michael Tarantino. It toured to the following five international venues over the coming months: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen; Brno House of Arts, Czech Republic; Hasselblad Centre, Göteberg, Sweden and Kunsthalle Willhelmshaven, Germany