Tristram Resume

Tristram J. Aver

trisaver@btinternet.com

www.myspace.com/tramraider

Education:

Sept 1999 to Second Class Honours: Division 1 (2:1) BA (Hons) Fine Art –

June 2002: Birmingham School of Fine Art, UCE, Birmingham.

Sept. 1998 to BTEC National Diploma of Foundation studies in Art and Design: Merit pass,

July 1999: Reading College and School of Arts and Design, Reading, Berkshire.

Awards:

April 2007: Shortlisted Artist for The Celeste Art Prize 2007, London.

August 2006: Hallward Art Prize – Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham.

March 2003: Short-listed artist for the 2003 ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’ emerging artist showcase award.

Commissions and Freelance Work:

April 2007: Assistant to Alice Maher for Natural Artifice.

September 2006: Assistant to Dan Hayes, John Moores Prize Winner.
April 2006: Assistant to Christina Mackie, Beck’s Futures Award winner 2005, for her installation at The British Art Show 6, Nottingham.
August 2005: Artist / Curator / Spokesperson for Fiction, Translation, Location, Blake’s Lock Museum, Reading.
June 2005: Coordinator for Spiral of Time exhibition, a one-off group show that explored the relationship between painting and drawing, including Basil Beattie, Sigrid Holmwood, Vanessa Jackson, David Leapman and Rosa Lee. Open Hand Gallery, Reading.
May 2005: Lead Artist for a workshop with ‘inclusion’ children aged 15yrs, to design and create a public mural to coincide with ‘The Oxford Road Community Festival’.
November 2004: Coordinator and curator of Night and Day at Bully’s Acre, an exhibition by Tim Allen. Open Hand Gallery, Reading.
October 2004: Co-curator for a public showing of Jeremy Deller’s video The Battle of Orgreave, Open Space Gallery, Reading.
July 2004: Designer, lead artist and organiser of an ‘Oxford Road – The Story’ Community mural for a BBC radio drama.
June 2003: Artwork commission of worldwide released album, single sleeves and all promotional campaigns for The Cooper Temple Clause, Kick Up the Fire, and Let the Flames Break loose album, Promises, Promises and Blind Pilots"singles. BMG Records, London.

Solo Exhibitions:

Oct 2004: ‘Tristram Aver’, Gallery DNA, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire.

Nov 2000: The Conservatoire, Birmingham.

Sept 1999: &nbpsp; The Conservatoire, Birmingham.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

December 2006: “The Postcard Show”, Surface Gallery, Nottingham.
August 2006: ‘50^th Annual Summer Exhibition’, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
November 2005: ‘2D Open’, Surface Gallery, Nottingham.
July 2005: ‘Fiction Translation Location’, Blake’s Lock Museum, Reading.
June 2005: ‘Open Studios 2005’, Open Hand Open Space Studios and Gallery, Oxford Road, Reading.
March 2005: “Intermission#1”, Gallery DNA, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs.
Dec 2004: Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading.
June 2004: ‘Open Studios 2004’, Open Hand Open Space Studios and Gallery, Oxford Road, Reading.
April 2004: “Colour & Texture”, Jelly Leg’d Chicken Gallery, Reading.
February 2004: “HP” Hype Gallery, Brick Lane, London E1.
July 2002: “Deduce”, School of Fine Art, Margaret St, Birmingham.
May 2001: “Level II” The Custard Factory, Digbeth, Birmingham.

Press:

‘Blake’s Lock goes with the flow’

The Reading Chronicle, www.icberhsire.co.uk, July 28^th, 2005. (Exhibition review).

· 2TEN FM

May 2005 (Artist Interview ref: Oxford Road Community Festival)

· ‘Artists paint the town red… yellow, green, pink and blue’

Reading Evening Post, May 11^th, 2005.

· ‘Selling Our artistic heritage’

Reading Evening Post, April 5^th, 2005.

Art of England Magazine

Nov/Dec 2004. Page 42 (artists feature)

“Tristram Aver @ Gallery DNA”

BBC Berkshire Online, 19^th October 2004.

“Is this the beginning of the end for the towns last art studio?”

Reading Chronicle ‘Weekender’ supplement, pg 2-3, 21^st October, 2004.
(studio and personal spotlight)

“Oxford Road – The Story”

BBC Berkshire Online (mural commission interview). August 6^th, 2004.
www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/article/2004/08/06/oxfordroad_mural_feature.shtml

“Oxford Road – The Story, LIVE!”

Live Radio Interview Broadcast, BBC Radio Berkshire. 4^th August 2004.

· “Artists in search for a new studio”

o Reading Evening Post, April 23^rd, 2004.

· “Seeing Sound: More Than Meets the Eye”

BBC Berkshire Online. August 16^th, 2004.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/features/2003/seeing_sound.shtml

· www.thecoopertempleclause.com

o Artwork and Reading Festival works feature.

o http://145.228.80.23/news/?id=206

· “Tristram has DESIGNS on Temple Clause albums”