Stuart Brisley (born 1933) is a British artist.
Education
Brisley studied at
Guildford School of Art from 1949 to 1954 and at the
Royal College of Art
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from 1956 to 1959. In 1959–60 he attended the
Akademie der Bildenden Künste
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History
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy modelled on the Accademia di Sa ...
in Munich, Germany, and from 1960 to 1962 studied at
Florida State University in
Tallahassee
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,
Florida
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, in the United States.
Career
In 1968 he took part in the
occupation of
Hornsey College of Art
Hornsey College of Art (a.k.a. Hornsey School of Art) was a college in Crouch End in the London Borough of Haringey, England. The HCA was "an iconic British art institution, renowned for its experimental and progressive approach to art and desi ...
by staff and students, the "Hornsey sit-in".
In the 1960s and 1970s he was active as a
performance art
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...
ist; his works were inspired by
Marxist political ideas, and frequently used extended duration as an aspect of the performance. In the 1980s he turned to
sculpture
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and
installation art
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often calle ...
.
After a long academic career, Brisley is a
Professor Emeritus
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of the
Slade School of Fine Art
The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...
.
References
Further reading
* John Douglas Millar (April 2012). Stuart Brisley: Next Door (the missing subject). ''Art Monthly'', p. 18.
*
Penelope Curtis
Penelope Curtis (born 1961) is a British art historian and curator. Fom 2015 to 2020 she was the director of Lisbon's Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, and from 2010 to 2015 director of Tate Britain. She is the author of several monographs on sculptur ...
(2003). ''Sculpture in 20th-Century Britain'' (2 volumes). Leeds: Henry Moore Institute.
* Richard Gott (1996). ''Stuart Brisley: Black''. London: South London Gallery. .
* Michael Newman, Erica Davies (2002). Stuart Brisley: Performing the Political Body and Eating Shit, in The Collection of Ordure. ''Art Data''. .
*
tuart Brisley (1981)
Audio Arts: Volume 4 No 4 ''Audio Arts Magazine'' 4 (4).
1933 births
Living people
English artists
British performance artists
People from Haslemere
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