Robert McConnell


Prior to returning to education, I was an apprentice-trained cabinetmaker and antique restorer and later running my own business for seven years. During this time I also trained as a therapist.

I am the gallery technician/curator for contemporary arts at the Bronte Parsonage Museum. I also freelance, curating contemporary fine art exhibitions.

I hold a BA (Hons) Painting and Ceramics (2:1) and completed my MA Printmaking (Distinction) in 2008.

Through my art practice, I develop ideas around my themes of Boundaries and Bounded-ness and Transgression; I am particularly interested in the spaces where acts of 'Transgression' occur. I endeavour to explore the hidden and the uncomfortable, re-presenting these often-taboo areas, within my domain.

'Transgression is an action that involves the limit, that narrow zone of a line where it displays the flash of its passage, but perhaps also its entire trajectory,even its origin; it is likely that transgression has its entire space in the line it crosses'.

[Michel Foucault]

 


Videos


Trinity Seagulls
Made for Trinity Church Project - Projected onto ceiling

Education

Year Location Subject Grade
2006 - 2008 Bragford College of Visual Media Design and Law MA Printmaking Distinction
2003 - 2006 Bradford College of Art and Design BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting and Ceramics 2:1
2001 - 2002 Keighley College Foundation Art and Design Distinction

Exhibitions

Year Exhibition Location
2009 'Three Exhibitions' The Yorkshire Craft Centre Gallery Bradford
2008 'New Ink 9' MA Show Crossley Gallery Dean Clough Halifax
2008 'Are We There Yet' MA Work in Progress South Square Gallery Thornton
2007 Art Fusion North Exhibition Veiw Gallery Nottingham
2007 'Presence' Art Fusion North Event Trinity Church Leeds
2007 'Sense' Art Fusion North Exhibition KAF Keighley
2007 'Delineate' Drawing Exhibition Crossley Gallery Dean Clough Halifax
2006 Art Fusion North Exhibition Flannels Gallery Leeds
2006 Fine Art Degree Show Bradford College of Art and Design
2006 Pop-Up Video Event South Square Gallery Thornton
2005 Keighley Art Factory Open & Video Exhibition KAF Keighley
2004 Pop-Up Video Exhibition Moroccan Cafe Leeds
2003 Keighley Art Factory Open Exhibition KAF Keighley