40 years at the cutting edge

Chris Penn - Artist Printmaker

A retrospective featuring copper plate engravings, linocuts and pyrographs.

On show at
The Queen's Hall, Hexham, Gallery Two, July 1st - July 31st. 2006

Newcastle Arts Centre, August 2nd - August 30th. Admission free.
Mon - Sat 9 -5.

Durer AD -1504 (Finished), 1996. .....................Adam & Eve and the birth of cosmic conciousness, copper plate engraving 1978

Chris Penn
Born 1943

 Education

1958-61 Hastings College of Art
1961-64 Central School of Art (Taught under Gertrude Hermes and Roderick Barrat)
1977-78 Slade School of Art
Trade engraving, Sir John Cass School, London
Part- time lecturer in colleges, including Chelsea College of Art, MA Engraving

Exhibitions, Solo

Minskys Gallery London
Jordan Gallery London
Gallery St Paul Stockholm
Women's Free Arts London
Bonnier Public Company Stockholm
School of Art Gallery, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Exhibitions, Group

Thumb Gallery London
Graphite Gallery London
ICA Gallery London
Royal Academy London
Gallery Graphic Huset Stockholm

Collections

Sainsbury Centre UEA
Museum of Modern Art New York
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Publications

Manual of Wood Engravings (Thames and Hudson) Walter Chamberlain
Words (Cassell) Geoffrey Summerfield
Victorian Tales (Ward Lock) Ruth Clark

Artist in Residence

1989- 90 Department of Art History, University of Nottingham

Chris Penn recently moved from Nottingham to Northumberland where she continues to work