Colin Booth | Born in Gateshead Lives and works in St. Leonards on Sea, East Sussex |
2013 | Electro Studios Project Space: set up new gallery and project space |
2012 | Visited Taiwan and Japan |
2002 | Curator and participating artist, "Colour White", De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea. A major survey of artists using white: from Naum Gabo and Ben Nicholson to Anish Kapoor and Callum Innes |
2000-1 | Major Award, Support for Individuals, Arts Council of England, South East |
1999-2002 | Curated individual and group shows, Electro Studios |
1999-2001 | Part time MA Fine Art, University of Brighton |
1997-8 | Founded Electro Studios, artists' studio and gallery complex, St Leonards on Sea |
1993-8 | Launched and directed international arts festival for young people (HYPFEST) |
1993 | Moved to Hastings and resumed painting |
1982-3 | Freelance film critic and journalist, Literary Review, The Face, Sunday Telegraph... |
1980-2 | Manager, Edinburgh Film Theatre and International Film Festival |
1978-80 | Freelance art critic, Art Monthly, Artscribe... |
Freelance curator, 'New Abstraction, a survey of Scottish abstract painting and sculpture | |
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Writer's Bursary, Scottish Arts Council | |
1977-9 | M Litt Fine Art, Edinburgh University |
1975 | Paintings shown in 369 Gallery and Talbot Rice Art Centre, Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Gallery |
Studio visits to Agnes Martin and Brice Marden, USA | |
1973-6 | BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting) University of Northumbria |
Public Collections | |
Royal Collection, Queen Sonja of Norway | |
Conquest Hospital, East Sussex Healthcare Trust | |
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham | |
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne | |