Kevin Atherton 02122019

Kevin Atherton was born in the Isle of Man in 1950. After graduating from the BA Fine Art course at Leeds Polytechnic in 1972 he went on to become a part of the pioneering generation of artists in the UK who developed performance and video art in the nineteen-seventies. In the nineteen-eighties his public art commissions helped to introduce the notion of site-specific practice and gained him sculpture commissions throughout Britain and Ireland. In 2016 his three life-size bronze figures on Brixton Railway Station in London entitled ‘Platforms Piece’ (1986) was awarded Grade II listed status by English Heritage as a part of the BBC’s Black and British season ‘as it is believed to be the first sculptural representation of a British black person in England in a public art context’. Atherton moved from London to Ireland in 1999 to become the first Head of Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design. He completed his PhD in the Faculty of Visual Culture at NCAD in 2010 writing about the self-reflexive role of language in critically examining visual art, a chapter of which was published by Flood in 2012 as ‘Auto-Interview’. He has exhibited and performed throughout the world including at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Britain, and the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, and in 2016 his two-screen video installation ‘In Two Minds’ (1978-2014) was purchased, courtesy of Hennessy, for the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection. He currently weighs in at seventy-three kilos.

Uploaded on Thursday 30th of January 2020
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