Lectures - Papers - Nicholas Eastwood | International Contemporary Artist

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2017

Begins Perpignan and Málaga Series.

2015

April Illustrated lecture to the Topsham Arts Group on Nicholas' own work.

2013

Feb Photo opposite, The Artist receiving the Schott Medal at the VP Jardin de Recoletos Hotel, Madrid, Spain, from the Contessa Marquesa de los Jardines de Aranjuez for his service to the music of Joaquin Rodrigo, February 2013.
Feb Photo opposite, The Artist at the Sorolla Museum, Madrid, Spain, with Blanca Pons-Sorolla (the great grand-daughter of artist Joaquin Sorolla), February 2013.

2012

Oct Photo opposite, Nicholas with friends: Raymond Calcraft (conductor), José Maria Gallardo del Rey (guitar), Annabel Garcia del Castillo (first violin in the Valencia orchestra), Nicholas Eastwood and Monique Bertoni.

2010

Dec Requested by the Public Art Collection for copyright permission to reproduce his work in public places for inclusion in the National Public Catalogue.
July Gave an Illustrated Lecture Colour from Music on his own work for the Budleigh Salterton Art & Music Festival by arrangement with the Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton, Devon U.K.
March Gave an Illustrated Lecture for Evelyn Dewer, Higher Education Team Leader, Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Plymouth on his own work and career, for Arts Students at the Graduate Artists Destination Conference at the Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter, U.K

2009

Sept Requested by the Headmaster of Broadclyst Primary School, Devon, U.K., to give a series of ten illustrated sessions on Art Appreciation.
Aug Asked by the Curator of Fine Art, Gina Cox MA, University of Exeter, to take part in a live phone-in programme for BBC Radio on Anthony Gormley’s Plinth Sculpture in Trafalgar Square, London, UK

2007

May Invited to give a second lecture at Sherborne House, Dorset, U.K., on St Ives Artists. Also lectured on his own work, Perpignan to Rodrigo.
Jan Lecture to WEA students, Contemporary British Art, followed up by trips and talks given in Tate Millbank and Tate Britain, London, UK

2006

At the request of Exeter College, Exeter, Devon U.K., instructed students on Fast-Track Citizenship Course Arts Project.

2005

Oct Lecture at Sherborne House, Dorset, U.K., St Ives Artists.
Oct Collage Book Cover Design for Solidarity and Difference by David G. Horrell. Published by T&T Clark International, London, UK
Sept Lectures for English Language Centre, University of Exeter.

2004

Sept Lectures for English Language Centre, University of Exeter.
Sept Gave a series of lectures to WEA students followed by an all-day trip to St. Ives Tate.

2003

Nov Devon Life magazine, November 2003 edition. Mossen Cinto (Right hand panel) featured in an article by Gina Cox M.A., Curator of Fine Art, University of Exeter Art on Campus. Photographer – Ken Holland.
Nov Featured in November 2003 edition of Dartington Estate Newsletter, publicising a lecture on St. Ives Artists, January 2004, Dartington, Totnes, UK

2002

Oct Images of Paintings Ode de Salamanca, the triptych Mossen Cinto, and the Cantico de San Francisco de Asis were added to the archive of the Ediciones Joaquin Rodrigo, Madrid, Spain.

2001

Nov Commissioned by Broadclyst Primary School, Devon, U.K., to make a ceramic sculpture to commemorate the Opening of new School Buildings by HRH the Duke of Kent.
Sept Tony Green, Organiser and Director of the Torbay Art Festival, interviewed about the Festival and Eastwood’s Paintings and Ceramics being shown in the Exhibition at the Spanish Barn, Torquay, U.K. (BBC1).
Sept The artist interviewed and featured by John Clamp, Herald Express, on the Torbay Art Festival and the Artist’s Views on Regional Art, the South West.
Sept Opened the Torbay Art Festival on Saturday 8 September. Opening attended by the Mayor and Mayoress of Torquay.
Aug Interviewed and featured about the Ceramic Wall (the Artist’s House).
Aug Also on the Torbay Art Festival by the Express and Echo.
May Invited by the Faculty of Arts (French) to lecture on his own work Colour en forme at Queen’s Building, LT2, University of Exeter, U.K. for Reunion Conference – Graduates from 1960 onwards.

2000

May University of Exeter, Theology Department, U.K. Crucifixion I (1974) reproduced for Undergraduate Prospectus also for MA Course in Theology and Archaeology.
May Lecture Tour, Germany: Dusseldorf to Dresden lecturing on Contemporary British Painting and Sculpture and the Artist’s own work.
May Bielefeld, Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft, Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Dir. Rudolf Delius.
University of Hamburg: Contemporary British Art and The Artist’s Own Work
University of Leipzig, Department of Art History.
University of Leipzig, Faculty of English. Dir. Prof. Schenkel.
University of Leipzig, Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft. Dir. F. Pollack. (lecture recorded by the British Council, Leipzig, Germany).
University of Dresden, Trends in Modern British Art and his own work, Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft. Dir. H. Kluge.
April The Head of John the Baptist (1988) jacket illustration after the artist Gustave Moreau’s Salomé Dansant. Oxford University Press, U.K.
Jan Invited by Broadclyst Community Primary School to conduct a ten-week Project on The Making of an Exhibition.
Jan Article written on the Artist in Twin Peaks, a magazine published by the Institute of American Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany. Article written by Britta Wilmsmeier.

1999

Aug Article in Télérama magazine (France).
Aug Student writing a thesis on Artist’s Work, Leipzig, Germany (in progress).
June Gave a public lecture (Exeter Arts Centre) on St. Ives Painters, Sculptors and Potters.
May Requested by Mr Misztal (Head of the Faculty of Arts) Crakow Pedagogical University and English Teacher Training College, 2 Podchorazych Ul. 30-084 Krakow, Poland. Gave filmed lectures on British Painting and Sculpture. Films edited for CDRoms on Techniques of Teaching. Sponsored by TEMPUS Project.
May Meeting set up with Michael Houten (British Council Representative, Krakow) – Support for Polish Reform in Teacher Education (SPRITE) to discuss further projects and visits.
April Invitation from Le Proviseur Noël Andreani and Mr Marc Jaillet to give a series of lectures over a period of a week on Modern British Art including his own work at Lycée Xavier Marmier, Pontarlier (France). Instructed Art Students on a practical project. Interviewed and photographed by L’Est Républicain.
Jan Gave a course of 8 lectures for the W.E.A. From Sutherland to Hirst.

1998

Nov Talking Academics Project. Gave a mini-filmed lecture on Modern British Art for the English Language Centre: to enable overseas students to learn how to take notes and understand a lecture on a specialised subject.
June Commisioned to design book cover for 'Flaubert Writing the Masculine.' Artwork entitled 'The Head of John the Baptist 1998 after Gustave Moreau’s Salomé Dansant.'
April Topsham Art Group on The Influences of Music and Landscape on My Painting.
April Requested by RISK Publications to have the painting Laughing Seagull for the front cover of Credit Risk Magazine – A Special Report. Sponsored by McKinsey & Company, Bank of Montreal and TD Securities.
Feb Gave a lecture to Exmouth Art Group on Abstract Art and to
Feb Somerset Society of Artists on Reading a Painting and Interpretation.

1997

Nov Asked by the Head of the Faculty of Arts, University of Liège, to give a series of lectures on Contemporary British Art, including his own work, at the Arts Faculties of Brussels and Liège Universities. Academic year 1997/98. Association Belgie-Britannique arranged by Professor Pierre Michel/Eriks Uskalis, Liège and Luc Herman, President of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE), Antwerp.
July/Sept Directed a new optional course on Modern Art Contemporary British Art: from the Sixties to the Present Day for the 1997 International Summer School (The Academy for English Studies (London/Krefeld, Germany)
May Programme/Video Link for British Telecommunications. Interview for The Independent – Radio 4 Education Matters.

1996

Sept Guest Lecturer at The Academy of English Studies (London), University of Exeter (A.E.S.)
Aug Asked by the Sub-Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Exeter, to put together and teach a Modern Art Course - a module for Testamur Students Degree.
July At the request of the Education Department, Birmingham, and the Robin Hood Primary School: visited the school and gave a lecture on his own work. Film made for the Department of Education, University of Exeter. Covered by Solihull News. Sutton Coalfield News. Walsall Observer. Birmingham News. Excerpts for Radio 4 programme Woman’s Hour. Shown on Channel 4 (T.V.)
July Via University of Exeter Education Department and Robin Hood Primary School, did a programme video-link for Radio 4 You and Yours.
July University Radio Exeter (URE): talk and interview with the artist Alan Cotton Colour on Campus (sponsored by The Guardian).
July Student Dissertation on his work in conjunction with the University of Plymouth (Department of Art and Design).
Mar Guest Lecturer at University of Liège, Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, Département de Langues et Littératures Germaniques, Belgium. Invited by Professor Pierre Michel to lecture on Modern Art and Artists - His Own Work in relation to the British Art Scene. Sponsored by Association Belgo-Britannique.
Feb Lecture to Overseas Students, The Importance of Colour in Art. University of Exeter, English Language Centre, in the Moot Room, Amory Building.
Jan Taunton Society of Artists. Illustrated lecture, The Portrait - Style and Technique.

1995

Dec Gave the first in a series of video conferencing/lectures to the Robin Hood Grammar School, Birmingham. Teaching video film produced for W.W.W. programme, What Makes You Paint Abstract? Sponsors, International Computers Limited (ICL) and British Telecom (BT). Interviewed by Radio 4 for Programme You and Yours.
Nov Lecture to Testamur Students, University of Exeter, Interpreting Modern Art.
Sept Lecture to the English Language Department for Overseas Students on Modern British Art.
Sept Student Dissertation on his work, Exeter College.
Aug Judged and opened the Tiverton Art Society Summer Exhibition.
June Illustrated lecture for the English Language Department, University of Exeter, Introduction to St. Ives - paintings, pottery and sculpture.
May Weekend Workshop at the East Devon College of Further Education - Figure in Landscape: Representational to Abstract.
April Lecture Visit to Jagiellonian University, Krakow: gave a series of lectures - Contemporary British Painting and Sculpture: the Artist in Contemporary British Society. Sponsored by the British Council Warsaw, Poland.
April Lectured at Liceum Ogólnoksztatcace im SW. Rodziny.
April Lectured at Fundacja Nauczycielskiego Kolegium Jezykow Obcych.

1994

Oct Lecture to overseas students on Understanding British Contemporary Painting for the English Language Centre, University of Exeter.
Sept Series of six illustrated seminars (W.E.A.) At Exeter Arts Centre, U.K. British Art: the last 40 years.
May Honiton Festival, Honiton, U.K.: lecture at Honiton Community College.
April Sponsored by British Council, Warsaw, Poland, to give programme of lectures on British contemporary art including his own work in Jageillonian University, Krakow.
April As Opening Guest Lecturer, gave an illustrated paper Reading the Cultural Image: Constable to Cragg at the first conference on Culture and Literature in Foreign Language Teaching Training at Polanczyk, Poland.
April Lecture at Liceum Ogólnoksztatcace Nr 12 W Krakow, Nr 18 W Krakow.
April Lecture given at Foreign Language Teaching Training College, Ul. Slawkowska 14. Krakow, Poland.
April Seminar at Prywatna Szkola Podstawowa ‘Dona’ Krakow, Poland.

1993

Université de Valenciennes et Hainaut Cambresse, France: invited to exhibit and lecture; declined due to previous lecture and exhibition commitments.
Jageillonian University, Krakow, Poland: series of lectures on contemporary British painting and sculpture; second visit to finalise arrangements for 1994 lecture tour for British Council, Warsaw, Poland.
Resigned as tutor at OCA and as Deputy Director of University of Exeter International Summer School to concentrate more on his own painting and overseas commitments.

1992

University of Exeter, UK: lecture on Pop Art for English as Foreign Language Unit.
Institut Provincial de Promotion Sociale, Liège, Belgium: lecture entitled Pop Art and its Music.
OCA, Exeter, UK: public lecture entitled Wot’s British about British Pop Art?
University of Plymouth, Exeter, U.K.: lecture for OCA, Language of Painting.

1991

WEA, Totnes, U.K.: ten illustrated lectures entitled The Idea, The Artist, The Image.
OCA, Exeter, U.K.: illustrated all-day lecture entitled Explaining the Image.
University of Exeter, U.K.: Day School for Department of Continuing and Adult Education, Truro, entitled Is British Pop Art British?
Polytechnic South West, Exeter, U.K.: lecture entitled Pop Art - American Influence - Its Music.

1990

Television South West, Plymouth, U.K.: Forum on the Arts. Panel included Rt. Hon. Richard Luce (Minister for the Arts), Rt. Hon. Kenneth Baker and Dame Janet Fookes.
WEA, Totnes, U.K.: ten illustrated lectures entitled British Art Since World War II.
Open College for the Arts (OCA), Exeter College and University of Exeter, U.K.: tutor (1990-93, then external assessor) for 30-session course Techniques of Painting.

1989

At the request of the University of Exeter Registrar, visited Spain, France, Belgium and Germany giving illustrated lectures to publicise International Summer School.
University of Exeter, U.K.: illustrated lecture for Department of Continuing and Adult Education, Plymouth, on his own work.

1988

Became part-time tutor for Workers’ Education Association (WEA)
University of Exeter, U.K.: Day School for Department of Continuing and Adult Education, Truro: What is Modern Art?
WEA, Chagford, Exeter, U.K.: series of ten lectures entitled Explaining Modern Art.

1986

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany: illustrated lecture British Trends: Looking Forward on Contemporary British Art.
University of Exeter, U.K.: guest lecturer at Summer Academy, on British Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, including the St. Ives School.
Arts Faculty, Exeter College, U.K.: lecture on British Art: The American Influence.
University of Exeter International Summer School: appointed Deputy Director.

1981

Joined the South West Arts Lecture Service, UK.
Université de Strasbourg, France: paper entitled The British Image at colloquium on Les Modèles Culturels et leur Reproduction.
Université de Strasbourg, France: lectures on his own work.

1980

Appointed Deputy Director of the International Summer School for Overseas Students by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Head of the School of Modern Languages, Dr John McKenzie.

1977

Touring visit to several universities in Germany, giving illustrated lectures on Contemporary British Art.
University of Exeter, UK: course on Contemporary British Art and Sculpture at International Summer School for Overseas Students (1977-1993).

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