Richard Bowers - CV.

saab[at]richardbowers.co.uk
www.richardbowers.co.uk

Born:

1964, Aldershot, England.

Studied:

Arts Foundation: Gloucestershire College of Art and Technology, Cheltenham, 1984.

Fine Art Degree: South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, Cardiff, 1984-7.

Currently working on:

'Thaw' with Ian Watson and Nic Finch.

'Pandaemonium' with Gwilly Edmondez.

Improvisations for violin and electronics.

Exhibitions, broadcasts and performances:

'Pandaemonium' - Experimentica08, Cardiff, 2008.

'Atlas' - ANNEXE, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff, 2008.

'Thaw' with Ian Watson and Nic Finch, Atrium, Cardiff, 2008.

'Marginalia Parts 1 & 2' - installations.
Part 1: How the words came into being, Washington Gallery, April/May 2008.
Part 2: Atlas - the passage through Hell is a spiral, Cardiff School of Psychology, Summer 2008.

'A Song for Europe' invited artist with Gwilly Edmondez for AV08:Broadcast, Newcastle, March 2008.

'Darkness Visible', (with Ian Watson, Nic Finch and Jon Ruddick) 12-hour performance, Experimentica07, Cardiff, 2007.

'Seasonally Affected' (with Ian Watson, Nic Finch and Jon Ruddick), Expo 2007, Sonic Arts Network, Plymouth, 2007.

Works included in Soundnetwork@Futuresonic 08, Manchester.

Works included in the Erstakonsthall 'Art is not Mute' sound archive. Various venues.

‘Departure’ (video with sound), National Eisteddfod 2006, Swansea.

‘7 intermezzos’ (audio) - broadcast on 209Radio, Cambridge, Feb 2006 and released in part on their CD "you are listening". Diffused at a concert at University of Newcastle, 2006. Included in 'Brave New Wales' CD released through Fourier Transform, 2008.

‘Botanising on the Asphalt’ (live video and sound performance), Experimentica 2006, Chapter (with Ian Watson and Nic Finch).

Various videos shown at 'Comfy Chairs' event at University of Newcastle, 2006.

‘In Memoriam R.B.’ Sculptural relief with sound, Washington Gallery, Penarth, 2006.

‘Oil’ broadcast on Mixing It, BBC Radio 3, 3/2/2006.

‘Grave Chords’ (audio) - selected for ‘Bend it like Beckett’ CD – tribute to Samuel Beckett, 2006

‘Book’ (video) – shown at Outvideo, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2005

‘Hymn’ (tape) – broadcast on Resonance FM as part of a programme celebrating European Radio Day, 2005

‘Reichmann Berlin 1’ (tape) – Sounds Electric ’05, Maynooth, Ireland.

‘Writing...receiving’ (video) – shown at The One Night event, Cardiff, 2004.

‘Oboe 1996’ (tape) – Electroacoustic Wales, Bangor University – (Thomas Davey played oboe on the recordings), 2003

‘Invocation’ (tape) – ‘Works for Peace’ concert, University of Sheffield, 2003.

‘Incident 2’ (tape) – for ‘Sounds recorded for an empty nightclub’. (Event + cd), Sheffield 2003.

‘Manchester-Cardiff’, improvised accompaniment to video at ‘Long Night’ event, Cardiff – Bowers/Edmondez/Watson, 2002

Performance at Coed Hills Rural Artspace (tapes + video) – Bowers/Edmondez/Watson, 2002

‘Mouth’ (live audio signal processing with videos), Impressions Gallery, York - Bowers/Edmondez/Watson, 2001.

‘Adenonun’ (piano + tape), Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre, Cardiff and British Music Information Centre, London – Geraint Davies, piano, 1994(?)

‘Justine and Tristan’ (voice, violin, bassoon, cello), Chapter Arts, Cardiff – Students of University of Wales Music Dept, 1994.

Excerpt from ‘Assemblage’ broadcast with interview on ‘Scope’, BBC Radio Wales 199?

Group exhibition, Arts Workshop Gallery, (with William Brown, Jon Whitaker and Andrew Harrison), Swansea, 1991.

Paintings and prints: Exhibited throughout Wales with Cardiff Print Workshop, AADW, AVAW, and others, 1987-1991.

Miscellaneous:

“S.A.A.B.’s ‘Mouth’ at the Sightsonic Digital Arts Festival 2001 – Notes from the artists Richard Bowers and Gwilly Edmondez” published in SAN Diffusion, Sonic Arts Network, 2002.

Various articles and reviews for Association of Visual Artists in Wales newsletters, 1989-91.

Technical:

“A Real Time Csound Orchestra”, Csound Magazine, www.csounds.com, 2000.

“Controlling FOG Parameters in Real Time using DirectCsound”, Csound Magazine, www.csounds.com, 2001.

“Musings” Russ Cochrane’s review of some sound collages: http://www.geocities.com/soho/square/6100/rbn.htm

Collections:

Former South Glamorgan County Council.

Former South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education.

Private collections.

Occasional membership of artists’ groups and organisations:

Cardiff Print Workshop.

Sonic Arts Network.

Association of Artists and Designers in Wales / AVAW, 1988-94.

The Sound of Aircraft Attacking Britain (collaborative group of artists including Gwilly Edmondez, Ian Watson, Nic Finch and Jon Ruddick).