Personal:
Name:
Tim Seaward
Home/studio: 8 Impasse du Lavoir, Néré, France
Telephone: 0033 5 46 59 42 80
Date of birth: 9th April 1951, Cambridge, UK.
Education:
1981-84 Wolverhampton Polytechnic (BA Hons in Graphic Design) Bournville
Art School, Birmingham (Foundation)
Exhibitions
- Open's, Groups, Galleries, Fairs:
Exeter ('73), Stevenage ('74), Islington ('75), Birmingham('82), Bristol ('88),
Bath ('90), Telford ('96), Walsall ('98), Stourbridge ('99, '01, '02, '03),
Wolverhampton ('99 & '00), World AIDS exhibition ('01, '02, '04), BCVAN
Travelling Exhibition (currently on tour), The Mystical Muse group show at the
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists ('03), Manchester ('04), Lion Gallery (Craft
Council Gallery), Leominster Herefordshire ('04), New Artwork at Phoenix Fine
Arts, Richmond Yorks ('04), Moya Bucknall Fine Arts, Solihull ('04), Charming
Interiors, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire ('04, '05), Teapot Hall, Longbarn Village,
Coventry ('05), Stourbridge Library - with Chris Self ('04), Harborne Gallery
('04-'05), Brindley Place Art Market, Birmingham ('05), Artery Gallery, Perthshire
('05), Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway - alongside
the Monet Exhibition ('05), Cityspace Gallery, Birmingham ('05), Stourbridge
('06), Liberte d'expression London ('06), Islington Contemporary Art and Design
Fair London ('06), Stourbridge ('07), Melle, France ('07), Aubeterre-sur-dronne ('09), Le Mothe Saint Heray ('09), Le Lande ('09),
Paille ('10), La Vergne ('10), Saint Jean d'Angely ('10), Bazas ('10)
Exhibitions
- Solo's:
2010 - Singulier Pluriel, Melle, France
2010 - Le Bistro St Pierre, Néré, France
2009 - Le Four Pontet, Magne, France
2009 - Le Bistro mes amis, Bignay,France
2008 - The Bistro St Pierre, Néré, France
2007 - Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Edgbaston
2007 - The Redhouse Cone, Stourbridge
2006 - The Courtyard, Hereford
2006 - Bay Tree Gallery, Bradford on Avon
2005 Oswestry Visitors and Exhibition Centre
2004 New Artwork - Stourbridge Library
2004 Working Together Gallery, Ludlow
2004 Tallulah's Bar & Restaurant Portsmouth
2004 Zinc Bar & Restaurant Manchester
2000 Living Gallery, Stourbridge
1998 the Crystal Glass Centre, Audnum, West Midlands
1998 "Made in Dudley" Business Exhibition at Merry Hill (Glazam)
1996 Praxis Gallery, Bristol
1996 The Tapas Bar, Bath
"Stopping the horsemen" pastel on permanent display with Wiltshire
County Council Museums and Archives
1994 Gloucester Health Centre
1984 Church of the Redeemer, Birmingham
1974 Stevenage Arts Co-operative, Stevenage
Competitions:
2008 Nouvelles Metamorphoses - Prize Winner
2010 Saint Jean d'Angely - theme 'Bonjour - lumière'... 2nd Prize winner
2010 Bazas - 2nd Prize Winner
Performance:
2008 Fete du Music - Poetry reading (in English and French)
2004 Storytelling - Private Function
2002 The First Jam evening - Poetry readings, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge
2002 September 11th and After - Poetry readings, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge
2001 Poetry Competition The BirmingSlam!, MAC, Birmingham
2000 Man, Myth and Magic Poetry readings - Living Gallery, Stourbridge
2000 Poetry reading - part of wedding reception Poetry reading - part of wedding
ceremony
2000 Tunnel Vision - story creating and telling with Highfields Junior School
Coseley
00000plus actual performance in Coseley Tunnel
1999 Poetry readings - Man, Myth and Magic exhibition Wolverhampton
1999 Poetic Edda recital - Klangstorm performance at Living Gallery Stourbridge
1999 Poetic Edda recital - Klangstorm performance at Custard Factory
Birmingham
1999 Lunar Society recital - dedication of public sculptures
1998 Rollercoasters - storytelling/props making with severly handicapped children
1998 Poetry readings - The first Stourbridge Arts Festival
1998 Krafty Kids - Story telling/mask making/mural painting at various Youth
Clubs in West Midlands
1981-89 Outside Inn, Birmingham - performance/dance/mime/acting
1984 ICA, London - performance
1982 Edinburgh Fringe - Street performance/mime/acting
1971-73 Teignmouth and Tiverton Operatic Societies - dance/ballet/singing/acting
Commissions:
2006 Private commission of Abstract works
2006 Private commission of Surreal works
2005
Private commission of Abstract works
2004 Private commission of Surreal works
2004 Private commission of Abstract works
2002 Holdens Brewery Pump clip artwork
2001 Heraldric Shield painted glass panel
2001 Mock heraldric shield painted and leaded glass panel
1997 Central TV Roadshow - large computer generated backdrop for mobile exhibition
1996-to date OATA fish cartoons
1990-to date Animal and People Portraits, Bath 1990 - 96, Stourbridge 1997 -
to date
1981-89 BBC/ITV illustrations, including works for 'Howards Way', and 'Midlands
Today'
1982 'Now Get Out Of That' BBC programme captions
1981-89 Oil portraits, Birmingham
1985 Anfield Publishing greetings cards, Birmingham
1977 Therfield Chapel mural, Hertfordshire
1976 Pye Telecommunications calendar, Cambridge
Ventures:
1992 Solo trek around Dartmoor
1974 Travelled across land to Dharam Sala, North India
Other
interests:
Christian Mysticism, Wild food plants
Appointments:
2001-2004 First Chairman of Black Country Visual Arts Network
Future
Events:
2009 - numerous solo's and group shows in UK and France ... please see the events page
2010 - numerous solo's and group shows in France ... please see the events page