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Curriculum Vitae
Website : https://adamgrose.co.uk | E-mail: adam.grose@adamgrose.co.uk | Tel: (+44) 07747 846790
Current:
Self-employed: Artist, Writer, Tutor & Independent Publisher
15 July 2015 ‐ Present
Go Create Home Education Arts Award Assessor and Tutor
Tutor at Creative Innovation Centre CIC: Taunton Arts School: Printmaking & Drawing Skills
Creative Methodologies at Arts Hub, Flook House: Drawing, Painting and Print
Workshop Tutor: Mosterton Art Group, Winsham Art Group, TYCA, Go Create, State of Emergency
Go Create Committee Member & Member Artist: Go Create, Taunton
Artist Network Member of the Royal West of England Academy.
Education:
Masters in Fine Art Contemporary Practice: University College Falmouth, 2011 - 2012
PGCE in Lifelong Learning: Bath Spa, 2005 - 2006
City & Guilds Teaching Qualification: Southampton City College, 1998
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Southampton Institute, 1993 - 1996
BTEC National Diploma in Art & Design: Fine Art (Incl: Photography & Printmaking): Somerset College of Art & Technology, 1991 - 1993
Vocational Art & Photography: Yeovil College, 1987 – 1988
Teaching:
Self-employed workshop tutor | Creative Innovation Centre CIC, Memorial Hall,
Taunton, Somerset, TA1 3PF | July 2019 – present | Creative Methodologies at Arts Hub, Flook House | Go Create Home Education Arts Award | Various private workshops since 2016 which can be viewed here including Create Chat & Eat, Mosterton Art Group, Winsham Art Group, Taunton Art Group and various projects with Somerset Council and Taunton Town Council.
Go Create: TYCA Festival. Arts Project 'OurPlace/ My Place'. Primary Schools Arts Project with Go Create (Jenny Keogh/ Liz hutching) and Arts Taunton's TYCA Festival at Bishop Henderson C of E Primary (Yr 5) & Cotford St Luke Primary School (Yr 5). April-May 2023.
Go Create: Home School Arts (TYCA Festival). Flook House, Belvedere Road, Taunton, Som. Feb-July 2023.
Create Chat Eat: Wellbeing Art Workshops. Flook House, Belvedere Road, Taunton, Som. Feb-July 2023.
Exam Invigilator (Pool) | Richard Huish College, Taunton, Somerset
Supply Art Lecturer | Yeovil College, Mudford Road, Yeovil, Somerset | 10 Jan 2019 - 30 Nov 2019.
Art Tutor: GCSE Fine Art including Photography and Digital Arts | The Taunton Centre PRU, Taunton Deane Partnership College, Holway Centre, Byron Road, Taunton TA1 2JD | 22 September 2014 – 30 June 2015.
Art Lecturer & Coordinator (HMYOI Portland)
Action for Employment, 23‐26 Mary Arches St, Exeter EX4 3AZ | 01 August 2005 – 30 September 2011 | Art coordinator in Offender Learning (Art and Design).
Art Lecturer (HMYOI Portland) | Strode College, Church Rd, Street BA16 0AB. Tel: 01458 844400 | 22 November 2001 – 01 August 2005 (TUPED over to A4e in 2005).
A Level Tutor (part‐time ‐ Fridays) | Southampton City College, St Mary St, Southampton SO14 1AR | 01 September 1997 – 31 July 1998.
Articles:
This is Tomorrow (Inland Festival)
Awards & Training:
Arts Award Assessor, Bronze and Silver Award, June 2021.
Portfolio review with MDP via Somerset Art Works, May 2018.
Pathways Emerging Artist Bursary Award 2016 | Somerset Art Works Open Studios | 22 Sept ‐ 02 Oct 2016.
Go Create: Taunton Live | First Prize for 'Taunton Lives' painting | July 2016.
Malaca Instituto Flow and Art Award | Feb - May 2014.
BBC Mock Turner Prize (2005).
Phillips Semi‐Conductor Award (1996), Southampton.
Memberships:
RWA Artist Network: Member | July 2018 - Present | <www.rwa.org.uk/artists/adam-grose>
AxisWeb: Network Member | Oct 2012- Present | < https://www.axisweb.org/p/adamgrose/>
Go Create, Taunton, Somerset | Member | July 2016 – Present <http://gocreate.org.uk/index.php/staff-view/adam-r-gross/>
Artist & Illustrators Portfolio | Member | 2020 - Present <https://portfolio.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/adgros>
Publications:
Amazon: Digital and paperback books available to purchase.
MINDSCAPE: A Year in Cornwall Paperback (Pocketbook Series) | Oct 2020
The Time Machine by H G Wells (Contains Art: Watchet, August 2017)
Art as Transformer | Essay by Adam Grose | 2012/ 2017
The Way We See It. Catalogue. Contains Art, Watchet, West Somerset. 17th Sept - 02nd October 2016.
Flow and Art. Malaca Instituto Catalogue. June 2014.
Mindscape: A Year in Cornwall, 2011 - 2012. Collating all the work explored and investigated during the MA Fine Art in Falmouth, 2013. (Blurb)
Mindscape: 1979 - 2011. Retrospective of selected works, 2012. (Blurb)
Phoenix: A Warrior's Tale. 2009. An onomatopoeia experimental fantasy story. 52 page Graphic Novel. Written by Adam Grose & Illustrated by Tony Suleri.
Sci-Fi Art Now. 2009. Scientific Priest Illustration. Ilex Press Ltd. Ed: John Freeman.
The Prison and Other Tales. 2008. 52 page Graphic Novel. Written and Illustrated by Adam Grose.
Cosmogenesis: The Chronicles of Quongo. 2001 - 2007. 550 page epic sci-fi fantasy graphic novel adventure following the exploits of Quongo across the Galaxy of Nom-Yakk.