TONY HEATON : SCULPTOR
Date of Birth:
11 October 1954
Preston, Lancashire
Nationality:
English
Impairment:
Spinal Injury
3 December 1970
Education: LANCASTER
UNIVERSITY
BA HONOURS Degree Class II (i)
Major: Visual Arts
(Sculpture)
Minor: Psychology
1989
Relevant Social Interests
Between
1988
Board
Member, Portland Quarry
and
2009
Sculpture Trust
Access
Advisory Group Member,
Whitechapel Art Gallery
Member of
Leicester University, Research Centre for Museums and
Galleries Think Tank Rethinking
Disability Representation
Member of
Tate Modern Access
Monitoring
Group
Member of
National Archive User
Advisory
Group, Kew
Member of
Arts Council of England
Diversity
Task Group
Member of
DADA South Disability Arts Development Agency for the South
Co-Chair
of EQUATA, Disability Arts Development Agency for the
South West
Chair,
Full Circle Arts (formerly N/W
Shape),
Disability Arts Organisation
Member of North West Arts
Board Community Arts Panel
Exhibitions
2008
Tate
Modern - Architecture Inside Out - a collaborative
intervention/performance in the Turbine Hall
2006 Featured
artist in 'Strength - Broadsides from Disability and the
Arts' by Paddy Masefield OBE (Trentham Books, 2006)
2006
Art Plus
Award for Art in Public Places, £50,000 (with Dada-South and
Diablo) as lead artist on squarinthecircle?, a permanent
public sculpture for Portsmouth University School of
Architecture
2005-6
Disability Arts at ICI, head
office Lancaster Square,
London
12 month
exhibition of Zen Men
2005
Sherbourne
House, Dorset - joint
exhibition with Peter Ursem
2004-6 Arco
Arte, Carrara, Italy
- marble
carving with Butros Roumaine
2002-3 Disability
Arts at ICI - head office
Lancaster Square,
London
exhibition
of 'Great Britain from a
wheelchair'
2002
Lifetime
Achievement in the Arts award given by Poole Arts
Council
2002
DA21
(Disability art in the Twenty first Century), Faith House,
Dorset
2001
‘Our
Lives’, Royal Exchange
Theatre, Manchester
1999
TRASH,
International Co-operative Day Community Sculpture Project,
Borough of Poole
1999
‘Transformations’, A4E Funded Public Sculpture -
Collaborative Project supporting sculptor Adam Reynolds,
working with Day Service Users and Bournemouth Borough
Council
1998
‘Arts
Training for Social Services Staff’, Poole, Bournemouth,
Christchurch
1997 ‘Grey
Mares’ - Public Sculpture commission for Manchester City
Council, as a result of a competition organised by Community
Arts North West, sited at Beswick
1997
Director,
Holton Lee - short stay residential centre primarily for
disabled people set within 350 acres. Established an arts
infrastructure including a gallery, studios and a
contemporary arts and education programme
1996
‘Moving
from Within’, Disability Arts Video (featured artist) VA/East
Midlands SHAPE Production
1996
Sculpture
residency: East Midlands Shape/Colonel Frank Seeley School
working with ‘Special Needs’ group supporting a trainee
artist and school staff training
1996
Sculpture
commission for Milton
Keynes Disability Arts Festival
1996
Sculptor
in Residence, Inter-Action Milton Keynes with Training the
Trainers Workshop
1996
Guest
Lecturer: University of Hertfordshire. DATE Course
(Disability Arts, Training and Education)
1996 Guest
Lecturer: Bolton Institute of
Art and Technology
1996
‘The
Body’, The Art House, Dean
Clough, Halifax,
West
Yorkshire
1995
‘Buried
Overground’, Collaborative
Workshop with ARC Leeds
1995
‘Exposed…Great Britain from a Wheelchair’,
solo exhibition, Diorama Gallery, London; featured on ‘From
the Edge’, BBC TV
1995
‘Unleashed
- Images and Experience of Disability’, Laing Art Gallery,
Newcastle Upon Tyne,
January to April
1993
‘Flesh and
Blood’, Proteus Artists Network; Storey Institute, Lancaster
1992
Installation ‘Shaken not Stirred’
performed at the Block Telethon,
Press Conference. Diorama,
London.
Featured Observer Newspaper
1991
Euroday
Disability Arts Festival, London. Installation ‘Shaken Not
Stirred’, featured on BBC TV
1990
‘Current
Sculpture’, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Blackburn,
Lancashire
1990
‘Sculpture
for a Garden’ Exhibition,
Samlesbury Hall, Lancashire
1990 Worden
Environmental Art
Exhibition, Worden Hall,
Lancashire
1990 ‘Out
of Ourselves’, Diorama Gallery,
London
1989
‘8 x 4 x
4’ Exhibition Ludus Studio,
Lancaster
1989 Scott
Gallery Summer Exhibition,
Lancaster
1989
Charlotte
Mason College, Ambleside,
Lake District
1989 Sculpture
Workshops at Worden
Hall,
Leyland, Lancs
1988 Sculpture
Workshops at
Royal
Hospital, Lancaster
1988
Scott
Gallery Summer Show,
Lancaster
1988 Regional
Finalist, Unipart Reflections of Technology Award for
Original Sculpture: Exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture park,
Breton Hall |
