Barking Town Centre Artscape
Biography: Raphael Daden
Name: Raphael Daden – DOB - 07/09/1972
Address: 76, Skipton Circus, Sneinton, Nottingham, NG3 7DU England,
Mobile: 0776 9874557 – Tel:0115 8479796
E-mail [email protected]
Website www.raphaeldaden.co.uk
Education
1997-1998 Postgraduate-Contemporary Arts in Practice University of Derby
1994-1997 Fine Art-Sculpture BA (HONS) Loughborough College of Art and Design
1999- Present Founder of Light source, Arts group which runs ‘Spectrum, ‘Exhibition of Light’
Commissions/projects in progress
2006/10 Lighting the upper roofs on an new hospital in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
2006 Light sculpture for the front of new Voluntary Action Building, Sheffield City
Centre
2006/07 Lift commission for Yeovil Hospital, Somerset
2006 Light based commission for the entrance of Brighton marina, Brighton and hove
2006 Light commission for Grarlds Law firm, Nottingham
2005/6 Designing a 20 m x 3 m underpass for ‘Artscape’ Barking, in London, this is involving over 20,000 Leds and is made interactive by people walking by
Commissions
2005 Thirteen light columns for a walkway in the centre of Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
2005 Lead Artist, Light installation for the new entrance for Yeovil Hospital, Somerset
2005 A 2.5 meter sculpture for the outpatient hospital, Dudley, Birmingham, using casting resin, and lighting
2004 An 8-meter long pedestrian walkway, creating an Interactive light Sculpture/installation using LED lighting, in Andover, Hampshire
2004 A Text/ light Sculpture, 4 m x 1 m Commissioned by Glastonbury festival
2003 Swinegate Under Bridge Lighting Project, Leeds City Centre
Commissioned by Public Arts Wakefield, and Rail track
2003 Interactive light Sculpture for the ‘Making Sense’ Exhibition
Commissioned by 20/21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
2001 Public Light Feature, West Street, Brighton & Hove Series of Illuminated Cones for Brighton City Centre Translucent Polyester Resin, Lighting and Steel
2000 ‘Light Forms’ Festive Illuminations for Derby City Council in
Association with Q Arts, Derby
2000 Light installation to evoke the Yorkshire coastline as part of the ‘Landmarks’ Exhibition Crescent Arts Gallery, Scarborough
1998 Stone Carving, for Suntrans Cycle Network Leicester
Awards
2006 ‘Research and Development in light’ grant from the Arts council England
1999 Awards for All, National Lottery Grant
1998 Royal Society of British Sculptors, Bursary
1997 East Midlands Arts, Start up Award
Forthcoming exhibition
2006 ‘Drawing with Light’ Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford
Selected exhibitions
2003/4 ‘ Spectrum 03 ’ Exhibition of Light, Touring to - Q Arts, Derby –
The Brewhouse Gallery, Taunton, and, Worcester, Museum and Art Gallery
‘Making Sense’ Exhibition, 20/21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
2002 ‘Sea’ Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
‘Art from the Studio’ Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
‘ Spectrum 02 ’ Exhibition of Light, Heathcote Arts, Nottingham
2001 ‘Art X3’ Group Show of UK Artists, Hattingen Gallery, Germany
‘A New Light’ Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, Cambridgeshire
2000 ‘Spectrum 01’ Exhibition of Light, Turtle Arts Gallery, Nottingham
Group Exhibition of light by UK artists
‘Mix 2000’ The Regional Museum Xanten, Grermany
‘Landmarks’ Solo Show Crescent Arts, Scarborough
1999 ‘Sculpture by the Sea’ Bondi Sydney, Australia
‘Eleven 99’ Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
1998 ‘Viewpoints’ ArtSway Gallery Hampshire
‘Rented Rooms’ Mezzanine Gallery Nottingham
‘Light’ On Sight Gallery, Northampton
Visual Arts, Leicester City Art Gallery
1995 Somerset Arts Week
Workshops/projects and lectures
2004 Lecturer for the Architectural Lecture Society, School of the built Environment University of Nottingham. Talking about light and its affects in the urban Environment and the work as an artist
2004 Lead artist for Top Valley School, Nottingham. Year 9 students worked on a
12 week design project, producing a public artwork for the outside of the school.
2003/4 Lead artist for Creative Partnerships – Nottingham, Work with young people within school in Nottingham developing sculptural projects
2002 Lead artist for APT based at the Angle Row Gallery, Nottingham
APT art projects is a multi layered and inclusive resource to work with
young people within the arts between ages 12 –17.
