Paul Rooney (artist) explained

Paul Rooney
Birth Place:Liverpool, England
Occupation:Artist
Notable Works:Lucy Over Lancashire
Awards:Northern Art Prize (2008)

Paul Rooney (born 1967 in Liverpool) is an English artist who works with music and words, primarily through installations and records.[1]

He studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art. In the late 1990s his art practice shifted from painting to video and music, initially with the artist group Common Culture and then the band Rooney.[2] [3] His work later focussed on sound and music within video works, installations and performances.[4] [5]

His art works often explore the difficulties inherent in the representation of place, mixing unreliable narratives of personal experience and urban myth.[6]

Awards include an Abbey Award in Painting at The British School at Rome in 1995,[7] Art Prize North in 2003,[8] [9] the Northern Art Prize in 2008,[10] and the Morton Award for Lens Based Work (2012).[11] His works have been purchased for the Arts Council Collection[12] and through the Contemporary Art Society Acquisitions Scheme.[13]

Work

The three CD music albums released from 1998 to 2000 under the band name Rooney (not the later US band of the same name) were broadcast by BBC Radio 1 (John Peel Show) amongst others,[14] and the track Went to Town reached number 44 in John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1998.[15] [16] Rooney became a live band in time to record a Peel session in 1999.

Paul Rooney continued to perform or work with other musicians in the early 2000s, such as The NWRA House Band, touring a 'variety night'[17] and a 'rock opera' amongst other performance projects.[18] His gallery works — now primarily sound and music based installations but also including video and writing — developed through commissions for organisations such as Sound and Music[19] and Film and Video Umbrella,[20] and through a period of residencies and fellowships at institutions including Durham University; University of Dundee;[21] Tate Liverpool; Proyecto Batiscafo, Havana;[22] [23] Oxford University; University of Melbourne;[24] and University of Wolverhampton.

Electric Earth: Film and Video from Britain, a British Council exhibition which toured internationally from 2003, included early music/video work by Rooney.[25] In 2004 he curated Pass the Time of Day, a UK touring exhibition dealing with the relationship between music and 'the everyday'. Pass the Time of Day included works by Arab Strap, Rodney Graham and Susan Philipsz amongst others.[26] [27] The following year Rooney's work was selected for the survey show British Art Show 6,[28] which toured the UK in 2005–2006. Rooney had solo shows at venues such as Site Gallery, Sheffield (a two-person show with Susan Philipsz, 2003);[29] and Matt's Gallery, London (2008).[30] [31]

He returned to releasing records in 2007 with the red vinyl 12" Lucy Over Lancashire, on SueMi Records of Berlin. Released under his full name of 'Paul Rooney', it was specifically made for broadcast on BBC Radio Lancashire,[32] but BBC Radio 1[33] and BBC 6 Music[34] were amongst the other stations who broadcast the piece.[35] [36]

In 2012 Rooney had a solo show in the Liverpool Biennial official programme,[37] and also that year Dust and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction published by Akerman Daly/Aye-Aye Books, was published.[38] The Rooney Peel session was repeated in 2016 on Gideon Coe's BBC 6 Music show,[39] and in 2017 Rooney's first album for seventeen years, Futile Exorcise, was released on Owd Scrat Records on transparent vinyl.[40] The album was on Stewart Lee's list of best records of 2017[41] and a track from it, Lost High Street, reached number 1 on the 2017 Festive Fifty (now compiled by Dandelion Radio).[42] Along with further record releases[43] [44] he also began to create sited sound installations in historic locations such as Ripon Courthouse (2019)[45] and Lindisfarne Castle (2022-2023).[46] [47]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Paul Rooney: Still at Large – The Maltings . 2023-03-21 . www.maltingsberwick.co.uk . en.
  2. News: Bracewell . Michael . 1999-06-06 . Common Culture . en . Frieze . 47 . 2023-03-21 . 0962-0672.
  3. Cowley . Julian . January 2010 . Cross Platform: Paul Rooney . The Wire Magazine . 20.
  4. Web site: MIRIAD . Participants, CAA Workshop . CAA Workshop.
  5. News: Clark . Robert . Clark . By Robert . 1999-03-16 . Common Culture . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-03-21 . 0261-3077.
  6. News: 2008-06-13 . Exhibitions preview . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-03-21 . 0261-3077.
  7. Web site: Rooney, Paul, b.1967 Art UK . 2023-03-24 . artuk.org . en.
  8. News: BBC News. 8 October 2003. Video art beats Lego to prize. BBC.
  9. Web site: News desk . Manchester Evening News . 2004-08-11 . Art prize winner announced . 2023-03-21 . Manchester Evening News . en.
  10. Web site: Art in Liverpool. Paul Rooney Wins Northern Art Prize. Art in Liverpool.
  11. Web site: RSA Morton Award . 2023-03-21 . Royal Scottish Academy . en.
  12. Web site: Small Talk | Arts Council Collection. www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk.
  13. Web site: CAS. Paul Rooney, Victoria Art Gallery. CAS.
  14. Web site: NTS. Paul Rooney. NTS.
  15. Web site: BBC Radio 1. Keeping It Peel, Festive Fifty 1998. BBC Radio 1, Keeping It Peel.
  16. Web site: Paul Rooney – Lucy Over Lancashire (SueMi) . 2023-03-21 . coffeetablenotes.blogspot.com . en-GB.
  17. Web site: Cubitt Gallery. Saturday: Polly Staple. Cubitt. June 2001 .
  18. Web site: Grizedale Arts: Artists & Contributors: Rooney. www.grizedale.org.
  19. Web site: Expo Leeds – Media and Arts Partnership . 2023-03-21 . en-GB.
  20. Web site: Fim and Video Umbrella. Projects: Bellevue. FVU.
  21. Web site: University of Dundee. University of Dundee Press Release. University of Dundee.
  22. Web site: 2003-08-07 . Agosto 2003 . 2023-03-21 . Proyecto Batiscafo . en.
  23. Web site: Triangle Network Triangle Network . 2023-03-21 . www.trianglenetwork.org.
  24. Web site: The Ruskin School of Art - Arts Council England Oxford Melbourne Fellowship . 2023-03-21 . www.rsa.ox.ac.uk.
  25. Web site: British Council. Electric Earth. British Council.
  26. Web site: Lewis. Emma. Pass the Time of Day. Leftlion.
  27. Barrett, David. ‘Pass the Time of Day’. Art Monthly. March 2005
  28. Web site: Arnolfini Gallery . 2005 . British Art Show 6 . Arnolfini.
  29. Web site: Site Gallery. Susan Philipsz and Paul Rooney. Site Gallery.
  30. Web site: Matt's Gallery – La Décision Doypack . 2023-03-21 . www.mattsgallery.org . en.
  31. Milliard, Coline. ‘Paul Rooney, Matt’s Gallery’. Modern Painters. July/August. 2008
  32. Web site: On The Wire, 01/12/2013 . BBC Radio Lancashire . 2021-04-13 . 2021-04-17.
  33. Web site: BBC Radio 1. Huw Stephens - Tracklisting. BBC.
  34. Web site: BBC 6 Music. Marc Riley 28/5/2014. BBC Programmes.
  35. Web site: Dandelion Radio - 2007 Festive 50. dandelionradio.com.
  36. Web site: Quick Fire John Peel Related Questions To Dandelion Radio DJ's. Guy. Manchester. 25 October 2012.
  37. Web site: Liverpool Biennial. Paul Rooney. Liverpool Biennial.
  38. Web site: Hebblethwaite. David. 23 October 2012. 'The treachery of stories and words' – Dust and Other Stories by Paul Rooney. Bookmunch.
  39. Web site: BBC 6 Music. Gideon Coe track listing 20/4/2016. BBC.
  40. Web site: The Wire online. Multimedia artist Paul Rooney releases new album - The Wire. The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music.
  41. Web site: FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee Jan 18 : Stewart Lee - 41st Best Standup Ever!. Stewart. Lee. www.stewartlee.co.uk.
  42. Web site: Dandelion Radio - 2017 Festive 50. www.dandelionradio.com.
  43. Web site: Spoilt Victorian Child – The Sound Projector . 2023-03-21 . www.thesoundprojector.com.
  44. Web site: Rebel . The Jukebox . 2019-11-29 . Alain Chamois – Let Me Take You There . 2023-03-21 . the last great record . en.
  45. Web site: Paul Rooney at Ripon Courthouse Museum • Arts&Heritage . 2023-03-21 . Arts&Heritage . en.
  46. Web site: Paul Rooney at Lindisfarne Castle • Arts&Heritage . 2023-03-21 . Arts&Heritage . en.
  47. Web site: Song (After Nature) by Paul Rooney (Lindisfarne Castle) . 2023-03-21 . www.churchtimes.co.uk.

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