Pen Dalton Explained

Penelope Dalton is an artist, critic and writer.^[1]

Education

Dalton trained at Goldsmiths, University of London and Brighton University and gained a PhD in Creative studies from Plymouth University in 2008.^[2]

Career

Dalton taught studio practice and critical theory at Dartington College of Arts and Birmingham City University.^[3]

Dalton spent many years as an academic researcher in socially contextualised practice in printmaking and art education, drawing on feminist and linguistic theory.^[4] In recent years she has eschewed 'theory'. The arts - she now believes - are being absorbed within the economies of entertainment, social welfare and consumerism. Her recent work returns to a modernist approach, and focusses on the materiality of painting as an imaginative practice of analogy and poetics.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• "Different strokes" Westminster Reference Library. London, (2017) ^[5]
• "Paint Jobs" St Marylebone Parish Church Crypt, London (2015)^[6]
• "Stuff and Nonsense" Tokarska Gallery, London (2014)^[7]

Group exhibitions

• "Contemporary Painting: In Good Health". (2017) The Menier Gallery, London
• "Stations of the Cross" Brentwood Cathedral (2015) ^[8]
• "Contemporary British Abstraction" SE9 Container Gallery, London (2015) ^[9]
• "Contemporary British Painting" Huddersfield Art Gallery (2014)
• "@PaintBritain" Ipswich Art School Gallery, Ipswich Museum (2014) ^[10]
• "Artness" Artmeet Gallery, Milan, Italy (2014)
• "A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution" Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2014) William Morris Gallery (2016) ^[11]
• "Propaganda Posters From the Schreyer Collection" Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2002)
• "Exposition de Grabado Contemporaneo [Eight contemporary women printmakers]" Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain British Council.(1998)
• "The Power of the Poster" Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1998)
• "Women's Art" Spacex (art gallery), Exeter (1989)
• "Prints With a Point" Hard Times Gallery, Bristol (1987)
• "3 Women Artists" Battersea Arts Centre, London (1984)
• "Reflections: 5 Women Artists" Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (1982)

Collections

• Musée de la Publicité, Paris
• Komechak Art Gallery, Chicago
• The Priseman Seabrook Collection^[12]
• Swindon Art Gallery
• Victoria and Albert Museum London^[13]
• The Working Class Archive ^[14]
• Goldsmiths Archives catalogue^[15]
• Feminist Archive South, UK.^[16]

Publications

• (2008) Pen Dalton: Doctoral thesis: Family and Other Relations:^[2]
• (2006) Pen Dalton: ' "Like"' in Henry Rogers, (ed.) Art Becomes You: Parody, Pastiche and the Politics of Art: Materiality in a Post-material Paradigm. BIAD/IKON Gallery. Article Press.
• (2006)Pen Dalton: 'Where is 'the subject' of contextual practice?' in The Journal of Visual Art Practice, Intellect Publishers. vol. 3 no 1
• (2006) Pen Dalton: 'Feminist Methodologies in Art Education: Critique' in The International Journal, n.paradoxa, vol. 17, pp 72–76.
• (2003) Pen Dalton: critical essay: 'Losing it' in Lloyd Lewis, P. and Shaffrey C., (eds) Losing It: a catalogue for an exhibition of screen based video, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Eire. pp. 1–4. Article Press.
• (2001) Pen Dalton. book: The Gendering of Art Education : Modernism, Identity and Critical Feminism.^[17]
• (1999) Pen Dalton: 'Oedipal dramas in art education' in The International Journal of Art and Design Education. vol.18 no 3 October. pp. 301–306 ^[18]
• (1995) Pen Dalton: 'Modernism, art education and sexual difference' in Barrie, P. and Deepwell, K ads. New Feminist Art Criticism. Manchester University Press.^[19]
• (1992) Pen Dalton: 'Psychology and the subject of art education' in J& J Swift (ends) Disciplines, Fields, Change in Art Education, vol 3 Article Press. pp. 83–96
• (1979) Pen Dalton: 'What is art education for? Feminist Art News no 1 Spring. (1980) 'What is art education for? (reprinted) Pollock G and Parker, R. (eds) Framing Feminism: Art and the Women's Movement. 1970–85. Pandora
• (1978) Pen Dalton: 'Feminist art practice and the mass media' in Feminist Arts News, no 1; reprinted (1979) in Women's Studies International Journal vol 3 no 1, reprinted (1980) in Baerh, H. (ed) Women and Media, Oxford, Pergamon Press

Further reading

• (2017) Contemporary Masters from Britain: 80 British Painters of the 21st Century. Seabrook Press.^[20]
• (2009) Frizell, Hazel Representations of specific concerns of the women's liberation movement in British feminist art 1970-1978. ^[21]
• (2002) Doy, Gen. Drapery: Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture
• (1997) Timmers, M.(ed) The Power of the Poster, V & A publications.pp 140 – 141.
• (1993) Phillipe R. (ed) Political Graphics: Art As a Weapon. Phaidon. p 300

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pen Dalton. axisweb.org.
2. PhD. University of Plymouth. Family and other relations : a thesis examining the extent to which family relationships shape the relations of art. Penelope. Dalton. 2008. . ethos.bl.uk. 10026.1/758.
3. Web site: Pen Dalton . Artlyst . 2016-06-01.
4. Web site: Pen Dalton, Stuff and Nonsense . Wall Street International . 2014-01-22. 2016-06-01.
5. https://www.artrabbit.com/events/pen-dalton-different-strokes www.artrabbit.com/events/pen-dalton-different-strokes
6. Web site: Art Event: Paint Jobs by Pen dalton. Artlyst. Artlyst London. 2016-06-03.
7. Web site: new exhibitions of contemporary art / exhibitions. www.newexhibitions.com. 2016-06-03.
8. http://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/1783/5/brentwood-cathedral-unveils-new-stations-of-the-cross www.thetablet.co.uk/news/1783/5/brentwood-cathedral-unveils-new-stations-of-the-cross
9. http://www.artlyst.com/whats-on-archive/contemporary-british-abstraction-the-se9-container-gallery-2/ www.artlyst.com/whats-on-archive/contemporary-british-abstraction-the-se9-container-gallery-2/
10. http://www.matthewkrishanu.com/blog/page/3/ www.matthewkrishanu.com/blog/page/3/
11. http://www.wmgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions-43/past/2017 www.wmgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions-43/past/2017
12. pressman-seabrook.org
13. Web site: Dalton, Pen . V&A. 2016-06-01.
14. News: Poster. Dalton. Pen. 1974. 15 May 2017. The Guardian.
15. http://www.calmview.ev/Goldsmiths/CalmView/overview.aspx.
16. http://feministarchivesouth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Tableposter.pdf
17. Book: The Gendering of Art Education : Modernism, Identity and Critical Feminism . Open University Press. 2001 . 2016-06-01 . 9780335196487.
18. Oedipal Dramas in Art Education. International Journal of Art & Design Education. 18. 3. 301–306. 10.1111/1468-5949.00187. 1999. Dalton. Pen.
19. http://www.mheducation.co.uk/openup/chapters/0335196489.pdf www.mheducation.co.uk/openup/chapters/0335196489.pdf
20. http://www.priseman-seabrook.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Contemporary-Masters-From-Britain.pdf www.priseman-seabrook.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Contemporary-Masters-From-Britain.pdf
21. PhD. Kingston University. Representations of specific concerns of the women's liberation movement in British feminist art 1970-1978. Hazel Elizabeth. Frizell. 2009. . ethos.bl.uk.