Adrian Hall (artist)

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Adrian Hall
Born
Adrian Reginald Hall

(1943-08-29) 29 August 1943 (age 80)
Cornwall, UK
Notable workCheck Piece, [1] BANANACONDA, [2] Bricks In Aspic [3]
Movement Avant-garde

Adrian Hall (born 29 August 1943 in Cornwall) is a conceptual and performance artist who is also known for his stoic activism, teaching in top academic art institutions around the world and for his writings. [4]

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Early life

Hall was born on 29 August 1943 in Cornwall, England. He attended the Royal College of Art in London between 1964 and 1967, while working as an artist assistant to Yoko Ono, featuring in a number of her performances, including Film No 4 [Bottoms] (1966). [5] While at the Royal College, he studied philosophy with Iris Murdoch. [6] In 1968 he moved to the US to do a Masters in Fine Art at the Yale School of Art and Architecture, while studying he fabricated work for Naum Gabo.

Career

After his studies at Yale, Adrian went on to teach at UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. [7] Following his time in the USA, Adrian has taught at art schools and exhibited globally; [8] living in Northern Ireland, New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. During the 1970s, Adrian exhibited regularly with the David Hendriks Gallery in Dublin. He was awarded the P.J. Carrolls Prize for Sculpture at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1975. [9] During his time in Australia, he was the head of sculpture at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), from 1979 to 1984. [10] Adrian was responsible for the establishment of the post-graduate programme of the School of Media Art at COFA where Adrian was head in the early 1990s. He has been the adjunct artist at Dunedin School of Art since 2011. [11]

Personal life

Adrian currently resides in New Zealand. [12]

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References

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  2. "Colloquium Adrian Hall's installation BANANACONDA". The Physics Room. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
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  6. Smith, Charmian (13 May 2011). "A kind of transcendence". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
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  11. "Artist Page - Otago Polytechnic - SCOPES Academic Journal".
  12. McIntyre, Sally Ann (16 October 2008). "Adrian Hall - Line Drawings 1971, at the High Street Project". Radiocegeste. Retrieved 15 November 2018.