Clive Wilkins

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Clive Wilkins
The author Clive Wilkins speaking at the Hay Festival 2018.jpg
Wilkins discussing The Moustachio Quartet at the Hay Festival in 2018
Born (1954-06-25) June 25, 1954 (age 69)
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
NationalityBritish
Known forArtist in Residence, Department of Psychology, The University of Cambridge, Member of The Magic Circle
Notable workThe Creatures in the Night, The Moustachio Quartet, The Lost Library of Miraculous Metaphors & other short stories
Website www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/clive-wilkins

Clive Wilkins (born 25 June 1954) is a British figurative artist. [1] He is the author of The Moustachio Quartet, a series of novels that explore perception and the subjective experience of thinking; [2] [3] [4] and with Nicky Clayton is co-founder of the Captured Thought, [5] [6] [7] [8] an arts and science collaboration. He is the first Artist in Residence in the Department of Psychology at The University of Cambridge, [9] [10] a position held since 2012. Wilkins, along with Clayton, was made Honorary Director of Studies and advisor to the China UK Development Centre (CUDC) in 2018 ~ a position he held until 2024. He has been awarded professorships by Nanjing University, Institute of Technology, China (2018), [11] Beijing University of Language and Culture, China (2019), [12] [13] and Hangzhou Diangi University, China (2019). [12] [13] Wilkins was made Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for the Integration of Science, Technology and Culture (CCISTC) [14] in 2020 ~ a position he held until 2024.

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Education

Clive Wilkins was born in Wolverhampton, Staffs, and grew up and was educated in Corby, Northants. He went on to the Tresham Institute, Kettering, (formerly Kettering Technical College) where he enrolled on the art foundation course at the age of 17. Amongst others, his tutors were David Imms, who taught painting and printmaking, and Norman Laing, [15] who taught architecture and the history of art. He went from there to DeMontfort University, (formerly Leicester Polytechnic) where he was tutored and greatly influenced by George Him, and also came into contact with Jerzy Karo, [16] the Head of School for Graphic Design. Wilkins graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Graphic Design, before gaining an Art Teacher's Diploma (ATD) and Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGCE).

Paintings

Wilkins has exhibited in the John Player Portrait Awards (1985, 1986, 1987) and in the BP Portrait Awards (1994, 1995). [17]

Wilkins has produced portraits of the British pop artist Sir Peter Blake RA and Sir Howard Hodgkin CH CBE amongst others, and was presented to HRH Princess Royal during a visit to the Royal Holloway University in 1994. [18]

Wilkins' work appears in The Creatures in the Night, [19] a published picture book sequence of 31 paintings, with accompanying text by the artist. The artwork, along with other works by Wilkins, formed a one-man show (2005) at Petley Fine Art Limited, Cork Street, London. He was described, in the foreword to the exhibition catalogue by Roy Petley as "one of the UK's leading figurative painters". [20]

Wilkins paintings have been exhibited in a number of venues, including the following:

The Captured Thought

Wilkins, along with Nicky Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition at the University of Cambridge, is co-founder of "The Captured Thought". [23] The collaboration explores the nature of memory and perception with a particular focus on creativity. [24] Important aspects of The Captured Thought's work have been highlighted in articles in 'The Guardian' newspaper in 2019 [25] [26] and in 'Die Zeit' magazine in 2020. [27] The Captured Thought were invited speakers at The University of Vienna’s CogSciHub [28] inauguration 2019,and India's National Brain Research Centre 16th Foundation Day. Their work featured in the New Scientist Special Christmas and New Year issue 2022. [29] [30] Wilkins interests are primarily in the psychology and structures of problem solving and the subjective experience of thinking. [31] The collaboration has published the following:

Awards and honours

Wilkins won joint second prize in the Hunting Art Awards with Tom Phillips in 1988. [45]

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References

  1. ↑ Jo Bostock (6 March 2014). The Meaning of Success. Cambridge University Press. p. 30. ISBN   978-1-107-42868-3 . Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "Memory and mental time travel".
  3. ↑ "Clive Wilkins talks to Nicky Clayton - Hay Festival". www.hayfestival.com.
  4. ↑ Transcripts of Clive's talks 2015 and 2018 in which he discusses 'The Moustachio Quartet' series of novels, form part of the Hay Festivals holding at the British Library.
  5. ↑ "'The Captured Thought' visit Zealandia". 12 September 2016.
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  8. 1 2 "After Nyne Arts Magazine. 'The Science of Art' featuring The Captured Thought". 15 February 2017.
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  13. 1 2 "Nicky and Clive have been appointed Honorary and Visiting Professors in multiple Universities in China". 12 November 2019.
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  16. ↑ Author of 'Graphic Design: Problems, Methods, Solutions', (1975) ISBN   0442300697
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  20. ↑ "About". 5 November 2012.
  21. 1 2 1984 Exhibition Catalogue - The Exhibitors (Digital book). The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle 1769-2018: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. 1984. p. 154. Retrieved 13 October 2018.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
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  30. ↑ "A Christmas Special on the New Scientist features research work on Magic by Prof Wilkins and Clayton and Garcia-Pelegrin". 23 December 2021.
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  33. ↑ Clayton, N. S.; Wilkins, C. "Imagination: The Secret Landscape". beinghuman.org. Archived from the original on 8 October 2017.
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