Paul Gough

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Paul Gough
NationalityBritish
EducationProfessor
Alma mater Royal College of Art, London
Occupation(s)Writer, Academic
Organization Arts University Bournemouth

Paul Gough is a British academic, writer, painter, broadcaster and the current Principal and Vice Chancellor of Arts University Bournemouth. [1]

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Biography

Gough was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School. He graduated from the Polytechnic Wolverhampton in 1979 and the Royal College of Art, London in 1985 with a Master's degree in Painting. [2] In 1991 he was awarded his PhD on First World War art, later published as 'A Terrible Beauty': British Artists in the First World War [3]

Painting

As a painter, Gough has exhibited globally is represented in several permanent art collections – including the National Arts Collection Fund, the Imperial War Museum, London; Canadian War Museum, and the National War Memorial, New Zealand. [4] Gough was elected an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy in 2000. [5]

Gough is a regular media commentator on the street artist Banksy. [6] In 2022, a short film alleging Gough was the street artist went viral over TikTok, receiving more than two million views. [7]

His most recent exhibitions have been in Melbourne, Australia, London, and Wellington, New Zealand. He was selected to exhibit in The Art of Creative Research NIE Gallery, Singapore in January 2023. [8]

Writing

As an author, Gough has published over 80 academic papers, and nine books [9] which cover the representation of war and peace, including several books on the British artist Stanley Spencer [10] and a study of the work of John and Paul Nash [11] which was published as part of a comprehensive suite of exhibitions, commissions and other events he curated during the centenary period of the First World War (2014–18). [12]

In the past five years, Gough has given conference addresses and keynote speeches in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Macedonia, Belgium, France and UK. [13]

Television, film and radio

As a broadcaster, Gough worked for a decade as a television presenter, researcher and associate producer on a range of creative arts programmes and documentaries, including the award-winning documentary Redundant Warrior , about the photographer Don McCullin. Gough also has a credit for design research in the Aardman Animations feature film, Chicken Run . [14]

Academia

In addition to appointments on education and research panels in UK, Europe, Hong Kong and New Zealand, Gough was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of the West of England, Bristol; and for six years, 2014-2019 Vice-President at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. [15] In 2020, Gough became Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Arts University Bournemouth. [16]

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  2. ↑ "UWE Bristol award Honorary Degree to Professor Paul Gough - UWE Bristol: News Releases". info.uwe.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Professor Paul Gough : LAND2". land2.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  4. ↑ ""Searching for a Cushy or a Blighty"". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
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  6. ↑ "Banksy expert has his say on mysterious Reading Prison mural". Reading Chronicle. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  7. ↑ Batycka, Dorian (17 August 2022). "Is This Scholarly British Art Professor the Real Banksy? Students on His Campus Certainly Think So". Artnet News. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
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  9. ↑ "Items where Author is "Gough, Paul" - AUBREI - Arts University Bournemouth Research Excellence and Impact". research.aub.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  10. ↑ "Dead Ground: War and Peace – Remembrance and Recovery". Sansom & Company. 2 December 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  11. ↑ "Back From The Front Presents: Brothers In Art: John And Paul Nash". Art Fund. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  12. ↑ "Bristol 2014 The City And Conflict From The First World War To The Present Day | Further Reading and Additional Material from Paul Gough". www.bristol2014.com. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  13. ↑ "Welcome to VORTEX, War Art & Artists, Commemoration and Remembrance, Online Papers and Galleries, The Homepage of Paul Gough". www.paulgough.org. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  14. ↑ Gough, Paul (27 March 2019), Young, Bud; Manning, Owen (eds.), 'Perpetuation of the Picturesque' and 'Chicken Run: My Part in the Great Escape', Peter Howard, Jay Appleton, Janette Kerr, Maggie Roe, Exeter and London: Landscape Research Group, pp. 227–231, ISBN   978-0-9931220-2-6 , retrieved 31 March 2022
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  16. ↑ "Banksy expert and TV personality takes the reins at Arts University Bournemouth". Bournemouth Echo. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
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