colin whitworth                mixed media artist

Graduated with a degree in 3D Design at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic 

(now University of Northumberland) in 1970.

 

Pursued a career as designer for 30 years. Founding partner and Creative Director of design and manufacturing company based in Hertfordshire. Retired in 2001 to concentrate on painting. 

Lived in Cambridge since 1981, exhibiting in numerous group and solo shows including:

 

Cambridge University

• Clare Hall College

• Girton College

• Kings College

 

Open Studios - solo & with Cambridge Artworks

University of Third Age, Cambridge

 

Haddenham Gallery, nr Ely

Plumbline Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall

Contour Contemporary Arts, Newlyn, Cornwall

Buckenham Gallery, Southwold, Norfolk

John Russell Gallery, Ipswich

 

Work selected for the ‘Magnificent Obsessions’ exhibition workshop at Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, 2016

https://www.flickr.com/photos/138574173@N03/sets/72157662935726179

 

2010 - present

Have been selling ‘altered books’ at bookartbookshop, Shoreditch, London.

 

2010 - 2018 

Taught abstract art classes at University of Third Age, Cambridge.

 

2019 

Helped set up the ‘Pavilion’ art group in Cambridge

Taught a workshop at Kings College Art Rooms.

Solo exhibition, poetry reading and workshop at Makers Gallery, Hope Yard, Cambridge.

'Metamorphosis' exhibition, poetry reading and workshop at Museum of Technology, part of Cambridge Festival of Ideas

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2020

'Diagrams' - exhibition and residency at Kings College Art Rooms