George Lund

 

Academic Information

First Aid and Health and Safety Certificate, Liverpool, 2005.
NVQ Level 3, Business and Marketing, Liverpool, 2004.
Teaching Qualification, Certificate of Education (Post 16FE), St. Helens College, 2001.
BA (Hons) Degree Fine Art and Design, Bradford College, 1993.

 

Professional Experience

Professional artist, including both studio and gallery practice.
Workshop Leader.
Lecturer.
Business and Marketing in Contemporary Culture.
Cultural Researcher.
Art Historian.
IT Support Worker.

 

Biography

Lund is Fine Artist with a colorist Naïve style adopted in his artwork. His creativity was expressed since a child and became self taught in early adult hood in his unique and distinct approach. Twenty years later, as a mature student, he took this innate skill and studied a BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree at Bradford University (UK). His practice ranged from mixed media, paints, screen printing and more with an infusion and explosion of vibrancy he has become renowned for in the professional arts market. Other work has included live art and performance, as the infamous ‘Funkadelic Chicken’, an adaptation from his hybridized creatures embodied in his works and philosophical texts on the theme and title ‘Animal Utopia’. His artwork incorporates abstractions of space and time and reference of hybridism, urbanism, juxtaposed to concept of natural order. He has exhibited and performed extensively through many festivals, exhibitions, biennials and has an active role in the management and creative developments of Transvoyeur.

 

Artists Statement

Lund: " My artwork I feel now has a freshness, energy, liveliness and abundance of colour. It is formed by mixed media and paints with bright and exuberant tones. The compositions and subjects are naive in the style I adopt. It is non-conformist to become more individualistic and using my imagination. My artwork embodies colourful passionate abstractions of space and time. It references hybridism, urbanism, juxtaposed to Amazonianism. This is to largely realise the tones and textures captured from the real to our desires. In my latest work for the images manifest creatures, surreal abstractions of the genetically hybridised. They are an idealisation and capture the iconic in multi-cultural facets of a place and people. These visualisations are shown through strong colour and are a visual dialogue from my philosophical texts set on 'Animal Utopia'”.

 

Exhibitions, Projects, Commissions and Contracts

2008 Tate Fifth Floor Project, Blog Entry, Exhibition and Live Art, Liverpool, England.
2008 Private Commissions, Patron Prof. Peter Taylor, Chair of Sustainable Communities, presented in London, England.
2008 Serendipity Exhibition (Solo Show), Independents Liverpool Biennial 2008, Liverpool Centre for Arts Development, Liverpoo1, England.
2008 An Ideal World Exhibition, St Brides Church Gallery, Independents Liverpool Biennial 2008, Liverpool, England.
2008 Florence Institute Open Day, Live Art and Workshop, Liverpool, England.
2008 Transvoyeur Catalogue Preview/Launch, Liverpool, England.
2008 Transvoyeur - An Introduction, ‘The Atom, the Nucleus, the Cell … for Peace and War: Hybridism in 21st Century’, Live Art: Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney and George Lund, England, Denmark and Norway.
2008 Transoyeur Art and Bioscience Workshop: Peace and Humanity Transvoyeur Cultural Research Exchange in Denmark, Norway and England.
2008 Transvoyeur - Equation of Genomic Aesthetics: Eugenics, Ethics and Body Politics, Transvoyeur and Diabetes Clinic, Royal Liverpool University Hospital (Art, Medicine and Science), Portraiture - Contemporary Art Collection 2008, Liverpool, England.
2008 Transvoyeur - Send me a Bioscience Greeting Card, Open Forum and Workshop Programme, Liverpool, England.
2008 Research of Objet d'art and Haute Couture, Niave Expression meets Fashion, Liverpool, England,
2008 LCAD Sculptural Installation for Independent Liverpool Biennial 2008, Liverpool, England.
2008 Transvoyeur and Japanese Culture 2008 - Peace and Humanity, Liverpool, England.
2008 Transvoyeur Arts, Culture and Genetics 2008: Live Art, Technology and the Human Body, Liverpool, England.
2008 Private Commissions, Patron Prof. Peter Taylor, Chair of Sustainable Communities, Liverpool, England.
2008 Collaborative Research and Development in Digital Video and Photographic Production of Animal Utopia Character with Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, Liverpool, England.
2008 Local Legacy and South Bohemia Exhibition, Curated by Peter Worthington, Liverpool Centre for Arts Development (LCAD), Liverpool, England.
2008 Independent Creative Research and Development for a New Series of Art for Liverpool Biennial 2008, Liverpool, England.
2008 Transvoyeur - Biography and Cultural Inheritance: An International Exchange Initiative on People, Places and Art, Liverpool, England.
2008 Transvoyeur Expressions of Love, On-line Gallery, World Wide Web, Originated in Liverpool (England).
2007 Funkadelic Chicken Live Art at Summer in the City, South Bohemia Gallery, Liverpool, England.
2007 Summer in the City Exhibition, South Bohemia Gallery, Liverpool, England.
2007 Florence Institute, Artist and Historian, Cultural Research and Development, Liverpool, England.
2007 Transvoyeur Legacy, Contemporary Art on Display, Emergency Department at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, England.
2007 Transvoyeur in Association with When the City Speaks - The City is a Stage, Liverpool (UK), Paris (France) and London (UK).
2007 Transvoyeur Art Auction for Royal Liverpool Hospital, View Two Gallery, Liverpool, England.
2007 Transvoyeur Webcam Performance Art Platform, Part of 39 Art Day, Liverpool, England. Webcammed globally on the world wide web.
2007 Transvoyeur and SOS Childrens Village: 'Childhood' Exhibition, Transdigital On-Line Gallery Space, 2007.
2007 Transvoyeur Loft Space Programme, Curator Jo Derbyshire, Liverpool, England.
2006 Grizedale Salon Exhibition, A Foundation, Liverpool, England.
2006 Cosmic Cabaret, Walk the Plank Theatre Production and Blue Coats Art Centre, Liverpool, England.
2006 Transvoyeur Performance Art Platform 2006, October - November 2006, View Two Gallery, Mathew Street, Liverpool, England.
2006 Transvoyeur Exhibition and Exchange between Liverpool and New York, Independents Liverpool Biennial 2006, October - November 2006, View Two Gallery, Mathew Street, Liverpool, England.
2006 Transvoyeur Art Auction 2006, View Two Gallery, Liverpool, England.
2006 Lund and Limited Edition Sales at View Two Gallery, Matthew Street Festival, Liverpool, England.
2006 Museum Man (Adam Nankervis), London Biennial in Las Vegas, US.
2006 Co-Curator, George Lund with Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney and Jo Derbyshire in affiliation with Transvoyeur and Head Space @ Egg Space Gallery (Jazamin Sinclair, Karen Henley, etal), Maria Hughs and Jamie Reid Exhibtion, 31 May -18 June 2006, Opening 31 May 2006, 7.00 pm onwards.
2006 Flagging Down May Day, London Biennale in conjunction with Museum Man (Adam Nankervis), Liverpool, England.
2006 Lund and Gold Fish Gallery, Curator and Research Minako Jackson, Gold Fish Gallery, Website Liverpool and Japan.
2006 New Designs Researched and Development by Lund on the Theme of Liverpool, England.
2006 Submission to 100 T Shirts Competitition, Curated by Ian Jackson (Art in Liverpool Weblog) inassociation with Microzine, Liverpool, England.
2006 Commissioned Art, Liverpool Colour Company for Limited Edition Print to Promotional, etc., Liverpool.
2006 Doll Man Disco, Spring, Concept and Production Gary Sollars, The Vines, Liverpool.
2006 Art of Lund, Exhibition, Unity Theatre, Liverpool, England.
2005 Doll Man Disco, Summer, Concept and Production Gary Sollars, Walk the Plank.
2005 Doll Man Disco, New Years, Concept and Production Gary Sollars, Walk the Plank Theatre PRoduction, Liverpool.
2005 La mort d'amour, le chat et poulet (The Death of Love, The Cat and Chicken) (Live performance), No Cost of Chaos Show (Produced by Amanda DeAngeles), National, Liverpool.
2005 Live, Exhibition and Performance, Egg Space Gallery, Liverpool, England.
2005 Museum Man Exhibition, Berlin Kunst Salon, Berlin.
2005 Museum Man Live Art, Berlin Kunst Salon, Berlin.
2005 Field of Vision Extremes Project, Frankfurt.
2005 Doll Man Disco, Easter, Concept and Production Gary Sollars, Walk the Plank Theatre Production, Liverpool.
2005 Speq Gallery Quiggans, Liverpool.
2004 Transvoyeur Exhibition, Liverpool Biennial 04.
2004 Transvoyeur Performance Art Platform, Liverpool Biennial 04.
2004 Transvoyeur ‘Become Jean Michel Basquiat for the Day’, Open Performance Platform, Liverpool Biennial 2004.
2004 Gesquoi Part (4), Research in Art and Culture, Performance Platform, Bluecoats, Liverpool.
2004 Gesquoi Part (3), Research in Art and Culture, Intervention of Civic, Liverpool.
2004 Gesquoi Part (2), Research in Art and Culture, Egg Space Gallery Exhibition, Liverpool.
2004 Gesquoi Part (1), Research in Art and Culture, Live Art in the Urban Space, Liverpool.
2003 Mr M's Seafood Restaurant, Albert Dock, Liverpool.
2004 The Egg space Gallery, Liverpool.
2003 The Citadel, St.Helens.
2003 The Arts Lounge, Liverpool.
2003 The Monkey Tricky Gallery, Chester.
2003 The Palm House, Liverpool.
2003 The Atrium Echo office, Liverpool.
2003 The Walker Gallery, Liverpool.
2003 The Egg space Gallery, Liverpool.
2002 The Egg space Gallery, Liverpool Biennial 02.
2002 The Egg space Gallery,(Solo Show) Liverpool.
2000 The Knowsley Suite, Liverpool.
1998 The View Gallery, Liverpool.
1997 The CADT, Liverpool.
1997 The Irish Centre, Liverpool.
1996 The Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.
1996 The Unity Theatre, Liverpool.
1994-1995 The Great Georges Multi Cultural Centre, Liverpool.
1993 The Children's Hospital, Bradford.
1992 The Royal Infirmary, Bradford.
1990-1993 The Queens Hall, Bradford.
1993 The Design Centre, Bradford.

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