About
Trevor Abbot
The principal focus of my print work is how we use technology to make and distribute images of the world around us. I use printmaking to make concrete what are often incomplete, very precarious low definition 'technical' images and to explore questions concerning technologically failed vision or obstructed seeing whereby the more immediate images become the less there is to see.
Born:
Leeds 1959
Art Education
Wimbledon School of Art 1979 to 1982 BA (Hons) Fine Art
Camberwell School of Art 2011 to 2013 MA Visual Arts (Printmaking)
Group Print Shows:
EMIT, New Gallery London (2013)
Future Outlook of Printmaking, Gallery Fleur, Kyoto Seika University (2012) Camberwell School of Art MA Show (2013)
Art 14 - Olympia Grand (2014)
Saatchi Gallery, London, Jealous Graduate Winners (2014)
International Print Biennale, Newcastle (2014)
East Sussex Open, Towner Gallery (2014)
NeoArtists Print Prize (2014)
Wild Life, The Street Gallery, London (2015)
Art Central, Hong Kong (2016)
Brighton Print Fair (2017)
Woolwhich Contemporary Print Fair (2018 & 2021)
Solo Print Shows:
The Contingent Image, Gallery 27, Bolton (2015/16)
A Psychology of Indirect Surveillance, Exhibit Gallery, London (2016)
Print Awards:
Jealous Print Graduate Prize 2013
NeoArtists Print Residency 2015
Music:
A Certain Bridge (1981)
7” single (3 tracks), written by Trevor Abbott & Jeff Wilson, produced by Bill Nelson, released on Cocteau Records
Songs From The Ark (1982)
12” album (9 tracks), written by Trevor Abbott & Paul Maitland, produced by David Motion, released on Situation 2 Records
Wasserfall (2015)
12” EP (4 tracks), written and recorded by Trevor Abbott & Nicholas Buxton, made for the exhibition “The Contingent Image” at Gallery 27, Bolton
Transmissions From The Telematic City (2020)
Written and recorded by Trevor Abbott, mixed by Ben Chatwin at The Vennel, Scotland
Utopia Fever (2023)
Written and recorded by Trevor Abbott, additional recording (drums and strings) by Mike Collins at Big Jelly Studios, Ramsgate