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Dr

Rupert Norfolk

Programme Director for the School of Fine Art

Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts

  • Programme Director for the School of Fine Art
    Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts

BIO

Rupert Norfolk is an artist and curator based in London. His multidisciplinary practice investigates the perceptual and conceptual possibilities of concrete and depicted things.

 

Norfolk’s work has been exhibited widely, including: Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin (2025), La Maison de la Culture d’Amiens (2025), Galeria Cadaqués - Huc Malla, Girona (2019), Kunsthalle Göppingen (2017), Noguchi Museum, New York (2015), Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2014), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2014), Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia (2013), Netwerk / Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst (2012), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2011), Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2011), Lustwarande, Tilburg (2011), CAPC - Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux (2010), Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (2010), Saatchi Gallery, London (2010), Millenium Galleries, Shefield (2007), El Basilisco, Buenos Aires (2007), Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (2006), Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh (2006), Transmission, Glasgow (2005), The Drawing Room, London (2005), Musee des Beaux Arts de Dunkerque (2005), Norwich Gallery (2004), MoMA PS1, New York (2001), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2001).

 

In 2017, Norfolk was winner of the First Plinth: Public Art Award, the Royal Society of Sculptors, London. From 2016-2017, he co-curated a programme of five sculpture exhibitions, Physical Information, at Bloomberg SPACE, London, including, The Mobility of Facts: Giuseppe Gabellone, Siobhán Hapaska and Charlotte Posenenske (2016). In 2013, he was selected as the inaugural maker-in-residence at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge.

UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON APPOINTMENTS

  • Programme Director for the School of Fine Art
    Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London, London, United Kingdom1 Sep 2023 - present
  • Course Leader, BA Fine Art: Drawing
    Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London, London, United Kingdom2 Sep 2019 - 31 Aug 2023
  • Senior Lecturer - Contextual Studies Coordinator, BA Fine Art Programme & Studio Tutor, BA Fine Art: Sculpture
    Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom11 Sep 2017 - 1 Sep 2019
  • Associate Lecturer, MA Fine Art
    Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom2 Oct 2017 - 30 Jun 2019
  • Associate Lecturer, BA Fine Art: 3D Pathway
    Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom1 Oct 2012 - 30 Jul 2015
  • Associate Lecturer, BA Fine Art: Sculpture
    Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom4 Oct 2010 - 30 Jul 2015
  • Associate Lecturer, BA Fine Art: Drawing
    Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom1 Oct 2007 - 28 Jul 2017

UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON STAFF RESEARCH PROFILES GROUPS MEMBERSHIP

  1. UAL: Painting Research Network
    Group

DEGREES

  • PhD in Fine Art Practice
    Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston University, United Kingdom1 Sep 2015 - 30 Jul 2020
  • BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture
    Chelsea College of Art and Design, United Kingdom4 Oct 1993 - 15 Jul 1996

CERTIFICATIONS

  • PG Cert AP/HEA Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication
    Centre for Learning and Teaching Art and Design, University of the Arts London1 Sep 2011 - present

STAFF/STUDENT

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