Tim Sandys-Renton MRSS
Senior Lecturer
About
BA听Hons听Fine Art, Exeter
MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art
Tim is Level 6 (3rd year) coordinator and teaches across the University’s undergraduate programmes.听 His specialist area is sculpture and his research includes constructed mixed media works and artist studio provision in the region.
Academic Roles:
- Teaching across contextual and studio modules
- Admissions Tutor
- Level 6 Coordinator
Specialist Areas:
- Sculpture
- Installation
- Digital Video
- Critical and Contextual Study
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Professional
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2016听听Art Residency at Cyprus Summer Studios,听Lemba, Paphos, and exhibition at the Cornaro听Institute, Larnaca
2014听听 Art Residency at Cyprus Summer Studios, Lemba, Paphos.
2010听听 Artel exhibition: Blakes鈥� Heaven, Guildhall Chichester.
2009听听 Artel Art Trail: series of pinhole camera self portraits, each听taking 90 minutes.
2008听听 Artel Exhibition: Transept Traverse, Chichester Cathedral; 900 minute pinhole camera self portrait.
2008听听 鈥業ntervention鈥� Exhibition, Worthing Museum & Art Gallery. Work responding to work in collection (by Frederick Sandys):.
2008听听 鈥楧rawing on Research鈥� Otter Gallery, 香港六合论坛. Exploration and examination of practice as research and the boundaries of drawing
2007听听 鈥極ne night affair鈥�, digital video 鈥榬unning man鈥� shown at ICA gallery, London.
2006听听 鈥楾estbed鈥�, solo exhibition in Otter Gallery, 香港六合论坛.
2007-2015听Voluntary Director and Company Secretary of Unity Arts Trust C.I.C, Chichester (Community Interest Company number: 6256028) www.unityartstrust.org.uk. Set up and managed Unity Studios, built effective Board of Directors who now run the organisation. Fundraising and strategic development.
2006-2007听Project manager for Sculpture Commission to be sited outside artOne, 香港六合论坛. (Funding from Rolls Royce Motor cars, in collaboration with CDC).
2001-2006听Trustee of the ‘Chichester Open Art Exhibition’ (Chichester Art Trust).
PROFESSIONAL ROLES
2007-14听 Voluntary Director and Company Secretary of Unity Arts Trust听C.I.C, Chichester (Community Interest Company number: 6256028)
www.unityartstrust.org.uk. Set up and managed Unity Studios, built听effective Board of Directors who now run the organisation. Fundraising and strategic development.
UAT, a member of the NFASP.
2006-07听听Project manager for Sculpture Commission to be sited outside听artOne, 香港六合论坛. (Funding from Rolls Royce Motor cars, in collaboration with CDC).
2001-06听听Trustee of the ‘Chichester Open Art Exhibition’ (Chichester Art Trust).
2000-01听听‘Artists Professional Development Scheme’ Forum member, run by ‘Education Through Art’ and funded by South East Arts
1999-13听听Member of the ARTEL STUDIO TRUST, Chichester.
Research
Tim’s research has been听divided between sculpture and artist professional development. Between 2009 鈥� 2014 he set up Unity Arts Trust CIC & 鈥楿nity Studios鈥� in Chichester. Developing a successful Community Interest Company with an effective governance and administration gave him a strong interest in artists鈥� professional development.
Since 2014 Tim has focused on the production of sculpture , using metal and mixed media to explore his interest in materiality, slowness and 鈥榯he hand鈥�; seeing these processes as the antithesis of the immaterial digital world which preferences screen-browsing and 鈥榯he gaze鈥�. His works are usually 鈥榗ombines鈥�, constructed spontaneously out of pre-made and found elements, bringing together figurative and abstract elements into arrangements which actively engage with the gallery space and the viewer.
Works represent the self, others, and the knowing body, where their hollowness and fragmentation reinforce their artifice, reminding us of sculptural monuments and totems, and of the way that, throughout history, iconoclasm and beheadings have been used to reinforce political power and ideology. Small scale works create a heightened intensity and intimacy, indexical marks showing how each unique element has been carefully manipulated and modelled at high temperatures using Oxy-Acetylene welding.
Welded steel is at once traditional and modern, aggressive and pliant; where elements become expressionistic and characterful, in opposition to steel鈥檚 more typical industrial look.听 Upside-down-ness reminds us of the dynamic pull of gravity; being propped against the wall suggests a function while remaining a 鈥榰seless object鈥�. Minimal linear shapes seem designed and drawn, minimal colour offsets the deep black of waxed steel.
Tim is a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
