Biographical Details
1968 – 1971 . Bristol Polytechnic: Diploma in Art and Design: Fine Art (Painting)
1971 – 1972 . Birmingham School of Art Education: Art Teachers Diploma
1972 – 1974 . University of Reading: Master in Fine Art
Exhibitions
Group:
1974 Installation
Reading University
1974 City Arts Project (funded by Southern Arts)
Portsmouth City Art Gallery
1975 Experiment Four
Midland Group Gallery
Nottingham
1975 Gallery Installation
Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1975 Four Tyneside Artists
Bede gallery, Jarrow
1975 International Drawing Biennial
Middlesborough
1977 Functional Drawing (curated for Northern Arts)
Northern Arts Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1978 Survey of North West Painting
Manchester Polytechnic Galleries
1986 Private Lives
Cornerhouse Manchester
1997 Salford Artists
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Clermont Ferrand, France
1998 Trans-dialogues, with Anne Grebby, Leif E. C. Liebenschutz
Chapman Gallery/Glass Box Gallery, University of Salford
2000 Les Parapluies de Manchester
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
2001 A book is losing its leaves, with Anne Grebby
part of Life Class, Holden Gallery, Manchester
2002 HYBRIDA – New Printmaking
Bradford Gallery, Bradford
2004 Urban Studies
Ove Arup Gallery, Manchester
2014 Representing Abstraction
Recent Drawings by Karen Lyons and Tim Dunbar
Parfitt Gallery, Croydon
2015 Coffee Table Commission Re-Unpacking
(curated by Andrew Bracey)
Nottingham Castle
2015 Modern Histories Volume III (curated by Lynda Morris)
Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre
Solo:
1978 Three Projects
Peterloo Gallery, Manchester
1985 Works on Paper
Humberside College of Higher Education Gallery, Hull
1993 Three Paintings and Works on Paper 1975 – 1985
Chapman Gallery, University of Salford
2004 Just for One Moment I thought I was Masaccio
(collaboration with Anne Grebby)
Maravilgia, Pescia, Italy
2006 Paintingish
Chapman Gallery
University of Salford
2008 Mnemonic
with Anne Grebby
Lanchester Gallery
Coventry University
2008 Reflective Stories – Using sketchbooks and journals in art, design and related subjects
Holden Gallery, MMU
Organised for RPN
2009 Just for one last time he thought he was Masaccio
Alsager Arts Centre
2011 Working with/as History – A Project
Ebor Studio, Littleborough
2012 Looking through the Overlooked:
Works on paper made between 1970 and 1990
(Selected from the a.a.r.t.s collection by Tim Dunbar)
Hive Gallery, Rochdale
2013 Challenging Drawing
Recent Drawings by Tim Dunbar
Waterside Arts Centre, Sale
2015 Guernica in Manchester
Residency and Exhibition
MIRABEL Project Space
Manchester
2015 Guernica in Manchester
Working Class Movement Library
Salford
Publications
A Plea for Practice-Based Research
Paper for research Newsletter, University College Salford, 1992
Towards an Interdisciplinarity within Fine Art Education
Drawing Fire (The Journal of Fine Art Education)
Vol1, No.1. Autumn-Winter 1994
A Further Plea for Practice-Based Research
Research Newsletter, University College Salford 1995
An Anxious Optimism – Simon Lewis Paintings 1977 – 1997
Catalogue essay, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, 1997
Trans-Dialogues – a discussion between the artists Anne Grebby, Tim Dunbar and Leif E. C. Liebenschutz
Visual essay, Drawing Fire (The Journal of Fine Art Education) 1999
An Exhibition, an Eclipse and the Hermeneutics of Painting
Catalogue essay, Departure Lounge – recent paintings by Maggie Ayliffe, Brendan Fletcher, Ben Cook, Rick Copsey, John Rimmer and Rebecca Sitar
MART, 1999
The Enigma of Conflict – The recent work of Karen Lyons
Catalogue essay, Rochdale Art Gallery, 2000
X The Paintings of Hilary Jack and Debbie Goldsmith
Introductory statement, Kirby Gallery, Merseyside, 2000
Some reflections on a ‘Space for reflection’
READ (Research for Education in Art and Design), MMU, 2000
Assessing the Un-assessable
Learning and Teaching in Action, MMU
Vol 2 No.1, Spring 2003
Some observations on recent abstract painting in Manchester
Catalogue essay in Beyond the Endgame: Abstract Painting in Manchester
Manchester Art Gallery, 2003
Dis-comfort Blankets – Recent paintings of Val Close
Catalogue essay, FABRICATIONS, Helen Baker and Val Close
Sandford Goudie Gallery, Customs House, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2005
LifeWorkArt
Review of a conference for Fine Art graduates, BALTIC, Gateshead
Newsletter 2, Art Design Media Subject Centre, The Higher Education Academy
a TRANSACTIONAL TEXT
Essay for Transactions a collaboration between Painter and Photographer
Grosvenor Gallery, Chester, 2007
Guernica in Manchester Re-Representation
Red Pepper, October – November 2015
Guernica in Manchester Re-representation
North West Labour Review, Summer 2016
Conference Papers
Towards a definition of visual studies
Co-author with Peter Dugdale
Conference Introductory Paper, Southampton Institute of Higher Education, 1989
Fifties in Context – lecture series
University College Salford
Organised in collaboration with Manchester City Art Gallery, 1991
Littoral: New Zones for Critical Art Practice – 3-day event
Organised for University College Salford in partnership with Projects Environment, 1994
The Integration of Theory and Practice within Modular Programmes: Visual Arts and Culture – a case study
Paper: The Impact of Modularity on Art and Design in Higher Education,
Dartington Hall, 1994
Some Notes on a Definition of Narrative
Introductory paper: Visual Narrative Research Symposium
Courtauld Institute, London. 1996
Some Reflections on Practice-Based (Driven) Research
Paper; Research seminar, University of Salford, 1996
International Sculpture Initiative
Chair of seminar programme, Whitworth Art Gallery, 1996
The development of personal practice in Arts in Context programmes
Conference Paper: Contextual Arts Practice Symposium
Exeter School of Art and Design, 1997
Narrativity and a Sense of Presentness in Abstract painting
Conference Paper: Time and Painting Conference, University of Humberside, 1998
Between Making and Thinking – a study of the interrelationship between text and the visual within the artist’s sketchbook/journal
Conference Paper: The Relationship of Making to Writing conference
Exeter School of Art and Design, 1998
Provincialism in Contemporary Fine Art Practice
Conference Paper: MART Public Arts Forums Programme
Whitworth Art Gallery, 2000
Hybridity in Contemporary Visual Arts
Conference Paper: HYBRIDA Forum, Bradford Gallery, 2002
Some Reflections on the Gallery/Museum as/in the Learning Environment
Conference Paper: The Use of the Gallery as resource for Teaching Conference
BALTIC, 2002
Creative Reflection
Conference Paper and workshop: Creativity – the student experience
Plymouth College of Art and Design
September 2005.
Urban Design – Towards a Working Strategy
Conference Paper: Sensuous Knowledge 2: Aesthetic Practice and Insight,
Solstrand, Bergen, Norway
November 2005.
Narrativity and Critical Reflection
Conference Paper: Artistic Journey Through Research
Chelsea College of Art and Design
March 2006.
Arts led intervention in the Urban Design Process
Conference Paper: North West Art and Design Research Network – Creative Dates Two
School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University
September 2006.
An arts based investigation of the Golden Mile – transforming space to place
Conference Paper: Blackpool Vistas – Representation, Transformation, Regeneration
School of Art and Design Blackpool
2007.
From a (Greater) Distance 1967 – 2009
Presentation
THEN and NOW
National Association for Fine Art Education Symposium, London
March 2014
Guernica in Manchester
Presentation
Working Class Movement Library, Salford
October 2015
Guernica in Manchester Re-Representation
Invited Guest Lecture:
Manchester School of Art
February 2017