Paul Rooney (artist)

For other people named Paul Rooney, see Paul Rooney (disambiguation).

Paul Rooney
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Liverpool, England
Alma mater
OccupationArtist
Notable workLucy Over Lancashire
AwardsNorthern Art Prize (2008)
Websitewww.paulrooney.info

Paul Rooney (born 1967 in Liverpool) is an English artist who works with music and words, primarily through installations and records.[1]

He studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art.[2] In the late 1990s his art practice shifted from painting to video and music, initially with the artist group Common Culture and then the band Rooney.[3][4] His work later focussed on sound and music within video works, installations and performances.[5][6][1]

His art works often explore the difficulties inherent in the representation of place, mixing unreliable narratives of personal experience and urban myth.[7][4]

Awards include an Abbey Award in Painting at The British School at Rome in 1995,[2] Art Prize North in 2003,[8] [9] the Northern Art Prize in 2008,[10] and the Morton Award for Lens Based Work (2012).[11] His works have been purchased for the Arts Council Collection[12] and through the Contemporary Art Society Acquisitions Scheme.[13]

Work

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The three CD music albums released from 1998 to 2000 under the band name Rooney (not the later US band of the same name)[4] [3] were broadcast by BBC Radio 1 (John Peel Show) amongst others,[14] and the track Went to Town reached number 44 in John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1998.[15][16] Rooney became a live band in time to record a Peel session in 1999.

Paul Rooney continued to perform or work with other musicians in the early 2000s, such as The NWRA House Band, touring a 'variety night'[17] and a 'rock opera' amongst other performance projects.[18] His gallery works — now primarily sound and music based installations but also including video and writing — developed through commissions for organisations such as Sound and Music[19] and Film and Video Umbrella,[20] and through a period of residencies and fellowships at institutions including Durham University;[2] University of Dundee;[21] Tate Liverpool;[5] Proyecto Batiscafo, Havana;[22][23] Oxford University;[24] University of Melbourne;[24] and University of Wolverhampton.[5]

Electric Earth: Film and Video from Britain, a British Council exhibition which toured internationally from 2003, included early music/video work by Rooney.[25] In 2004 he curated Pass the Time of Day, a UK touring exhibition dealing with the relationship between music and 'the everyday'. Pass the Time of Day included works by Arab Strap, Rodney Graham and Susan Philipsz amongst others.[26][27][16] The following year Rooney's work was selected for the survey show British Art Show 6,[28] which toured the UK in 2005–2006. Rooney had solo shows at venues such as Site Gallery, Sheffield (a two-person show with Susan Philipsz, 2003);[29] and Matt's Gallery, London (2008).[30][31]

He returned to releasing records in 2007 with the red vinyl 12" Lucy Over Lancashire, on SueMi Records of Berlin.[16] Released under his full name of 'Paul Rooney', it was specifically made for broadcast on BBC Radio Lancashire,[32] but BBC Radio 1[33] and BBC 6 Music[34] were amongst the other stations who broadcast the piece.[35][36]

In 2012 Rooney had a solo show in the Liverpool Biennial official programme,[37] and also that year Dust and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction published by Akerman Daly/Aye-Aye Books, was published.[38] The Rooney Peel session was repeated in 2016 on Gideon Coe's BBC 6 Music show,[39] and in 2017 Rooney's first album for seventeen years, Futile Exorcise, was released on Owd Scrat Records on transparent vinyl.[40] The album was on Stewart Lee's list of best records of 2017[41] and a track from it, Lost High Street, reached number 1 on the 2017 Festive Fifty (now compiled by Dandelion Radio).[42] Along with further record releases[43][44] he also began to create sited sound installations in historic locations such as Ripon Courthouse (2019)[45] and Lindisfarne Castle (2022-2023).[46][47]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Paul Rooney: Still at Large – The Maltings". www.maltingsberwick.co.uk. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Rooney, Paul, b.1967 | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  3. ^ a b Bracewell, Michael (6 June 1999). "Common Culture". Frieze. No. 47. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  4. ^ a b c Cowley, Julian (January 2010). "Cross Platform: Paul Rooney". The Wire Magazine: 20.
  5. ^ a b c MIRIAD. "Participants, CAA Workshop". CAA Workshop.
  6. ^ Clark, Robert; Clark, By Robert (16 March 1999). "Common Culture". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Exhibitions preview". The Guardian. 13 June 2008. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  8. ^ BBC News (8 October 2003). "Video art beats Lego to prize" – via BBC.
  9. ^ News desk, Manchester Evening News (11 August 2004). "Art prize winner announced". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  10. ^ Art in Liverpool. "Paul Rooney Wins Northern Art Prize". Art in Liverpool.
  11. ^ "RSA Morton Award". Royal Scottish Academy. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  12. ^ "Small Talk | Arts Council Collection". www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk.
  13. ^ CAS. "Paul Rooney, Victoria Art Gallery". CAS.
  14. ^ NTS. "Paul Rooney". NTS.
  15. ^ BBC Radio 1. "Keeping It Peel, Festive Fifty 1998". BBC Radio 1, Keeping It Peel.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ a b c "Paul Rooney – Lucy Over Lancashire (SueMi)". coffeetablenotes.blogspot.com. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  17. ^ Cubitt Gallery (June 2001). "Saturday: Polly Staple". Cubitt.
  18. ^ "Grizedale Arts: Artists & Contributors: Rooney". www.grizedale.org.
  19. ^ "Expo Leeds – Media and Arts Partnership". Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  20. ^ Fim and Video Umbrella. "Projects: Bellevue". FVU.
  21. ^ University of Dundee. "University of Dundee Press Release". University of Dundee.
  22. ^ "Agosto 2003". Proyecto Batiscafo. 7 August 2003. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  23. ^ "Triangle Network | Triangle Network". www.trianglenetwork.org. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  24. ^ a b "The Ruskin School of Art - Arts Council England Oxford Melbourne Fellowship". www.rsa.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  25. ^ British Council. "Electric Earth". British Council.
  26. ^ Lewis, Emma. "Pass the Time of Day". Leftlion.
  27. ^ Barrett, David. ‘Pass the Time of Day’. Art Monthly. March 2005
  28. ^ Arnolfini Gallery (2005). "British Art Show 6". Arnolfini.
  29. ^ Site Gallery. "Susan Philipsz and Paul Rooney". Site Gallery.
  30. ^ "Matt's Gallery – La Décision Doypack". www.mattsgallery.org. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  31. ^ Milliard, Coline. ‘Paul Rooney, Matt’s Gallery’. Modern Painters. July/August. 2008
  32. ^ "On The Wire, 01/12/2013". BBC Radio Lancashire. 13 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  33. ^ BBC Radio 1. "Huw Stephens - Tracklisting". BBC.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  34. ^ BBC 6 Music. "Marc Riley 28/5/2014". BBC Programmes.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  35. ^ "Dandelion Radio - 2007 Festive 50". dandelionradio.com.
  36. ^ Manchester, Guy (25 October 2012). "Quick Fire John Peel Related Questions To Dandelion Radio DJ's".
  37. ^ Liverpool Biennial. "Paul Rooney". Liverpool Biennial.
  38. ^ Hebblethwaite, David (23 October 2012). "'The treachery of stories and words' – Dust and Other Stories by Paul Rooney". Bookmunch.
  39. ^ BBC 6 Music. "Gideon Coe track listing 20/4/2016". BBC.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  40. ^ The Wire online. "Multimedia artist Paul Rooney releases new album - The Wire". The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music.
  41. ^ Lee, Stewart. "FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee Jan 18 : Stewart Lee - 41st Best Standup Ever!". www.stewartlee.co.uk.
  42. ^ "Dandelion Radio - 2017 Festive 50". www.dandelionradio.com.
  43. ^ "Spoilt Victorian Child – The Sound Projector". www.thesoundprojector.com. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  44. ^ Rebel, The Jukebox (29 November 2019). "Alain Chamois – Let Me Take You There". the last great record. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  45. ^ "Paul Rooney at Ripon Courthouse Museum • Arts&Heritage". Arts&Heritage. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  46. ^ "Paul Rooney at Lindisfarne Castle • Arts&Heritage". Arts&Heritage. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  47. ^ "Song (After Nature) by Paul Rooney (Lindisfarne Castle)". www.churchtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
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