Qualifications
MA with Distinction Fine Art
BA [hons] Fine Art
City and Guilds Further Education Teaching Certificate.
Recent Employment
Self employed Artist / Illustrator / Publisher.
Artist in Residence, KGV College, Southport.
Artist in Residence, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
Arts Officer, Preston Council
Southport College, Part Time Lecturer, Art and Design Technician.
Books
Secrets of Digital Illustration: A Master Class in Commercial Image-making, Rotovison, Lawrence ZeegenKaugummi issues 1+2, France.
If You Could - Print publication, Lndon
YCN 06-07 Agency Book, UK
Latex For Fun, Die Gestalten Verlag, international
Tactile - High Touch Visuals, Die Gestalten Verlag, international
Magazines
Harper’s Bazaar MagazineMex Magazine
WAD magazine
YCN Image making magazine, UK
Shrug Magazine
Bearded Magazine
Katalogue XXL, worldwide
Faesthetic magazine, UK
Computer Arts, June, ‘Exposure - new talent’, UK
Yacob Magazine, Belgium.
Computer Arts Projects - Hand made, Lawrence Zeegen
Metro North West - Half page on Social Club.
Pretty Young Things, The Times Newspaper, UK
Exit Strategy, USA
Ruby Mag, Argentina
Kung-Fu magazine, France
WAG magazine, Italy
Batterie magazine, France
Meat Salad zine, Bristol, UK
Filtered Magazine, Nashville, TN
Maguila Magazine, Brazil
Publishing [Café Royal]
Reward 978-0955469343Dialogue 7
Skyscraper of Love
Gracias Por Su Visita
China zine
Chow’s 100¥ Shop zine
Book 1
Social Club 978-0955469305
Café Royal issues 0 - 3, 978-0955469312, 978-0955469329, 978-0955469336
My publications can be found in The British Library and private libraries worldwide including Camberwell College of Art, Parsons NY and Nieves.
Selected Clients and Awards
The New York TimesAdidas
Orange
Bearded Magazine
Aim Higher
YCN
WAD Magazine
Lawrence Zeegen / Rotovision
Computer Arts
Dazed and Confused
Neon Magazine, Germany
Atkinson Gallery, UK
Dick Young Prize
La Cigale concert hall Paris
Esquire magazine
Mars prize for painting
The Magazine
Pasajes Diseno
Mex Magazine
F'aesthetic
If You Could
Katalogue magazine
Wilhelm Opatz
Kressel Kremer
J+B Whiskey
Selected Exhibitions
Novas Liverpool [forthcoming 9/08]
These Living Walls of Jet, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, UK
For Those Asleep In Fields Of Gold, Lab 101, Los Angeles, USA
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Dollar Show, Eleanor Harwood gallery, San Fransisco, USA
Fundraiser, 85 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Maze / A Maze, Belgium
YCN at the RCA, Royal College of Art, London, UK
YCN in Stockholm, Stockholm
Hit The Books, Belgium
Sol Collective, Sacramento, USA
The Old Shoreditch Station, London UK
Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes, London, UK
Katalogue XXL, Hilton Trafalgar, London, UK
katalogue XXL, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Nationwide Mercury Music Prize, The Hospital, London
Zines, TTC, Copenhagen
If you could…?, Exposure Gallery, London
We Hate Glue, Marrs Bar, Spain
Reach One, Taiwan
Art Trek 4, Galerie Mekanik, Belgium.
Abide Visuals in Vegas, USA
Today’s a beautiful day, Nog, London
Portraits, AAA gallery, Paris
Letters, Merseyside festival of writing, UK
Flea Pit, London, UK
Please hold the line, Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool
Us v’s Them, Hannover
Little and Lots, Here Gallery, Bristol, UK
Digital Show, Liverpool Biennial, Walker Gallery, Liverpool, UK
John Moores Prize, Walker Gallery, Liverpool Biennial[short listed]
Junc Gallery Los Angeles
Latex For Fun
Post It, Atkinson Gallery Southport UK
The Beer Mat show, Barcelona, Spain
DO NOT REMOVE, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
The Beer Mat show, Alicante, Spain
Changing 8 2005, Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool UK
Take me; I’m yours, The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, UK
[UN]titled, Loop Gallery, Liverpool
Continuum, Keighley Arts Factory, Yorkshire, UK
‘A Taste of Abstraction’, The Upper Room, Southport, UK
‘A Quiet Voice ‘, t’art gallery, Ripon, North Yorkshire, England
Liverpool Biennial Independents, ‘Ten Abstract Painters’, Craig Atkinson, Maurice Cockrill, John Mclean, John Hoyland, …] Liverpool, England
Responses, t’art Gallery, Ripon, North Yorkshire
Summer exhibition, Salt Gallery, Cornwall, England
‘Do Something’, Floating ip, Manchester, England
David Stead, Sylvette David, Craig Atkinson, t’art gallery, Ripon, North Yorkshire, England
RANT 1: ABC, ABC Cinema,Southport, England
The Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, England
The A6 Show 2003, Arthouse galley, London, England
Great Northern Wine & t’art gallery, Ripon, England
t’art gallery, Ripon, North Yorkshire, England
‘Islington People’ ,Islington Museum, London, England
Treble Zero, Abstract paintings by Craig Atkinson and Danny Rolph’, Snow Gallery, Leeds, England.
First Snow’, Snow Gallery, Leeds, England.
Northern Graduates’, New Academy and Curwen Gallery, London, England.
Brink’, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, England.