Reader in the Rhetorics and Practices of Fine Art

Terry Atkinson is an artist, 3rd year BA tutor, and supervises studio-based PhD's. He is a founder member of Art and Language. He has had many international shows with the group, including Documenta V, 1972 and Left Art and Language 1974, since when he has practised under his own name. Atkinson has exhibited work at the Venice Biennale 1984 and was a Turner Prize nominee in 1985. He has had many one person shows in the U.K. and abroad, with his last big retrospective show being at Kunstwerke, Berlin in 1995. Other shows include an earlier large museum semi-retrospective at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Soro Museum, Denmark and Cornerhouse, Manchester during 1992. His more recent one-person Gallery shows took place in 1995 at Archivio Di Nuovo Scrittura in Milan, and Galleria Inga-Pin, also in Milan; Norwich Gallery 1996 (touring to Edinburgh and Budapest during 1996-7); Brighton University Gallery November 1996; and a retrospective at Silkeborg Museum, Denmark, March 1997.

He has published widely and is currently writing (a lot) on the problems of art teaching as well as developing projects with Joseph Kosuth concerning and challenging the presently written histories of conceptualism. He is also working on an anthology of his writings 1966 to the present, and on a publication concerning his present work (1992-present), which seems now to be identified under the generic title 'Making a Mind'. Much of his work is made in the studio provided at Leeds.