Curriculum Vitae
Michael Lumb, BA, MPhil, F.R.S.A., ILTM.
9 Redan St., Ipswich IP1 3PQ. England.
1945 born, Yorkshire, England.
| *denotes curation. | ||
| 2013 | MAN-AGE | ‘Borderline Performance Festival’, Blackfriars Crypt, Norwich |
| 2011 | The Static Performance | Peppermint Shed, Sproughton, Suffolk |
| 2010 | Still Now | 'Response' Landguard Fort, Felixstowe |
| 2009 | Sacred Drawings | Hay Gallery, Colchester Institute |
| 2007 | Re-Searching Journey | Tullie House, Carlisle |
| 2006 | Beyond the Call of Duty | The Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich. |
| 2005 | Open 2 Art | ‘Mind’ Shop, Ipswich. |
| 2004 | VIP1 | Butley Mills Studios, Suffolk. |
| Remote | Centre Noroit, Arras, France. | |
| 2003 | Inspiration | St. Clements, Ipswich. |
| Segue | St. Mary at the Quay, Ipswich. | |
| 2002 | GEGarts, | Suffolk College, Ipswich. |
| 2001 | 7th Wexford Artists’ Book Exhibition, | Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland. |
| Art and Soul – Artists’ Bookworks, | The Golden Hind Bookshop, Deal, Kent. | |
| 2000 | For one night only, | 25 Grimwade Street, Ipswich. |
| Third International Artists’ Book Exhibition, | King St. Stephen Museum, Hungary. | |
| Art Camp, | Jasbereny, Hungary. | |
| Out of the Blue, | Mamu Galeria, Budapest, Hungary. | |
| 6th Wexford Artists’ Book Exhibition, | Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland. | |
| 1999 | Networking, | P-House Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. |
| British Artist’s Books, | National Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, | |
| Latvia.* | ||
| Gallery Laipa, Valmeira, Latvia.* | ||
| Madona Art Museum, Latvia.* | ||
| Sites Abroad 2, | Forefront Gallery, Suffolk College, Ipswich.* | |
| Inner spaces 7, | Centrum Sztuki, Wspolczesnej, Poznan, Poland. | |
| 1998 | Bookarts in Britain, | Galeria Arsenal, Poznan, Poland.* |
| Water Tower Gallery, Konin, Poland.* | ||
| Museum of Bookarts, Lodz, Poland.* | ||
| Inner spaces 6, | National Museum, Poznan, Poland. | |
| 1997 | Future Suitcases, | Museum of Work, Hamburg, Germany. |
| Inner spaces 5, | Galeria Miejska, Poznan, Poland. | |
| 1996 | Sites abroad, | Octagon Gallery, UCS, Suffolk.* |
| Inner spaces 4, | Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland | |
| Galeria Wyspa, Gdansk, Poland. | ||
| By its cover, | Speck Studios, London. | |
| 1995 | Inner spaces 3, | Galeria Miejska, Poznan, Poland. |
| 1994 | Four Ways of Seeing, | Hatchards Gallery, Ipswich.* |
| Aspects of Fine Art, | Forefront Gallery, UCS. Suffolk.* | |
| Inner spaces 2, | ON Galeria, Poznan, Poland. | |
| 2003 | Two Texts | Forefront Gallery, Ipswich |
| 2002 | Listening Fragments, | Forefront Gallery, Ipswich |
| The City Art Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine. | ||
| 2001 | Strands, | Forefront Gallery, Suffolk College, Ipswich. |
| 2000 | Two works for Maxim G, | Unicorn Gallery, Ipswich. |
| beginning to get a GRIP, | Red Dot Gallery, Ipswich. |
| 2017 | Study for Don't Ask Me | Whistler Gallery, Dance East, Ipswich. |
| 2016 | Redemption | St. Thomas church Tower, Ipswich. |
| 2005 | Cinderella | Asylum, Woodbridge, Suffolk. |
| 2002 | On the Edge, | Garage, Ipswich. |
| 1999 | Vitrine for Kosovo, | National Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia. |
| 1998 | Burnt Norton, | Museum of Bookarts, Lodz, Poland. |
| 1997 | Do you Remember me?, | Ancient House Cellar, Ipswich. |
| Slady, | Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland. | |
| 1996 | Hoping for the Sun, | Forefront Gallery, UCS. |
| Traces, | Richmond House, Ipswich. | |
| 1994 | Dark Works For the Wall, | Forefront Gallery, UCS |
| Prayer for St.Simeon 2, | The Palace,Skoki, Poland.(Video- Installation) | |
| 1993 | The Sensitive Heterosexual Male, | Forefront Gallery, UCS. |
| 2010 | Poultice | 'Response' Landguard Fort, Felixstowe. |
| 2007 | Attachment | Art Radonica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia |
| You and Me | Nachlaot Neighbourhood, Jerusalem, Israel | |
| Lachrymose 1 | Underground Prisoners Museum, Jerusalem | |
| Lachrymose | Performance Art Platform, Tel Aviv, Israel | |
| Going Off | MAP LIVE 2007 Tullie House, Carlisle | |
| 2006 | Bergamot (with Mel Donohoe) | Argyle Street, Ipswich. |
| Like gossamer | ||
| 2004 | Ready/not ready | Butley studios, Suffolk |
| Metamorphosis | Students’ Cultural centre, Belgrade, Serbia | |
| Sonority | Centre Noroit, Arras, France. | |
| 2003 | Waiting | St. Clements, Ipswich. |
| 2002 | Fragmented, | City Art Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine. |
| 2001 | Walking and Moaning, | Town Centre, Ipswich. |
| 2000 | Esmerelda, | Studio Theatre Istvan Paal, Szajol, Hungary. |
| 1999 | 750 to zero, | Suffolk College, Ipswich. |
| 1998 | Other Echoes, | The Orangery, Holywells Park, Ipswich. |
| Conduct Becoming, | Stary Rynek, Poznan, Poland. | |
| 1997 | And on the Eighth Day..., | Vysoke Uceni, Brno, Czech Republic. |
| Traces, | Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland. | |
| 1996 | I Mediate, | Smart Street, Ipswich. |
| Wo Bist du? | Kunst Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany. | |
| Energyfield, | The Palace, Skoki, Poland. | |
| In Absentia, | Richmond House, Ipswich. | |
| 1995 | An Attempt at Survival in Alien Circumstances too, | Smart Street, Ipswich. |
| I am Here, | (with Julian Brooks and Oliver Cameron-Swan) Skoki, Poland. | |
| Wedge, | The Palace, Skoki, Poland. | |
| 1994 | Ambition, | Smart Street, Ipswich |
| Pathway, | The Palace, Skoki, Poland. (Video- Performance) | |
| 1993 | Rebirth, | The Palace, Skoki, Poland. (Video- Performance) |
| 2004 | Some Contemporary Approaches to Artists’ Books and their Origins, in "Poetics of Search or Search of Poetics", eds. Stepanov Y.S., Fateeva N.A., Nicolina N.A. pub: "Azbukovnik", Moscow. pp437 -444. ISBN 5-88744-056-2. |
| 2003 | Newspeak and the Emperor’s New Clothes, ILTHE newsletter No11 Summer 2003 p15. ISSN 1475-4436 |
| 2001 | The Printed Performance Brian Lane Works 1966-99, RGAP, Derby, England. pp13-24. ISBN 0 9540639 0 2 |
| 2000 | The Once And Future Book, Studija, 10/2000, Riga, Latvia. pp66,67. ISSN 1407-3404. |
| 1999 | Information is power, Printmaking Today, Vol8 No3, London, pp14, 15. ISSN 0960 9253 |
| Bookways, (catalogue essay), Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia. ISBN 1-902174-06-2. | |
| 1998 | Bookarts in Britain, (catalogue essay), Galeria Miejska, Poznan, Poland. |
| Mailart 1955 to 1995, Democratic Art as Social Sculpture | |
| 1996 | Ksiazki Artystyczne W Wielkiej Brytanii, Zeszyty Artystczne No9, Poznan, Poland. pp128 – 133 |
| And numerous articles on mailart. | |
COLLECTIONS
Work in private collections around the world and in the following public collections;-
Canadian Museum of Civilisation.
Museum of Graphic Design, Buenos Aries, Argentina.
Getty Foundation, USA.
Museum of Bookarts, Lodz, Poland.
King St. Stephen Museum, Artists’ Book Collection, Fo Utca, Hungary.
Union Fine Arts Station Kropswolde collection, Foxhol, The Netherlands.
Tate Archive, London.
| Numerous references in newspaper articles, catalogues, radio programmes and;- | |
| 1998 | Bentley, John & Peixoto, Tanya, Artist’s Book Yearbook 1998-99 Magpie Press. p00107. |
| Bulatov, Dmitry (ed.) A Point of View. Visual Poetry: The 90s Simplisii, Kaliningrad- Koenigsburg. p572. | |
| 1997 | Wasilewski, Marek, Not waiting to be shot ... Slady, Bialystok, Poland. (Exhibition catalogue essay). |
| 1990 | Brace, Michelle, Mail Art Is Freedom, The Word 001, Ipswich. |
| 1988 | Clay, Diane, Michael Lumb - Artist, (BA assignement), Brentwood. |
| 1986 | Lane, Brian, The Artist Publisher, Crafts Council of Great Britain. |
| 1984 | Lagowski, Andrew, A=Fl2, Documentum Rabidicus, London. |
| 1982 | Lines, Adrian, The Armchair Experience, BA dissertation, London College of Printing. |
| 1980 | Featured on ‘Folio’, Anglia Television. |