Ian Breakwell exhibits regularly at Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. His artworks hang in public collections including the Tate Gallery. Since 1993 there have been survey exhibitions of: his paintings, drawings and photographic works at Ffotogallery and Oriel, Cardiff; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; and Reg Vardy Foundation Gallery, Sunderland; his prints and publications at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; his films and videotapes at the ICA, London.
His "Diaries" were published by Pluto Press in 1986, serialised on Radio 3 in 1990, and during the 1980s on Channel 4 TV, who also broadcast his autobiographical series "Public Face Private Eye" in 1991. His illustrated fictions were published as "The Artist's Dream" (1988) by Serpents Tail, also "Seeing in the Dark: a Compendium of Cinemagoing" (1990) co-edited with Paul Hammond, with whom he also edited the illustrated anthology "Brought to Book" published by Penguin (1994). His most recent book is "An Actor's Revenge" in the British Film Institute's Film Classics series.
The multiphonic video-projection work "Auditorium" by Ian Breakwell and composer Ron Geesin was presented at the ICA, London and the National Review of live Art, Glasgow in 1994 and at the Video Positive, Liverpool and the Munich Spielfest in 1995. Breakwell and Geesin's subsequent audio-visual work-in-progress "Bellring", for 360 degree slide and video projection with quadraphonic sound, won an ACE New Collaborations '96 Production Award. Geesin also provided the stereo headset sound for Ian Breakwell's lightbox installation "The Rose", commissioned by Sunderland City Library and Arts Centre in 1996. Breakwell and Geesin's 35mm blipvert "The Hinge", commissioned by The Junction, Cambridge, was screened at cinemas and festivals in the UK and Europe during 1997-98.
Ian Breakwell was Artist in Residence at Durham Cathedral 1994-95, where he exhibited "The Phantom Matinee", a sequence of works on paper with projected light and sound at the DLI Museum. His farewell to Durham was an alternative guided tour of the city, with performed readings, lighting effects and music, on a river cruiser and from the pulpit of Durham Cathedral, as part of the nationwide "Hidden Cities" project commissioned by The Laboratory, Oxford.
In 1995-96 Ian Breakwell was the Digital Fellow in the Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts at Newcastle College, for the UK year of Visual Arts. He presented audio visual works and performed readings and exhibited three series of digitally produced prints, "The Hinge", "Revoid" and "Intermask" as part of the Digital Dreams 4 Festival. Subsequently Ian Breakwell was the Henry Moore Fellow for Spring 1997 at the Byam Shaw School of Art, London, where he exhibited photo and digital works in a two-person show with co-fellow David Batchelor. During that Fellowship he also researched, scripted and presented the BBC Radio 3 arts feature "Fluxus", broadcast 16.3.97.
In 1998/99 Ian Breakwell is making a series of photographic, image-text and audio visual works on the theme of "The Dance of Death" in association with the Ffotogallery, Cardiff, and at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Wales, at the invitation of Professor Bernard Moxham, with whom he is also collaborating as consultant curator/editor of the forthcoming travelling exhibition and publication by international artists of "Images to accompany Joyce's Ulysses".
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