Exhibition Catalogues and Information
7 TV Pieces Preview Card for Royalty Preview Theatre, London, 1971. pdf here
Locations Edinburgh 1971, Catalogue, cover, credits and forward. pdf here
Locations Edinburgh 1971, David Hall detail Catalogue. pdf here
Programme for ‘English Avantgarde cinema’ at Millennium NY 1974. pdf here
ICA Programme Notes for ‘Vertical’, ‘7 TV Pieces’ and ‘Timecheck’, …
The installation was made possible by the ACGB and facilities, rigging, equipment and travel and subsistence by the Kitchen. The masters were transposed through a standards convertor to NTSC at a facilities house in New York with the advice and assistance of John Sanborn, a well known New York video artist who had been assistant to Nam June Paik, and whom the artist had met at the Biennalle de Paris in 1977. John had assisted Steve Partridge to shoot the Paris channel of “A Coincidence of Space” …
‘I was commissioned by the Paris Biennalle des Jeunes and the British Council to make an installation. They also chose “Stuart Marshall and many up-and-coming artists from Europe and the USA, including Marina Abramovic, and Laurie Anderson. I decided to make a work which used the rivers of London and Paris. Shooting on the Thames proved to be rather difficult as the Crown ‘owns’ the skyline of London! On the Seine a young artist from New York acted as my assistant – …
A narrative in five acts, portraying formative events in Ian Breakwell’s life that shed light on his concerns as an artist. Broadcast on Channel 4 in 1988, the five acts together present a narrative on the interplay between the public world of surface appearance and social roles, and the private world of the imagination.
Channel 4 Press Release for ‘Public Face Private Eye’.pdf here.
‘Public Face Private Eye’ …
A televisual diary which takes a disrespectful attitude to the festive season. We share the artist’s provocative and entertaining thoughts, with digs at the establishment, politicians and yuletide conventions interspersed with items such as alternative Christmas recipes.
Press clipping from ‘City Limits’ including TV listing for Ian Breakwell’s ‘Christmas Diary’. pdf here.
Riverside Studios ‘Dadarama & Ian Breakwell’s Diaries’ – Artists’ works for Channel 4 Television, 1985. pdf here …
Continue reading “Ian Breakwell’s Christmas Diary (aka Ian Breakwell’s Xmas Diary 1984)”
‘My Diary is, as a personal witness, that of description and observation and speculation, pondering on what might be now: what is on the other side of that wall? that door? those closed curatins?’ – Ian Breakwell
Developed from Ian Breakwell’s published Diaries, these 21 short works provide an objective, compassionate, often humorous and bizarre view of events that happen around us daily.
Promotional Card for Breakwell’s Continuous Diary.pdf here. …
An increasingly manic diatribe in godspeak by a fundamentally unhinged priest who fulminates against the sins of the flesh.
A middle-aged Catholic priest fulminates in an increasingly grotesque manner on the thesis that “the inhumane imposition of law is obscene”.
Sourced from various law books and even Baden Powell’s instructions to Boy Scouts, the piece is equally reminiscent of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. As the priest spits and sweats, …
In the home is a domestic melodrama of absurd intensity in which newlyweds in their ideal home undergo a severe emotional trauma on their wedding night.
Members Newsletter from ‘Kettle’s Yard’ including Ian Breakwell’s exhibition invitation.pdf here.
Description card for Ian Breakwell’s works including ‘The News’, ‘In The Home’ and ‘The Sermon’.pdf here.
Press clipping describing Ian Breakwell’s works ‘In The Home’ and ‘The News.’ …
A television newsreader recounts the minutiae of small-town life with due solemnity, but reveals a disturbing element of anarchic behaviour amongst the town’s old-age pensioners. Breakwell’s parodic take on television news is given gravitas by his use of the ‘real’ Border Television Newscaster, Eric Wallace.
ICA Gallery cinema events programme April 1982.pdf here.
Members Newsletter from ‘Kettle’s Yard’ including Ian Breakwell exhibition invitation. pdf here.
Description card for Ian Breakwell’s works including ‘The News’, …
