List Of Writers
ADAMS, HUGH
16 Marlborough Hill Place, Bristol, BS2 8LR
Tel: 01179 243790
Email: catalysts@blueyonder.co.uk
Born in Neath, Hugh Adams has written extensively on the arts and cultural matters for over thirty years. Now functioning principally as a writer/researcher, he has held significant posts in arts and cultural management and in higher education in England and returned to Wales to be Research Fellow on Artists‘ Professional Development at Cardiff School of Art & Design. He initiated the Arts Management Course at Oxford Brookes University and was visiting tutor in Arts Management at Sussex University and Dartington College of the Arts. The first Director of Oriel Mostyn and also Britain’s first Art Critic in Residence, at the University of Northumbria and for a number of years Chair of Cywaith Cymru, he has served on the Wales at the Venice Biennale steering committee and as a member of the advisory group on arts commissioning for the Welsh Assembly building.
Hugh is member of a number of advisory groups concerning arts and cultural matters and Director of The Art Agency, an organization concerned with commissioning visual artists’ projects and general cultural research and consultancy.
Hugh Adams has contributed to many publications internationally, including The Guardian, Modern Painters, Artforum, Art Monthly, Studio International and Flash Art and server as Assessor of the University Press of Zaragoza. He has frequently spoken at conferences and symposia concerned with visual arts and cultural matters here and abroad.
Selected Publications:
Books and exhibition catalogues:
Art of the Sixties (Phaidon, 1968)
Modern Painting (Phaidon, 1979)
Sixty Seasons (David Nash) (3rd Eye, 1983)
Homenagem a Ted Glass Espaco Lusitano (Oporto, 1983)
After the Fire (Ray Smith) (Spacex Gallery, 1987)
The Image of the Heavenly in Relicta (Ffotogallery / Cambridge Darkroom, 1999)
The Greatest Sculptor in the World (co–writer) (Howard Gardens Gallery, 2000)
Gimlet Eye (Chapter, 2001)
Haha: Margam Revisited (Seren, 2002)
Imaging Wales (Seren / Wales Arts International, 2003)
Elsewhere (A.G. Swansea, 2003)
Against the Fire (Peter Burke) (Spectrum Gallery, 2006)
Re: Imaging Wales (Seren, 2006)
Published lectures:
Good Taste, a Sense of Responsibility, Clear Skin and a Sense of Humour in Creativity and Self-Deception (Gregynog Conference) (Arts Council, University College Wales Aberystwyth, 1980)
Contributed to:
Books and exhibition catalogues:
Alexander Rodchenko: the Simple and the Commonplace (contributor) (Artforum, NYC Summer 1979)
Picturing Cardiff (contributor) (CVAF, 2002)
The House Project (contributor) (Chapter, 2004)
Thirty Years On in Re-Views: Artists and Public Space (contributor) (Black Dog Publishing, 2005)
Groundbreaking (contributor) (Seren, 2005)
Published lectures:
Out of the Bubble (contributor) (London Arts & the London Institute, 2000)
The Business of Being an Artist (contributor) (City University London, 2000)