EXHIBITIONS

 

1965 OXPO St Catherine’s College 2nd International Exhibition of experimental poetry

  Exhibited: shadow box his first kinetic piece of work using letters (the work was

  thrown in the river by students protesting that this was not a serious art exhibition)

 

  BETWEEN PAINTING AND POETRY – first London exhibition of Concrete Poetry ICA

  London. Exhibited: moving letter board

1966 ARLINGTON ONE - International Exhibition of Spacial Poetry and Sound

  Poetry - Arlington Mill, Bibury. This was financed by Ken and Margaret Cox and

  Ken Cox was the principal organiser (together with Charles Verey, DSH, John Furnival).

  Exhibited: tallboy and four seasons clock

 

  THE GOLDEN MILE Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

  Exhibited: four seasons clock, amor and harmonograph

  INTERMEDIA by gloucestershire artists, Subscription Rooms, Stroud

  Exhibited: four seasons clock, amor, harmonograph and variations on O

1967 BRIGHTON ARTS FESTIVAL

  Exhibited: three graces LOVE, PASSION and BEAUTY: a commissioned piece 30’

  high which floated on a raft at sea for ten days and was wrecked and lost in

  a storm during the event. This piece was recreated in 1984 by Nanette Godfrey for the

  NAILSWORTH ARTS FESTIVAL commissioned by Tomas A Clark

 

  FREEWHEEL Nottingham and Cambridge

  Exhibited: voluptas , amor and four seasons clock

  SIGNED SPACE the sign in space Trieste, Italy

  INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONCRETE POETRY, Falmouth

  Exhibited: 100 glowing tissue paper balloons floating across the estuary at night

  POSTERS ON THE WALL Modena, Italy

  SCRAMBLED EGO Folkestone and Canterbury

1968 GROUP SHOW Lisson Gallery

  ARLINGTON QUADRO Arlington Mill, Bibury

  Exhibited: high cumulus green elm trees poem

  SOLO EXHIBITION KINETIC POEMS Lisson Gallery

  Exhibited: five elemental balloon poems, three electric clockwords, three graces mobile,

  moondark , suncycle, amor and voluptas

  CYBERNETIC SERENDIPITY ICA London and then on tour to North and South America

  Exhibited: 3 Graces: AMOR, VOLUPTAS and PULCHRITUDO

  PORTRAIT OF A MAN IN A HURRY…Homage to Guillome Apollinaire ICA London

  plus-en-plus motorised poem

 

1969MEMORIAL EXHIBITION Stroud, Gloucestershire

  Exhibited: tree oil painting, terracotta head of Jessica, cave drawing, triple portrait oil,

  H.M.S. Indefatigable construction, Paddle steamer, shadow box, double pendulum

  harmonograph, 3 name clocks, Margaret, Silvester, Astrid. 3 hot air balloons, ocean, earth,

  sky. 3 Graces maquette, space/time poster published by southstreet publications,

  suncycle multiple, semaphore machine.

  ART AND PROJECT Copenhagen and Amsterdam

  Exhibited: balloons and suncyle

1973/4 PEN AS PENCIL drawings and paintings by British Authors, Antwerp/Brussels

  Exhibited: space time 1, spacetime day, space time night fibre pen drawings

1979 ART BEYOND POETRY Munster Germany

  Exhibited: 3 Graces: amor, voluptas and pulchritudo

1986 BIENNALE INTERNATIONALE DE POÉSIE Liège and Bruges Belgium

  Exhibited: four seasons clock

Published

Mindplay by John Sharkey

Gloup and Woup edited by Bob Cobbing 1974 arc publications