Artists
Paul Rooney
Born 1966, United Kingdom. Lives & Works in United Kingdom.
At Grizedale
During Paul’s 2002 residency he researched a number of phenomena and organisations in the Lakes, from local psychics to the Beatrix Potter Museum. Paul developed a rock opera called Tony’s a Winner, based on a press cutting found in the Stan Laurel Museum in Ulverston which outlines how the man who used to do the voiceovers for the Generation Game went to America with Isla St. Clair & Larry Grayson and met and married Stan Laurel’s daughter. The resultant musical was performed by Paul and a group of others live at each Roadshow venue.
Paul also performed at Lawless, Grizedale’s 2002 car boot sale busking in the corner with his band.
Residency
Selected Shows
Award
2008 Northern Art Prize
Solo
Exhibitions
2006-07
- Lucy Over Lancashire, BBC
Radio Lancashire, Radio 1, 6 Music, BBC Cymru and Resonance FM
2004 Know Your Place,
firstsite, Colchester
2003 -
There Are Two Paths, off-site
performance, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Meadow Gallery, Shropshire and
Birmingham ArtsFest
1999 -
Rooney 'Peel Session' John Peel
Show, BBC Radio 1FM
Groups
Exhibitions
2007 - Cine y Casi Cine,
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
Locale - British Artists in
Residence,
1a Space, Hong Kong
2006 - Single Shot,
Tate Britain and other London venues, touring to fourteen other cities in the
UK and Europe
Walk On, Salon Vogue, Shanghai
Biennial
2005 - British Art Show 6,
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Whitworth Art Gallery,
Manchester; Angel Row Annex at Beatties, Nottingham; and Arnolfini, Bristol
2004 Shrinking Cities,
Kunst-Werke, Berlin
2003 We Go Round and Round in the Night
and are Consumed by Fire, Comme Cá Gallery, New York
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