Ron Haselden (born 1944) is a British artist who splits his time between London and the French coastal town of Plouër-sur-Rance, in
Brittany
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, France. He works with light, sound, film and video, often as part of architectural projects.
He was born in
Gravesend, Kent and in 1961 he was awarded an
Andrew Grant scholarship to study sculpture at the
Edinburgh College of Art
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. After graduation in 1966, he taught sculpture at
Reading University
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, where he was noted for founding the mixed media area in the early 1970s, going on to teach at
Slade School of Fine Art
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.
Practice
Awards
* Sargant Fellowship at the
British School at Rome.
Notable Works
''Frère Jacques'' (made in collaboration with
Peter Cusack) combined a wall of light with children singing.
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/ref> In 1993 he created a twenty feet high new moon illuminating the front of the South London Gallery
The South London Gallery, founded 1891, is a public-funded gallery of contemporary art in Camberwell, London. Until 1992, it was known as the South London Art Gallery, and nowadays the acronym SLG is often used. Margot Heller became its direc ...
. ''Blue Passage'' (1999), made for the passageway between the South Bank and the BFI
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery (United Kingdom), National Lot ...
IMAX cinema in London
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, consists of 8000 blue LEDs sunk into the walls of the underpass.[ In 1994 his barometrically controlled light sculpture at ]Peckham Arch
Peckham Arch is a unique 35m span structure at the north end of Rye Lane in the London Borough of Southwark. The Arch was constructed in 1994 and was designed by architects Troughton McAslan as monument to and as instigator of regeneration in a b ...
, London was completed which uplights the arch canopy from four tree-like light posts. In 2002 he was commissioned by Cleveland Arts to install the light sculpture 'Rose' into the Centre North East building in Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough ( ) is a town on the southern bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, England. It is near the North York Moors national park. It is the namesake and main town of its local borough council area.
Until the early 1800s, the a ...
.
References
Further reading
*''Frère Jacques et autres pièces à Francis: Expositions. 1997. Saint-Fons, Ron Haselden, Saint-Fons, Centre d'Arts Plastiques, 1997,
External links
Official website
Representing Gallery: DOMOBAAL
Living people
British artists
1944 births
People from Gravesend, Kent
Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art
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