Education:

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2019 – Present – PhD Fine Art, Practice Led, Slade School of Fine Art

2015/17 – MA Fine Art, Painting. Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London

2008/11 – BA Hons Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London

2007/08 – Foundation Diploma Art & Design, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

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Group Shows:

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2022  – Genius Loci: Painting the Spirt of Place, APT Gallery, Deptford, London

https://www.aptstudios.org/exhibitions2223_genius-loki

2022  – Colour/Pigment/Poetry, Slade School of Fine Art, London

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/events/shows/colour-and-poetry-iv/robert-mead/ 

2021 – Past and Present, Octagon Space, Slade School of Fine Art

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/whats-on/slade-150-past-present-future 

2021 – Spectral Ground: Paintings by Marielle Hehir and Robert Mead, Woodshed Gallery, Folkestone

2021 – For One Night Only: Pigment a Day Exhibition, Griffon Gallery, London

2021 – Colour/Collage/Poetry, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/events/exhibitions/colour-collage-poetry 

2020 – Carpet Pages III: Pixels https://curat10n.com/carpet-pages/ 

2020 – Digital Decapod, Online Exhibition

2019 – Colour Symposium, Slade School of Art, London

2018 – Paper Cuts, Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea, London

2018 – Detour, Chelsea Waterside Art Space, Chelsea, London

2017 – Paper Cuts, Tripp Gallery, Clerkenwell, London

2017 – FLOCK 2017, GX Gallery, Dulwich, London

2017 – Slade School of Fine Art Graduate Degree Show, London 

2017 – Faith, Austin Forum, Hammersmith, London

2015 – The Exhibit, Balham, London

2014 – Neo:Print Prize, selected by Gordon Cheung, David Cleaton-Roberts, Paul Coldwell and Eileen Cooper, Neo:Gallery22, Bolton

2013 – Crash Open Salon, selected by Phillip Allen, Neal Tait & Martin Coomer, Charlie Dutton Gallery, Holborn, London

2012 – Ornamental II, 5th Base Gallery, Brick Lane, London

2012 – Art Alive: Emerging Artists, Kingly Court, Soho, London

2012 – Carter Jonas Commission, June 2012 – 13, Berkely Square, London

2012 – PRIME, 10 Painters, Bussey Building, London

2012 – Parallax Art Fair, Old Chelsea Town Hall, London

2011 – Young Artist Partnership Pop-Up Exhibition (YAP@GARAGE), London

2011 – Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London

2011 – Painting and the Wrested Image, Chelsea College of Art, London

2010 – Hitachi Commission, May 2010 – 11, Hitachi Consulting, London

2009 – Nocturne, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London

 

Publications / Critiques

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2022 – Anna Souter - Marielle Hehir & Robert Mead at APT Gallery, ‘Genius Loci: Painting the Spirit of Place’

2021 – The Working Artist, Issue III, 

2015 – ‘Afterglow’ Anthology  Published online by Yorkshire Art Journal

2016 - Slade Research Weeks

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Writing:

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2021– An Acceleration of Image and Time: The Trajectory of Painting and Filmaking in the USSR, OCA Magazine, Issue 39 https://issuu.com/hertspress/docs/oca_39_all_web_m 

2020 – Cobalt: Pigment of Hope and Destruction  https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/news/2020/12/a-colour-a-day-week-38-7-13-december 

2020 – Interview with John Mather, NASA Nobel Laureate on the James Webb Telescope, HERO Magazine, Issue 23

2019 – Deconstructing Tradition: The Art of Faig Ahmed, OCA Magazine, Issue 32

2018 – Interview with Larry Macaulay, founder of the Refugee Radio Network, HEROINE Magazine, Issue 8

2017 – Robert Mead on Jeffrey Dennis's Paintings and Painting Objects, Turps Banana, Issue 18

2017 – Interview with Nicolas Bourriaud, Theorist, HERO Magazine Issue 17

2017 – Interview with Darren Henley Chief Executive of Art Council, HEROINE Magazine, Issue 6

2016 – Tate Liverpool Turns Blue: Yves Klein, the young Frenchman who pre-dated the pop art youthquake – Interview with Darren Pih, published online by HERO Magazine

2011 – Ruskin’s Idea of Relation and It’s Connection to Post-Modern Painting Published online by Grizedale Arts

(Hard copy held in Lawson Park Library, Coniston, Cumbria)

 

Awards/Prizes:

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2021 – Max Werner Drawing Prize

2021 & 22 – Jean Spencer and Malcolm Hughes Bursary

2019 – Honorary Research Associate, UCL 

2018 – UCL Deans List 2017

2017 – Duveen/Dolby Travel Award

2015/17 – Felix Slade Scholarship

2016 – Betty Malcolm Scholarship Prize

2015 – Exuberant Trust Award Winner

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Teaching Experience:

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2020/21 Course Tutor in Methodologies of Drawing at Slade School of Fine Art