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Squarinthecircle? - Tony Heaton
Lead Artist
Tony Heaton is a Sculptor and Performance Artist, Interweaving Disability Issues into traditional and discarded materials.
Exhibited widely: Regional finalist in the Unipart Reflections of technology award for original sculpture - Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Commissioned by London Disability Arts Forum to perform "Shaken not stirred" a time based installation of a pyramid constructed from 1,760 red charity collecting cans - then destroyed as part of the Block Telethon demonstration.
Exhibitor "Unleashed" Laing City Art Gallery, Newcastle.
Solo show "Great Britain from a Wheelchair" Diorama Gallery, London. Collaborator in partnership with Armley Resource Centre, Leeds "Buried Over Ground" project.
December 1997, public sculpture commissioned by Manchester City Council, "Grey Mare Project", - Featured in Dam, Dail and Disability Now magazines, profiled in "From the Edge" programme for BBC TV, Director David Heavey and "Moving from within" video, Director Chris Ledger Working in a multitude of materials exploring Disability and environmental issues.
Currently Chief Executive of Shape, London www.shapearts.org.uk
Winner of the Art-Plus Art in Public Places Award with Dada South, this £50,000 award will create work, including the sculpture, "squaringthecircle?" sited at the university of Portsmouth in 2007-8.
For ten years 1997-2007 the Director of Holton Lee, a short stay residential centre for Disabled people and carers with an infrastructure including Faith House exhibition/gallery space, dedicated artists studios and the home of NDACA (the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive) set within 350 acres of woodlands, reedbeds, heathlands and meadows, overlooking the shores of Poole Harbour in Dorset.
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