ARTIST ON THE RUN!
ARTIST CV AND DISSERTATION NOTES
Solo / exhibitions
2010 Pop up art: Railway Line Nature Trail,Finsbury Park.
2012 Photographs of Graffiti Land Art at Tooting Common “ Dog Bites”
Wimbledon Ual Library ShowCase
2012 “Leaving nothing but Artwork”. Brick Lane.
2013 Wimbledon 11 Present “Gesture” Brick Lane
2015 Sticks Stones Feathers and Bones developing Art as Language
Camberwell Ual Library Showcase.
Selected group/collaborative exhibitions
1990 Open Exhibition” Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend on Sea.
2001 Variety Shows Exhibition set pieces Palace Theatre westcliff on sea.
2004 Angel in Pocket Productions. Set Design, Wire Sculptures and Image Projections for аn original written play Arts Dirty Lessons based on David Bowie song
2013 Wimbledon Space 3rd Yr. Show
2015 Film Noir Wimbledon Film Club
I submitted a moving video abstract “My Sketch Book is alive”.
2017 Minesweeper Trawler at Deptford Greenwich "Dolphins".
2020 St Pancras Crypt Gallery . Group Exhibit “Fantastic Properties 12”.
Received curators accolade for Artist Working along the River Thames Short Film Projection
Online Digital Exhibition Entries
2017 “Artist Seasons 2017’. Art Exhibition. U Tube Digital Art Gallery.
2017 Light Space & Time Award Merit for Abstract entry “We Are Nature’
2018 1st in Drawing Exhibit at Pentonville Prison Drama Workshop
2021 VAA Digital Art Gallery Photography and Painting
Regular Art Development courses workshops summer schools:
2010 Angel islington life drawing
2011 Heatherleys school of art experimental art lab.
2012 Wimbledon Ual Summer School
2013 Newlyn School of Art Summer School
2014 Newlyn School of art Summer School
2022 SLADE Summer School Experimental Drawing transfer paint
2018 Film Video Photography and set design workshops with Collage arts at the Chocolate Factory.
2019 Personal project art practice development City Lit
2022 Art Practice Development City Lit
202-22 Udemy online video training art practice development courses
2022 Putney School of Art Drawing Workshop. River Walking Perspectives
Selected press & publications
Evening Echo. Southend on sea Artists Trust Award Southend Library Solo Show “Phenomena”
2013 Edinburgh Review Sphere
Grants & awards
2014 Lord and Lady Stephenson Award
2015 Full Scholarship
2017 Light Space & Time Award Merit for Abstract entry “We Are Nature’
2022 Google Maps Guide,188,253 photo views
Public professional events
Auction and Sale
ART in the Park
Urban Art Fair
Professional Developments
Studio Assistant, British Painter & Portrait artist - Paul Freud
Studio Assistant, Russian Avant Garde Artist - Valery Martynchik
Udemy online courses: Digital Nomads, The art of B/W Photography. Video Production
Professional Assignments
2017 A middle eastern project to highlight media involvement and the plight of refugee’s part of which was a filmed interview and creating a collage from magazine and news cuttings. In
2018 Invited to draw acting students and inmates in a Drama workshop at Pentonville Prison.
2018 Film Video Photography and set design workshops with Collage arts at the Chocolate Factory.
2018 Freelance Photographer: an online stock photo project for eating and drinking houses.
Artist’s residencies
2022 One week at La Joya Ecolocia Velez Rubio Spain
A diary Report on a personal research project: Calling for rain
‘WILDING’. Developing a new language of art.
Published Writing (essay paper)
2019 Researchgate “Can Art and Spirituality Merge’.
Research Field Trips Qualifications
2014 Self initiated self financed 5 weeks in Mexico San Luis Potosi Desert with a Shaman artist
2015 Self initiated self financed 4 weeks in South America, la Hesperia, Mountain Cloud Forest
2006 MFA PROJECT “I Follow Rivers”. Focus upon the River Thames. Video and artwork
Qualifications
2012-15 Ual Wimbledon School of Art BA Hons Fine Art-Painting
2015-17 Ual Camberwell School of Art MFA (Master of fine arts)
Glen’s inner city vs nature trails is a struggle that can be seen as an allegory depicting as an ‘interpretation of the chance encounters from artistic inspirations that populate the urban landscape;
Dissertation Notes
Fine Art-Painting BA Hons 2015 Dissertation Title: Ontology and the poetic theme of natural presence
By Glen Paul Mendes
THIS IS A COMPARISON PAPER THAT LOOKS AT THE NATURE OF BEING AS AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT.
This dissertation was based upon a pre exhibition visit to see Metamorphosis at the national gallery in June 2012 prior to my first year at art school.
Titians painterly fluidity approach had a powerful freestyle and that inspired my current contemporary painting style art practice.)
Sub Title: Beingness as an aesthetic appreciation of nature.
‘Ontology is the theory of being it classifies our existential existence and allows us to classify our self as a part of nature rather than being apart from it“.
And allows to take form an explanation of entities
I am bringing forward elements from my BA dissertation Ontology and poetic naturalness of being and by two papers of my Illustration MFA. Artists who Hunt and Channelling energy symbols, I theorize that I can produce a new Language of art,
The main aim of the dissertation was to look at the nature of being as an abstract concept.
I have observed many male artists tent to sit and ponder upon how to build an existing artwork rather than being inside the work they find themselves its observer.
Thus I compared in part towards Jean Paul Sartre Being and nothingness with Baudelaires The beauty and horror of the modern city… According to the art historian Rosemary Lloyd, Baudelaire believed that Romanticism was the "expression of beauty, springing from a sharp awareness of what the modern world has to offer that makes its forms of beauty unique".21 Jul 2020
To walk in the cityscape is to be both observer and participant its aesthetic can both calm and excite its romantic and corrupt its hedonism captivates and entices us into bedlam and our souls are caught up in its rare delights.
The question of the Dissertation concerns “can beingness become enlightenment”
My dialogue with nature is in creating a sacred space by a simple act of being in that space.” existence precedes essence” Sarte’
The plan of my research is begin looking at established general art method mechanics and work selectively upon each traditional approach in an unconventional way I am looking to encouradge an existing dialogue within the natural and urban landscapes by an asimple act og being and observing