The National College
Fine Art Staff
Kevin Atherton, Dip Art and Design(Hons)
Head of Media
Kevin Atherton has exhibited internationally since the early nineteen seventies. He has performed his ongoing virtual reality performance ‘’Gallery Guide’ at SIGGRAPH 96 in New Orleans, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 1997 and at the ‘Museum of Modern Art’ Stockholm in 1998. In 1998 the broadcast version of ‘’Gallery Guide’ was nominated for the ‘international Video Art award at the ZKM in Karlsruhe and was also selected for the ‘8th Biennial of the moving Image’ in Geneva in 1999. In 2001 he held a mini- retrospective of his media work - ‘Three Decades, Three Works’ at Arthouse in Dublin and at the Manx Museum and Art Gallery in the Isle of Man.
Since 1982 he has created a number of large scale public art works through out Britain including ‘Platforms Piece’ on Brixton British Rail station, and Cathedral’ in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. More recent sculpture commissions include ‘A Private View’ in Cardiff Bay and ‘A Field of Vision’ at Smith Kline Glaxo’s World Head Quarters in London. He is currently engaged on an interactive sculpture involving cctv for permenent siting in Ballymun in Dublin.
Since 1977 he has taught extensively in Art Colleges throughout the U.K. He was the Head of Fine Art Media at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, from 1990 – 1999 and in 1995 organised the Chelsea/Tate Gallery conference ‘ Virtual Reality and the Gallery’. In 1999 he left Chelsea to become the first Head of Media at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. In 2003 along with other members of staff at NCAD, the London Institute, and the University of Art and Design, Helsinki he presented work at Tate Britain as a part of the ‘Digital Surface within Fine Art Practice’ research project.
