Penelope Dalton is an artist, critic and writer.[1]
Pen Dalton | |
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Born | Penelope Dalton England |
Alma mater | Goldsmiths, University of London University of Brighton Plymouth University |
Occupation(s) | Artist, Critic, Writer |
Employer(s) | Dartington College of Arts Birmingham City University |
Website | http://www.axisweb.org/p/pendalton/ |
Dalton trained at Goldsmiths, University of London and Brighton University and gained a PhD in Creative studies from Plymouth University in 2008.[2]
Dalton taught studio practice and critical theory at Dartington College of Arts and Birmingham City University.[3]
Dalton spent many years as an academic researcher in socially contextualised practice in printmaking and art education, drawing on feminist and linguistic theory.[4] In recent years she has eschewed 'theory'. The arts - she now believes - are being absorbed within the economies of entertainment, social welfare and consumerism. Her recent work returns to a modernist approach, and focusses on the materiality of painting as an imaginative practice of analogy and poetics.