CV

Born 1944, Bradford
Lives in Stourbridge, UK

Education

1991 - 1995

  • University of Central England in Birmingham,
    MA History of Art and Design

1963-67

  • Durham University, King’s College, Newcastle upon Tyne
    BA Hons Fine Art

Employment

1989 – 2001

  • University of Wolverhampton, Senior Lecturer in Painting
    Head of MA Painting programme

1969 – 1989

  • Stourbridge College of Art, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art

Solo Exhibitions

2014

  • John Myers 33 portraits, 14 Boring photographs, 10 televisions, 8 sub stations, 6 houses,
    3 furniture stores and one giraffe,
  • Gallery of Photography, Dublin

2011

  • John Myers Middle England, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

2006

  • The Journey to the North, Sixty paintings of the Norwegian Coastal Cruise, Allmenningen Galleri, Bergen, Norway (paintings)

2005

  • MS Finnmarken, flagship of the Norwegian Coastal cruise (paintings)

2004

  • Arctic cocktails, jellies, sushi and a few prawns, Allmenningen Galleri, Bergen, Norway (paintings)

2003

  • Here’s One I Made Earlier, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby (paintings)

2002

  • John Myers, Allmenningen Galleri, Bergen, Norway (paintings)

1990

  • The Dudley Experience, De-Industrialisation, Unemployment and Enterprise in Dudley M.B.C. 1979-1983, Dudley Art Gallery

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008-2010

  • Unpopular Culture, Grayson Perry selects from the Arts Council Collection
  • Eight venues across United Kingdom

1987

  • ‘State of the Nation’, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
  • ‘Heroes’, AIR Gallery, London

1985

  • Impressions Gallery, York

1980

  • ‘Arts Council Collections’, Hayward Gallery, London

1978

  • Midland Group, Nottingham

1973

  • Serpentine Photography, Arts Council, Serpentine Gallery, London

1972

  • 3rd British International Print Biennale, Bradford

Curated Exhibitions

1976

  • Seeing the Unseen: The High Speed Photography of Dr. Harold Edgerton
  • The first exhibition in Europe devoted entirely to the work of Dr. Harold Edgerton (1903–1990) the inventor of single and multi-flash stroboscopic photography. The exhibition opened in January, 1976 at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and toured to: Photographers Gallery, London; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University; Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham; M.O.M.A. Oxford; Arnolfini, Bristol.

Publications

2011

  • John Myers Middle England, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
  • Introduction by Jonathan Watkins & Pete James
  • Essays by Ian Jeffrey, Paul Lewis, Eugenie Shinkle

1990

  • The Dudley Experience, De-Industrialisation, Unemployment and Enterprise in Dudley M.B.C. 1979-1983.

1976

  • Seeing the Unseen, the high speed photography of Dr. Harold E. Edgerton

1974

  • Middle England

Bibliography - selected

2014

  • The Photography Book, Phaidon (revised edition autumn 2014)
  • Culture File: Photographer, John Myers, interview with Luke Clancy, RTE lyric fm,
    21 February

2012

  • Forty Years Later a Photographer Finally Gets His Show, Stacey Baker,
  • New York Times, 6th Floor Blog. 11 May, 2012.
  • John Myers – Middle England, Francis Hodgson, Writing about Photographs,
  • Francishodgson.com, 9 March, 2012
  • An Unacknowledged Pioneer, Simon Denison. Source Magazine, Spring 2012
  • My Best Shot, Guardian, 5 April, 2012

2011

  • British Journal of Photography, John Myers by Diane Smyth. p. 16. November, 2011
  • Birmingham Post, Another decade, another land, Lorne Jackson. p. 13. 10 November, 2011
  • Something in the Air: the Landscape Photography of John Myers, by Dr. Eugenie Shinkle. p.12-15. John Myers Middle England, Ikon
  • John Myers’ Portraits, by Paul Lewis p. 7-10. John Myers Middle England, Ikon
  • Middle England revisited, by Ian Jeffrey, p.122 – 123. John Myers Middle England, Ikon

2008

  • Grayson Perry, Unpopular Culture, Hayward publishing

1990

  • Nigel Morris, ‘Council censors exhibition’, The Birmingham Post, 28 March
  • Paul Hoyland, ‘Artist papers over the political cracks’, The Guardian, 29 March
  • Karen Mac Gregor, ‘Council closes exhibition’, Times Higher Education Supplement, 30 March
  • Peter Kellner, ‘Censorship comes to the Black Country’, The Independent, 27 April

1982

  • Paul Hill, Approaching Photography, Focal Press
  • Chris Steel-Perkins, About 70 Photographs, Arts Council of Great Britain

1979

  • John Taylor, ‘Photography and Fiction’, 10.8 Photography Magazine, No 1, February.

1975

  • Barry Lane, British Image 1, Arts Council of Great Britain

1974

  • The London Magazine, December 1974/January 1975
  • Creative Camera, June

1973

  • Serpentine Photography 73, Serpentine Gallery, London
  • Camera, July

Awards

2000

  • Welcome Trust Sciart award winner. The Art and Science of Collaboration
  • Team of: Adamson-Macedo, Myers, Henley, Walker

1997

  • TEMPUS Phare Individual Mobility Grant to visit art academies in Poland

1976

  • Arts Council funding to publish Seeing the Unseen: The High Speed Photography of Dr. Harold E. Edgerton

1973

  • Arts Council of Great Britain and West Midlands Arts funding to publish Middle England.

Collections

 

  • Arts Council of Great Britain
  • Victoria and Albert Museum