Mario Minichiello
I have been a practitioner for fifteen years I have worked as an artist in a number of different situations, from sites in the British landscape to places of international conflict and for a range of different clients. I have always continued to use these experiences to make the kind of work I feel represent the experience of living at this point in time with all its changes, contradictions and beauty.
Very little of my work has been available for public sale in the past this represents a good cross section of my large output.
C.V.
Mario A Minichiello Date of Birth: 05/05/61
Studied at:
Foundation arts: North Essex Institute of art and Design Colchester Essex 1983
Undergraduate Graphic Design: Leicester Polytechnic 1986
Postgraduate Studies Illustration: Saint Martins School of Art 1987
Commissioned by: Natural History Museum, BBC, Guardian and Financial Times. BBC Enterprises BBC TV, Haymarket Publications, Art Beat Advertising, Imagination Design Group, TSB Investment Services, Newell and Sorrell Design Group, The Radio Times, Collins, Oxford University Press, Ginn &Co, City Limits Magazine, Longmans, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer, ITN News, TV Times, Cambridge University Press and many more.
Awards, Reviews and Exhibitions:
1984 Association of Illustrators ‘Best of British’ annual and show.
1988 Work commissioned by BBC Newsnight as part of an award winning
BAFTA presentation.
1991 ‘Print Europe’ touring show: Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, Hayward Gallery, Manx Museum Isle of Man, Wakefield Art Gallery, Woodlands Art Gallery, London.
1992 ‘Amnesty International Articles of Human Rights’. Invited artists at Slaughterhouse Gallery and Whitechapel London.
1993 Printmaker's Council annual show South Bank Centre London.
1993 Commissioned by British Council to exhibit and lecture in Singapore on the British Art and Design Industry. Programme opened by John Patten, Foreign Secretary.
1995 Exhibitor and Curator: ‘Festival of Illustration’, Buckenham House Galleries, Southwold. Featured on BBC Look East News and Midlands Today.
1999 Touring exhibition ‘Mario Minichiello Drawings and Prints’ ISBN 1-900856-38-7 and at Joesloff Taub Gallery, NY, USA. Show reviewed by Bard Arts New York. Financial Times Arts, Artist and Illustrator magazine, Royal College of Art, Guardian, and BBC WorldWide.
1999 Guardian Newspaper Gallery Illustration and folio show - 'Read in truth and claw'.
'Illustration language' show Leicester city Gallery.
2001 ‘Mario Minichiello, Steve Bell and Spike Gerrell’, Buckenham Galleries, Southwold.
2001 Spectator magazine feature ‘Mario Minichiello’s Sex, Lies and Drawings’.
2002 Drawing - the Process Kingston University, touring exhibition.
2002 The Big Draw event at Victoria and Albert Museum London
2002 Scarf, G., Blake, Q. and Blake, P., Draw Power for Hospitals
Group exhibition, (touring 2002 - May 2005). 3 drawings. NESTA & AOI supported by Gerald Scarf, Quentin Blake and Peter Blake.
2000/01 ‘Mario Minichiello Illustrations Journals and Reportage’ and essays by various critics ISBN 0-953-8380-4 Booth-Clibborn Editions. Research Supported by AHRB
2001 European Illustrator Gallery, solo show and website:
2001 ‘Minichiello’s Sex, Lies and Drawings’, Coningsby Gallery: solo show, 17 June–7 July.
2002 ‘Draw power’ events British Museum
2003 Baltic Archive and Library collection
Drawing research Network Archive:
2003/4 ‘The art of conflict war in Afghanistan’ AHRB funded exhibition and research work. - Publication ISBN 0 953 8380 EICH publications Distributed by land mines clearance charity
2004 Graphic witness virtual gallery
2005 ‘Vortex’: invited artists site to further the dialogue on the iconography of war and peace. Essays, catalogues and other writing explore the monumental language of remembrance and commemoration, and the relationship between memorial landscapes and national identity.
2005 Singapore Academy of Art and Design Nanyang: Artist in Residency.
2005 ILL-US-TRA-SHUN the art of contemporary Illustration international exhibition and seminar, Stockport city gallery international conference key speaker
2005 Museum of War Art
2006 ‘Hardlines’ Richard Attenborough Centre
2007 Drawing publications and exhibitions including Triptych drawing research partnership with Kingston University and the Dublin Institute of Technology launched at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in January
2007: Twenty twenty-one Gallery Contemporary artists making work in response to war and world events: Richard Bartle, Tony Bennett, Nick Crowe, Norman Cowie, Rowan Dejardin, John Dowling, Simon Fell, Christian Glaeser, Chris Holden, Ianworks, John Keane, Tony Kemplen, David Kirshner, Alastair Mackie, Mario Minichiello, Nigel Morpeth, Gautam Narang.
2007: Arts Fellow at Sydney University: 3 year fellowship