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Keith Albarn (born 28 January 1939 in Nottingham) is an English artist and the father of the musician, Damon Albarn and the artist, Jessica Albarn.〔http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/art-by-damon-albarns-father-is-anything-but-blurry-8629347.html〕 ==Biography== Albarn studied Architecture at Nottingham School Of Art where he met fellow student Hazel Dring, whom he married〔http://www.nottinghampost.com/Damon-Albarn-Nottingham-exhibition-launch/story-20422588-detail/story.html〕 in 1963 in Welton, Lincolnshire. They moved to London where he studied sculpture at Hammersmith School of Art.〔http://aliciapatterson.org/stories/massage-parlors-jaded-senses〕 Throughout the 1960s Albarn worked freelance to finance environmental art projects including "Interplay" at the ICA. Also at this time, a gallery was set up at 26 Kingly Street, which was run by a group of artists including Albarn and his wife, Hazel, who also exhibited her work there.〔(Interview with Keith and Hazel Albarn about 26 Kingly Street )〕 In 1967 Malcolm McLaren presented his first public showing of work, which was based around an environmental installation.〔(MTV artist's biography's )〕 In the same year, Jeffrey Shaw and Tjebbe van Tijen presented ''Breathing, Airmatter, Soundform.''〔(Van Tijen, T. ''Imaginary Museum'' 2006 Accessed 12 Nov 2013 )〕 In 1967 Keith Albarn & Partners. Ltd was established to design and produce "modular structures and multi-media environments for festivals, exhibitions or private clients who want anything from weather-proof golf course shelters to a children’s playhouse".〔(Oberbeck, S.K. 1968 ''Massagae Parlours for Jaded Senses'' )〕 In 1968 they contributed to the exhibition ''Cybernetic Serendipity'' at the ICA that was curated by Jasia Reichardt.〔(Reichardt, J. ed 1968 ''a Studio International Special Issue'' London, Studio International p5 )〕 Also in 1968 ''Ekistikit'' was launched at Margate’s Dreamland Amusement Park in Kent via ''Spectrum'', the first 'psychedelic' Fun Palace〔(Keith Albarn's Fun Palace in Margate documented on Pathe News )〕 which had 20 different chambers where the participants were able to explore and stimulate their senses by awakening each room. The second Fun Palace was called ''Fifth Dimension'' and was presented at Girvan on the West coast of Scotland,〔(Best, A.1969 ''Funny business at the seaside.'' Design 1969 Journal pp58-61 )〕 and featured on ''Tomorrow's World'' and in their 1970 annual.〔Stubbs, D. 2008, ''Genius Gadgets and Gizmos'', BBC Books〕 Keith's Ekistikit system was flexible and was also used as furntiture for the style-conscious of the seventies as well as for children's playgrounds.〔(Fun-furniture featured on Pathe News )〕 In 2002 a version of ''EKISTIKIT'' was presented as an exhibition by UNIT with Jim Birdsell at the Spiral Gallery in Japan.〔(Images of ''EKISTIKIT'' exhibition at Spiral Gallery )〕 In the sixties Keith Albarn was involved in presenting 'happenings',〔(Keith Albarn's 'happenings' mentioned in Pathe News )〕 was a guest on 'Late Night Line-Up' and briefly managed the band Soft Machine〔Bennett, G. 2005, ''Soft Machine. Out-bloody-rageous.'' London, SAF〕 after travelling with them to the Côte d'Azur where his flat-pack Fun Palace was used as a gig venue. Albarn began researching pattern in the 1970s after he formed ''Vertex'',〔(Case, D. and Case, K. 2002 ''Contemporary Artworks'' Accessed 12/11/2013 )〕 a group made up of Keith Albarn, Jenny Miall-Smith, Stanford Steele, and Dinah Walker, that worked on the research, design and construction for the first 'World of Islam festival' at the ICA in 1974 that later on became ''Islamathematica'' when displayed in Rotterdam.〔Ros, F. 1973 ''Islamathematica'' Rotterdam, Museum voor Land- en Volkenkunde〕 Vertex also worked on the exhibition "Illusion in Art and Science" that was shown at the ICA in 1976 and in New York in 1977 and which led to the book ''Illusion in Nature and Art'' by R. L. Gregory and E. H. Gombrich. He was co-author of 'Language and Pattern'〔Albarn, K. Miall-Smith, J. Steele, S. and Walker, D. 1974 ''Language and Pattern'' London, Thames and Hudson〕 in 1974 and ''Diagram, The Instrument of Thought''〔Albarn, K. and Miall-Smith, J. 1977 ''Diagram: The Instrument of Thought'' London, Thames and Hudson〕 in 1977. From 1977-1981 he was course leader of fine art at North East London Polytechnic. From 1981 to 1997 he was the head of School of Art and Design at Colchester Institute. Whilst in Colchester he helped set up Cuckoo Farm Studios and formed CADVAT (Colchester and District Visual Arts Forum)〔(Website reference to CADVAT )〕 that later led to the development of firstsite. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith Albarn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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