Artist Paul Rooney was born in Liverpool in 1967, and trained at Edinburgh College of Art. From 1997 to 2000 Rooney's individual practice focused on the music of the band 'Rooney', with a Radio 1 'Peel session' by the band broadcast in October 1999. Paul Rooney now primarily works with text, sound and video, with the voices of semi-fictional individuals, and their relationship to specific places, as the general subjects of the works. The works use or reference narrative forms such as short stories, songs, audio guides and sermons.
Rooney has shown recently at Tate Britain, London; Baltic, Gateshead; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; and at the Shanghai Biennial, and recent commissioning bodies include Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and Site Gallery, Sheffield. He has had residencies at Dundee Contemporary Arts/University of Dundee VRC and Proyecto Batiscafo, Cuba, and was the Tate Liverpool MOMART Fellow for 2002-2003, the ACE Oxford-Melbourne Artist Fellow for 2004 and is currently the United Artist's Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton.
In 2003 Rooney was the winner of the first 'Art Prize North', open to all artists in the north of England, and showed in British Art Show 6 which toured the UK in 2005-2006. A number of his recent projects include a red vinyl record made specifically for broadcast on Lancashire radio, a video piece for Film and Video Umbrella, a sound work on a compilation CD project that also included Mark E Smith and Jem Finer, and a short story published by Serpent's Tail. He is working towards a solo show at Matts Gallery, London, in 2008.
Other participants
Liesbeth Bik, Bryony Bond, Mary Bouquet, David Chapman, Anna Grimshaw, Ade Hunter, Rosalind Nashashibi, Daniel Peltz, Amanda Ravetz, Erika Tan, Lucien Taylor, Jos van der Pol, Soumhya Venkatesan, Chris Wright and Lesley Young
Go to Paul Rooney’s object presented on Day One
