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Dr Keith Winter

Visual Arts Cluster Leader

Interior Design

Department of Architecture & Visual Arts , School Of Architecture, Computing And Engineering

Dr Keith Winter is the Leader of the Visual Arts at UEL including Fine Art, Photography, Graphics, Illustration, MFA and Prof Doc. He is also the leader for both BA (Hons) Interior Design and BA (Hons) Interior Architecture at UEL

Qualifications

  • PhD MArch PG Dip Arch BSc (Hons) ARB SFHEA

Areas Of Interest

  • Interior design
  • Architecture
  • Symbolism
  • Sustainability
  • Sound
Black and white photo of Keith Winter looking straight ahead

OVERVIEW

Keith has worked in small, medium and large practices throughout the UK and Ireland. He was part of the team for the Scottish Parliament by Enric Miralles in 2005. He designed a wedding palace tower in Moscow and masterplanned Leith Waterfront in Edinburgh for RMJM in 2006. With Edge Design Workshop EDW he designed a £15m Container project, and an £18m Data Centre and was on the team that installed a 1960s Futuro House on the roof of Central Saint Martins (featured in the Evening Standard, Timeout Magazine, Guardian). He has designed and detailed a number of private residences. He has been an ARB-qualified architect since 2008 and consulted on many design projects with firms such as CSK Architects, White Ink Architects, Clarkes Facades and McKinsey Group with Bershka Clothing. In 2015 he designed and oversaw the refurbishment of the prestigious UCL Art Museum in the Grade 1 listed building on Gower Street. He is currently designing and building a future sustainable city with his experimental studio Yeah Totally Ltd. 

He has taught and lectured in many Universities around the world including Tokyo University of the Arts GEIDAI, NZU, RCA, ECA, UU and UCL. In 2013 he published the 'Handyman Aesthetic' for his PhD in philosophy, architecture and sculpture. He co-founded Allotrope Press in 2011 with Emma Dwan O'Reilly. He has shown artwork internationally around the world under the name Keef Winter including co-representing the Northern Irish Pavilion Venice Biennial in 2016. He is represented by Galeria Breve in Mexico City and had a recent solo presentation in Galeria BOCA in September 2023.

Upcoming/ recent shows include Composting for the Future, VOID Gallery, L'Derry March 2024; 'sky every day', with Richard Serra, N. Dash, Christine Corday, curated by B.Barretts Projects, projects+gallery, St Louis; Mahler Lewitt Residency, Spoleto, ‘Can’t Help It’ (solo) at Black Tower Projects, London; ‘Pre-Fix’, Northern Ireland Pavilion, Sella Del Giardini, Venice; ‘No Regrets’ (solo), Galeria Breve, Mexico City.

He has toured the UK, Europe, Japan and Mexico with his musical collaborations Tracer AMC, and Not Squares and played Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds and recorded numerous BBC sessions including Maida Vale Studios in 2009 for Huw Stephens.

STUDIO WORKS

Artist Keef Winter lives and works in London. Winter's studio process generates abstract apparatus that references urban dissonance and reflects on cultish practices. His work seeks to embody, in object and sound, a state of transformation that is birthed from symbolic and physical enactments of rupture. His performances mix electronics, sheet steel, vocal samples and drumming.

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023

  • HEAVY METAL, Galeria Boca, Mexico City, August 2023 

2019

  • Mahler + Lewitt Studio Residency, Spoleto, Italy, August-September

2018

  • No Regrets, Galeria Breve, Mexico City
  • Tax Return, VOID Gallery, L’Derry

2017    

  • Can’t Help It, Black Tower Projects, London
  • Pre-Fix, Sella Del Giardini, (Unofficial N. Ireland pavilion with Catalyst Arts Gallery), Venice
  • Swimming with Sharks, Galeria Breve, Mexico City
  • On Becoming Fluid, with Merike Estna, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham, March

2016

  • Deep Inside, Galeria Breve, Mexico City
  • Sticky Enough, with Harry Meadows, Chalton Gallery, London

2015

  • Center Point, House of St. Barnabas, London

2014 

  • London Dust, with Rut Blees Luxemburg, Chandelier Projects, London
  • Stone Dreams, with Steve Mykietyn, ORGY PARK, New York

2013

  • I had no idea, Platform Arts, Belfast
  • By now each of us is several, Bruno Glint Projects, London

2011

  • I’m squatting in your condo, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
  • Hide those dirty hands, The Joinery, Dublin
     

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024    

  • Upcoming 20 years of VOID gallery, L’Derry

2021

  • Tilt, Hoxton Gallery, London 
  • 50/50, curated by Conscious Isolation, Way Out East Gallery, London 

2020

  • sky every day, projects+gallery, St Louis, curated by Jessica Baran, with Richard Serra, Christine Corday, N.Dash, Tom Friedman, Joshua Smith

2019

  • Keeping Time, Ceretto Vineyard, Italy; curated by Tony Tremlett with Sol Lewitt, Lydia Ourahmane, David Tremlett, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich and more
  • Light and Dark Drives, El Consultario, Mexico City; Above Ground, Denver

2017

  • Handyman (performance at Treeline Project), curated by Mary Cremin & Oonagh Young, Circe Pavilion, Dublin
  • ON & OFF, curated by Chalton Projects, Proyectos Medellin, Mexico City

2016

  • Morphosis, curated by Artillery, Ploca, Mexico City
  • Salon Sebastian Monteux, Glasgow International, with Mary Ramsden, Philip Ewe, Geneva Sills, Natalie McGowan, Glasgow
  • Artists behind bars, with Tai Shani, Melanie Jackson, Marcia Farquhar, Patrick Goddard, Matts Gallery, London
  • Material Art Fair, Galeria Breve, Mexico City
  • Wysing Polyphonic, Wysing Arts Centre Music Festival, Cambridge
  • Post-Ultimate, with Douglas Park, Melissa Moore, Anthony Gross, WEST den Haag, The Hague
  • Do the Hokey Cokey, curated by Chalton Projects, with Richard Hards, Henry Coleman, Melissa Kime, Jessy Richards, Perce Jerrom, Paul Schneider, Espacio Arterial, Mexico City
  • Con Unas y Dientes, Obrera Centro, w/ Enrique Jezik, Tatiana Lusi, Los Vecinos del  Ritmo, Mexico City

2015

  • Cuts to violence, FUSO Film Festival, curated by Paula Lopez Zambrano, with Laure  Provost, Patrick Goddard, Maurizio Elajo, Jordan Baseman and more, Lisbon
  • Don't stop till you get enough, with Richard Hards, Carpe Diem Arts Centre, Lisbon
  • Let’s Build Our Own Tomb, production performance with Lucy Woodhouse, X Marks the Bokship, Matt’s Gallery

2014

  • ONSITE, selected by Mike Nelson, with Yuri Pattison, Phillipa Horan, Lucas Dillon, John Lawrence and more, Temporary-Arts-Project, Southend-on-Sea
  • Battle Drums Galactica, Performance in The Centre for Remote Possibilities, Matts Gallery
  • Neutral, with Mark Wallinger, Bedwyr Williams, Lucy Andrews, Pádraic E Moore,  Anita Groener, and more, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway
  • Edge of Human, with Joey Holder, Jonathan Baldock, Candice Jacobs, Beatriz Olabarrieta and more, Los Angeles 2019, London

2013

  • X-Operation, Wysing Arts Centre, with Beatriz Olabarietta, Rory Macbeth, Adam Burton, and Sophie Demay, curated by Eleanor Vonne Brown
  • Glorious Estate, with Carla Wright, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Bruno Glint Projects, London
  • Latticed Boom, Vulpes Vulpes Projects, London
  • Housing a Pig, curated by Paul McAree, with Neil Carroll, Jonathan Mayhew, Jo McGonicle, Carla Wright, FLOOD, Dublin
  • By now each of us are several, with Richard Wilson, Matt Calderwood, Kate Mahony, Bruno Glint Gallery, London
  • ‘ONSITE Residency Shortlisted Exhibition’, TAP, selected by Mike Nelson and Andrew Hunt, opening January 17th - Feb 23 2014, Southend-on-Sea.
  • ‘X-OP’, group show curated by Eleanor Vonne Brown, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, Nov 16 - Dec 20, 2013
  • I can be yours’ (book launch), with Rut Blees Luxemburg, Douglas Park, Dan Shipsides, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Hannah Newell, at X Marks the Bökship, hosted by Eleanor Vonne Brown, London, 6-9pm 26 July 2013
  • 'Housing a Pig’, curated by Paul McAree, with Jonathan Mayhew, Neil Carroll, Carla Wright, Jo McGonicle, Flood Gallery, Dublin, May 2013
  • ‘By now each of us are several’, with Richard Wilson, Matt Calderwood, Kate Mahony, Bruno Glint Gallery, London, May 2013
  • 'I had no idea’ (solo), Platform Arts, Belfast, Feb 2013
  • ‘Publish And Be Damned’ Bookfair, ICA, London, March 2013

Previous years

  • ‘I’m Squatting In Your Condo’ (solo), 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo Oct/Nov 2011
  • ‘Hide Those Dirty Hands’ (solo), The Joinery, curated by Miranda Driscoll, Dublin Sept 2011
  • ‘Monkey Wrench’, Ormston House, with Sonia Shiel, Kevin Cosgrove, curated by Mary Conlon, Limerick Nov 2011
  • ‘Speed Towerz’, Bahrain Fort Museum, May 2010
  • ‘Arrivals’, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Aug 2010
  • ‘Arcade Park’, Brooklyn Fireproof, New York, Nov 2009
  • ‘Scopophobia’ (solo), Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Nov 2009
  • ‘Save the Florrie’, Liverpool Independents Biennial, with Masato Nakamura, 2008
  • ‘Open Operation’, curated by Oscar Tuazon, Edinburgh, June 2006

RESIDENCIES

PUBLICATIONS

  • Upcoming: UEL Fintech book titled ““The Metaverse: Financial, Technology, and Regulatory Perspectives, edited by Prof Nazrul Islam.
  • Battenberg, The Art of Performance, University of East London, November 2023, ISBN 978-1-911735-02-1
  • Heavy Metal, Keef Winter, BOCA Galeria, Mexico City, August 2023, ISBN 978-1-911735-00-7
  • Between People, University of East London, November 2023, ISBN 978-1-911735-02-1
  • Phase 1-3 Future Archive, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Richard Sennet, Herzog & de Meuron, Yushi Li, Keef Winter + more, Folium Press, June 2022
  • ELIAS Group, Elias Architects Ltd Monograph, Oficina para el Desarrollodel EspacioPublico, Mexico City, 2018
  • X-Operative, Published by X Marks the B?kship, London 2014 
  • I Can Be Yours, Keef Winter, Allotrope Press, London 2013, ISBN (978-1-85923-254-5)
  • The Handyman Aesthetic, The International Journal of the Arts in Society, Vol. 6, Issue 2, p.151 - 170, 2011
  • Allotrope Press editions 01- 13, 2011 - present, ISSN 2046 - 2859 
  • Across the Gulf, Dr Irene Barberis & Dr Keith Winter, Metasenta Publishing, Melbourne (ISBN – 978-0-646-51698-1), 
  • Melbourne 2010 City Supplements, PS2 Publications, Belfast, May 2008 (ISBN -978-0-9555358-1-9)
  • Private Places in Public Spaces, Feature, Perspective Magazine, Nov 2007 Bloid, Steve Mykietyn & Keith Winter, Zine 01-07, Published in slashseconds.org
  • Metronome No. 10 & 11, Documenta XII magazine issues, Metronome Press, contributor

PRESS

MUSIC

I have toured the UK, Europe, Japan and Mexico with my musical collaborations Tracer AMC, Not Squares and Handyman. I have played Glastonbury, Reading, and Leeds festivals and recorded numerous BBC sessions including Maida Vale Studios in 2009 for Huw Stephens. I have been making cassettes under the moniker Handyman including an EP called ‘Ergonomics’ released on Let’s Go Swimming and distributed by Lobster Records in 2017. In 2019 I had the track ‘Appropriate Energy’ included on a vinyl record alongside Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Lydia Ourahmane, Sol Lewitt and David Tremlett.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

His recent exhibitions include:

  • 'sky every day', with Richard Serra, N. Dash, Christine Corday, curated by B.Barretts Projects, projects+gallery, St Louis, 2020;

  • Mahler Lewitt Residency, Spoleto 2019;

  • 'Can’t Help It' (solo) at Black Tower Projects, London 2017; 

  • 'Pre-Fix', Unofficial Northern Ireland Pavilion, Sella Del Giardini, Venice 2017;

  •  'Swimming with Sharks' (solo), Galeria Breve, Mexico City 2017; 

  • 'On Becoming Fluid', Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham 2017;

  •  'Wysing Polyphonic', Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge 2016;

  • 'Sticky Enough', Chalton Gallery, London 2016;

  • 'Salon Sebastian Monteux', Glasgow International 2016; 

  • 'Deep Inside' (solo), Galeria Breve, Mexico City 2016;

  • FUSO & Carpe Diem, Lisbon 2015;

  • 'Post-Terminal & Ex-Ultimate', West, Den Haag 2016;

  • 'Center Point' (solo), House of St. Barnabas, London 2015; 

  • Let's build our own tomb', Matt's Gallery, London 2015;

  •  'Neutral', TULCA Festival of Visual Art, Galway 2014;

  • 'London Dust', Chandelier Projects, London 2014;

  • 'Stone Dreams' ORGY PARK, New York 2014 

TEACHING

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PRESENTATIONS + TALKS

  • Heavy Metal performance, BATTENBERG, UEL, November 2023
  • Heavy Metal performances, Galeria BOCA, CDMX, August 2023
  • By Now A Human Is Only This Big, AMPS Representing Pasts - Visioning Futures conference, Singapore, Dec 1-3 2022
  • Artist Talk, UCL, Plinth 1, UCL Museums, London, May 2019
  • Artist Talk, Royal College of Art, Masters in Architecture, November 2016
  • UCL Object Handling in regard to the UCL Art Museum collections and functions, 28 February 2015
  • Artist Talk (performance with Emily Beber), Chandelier Projects with Royal College of Art, with Hayley Newman, Rut B Luxemburg, Daniel C. Blight, Douglas Murphy, 20 March 2014
  • RCA Radio, Curating Contemporary Art, Handyman Aesthetic Presentation, Royal College of Art, 13 June 2014
  • Drinking/Casting Workshop, Vulpes Vulpes Projects, 14 May 2014
  • Multiplicities, Dilettantes & Polymaths, Organiser and speaker at symposium, Bruno Glint Gallery, London, 21 August 2013
  • Artist's Talk, I'm Squatting in your Condo, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, November 2011
  • Future Tour, MA in Public, Ulster University, Sept 28  2011 & PS2 Gallery, 13 June 2009
  • Artist's Talk, Sterile Environments, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 20 June 2011
  • Handyman Aesthetic, Arts in Society Conference, Berlin Academy of Humanities and Sciences, Berlin, 9 March 2011
  • Pecha Kucha, Belfast Exposed Gallery, 8 May 2008 Future Academy Presentation & Performance, Mori Arts Museum, Tokyo & Nagoya 2006

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