Rod Bugg, Wimbledon College of Art
Professor Roderick Bugg is a sculptor who has shown extensively in the UK, Europe and North America and is currently represented by the Galerie De Witte Voet in Amsterdam. He is Head of College at Wimbledon College of Art (previously Wimbledon School of Art), the sixth college to join University of the Arts London. He studied Fine Art at Harrow School of Art, University of Westminster; Newport College of Art, University of Wales and Birmingham College of Art, University of Central England. His career in education has included appointments as the Head of Department of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Northumbria at Newcastle; Dean of the School of Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London and Principal, Wimbledon School of Art London. He has also been a visiting lecturer at a number of Colleges and Universities in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Asia and is an Honorary Professor of the University of Arts and Culture Ulanbatar, Mongolia.
Coutances 1826
The opportunity to work in the Turner Print Room was special. The reality of a direct engagement with Turner’s drawings was extraordinary. To enjoy the intimacy of Turner’s line that so precisely and at the same time casually defines an element of the landscape was inspiring. Most of all I enjoyed the folding of the paper as a series of drawings, perhaps made on a walk around Coutances, was constructed on a single sheet of paper to describe particular moments in time. This translated into an interpretation of the Turner drawing and of course to an Umbrian drawing, another landscape in another time.