Brian Catling was a Professor of Fine Art at the Ruskin, serving the School for 26 years

Text by Tom Woolner, from the press release:

"Cycloptics is a collaborative initiative bringing together artists from across the world who have been touched in some way by the work, guidance, inspiration and activities of Brian Catling RA. Conjuring his performative and symbolic alter-ego, the Cyclops, Greece as the ancient seat of this mythical creature serves as the omphalos for this creative event.

Brian Catling was an artist, writer and magician of sorts - conjuring worlds, playing with the seen and unseen, poking fun, embracing the spectral. He was a multi-media artist whose practice encompassed sculpture, painting, performance, video making, poetry and fiction. He was a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and Professor of Fine Art at Ruskin School of Art. Throughout his career he painted small egg tempera portraits of the cyclops."

Cycloptics
Space 52, 28 Larnakos Street, Athens 104 46
1st - 22nd November, 2024

You can read more about Professor Brian Catling here: https://www.rsa.ox.ac.uk/news/detail/professor-brian-catling-1948-2022