Richard Noyce (UK) - the main curator of IEEB5
Born 01/09/1944, Chichester, England. Graduated with Honours, Leeds College of Art 1968.
Richard Noyce is well known as a writer and speaker on the contemporary arts, with an emphasis on printmaking. He has over the past thirty or more years written reviews and features on artists and exhibitions for a number of British and European magazines, and in addition four books, including two well received books, ‘Contemporary Painting in Poland’ (1995) and ‘Contemporary Graphic Art in Poland’ (1997), and two successful books on international contemporary printmaking, ‘Printmaking at the Edge’ (2006, reprinted 2008) and ‘Critical Mass - Printmaking Beyond the Edge’ (2010), which together feature the work of 95 international artists. In addition he commissioned and edited a major part of the 2008 Grapheion Yearbook involving contributions from 52 artists from all over the world. He is currently researching for his next book, ‘Printmaking Off the Beaten Track’, for publication in 2013. He has participated as a juror in major printmaking and drawing competitions in the UK, Poland, the Czech Republic, Greece and Spain, and has lectured widely at universities, colleges and print centres in the UK, North America, Europe and South-East Asia. He has also participated in a large number of international printmaking conferences in Europe and North America, as an individual speaker, a panel member and a panel chair. In 2011 he was the selector for the Wrexham Print International in North Wales, one of the guest selectors for BITE in London, and the Curator for the 4th International Print Exhibition in Istanbul. In 2012 he will be the Curator for the main exhibition of the 5th International Experimental Engraving Biennial in Mogosoaia, Romania. In addition he has in the past exhibited his own drawings and photographs, and has curated a number of exhibitions of contemporary printmaking. He is currently working (when other commitments allow) on digital prints.
Richard Noyce lives in Wales.
Adrian Guta (RO) - the curator of Romanian parallel exhibition of IEEB5
Adrian Guţă, PhD, is an art historian and critic. As associate professor, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Art History and Theory of the National University of Arts from Bucharest, Romania (2001–2004 and since 2008). An editor-in-chief of Arta (New Series), a review edited by the Fine Artists’ Union of Romania (2000–2001). A co-curator of the Romanian presence at the Venice Art Biennial (1997). He published the volume Generaţia ’80 în artele vizuale / 80s Generation in the Visual Arts (2008). He writes studies, essays reviews and articles on Romanian contemporary art, issued in art publications, cultural periodicals, books and catalogues printed in Romania and abroad (since 1980).
