Cedric Titcombe

Education

Crypt Grammar School

Gloucester College of Art (Intermediate Examination in Painting and Lithography; National Diploma in Design: Painting at Special Level)

Teaching career

Liberal Studies Lecturer at Gloucester Technical College

Art Teacher at Oak Bank School, Gloucester

Art Teacher at Hatherley Secondary School, Gloucester

1985-88 Civic Trust Summer Schools

1986 onwards Art and Design Lecturer at Gloucester College of Art and Technology

Exhibitions

Royal Academy 1986 and 1987

RWA 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997

Gloucester Arts Annual Exhibition 1986-89 and 1998

Gloucester Art Gallery 1987 (two man show)

Hereford Art Gallery 1991 (four man show)

RWA 2^nd Open Printing Exhibition 1991

Guildhall Arts Centre, Gloucester 1991 (one man show)

Dowty Open 1992

Rexel-Derwent Open Drawing Competition (Cheltenham) 1994

Cheltenham Open Drawing 1996

Guildhall Arts Centre (three man show) 2000

Gloucester City Eyepoppers Open 2001

GANET Group Exhibition, City Museum and Art Gallery 2001

Participant in Cattle Market video project 2001

Work in various collections in the UK and USA

Experience

Organiser of community screenprint workshop in Gloucester, working with the Courtyard Arts Trust in conjunction with the Commission for Racial Equality 1984

Owner and workforce of Hedgehog Equipment, a small business making and supplying carding tools for craftworkers 1985 1994

Sometime bicycle mechanic and lead-mine operative, book and magazine illustrations executed in the past and, hopefully, in the future.

I am motivated by myth - by the relationship between animals and ourselves- I want to hint at things that may be unknowable - that may have happened in the past that can only be apprehended by the imagination - by the intuitive capturing of the flavour of the supposed land of our collective past - informed by literature and folk reminiscence - from awe and fear of what would happen if those gods who had the souls of those we ate in their keeping were not placated to the waste and transitory unconcern of the cardboard eaters of our present unthinking, worried and unconnected days.