Writings about the Artist

2003 Forthcoming monograph "CONRAD ATKINSON 1965 to 2002" Pub Lund Humphries/Ashgate Press (possibly Univ of California press also) essays by Stephanie Brown/Lucy Lippard/Richard Cork/edit.John Walker.
2002 Impressions of the Twentieth Century Fine Art prints from the Vand A collection
2001 Keramik (Germany) Stephanie Brown
2000 Nacka Varmdo Posten (Stockholm)
2000 Westmoreland Gazette Conrad Atkinson; Ethical Viruses.
2000 Guardian Guide. Conrad Atkinson at Abott Hall.
2000 The North Guide Interview with Conrad atkinson
2000 New Art Examiner Conrad Atkinson by Mark Van Proyen
2000 SCULPTURE magazine October. Conrad Atkinson at Intersection Berin Golonu
2000 A new dawn? Photographs of Northern Ireland 1975 by Conrad Atkinson. British Council News September.
2000 CONRAD ATKINSON Catalogue (essays by Robert Woof and Hannah Neale, Robert Woof and Edward King.
2000 Vision. pub. abott Hall art gallery
2000 Conrad Atkinson at Intersection For The Arts. Artweek June 2
2000 City Search Bay area Editorial profile by Harry Roche
2000 Artpapers Review by Amy Berk
2000 Bay Area Guardian "Secondhand Thoughts" by Sara Coleman
2000 TRADE SECRETS : Young British artists talk about the business . Cynthia Rose. Thames and Hudson.
2000 Exploding the celebrity myth: Conrad Atkinson. Vaughan Allen in The Big Issue. Jan. Great Britain.
2000 Catalogue (quoted and text) Whitechapel Exhibition "LIVE IN YOUR HEAD" "Art 1965- 75"
1999 World Sculpture Magazine. Conrad Atkinson at Refusalon Susan Marquez
1999 Degree Show Cataogue. Laura Baxter.
1999 Artists Newsletter "Interview with Suzanne Lacey and Dean of Chicago Art Institute.
1999 Excitement and challenge ahead for Abbott Hall "Coup For Abbott Hall Gallery; Conrad Atkinson Show for the Millenium" West Cumberland Gazette.
1998 Sculpture magazine . . . From the political to the popular...An Interview with Conrad Atkinson.
1998 Artweek . 'A Conversation with Conrad Atkinson.' Penelope Shackelford
1998 Mine is yours; Conrad Atkinson at ACA. Cathy Byrd. in Creative Loafing. Atlanta.
1998 Mining Culture in Technicolor. Interview with Conrad Atkinson by Chrisopher Scoates; Conrad Atkinson; Not Art But Bombs (Atlanta Catalogue) Essay by Cynthia Rose
1997 Art in America Conrad Atkinson. Mining Culture.
1997 New Umbrella for the Arts Phil Cram West Cumberland News
1997 Conrad Atkinson Phil Cram West Cumberland News
1997 Mining Culture Peter Davies (pamphlet for show "Mining Culture.
1997 Conrad Atkinson Northern Ireland. Marc Bourmand Pompidou Center Catalogue Face a L'Histoire
1997 Face a L'Histoire Adrian Rifkin ARTFORUM April 1997
1997 Conrad Atkinson and the politics of art. Davis Enterprise
1996 Conrad Atkinson Transient. Cumbria Life Magazine.
Cumbrias Greatest Living Artist News and Star.
Conrad Atkinsons Art Cumberland News.
TRANSIENT, full colour catalogue with essays by Dr Nima Poovaya Smith senior curator Bradford City Art Gallery; Dr Susan Lambert senior curator prints and drawings and painting at the Victoria and Albert Museum London; reprint of essay by Dr Rinder curator of contemporary art at University Museum and Art Gallery Berkeley; interview with Peter Davies and introduction by Terry Bennet Curator Tullie House Museum.
Conrad Atkinson. The Year Of The Visual Arts Artists Newsletter
Conrad Atkinson Cover Image and Interview Multicultural Education
1996 Essays on Atkinson in full color brochure by Dr LawrenceRinder;Penelope Shackelford and Dr Geri Di Paoli; essay by Atkinson on Immigration.
Artists Rights,Conrad Atkinson. Artists Newsletter.
Atkinsons installation. San Francisco Chronicle Kenneth Baker
The Wizard of Oz. Bay Area Guardian.
Atkinsons tactical Art. Interview and commissioned image ART PAPERS.
1993 Conrad Atkinson Sacramento Bee
Art and Social Issues New York Times Michael Kimmelman
Conrad Atkinson New Works San Diego Union Tribune
Conrad Atkinson Three reviews in three Russian Newspapers (untranslated)
1992 Public Art Proposals. Yokohama, Japan: NICAF Yokohama 1992, p.160.
1991 New Observations 82 (February 15-March 14): cover illustration. Tupitsyn, Margarita & Victor, Contemporanea 24 (January 1991): 106-7.
Kuspit, Donald. "Tart Wit, Wise Humour," Artforum XXIX, No.5 (January 1991): 93-100.
1990 Bray, Matthew. "Strokes from a Polemical Paintbrush," The European, July 14, 1990.
"Conrad Atkinson," Print Collector's Newsletter XXI, No.1 (March/April 1990).
Dhombres, Dominique, "Les Faceties d'un Detourneur," Le Monde, March 4, 1990.
Kovalev, Andrei, "Conceptualists of the World, Unite!," Moscow News Weekly, No. 31, 1990, p.15.
1989 Cooper, Emmanuel, "Conrad Atkinson," Time Out, No. 993 (August 30-September 6, 1989): 33.
Heartney, Eleanor, "Conrad Atkinson at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts," Art in America 77, No. 6 (June 1989): 165-66.
Loughery, John, "Conrad Atkinson," The New Art Examiner (April, 1989).
Morgan, Robert, Arts Magazine (April 1989).
"Conrad Atkinson's Front Pages," Sunstorm (February/March, 1989).
Hess, Elizabeth, "Art Critic Says No to Supreme Court Decision," The Village Voice XXXIII, No. 6, February 7, 1989, p. 85.
1988 Cregan, David, "In the Throes of Culture," Weekend Guardian, December 3-4, 1988.
Currah, Mark, "Conrad Atkinson," Time Out, 1988.
"Hand in the Hand," Whitehaven News, June 1988.
Kinnes, Sally, "Making Political Marks," The Scotsman, 1988.
McNay, Michael, "The Art of Information," The Guardian, November 19, 1988, features full page reproduction of Daily Consumernica.
"Prints & Photographs Published," Print Collector's Newsletter (July-August 1988).
Summers, Beth, "Phew What a Scorcher!" i-D The Good, 1988.
Wombell, Paul, "A World's Waste," "In Opposition," Ten. 8, No. 26.
1987 "Around London," Daily News, March 6, 1987.
Baln, Alice, "Read All About It," The List, May 19-June 11, 1987.
"Arts Review," The New Statesman, May 28, 1987, p.30.
Bennett, Oliver, "Art in the City: The Big Bang," Performance (March/April 1987).
"Conrad Atkinson," Direction, March 1987.
Ellis, Mundy, "Cultural pretensions mocked on Tube," Creative Review, March 1987.
Henry, Clare. "Opening Eyes to those bent on destruction," Glasgow Herald, May 22, 1987.
Hillard, Elizabeth. "The Artangel Trust," Arts Review, March 27, 1987.
Januszczak, Waldemar. The Guardian, May 29, 1987.
Jaques, Richard. "Unlikely but likeable bedfellows," The Scotsman, May 25, 1987.
Henry Clare "Raising Politics to a Fine Art," The Scotsman, February 18, 1987.
Kuspit, Donald, "Conrad Atkinson: Critical Practice 'In Person'," ALBA (Summer 1987).
Lottman, Joachim, "Documenta-Eindrucke vor der Eroffnung," Wolkenkratzer Art Journal (Summer 1987).
1987 MacLeod, Donald. "Building a Future for Art," The Scotsman, February 18, 1987.
Sands, Sarah. "Hitting the Headlines," Evening Standard, March 17, 1987.
Whetstone, David. "Art Can Be Fun Too," The Journal, July 24, 1987.
1986 Cameron, Dan. "Report from the Front," Arts Magazine (Summer 1986): 86-93.
Cooper, Emmanuel, "The Enemy Within," Art & Artists (July 1986).
Garson, George. "Moving In-with art," Evening News, December 1986.
Handy, Ellen. Arts Magazine (February 1986).
1985 Checkland, Sarah Jane. "Portrait of the artist as a resident exile," The London Times, December 27, 1985.
Print Collector's Newsletter XVU, No. 5 (November-December 1985).
Raynor, Vivien. The New York Times, December 20, 1985.
Thorson, Alice. "Hirshhorn's Content Swamps Issues," New Art Examiner (February 1985).
Townsend-Gault, Charlotte. "Conrad Atkinson," Parachute (March-April-May 1985).
1984 Kearns, Jerry and Lucy Lippard. "Artists Working with Unions Union Made," Upfront (Winter 1983-84).
Raynor, Vivien. "'Protest Art' at the Thorpe Intermedia," The New York Times, February 19, 1984.
1983 Metz, Holly. "Conrad Atkinson," Sanity Magazine (February-March 1982).
Richards, Margaret. "Radical Challenging," Tribune, December 1981.
Rose, Cynthia. "Conrad Atkinson," The New Musical Express (December 1981).
Walker, John. "Art in the Age of Mass Media," 1983.
1981 Brett, Guy. "At the Heart of the Matter," City Limits, 27 November 1981.
Petzal, Monica. "Conrad Atkinson," Time Out (November 1981).
Hughes, Robert. "Quirks, Clamors and Variety," Time (March 2, 1981): 84-85.
Januszek, Waldemar. "Conrad Atkinson: The Art of the Matter," The Guardian, 1981.
Rickey, Carrie. "Curatorial Conceptions," Artforum, 1981.
1980 Cardozo, Judith. "Conrad Atkinson," Artforum, 1980.
Lucie Smith, Edward. Art in the 70's, London, 1980.
Richards, Margaret. "Atkinson's Political Themes," Tribune, 4 July 1980.
"Writing on the Wall," The Irish Times (March 1980).
Rickey, Carrie. "One stings the other doesn't," The Village Voice, October 1, 1979.
1979 Brighton, Andrew. "Lives and the pusillanimous quango," Art Monthly (May 1979).
Herbert, Hugh. "Print out," The Guardian, March 1979.
Pilger, John. "Not in front of the children," New Statesman (March 1979).
Wallach, Allan. "Conrad Atkinson: The Dilemma of Political Art," Arts Magazine 54 (December 1979).
1976 Cork, Richard. "Conrad Atkinson Interview," Studio International 191 (March-April 1976).
Richard Cork "Ulster, the Bitter Picture," Evening Standard, 6 May 1976.
Hewitt, John. "UK Reviews: Conrad Atkinson," Studio International 189-90 (July 1975).
Tisdall, Caroline. "Troubles Shared. The Guardian, May 1976.
1974 Braden, Sue. "Alienation and the ICA," Time Out (April 1974).
Campbell, Bob. "A Struggling Artist," Morning Star, 16 April 1974.
Cork, Richard. "Assault by the Facts of Life," Evening Standard, 25 April 1974.
Oille, Jennifer. "Art ... Working," Art and Artists, 9 July 1974.
1974 Richards, Margaret. "Picturing the System," Tribune, April 1974.
Tisdall, Caroline. "The Art of Work," The Guardian, 23 April 1974.
1972 Dewhurst, Keith. "Conrad Atkinson and Richard Hamilton," The Guardian 7 June 1972.
Dickson, David. "Art Politic," Art and Artists, 7 September 1972.
Flynn, Laurie. "Tribute to a Strike," Socialist Worker, 3 June 1972.