Petrus (Peter) Ursem CV
www.peterursem.co.uk
www.petrus-ursem.co.uk
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Education
Royal Academy of Fine Arts: Graduated in Painting, Drawing, Printmaking (1995)
University of Utrecht: MA Comparative Literature Studies (Graduated 1988)
First Grade Teacher Certificate (June 1985)
BA Dutch Literature & Linguistics (1984)
Artist - Selected Exhibitions, Projects, Awards
Coming up in 2026
'Eye Heart Hand'
8-14 March: Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes
28 April - 22 May: Ilminster Arts Centre
1-3 May: International Poetry Festival, Launceston
29 August - 6 September, Gresham House Studios, Cornwall
7-20 October: Shaftesbury Arts Centre
2025
'Bigger Press, Bigger Prints', Shaftesbury Arts Centre June)
2024
'Peter Ursem, 25 Years Printmaking', Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes (June)
2023
'The Bigger Picture', Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes (March)
'Peter Ursem & Ruth Oaks', Shaftesbury Arts Centre (October)
2022
'Print in Action Festival', Ocean Studios, Plymouth (October)
St Endellion Music Festival exhibition (July)
'Landscapes & Other Stories', Harbour House Gallery, Kingsbridge (May)
'Return to Dorset', Shaftesbury Arts Centre (April)
'Trees and the Sacred', an exhibition of the Arborealist Group, Norwich Cathedral
2020
'Being with Trees', with Arborealists Group, Bermondsey Project Space (December)
'The Arborealists', Dartmoor and Exmoor, Somerset Museum Taunton (July-October)
2018
'Drawing - Experimentation and Expression', St Endellion, North Cornwall
'Peter Ursem - paintings, prints and poems', Sterts, near Liskeard.
2017
'As the River Flows...', Plymouth College of Art (3 year ACE funded project)
2015
Spirit of Place, St Endellion, Norh Cornwall
2014
'New drawing, paintings and prints of the Tamar valley', Tamar Valley Centre, Drakewalls
2010
‘Landscape in Paint and Print’, Guggleton Gallery, Stalbridge (September)
Dorset Footprint’, Dorset County Museum (March/April)
2009
Nov/Dec: Landscapes & Other Stories, The Barn, Odstock
'Bark, a celebration of Trees' (curator), Shaftesbury Arts Centre
2006
'Yew Tree', Salisbury Arts Centre
2005
'Intimate Space Artist Face' (Sherborne House) Arts Council Award
2001
Reflections, a book of woodcuts of the Stour' (Year of the Artist project)
1995
'Debuut New Talent Award' from Art Centre 'Stroom', The Hague
Writer - Published books
2025
'Stellar Celebrations, Forty More Friendly Fables', Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-9955717-5-4
2022
'The Bigger Picture, Forty Friendly Fables', Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-9955717-4-7
2020
'Black as Ink', Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-9955717-3-0
2018
'The Truth Teller', Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-9955717-1-6
Shortlisted for Holyer An Gof awards 2019.
2016
'The Fortune of the Seventh Stone', Hardback, ISBN: 978-0-9955717-0-9; Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-9955717-2-3
Shortlisted for Holyer An Gof awards 2017.
Workshops/talks at Book festivals:
- 2020 Charles Causley Festival
- 2019 Penzance Literary Festival (July)
- 2017 North Cornwall Book Festival
Workshops & Work in Community Settings
2022 Workshops and presentation at Print in Action Festival, Plymouth
'Fabulous Fables', Tresorys Kernow project, Launceston
2011 - ongoing Annual workshop programme at Gresham House Studios
2002 - ongoing Chairman of Counterparts Music Theatre Arts
Community projects include eg 'Songs from a Small Train' (2014)
2015 Facilitator of creative writing week on migration, at Five Islands School, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly
2006 - 2015 Regular printmaking and illustration workshops in Dorset and Wilts
Arts Project Management & Other Work
Currently: Full time artist/writer
2014 - 2020 Business Development Manager, Endelienta
2013 - 2014 Development Manager, Newlyn Art Gallery
2002 - 2013 General Manager ArtCare, Salisbury District Hospital
2001 - 2002 Conference Coordinator Strange Baggage, Literature & Health
2001 - 2002 Deputy Manager ArtCare, Salisbury District Hospital
1999 - 2001 Picture Framer, at www.pictureframes.co.uk, Shaftesbury
In the Netherlands
1990 - 1998 Freelance writer for Anne Frank Foundation and other organisations.
1996 - 1998 Co-founder and Administrator Counterparts Theatre Co.
1988 - 1990 Editorial Assistant, National Institute for Education