The fine art of the modern polymath

As modern polymaths go few fit the bill quite as well as Paul Gough. A painter, author, broadcaster, producer, educator, academic, art historian, researcher and writer, his work has taken him all over the UK and Europe, as well as Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. In January, he was selected to exhibit in The Art of Creative Research at the NIE Gallery in Singapore.

He says he’s from ‘everywhere really’ having been to school in Aberdeen, polytechnic in Wolverhampton and gaining a Master’s degree in Painting from the Royal College of Art. His family home is in Bristol where he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of the West of England, before six years as Vice-President of RMIT University in Melbourne. Since 2020 he has been Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Arts University Bournemouth.

Bournemouth’s historic flight path

It should have been a landmark event, a chance for the aeroplane to affirm its place in public affections after playing a notable part in ‘the war to end war’, but instead the 1919 Schneider Trophy air race descended into farce in the fog between Bournemouth and Swanage. Already flying’s most famous piece of silverware, Read More…