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.

Bridport’s art heart

  Since medieval times Bridport’s fortunes have been built on the efforts of farmers, market traders, rope makers and brewers, but for all its agricultural, mercantile and industrial heritage, the town’s artistic legacy has been less well documented. Bridport was awarded Dorset’s first government-funded art school in 1865, a humble seat of learning that sat Read More…