C O L I N C H A L L E N
Colin Challen is a Scarborough (UK) based artist working in a variety of media, but with a focus on drawing. A recent exhibition, “Drawing on Myth” appeared (April/June 2017) at the art gallery at Woodend, Scarborough, North Yorkshire’s leading creative arts workspace. He also exhibited with the Kingston Art Group in Hull, part of Colin’s participation in the 2017 Hull City of Culture. Colin is a founder member of the Scagglethorpe International Art Biennale which staged an intervention “Stop Start Start Stop” to coincide with the Arts Council England conference “No Boundaries” in Hull. This explored the theme “Roots and Routes” using the motif of Zeno’s paradox of motion to illustrate some very profound points about something (or other).
Colin also ran his own 'pop up' gallery artHerent in Scarborough's historic Market Hall in 2013 and 2014, featuring three different solo exhibitions of drawings, pastels, paintings and constructions (reliquaries, vitrines and notice boards). The gallery was the venue for The World's Smallest Literature Festival in 2013 which Colin directed.
In 2020 Colin graduated with an MA (with distinction) from the MIMA School of Art and Design at Teesside University.
In earlier times
Above: gazing at In Heaven Pencil on paper, 2016 48" x 72"
My career up to 2010 included being in HM Forces (RAF), a postie, student, self-employed printer and publisher, political organiser and between 2001 and 2010 Labour MP for Morley and Rothwell. During my time as an MP I founded the All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change, and served for nine years on the Environmental Audit Select Committee and later the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee. My work on the environment was recognised with the following awards: Hon. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM); Hon. Fellow of the Society of the Environment (SocEnv); winner of the House of Commons Award (2005) of the Parliamentary Renewable And Sustainable Energy Group (PRASEG); PRASEG Lifetime Contribution Award (2009). For my support of enlightenment I was made an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and a lifetime member of the British Humanist Association.
My career up to 2010 included being in HM Forces (RAF), a postie, student, self-employed printer and publisher, political organiser and between 2001 and 2010 Labour MP for Morley and Rothwell. During my time as an MP I founded the All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change, and served for nine years on the Environmental Audit Select Committee and later the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee. My work on the environment was recognised with the following awards: Hon. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM); Hon. Fellow of the Society of the Environment (SocEnv); winner of the House of Commons Award (2005) of the Parliamentary Renewable And Sustainable Energy Group (PRASEG); PRASEG Lifetime Contribution Award (2009). For my support of enlightenment I was made an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and a lifetime member of the British Humanist Association.