About Me

John Allcock

One of my earliest memories is of drawing. Although my career was made as a university teacher (becoming an internationally known expert on Yugoslav affairs) I retained intermittent contact with art, including some courses at the Bradford College of Art (subsequently the Bradford and Ilkley Community College — now the Bradford College).

For many years my artistic impulses had to be sublimated to a great extent through the design of display material. I took early retirement from the University of Bradford in July 2001, largely in order to paint and to climb. Since retirement I have continued to study part-time. Until that change of career my artistic output largely took the form of figurative paintings and drawings interpreting religious themes. More recently I have turned to landscape drawing and painting, although the underlying preoccupation with spirituality remains clearly present.

Membership of Associations

I am a member of Fabric (the forum for the arts in Bradford) and The South Square Centre and a founder member of the Unit 9 gallery. I am also a member of the organising committee of The Great North Art Show, Ripon.

www.fabric—artsforum.org.uk

www.southsquarecentre.co.uk

Publications

'Stenli Spenser: Angliski umetnik vo Makedonija' (Stanley Spencer: An English artist in Macedonia), Kulturen Život, XXVII, 9—10, 1983, pp. 55—60 (ISSN: 0047—3731)

'An artist's response to prehistoric landscapes', Prehistory Research Section Bulletin of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, December 2007, pp. 81-2 (ISSN 0309-491X)