ADAM FORMAN

Born 1954: attended life drawing at St Martins in London as a schoolboy. Considered Art school in 1971 but opted for University. Left fairly ignominiously in 1973, not before shooting Super 8mm footage on a camera borrowed from the Physics department of Cambridge University. This particular film has yet to be edited. A circuitous route to hospital work and medicine followed, beginning training as a doctor in 1979. The transformative powers of art were dormant until 1990, now a GP, and reconnected with life drawing. Began painting again but dealing only in abstraction until 1999. Finally entered art school in Sheffield in 1993 on a part time painting BA for five years... Upending a Sheffield career as a GP moved to London in 1999 to start an MA in Fine Art at the University of East London. Increasingly interested in public spaces my final show included many performances spaces, the figure(in the form of the artist) appearing in several of these; the doctor appearing in many fewer. The..

Primary location: United Kingdom