Blackpool School of Art Quantel Paintbox Exhibition
Curated by Aaron Tonks
Adrian Wilson is considered the world's first photographer to specialize in manipulating photographic images on a digital paint system. Wilson was pioneering this field five years before Photoshop 1.0 was released.
He has been creating and writing about Paintbox Art for over 35 years.
Two of the pieces here were last show at the seminal 1988 Cleveland Gallery 'Art & Computers' international exhibition and one was used to illustrate the important 1989 SIGGRAPH Leonardo essay:
"Does 'Computer Art' Still Exist?".
NY based Wilson owns four Paintboxes, one of which he has loaned to Blackpool College, and has the world's largest collection of historic
Paintbox art & ephemera, much of which he has posted on his website:
Click here for an artist and curator walkthrough
or
Click here for a 360 Tour of this Blackpool School of Arts Exhibition, created by Aaron Tonks
Wilson's Quantel Paintbox, currently on loan for students to use at Blackpool School of Art
Computer Images magazine review on Wilson's pioneering digital photography manipulation business, "Photon", 1987
Opinion piece on Digital Art for Computer Images magazine, 1988
Image description and bio from the 1988 Cleveland Gallery 'Art & Computers' exhibition catalogue
1989 SIGGRAPH essay
James' Gold Mother artwork, created in 1989
