Biography

1980
Fine Lines, Thumb Gallery, London

1983
returns an echo…, Curwen Gallery, London
returns an echo…, Abbot Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Kendal

1986
Ciphers, Curwen Gallery, London;
Ciphers, Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone

1987
Enter the Silences (North the Light), Parco Space 5, Tokyo

1989
Silent Systems, Curwen Gallery, London
Planet and Glow-Worm, Visual Arts Museum, New York

1990
Sixteen Shimmers (& Shadows Surrender), Parco Space 5, Tokyo
Sixteen Shimmers (& Shadows Surrender), Kirin Plaza, Osaka

1991
Within Without, Huntington Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
RSC Works, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon Avon
and the Barbican Centre, London
The Possible Slow Fuse, Pentagram Gallery, London

1997
Material: Seven Souls, Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, New York,
light sculpture installation, with Bill Laswell and Material

1998
Trace Elements, Base Gallery, Tokyo

2002
Moth, The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture, Design and the City, Glasgow, light sculpture installation
Extended Wings, The Warehouse Gallery, The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Cleave/Soft Bullets, The Studio, The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal multimedia installation, with Mike Fearon

1998/99
The Cort Exhibition: public sculpture commission for Fareham

1989
Wreath for Kurt Schwitters, Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum Kendal, with contributions by Peter Blake, Tom Philips, Ian Walton and others

1990
Shintin, Kurt Schwitters Memorial Sculpture, Grizedale Forest, for Northern Arts*

1997
Hold Me, Strange & Beautiful Productions, film title credits† I-War Silverfilms Ltd, film music * with Ian Walton † with Michael Webster

1976
The Geek, Royal College of Art, London, limited edition

1977
Evening Breakers, Royal College of Art, London, limited edition The Geek, Royal College of Art, London, limited edition

1986
More Dark Than Shark, with Brian Eno and Rick Poynor Faber & Faber, London 1990 lan Walton and Russell Mills, Art Random Series, Kyoto Shoin, Kyoto

1991
Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory, David Sylvian and Russell Mills, edited by Rick Poynor, Virgin Records, London, book and CD in boxed set

1995
Looming, Eagle Gallery/Dinosaur Press, Russell Mills and Ian Walton, limited edition handmade book in box

1996
Measured In Shadows, Russell Mills and Ian Walton, limited edition boxed catalogue with CD

2001
Republic Of Thorns, Russell Mills, Ian Walton and Paul Farley, Wordsworth Trust Grasmere, limited edition catalogue with CD

2002
Cleave | Soft Bullets, limited edition CD catalogue Graphic Authorship: Artists in Print, Liverpool School of Art and Design, limited edition set of postcards

2004
Hold, Petulia Mattoili and Russell Mills, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena

2005
Blue Tears, Russell Mills and Ian Walton, Silo Espaço Cultural, for the Fundaçao de Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and Centro Portuges de Fotografia, Oporto

2006
Debris Fields, Bolton Art Gallery, Bolton

2010-2011
Forward To Far: Telescoping Time: From Schwitters To Now, The Armitt Museum & Library, Ambleside

2011
Bohemians In Exile: The Royal College of Art in Ambleside 1940-1945, The Armitt Museum & Library, Ambleside

2012
Sublime Transactions, The Armitt Museum & Library, Ambleside

Public collections
Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal; The Armitt Museum & Library, Ambleside; British Council; British Museum; Kent County Council; Tate Gallery, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London;

Corporate collections
Island Records Ltd; Nothing Records, USA; Opium Music Ltd; Reuters PLC; Virgin Records Ltd

Private collections
Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Canary Islands, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA, Yugoslavia.

1976
RCA Travelling Scholarship, Berlin

1977
Berger Award, Royal College of Art, London

1984
International Editorial Design Three: Award of Excellence for total design of International Resource Management publications, with Pentagram Design
Design & Art Direction, Silver Award for most outstanding complete magazine for International Resource Management publications, with Pentagram Design

1989
Diamond Awards Festival, Antwerp; Diamond record cover award for
Weatherbox, 5 x CD box set by David Sylvian, for Virgin Records

1994
Grammy Nomination for Eno I & II CD Box sets by Brian Eno, for Virgin Records

1995
Sony Award, for Between Two Lights audio work

1998
The Recording Industry Association of America Award, for multi-platinum sales of the album The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails

2003
Brewery Open, Brewery Arts Centre (Prize winner) Kendal Windows on Art, Kendal (Winner: Best Window & Art)

2005
Kendal Windows on Art, Kendal (Winner: Best Window & Art)

Acorn User; Albait News (Japan); All Saints Records; Ambleside Mountain Festival; Amnesty International, Ampersand & Partners; Anta (Japan); APT; Armitt Museum & Library; Architects Journal; Beats on the Street (Japan); Bella Union Records; Bijutsu Techno (Japan); Boston Globe (USA); Brent Chemicals; British Council (London and Rome); Brutus (Japan); Bugle (Japan); CAP Communications; Caroline Records (USA); Cartlidge Levene Design; The Chase Design Co.; Chatto and Windus Publishing; City Road (Japan); Crammed Discs (Belgium); Creative Review; Columbia Records (USA); Cut (Japan); Cut (Australia); Cumbria Tourist Board; Cumbria TEC; Deadline; Decca Records; Design; Designers Workshop (Japan); Digital UK; Ego (Japan); EG Music Group; English Heritage; Ericsson (Sweden); Esquire (USA); Expo ‘98 (Lisbon); 4AD Records; Faber & Faber; The Face; Festival D’Ille de France; Fredag (Sweden); Friends of the Earth; Peter Gabriel; Gallagher/Benson & Hedges; Hamish Hamilton; Harpers & Queen; W Heinemann & Sons; Icon Design; Instar Libra Publishers (Italy); International Management; Island Records; Island Records (NY); Japan Times; Kargo (Paris); KDB Design; Land Records; L’Enchanteur (Japan); Lewis Moberly Design; Livingstone Fisher; Lo Recordings; Logica UK; Longmans Publishers; London Contemporary Dance Theatre; Mag (Armenia); Marrs Gallery Japan); Marie Claire (Japan); Martin, Seeker & Warburg; Meta Records (USA); Methuen; Mindscapes (USA); Mix (Japan); Museum of Modern Art Oxford; My Bloody Valentine; New Scientist; New Society; New Musical Express; New Style; Ms London; Mainstream (Canada); Melody Maker; Michael Peters Design; Minerva Print; Moira Kelly Gallery; MSL Advertising; Mute Records; The National Trust; Nomad’s Land (Paris); Nothing/Interscope Records (USA); Now; Nucleus Design; Michael Nyman Ltd., 03 Magazine(Japan); The Observer; Off Films (Spain); Old Courthouse Gallery (Ambleside, Cumbria); Omni (USA); Opal Ltd; Opium (Arts) Ltd; Oxford University Press; Pan Books; Panoramic (Japan); Pentagram Design; Penguin Books; Personal Computer World; Persons Weekend Museum (Japan); Picabia (Japan); Playboy (Germany); Pluto Press; Polydor Records; The Principals Design; Radio Times; Real World Records; Reed Publishing; Redbank Books (UK); Redwood Publishing; Reuters; Rolling Stone (USA); Rocherilla (Italy); Royal Shakespeare Company; Saturday Night (USA); The Sciences (New York Academy of Science, USA); Sears Davies Design; Serpent’s Tail Publishers; Siobhan Davies Dance Company; Silver Films Ltd; Bill Smith Studio; The Smith Quartet; Sony Records (Canada); Sony Records (France); Sony Music (NY); Sound & Music; Spin Records; Spy Records; Strange & Beautiful Productions (films); Street Life; Stream Records; STC Telecommunications; Sun Alliance; Sunday Express; The Sunday Times; The Sunday Telegraph; Takarzina (Japan); Talent (USA); Tayburn Design; Tension (Australia); Time Out; Three Magazine; Toshiba (Japan); Touch; TNT; University of Georgia Press (USA); University of West England; Unwin Hyman Publishers; UR (Japan); Vernon Oakley Design; Verve Records (NY); Virgin Classics; Virgin Records; Virgin Publishing; Virgin Video; Vogue; War Child, Wave (Japan); Weekend (Canada); Zoom Magazine

1980
3R4, mini-LP, Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, 4AD Records, contributed percussion and voice
Cupol, EP, Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, 4AD Records, re-issued on CD, 1991, contributed percussion & treatments
Document & Eyewitness, Wire, LP, Rough Trade Records/Mute Records, re-issued on CD, 1991, contributed spoken word

1981
Dome 3, LP, Dome Records, with Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, Mute Records, re-issued on CD, 1992, and on 3 x LP box set by Editions Mego 2012, contributed voice and percussion
MZUI, LP, Bruce Gilbert, Graham Lewis and Russell Mills, Cherry Red Records, re-issued on CD by LTM, 2003

 1982
Dome 4, LP with Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, Mute Records, re-issued on CD 1992*

1983
Only Connect, 7” flexi-disc,Seibu, Tokyo, live recording from Museum of Modern Art, Oxford,with Shinro Ohtake

1994
Between Two Lights, soundwork for Radio Cumbria and installation*

1995
Pacific/Specific (in a different place), CD, WMO Records, with Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, contributed samples, tapes and found sounds
Between Two Lights, soundwork for Hearing is Believing Festival, Liverpool

1996
Measured In Shadows, CD, limited edition installation catalogue, with Ian Walton and Big Block 454
Undark, CD, Time Records, with: Michael Brook, Declan Colgan, Hywel Davies, Edge, Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Robin Guthrie, Bill 
Laswell, Kevin Shields, David Sylvian

1997
Sensorama: The Ambient Collection 001, CD, Creative, Undark track ‘Ice In The Sleeve’

1998
Root (for Thurston Moore), LP & CD, Lo Recordings, limited editions, Undark contributed a track ‘Tooth & Claw’
Emit: Beat Exploration, compilation CD, Instinct Records, Undark track ‘Rain In Our Room’

1999
Pearl & Umbra, Russell Mills/Undark, CD, Bella Union Records, with Brian Eno, Roger Eno, David Sylvian, Bill Laswell, Michael Brook, Edge, Robin Guthrie
, Kevin Shields, Hywel Davies, Declan Colgan, Tom Smyth, Ildefonso & Samuel Aguilar, John Aitken, Eraldo Bernocchi, Mark Clifford, Huw Costin, Sussan Deyhim, Mike Fearon, Ali Foster, Peter Gabriel, Graham Haynes, Derek Hook, Graham Lewis, Hamish Mackintosh, Ian McCullough, 
Tony McSweeney, Ann Mills, Sam Mills, Thurston Moore, Paul Schutze, Clodagh Simonds, Mitsuo
 Tate, Jonny Tomlinson, Emma Townshend, Ian Walton and Hector Zazou
Trace, limited edition CD, Audio Research Editions, Liverpool School of Art, Liverpool John Moores University, for the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, contributed a track ‘Soft Bullets’ with Mike Fearon and Jonny Tomlinson
Hot Pants Idol, CD, David Toop, Baroni Records, the track ‘Ink Of The Ants’ uses ‘Gleam and Drag’ from Undark Pearl & Umbra

 2000
Strange Familiar: Russell Mills/Undark, CD, Bella Union Records, with contributions from MichaelBrook, Declan Colgan, Hywel Davies, Edge, Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Robin Guthrie, Bill Laswell, Kevin Shields and David Sylvian
Republic Of Thorns, limited edition catalogue with CD, the Wordsworth Trust, with Ian Walton and Paul Farley
Zero, limited editionCD, Audio Research Editions, Liverpool School of Art, Liverpool John Moores University, contributed the track 
’Time Being’
, with Mike Fearon and Jonny Tomlinson

 2002
Red and Blue: Neither Norway, CD, Clearspot Records, Undark re-mixes of ‘Dead Indeed’ and ‘Tragomar’, for Nils Petter Molvaer
Modern Mantra, DJ Spooky: That Subliminal Kid, CD, Shadow Records, Undark track ‘Stone’s Eggs’
12 Tales, compilation CD, Instinct Records, Undark track ‘Rooms Of The Sixteen Shimmers’
At Least You Can Die With A Smile On Your Face, compilation CD, Bella Union Records, Undark track ‘Shed Lustre’

2003
Cleave | Soft Bullets, Limited edition installation catalogue with CD, with Mike Fearon.

2004
Bloody Amateurs, Unknown Public 14, contributed the track ‘Soundings (Edit)’, with Mike Fearon

2011
A History of Background, limited edition CD, Leeds Metropolitan University, contributed the track ‘Static (Edit)’’, with Mike Fearon

AIGA Boston; Architectural Association, London; Arts University Bournemouth; Bath College of Higher Education; Bath School of Art and Design (Bath Spa University); Birmingham City University; Birmingham Polytechnic; Brighton Polytechnic; Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design; Camberwell College of Art; Canterbury College of Art; Kent Institute of Art and Design; Bristol Polytechnic; Chartered Society of Designers; Association of Illustrators; Chelsea School Of Art; Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic; Coventry University; De Montfort University; Kingston Polytechnic; Kingston University; Falmouth College of Arts; Glasgow School of Art: Leeds Polytechnic; Leeds Metropolitan University; Liverpool John Moores University; Liverpool Polytechnic; Maidstone College of Art; Manchester Metropolitan University; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA; Middlesex Polytechnic; Middlesex University; National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland; Norwich School of Art; Norwich University of the Arts; Oporto University, Portugal; Parson’s School of Art & Design, New York U.S.A.; Pratt Institute, New York U.S.A.; Preston Polytechnic; Ravensbourne College of Design Communication; St Martin’s School of Art; School of Visual Arts, New York, USA; Royal College of Art, London: University of Central Lancashire; University for the Creative Arts; University College Falmouth; University of Brighton; University of Derby; University of Salford; University of West England; Walthamstow School of Art, Watford College of Art and Design

Visiting Professorships
University of West of England, Bristol;
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow

External Examining
University of West of England (1998-2001);
Leeds Metropolitan University (2001 – 2004);
Manchester Metropolitan University (2004- 2008),
University of the Arts Central St Martin’s School of Art, London (2008 -2012;
Hull College of Art and Lincoln University, 2012 – .

1988
Real World Seminar; Chartered Society of Designers, London

1989
Creativity, Ideas Plus Inspiration; Chartered Society of Designers, London

1995
Anticipating Unknowns: Design Symposium, Falmouth College of Arts

1997
The Creative Show; The Business Design Centre, Islington, London
Kurt Schwitters: Forward to Far; The Grizedale Society, Grizedale Forest
Going Critical: Synergies in Communication Design, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, under the auspices of the University of the West of England

 1999
Beyond The Wall; The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal; lecture and series of workshops

2000
Carving Cyberspace, Welfare State International, The Lanternhouse, Ulverston
Cross-Pollination, Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, St. Martin’s College of Art, The London Institute

2001
About Collage; symposium to accompany the exhibition ‘Peter Blake: About Collage’, Tate Gallery, Liverpool

2002
Convergence is More Than Just A Buzzword,The Lighthouse, Glasgow

2003
The Essence of an Idea; Promax Conference, Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, London

2006
Collaborative Practice; Falmouth College of Arts

2011
Ulster Festival of Art & Design, Ulster University

2014
Still Moves, limited edition series, 5 x books, 10 x CDs, Slow Fuse Sound Records, music for multimedia installations from 1994 to the present, with Mike Fearon

2015
Cargo In The Blood, 1830 Gallery, The Artworks, Shaw Lodge Mills, Halifax: solo exhibition of paintings, assemblages, collages, soundworks and films, with multimedia installation, presently untitled

Undark #3, presently untitled: CD, with contributions from: Eivind Aarset, Ildefonso Aguilar, Samuel Aguilar, Alejandro Aguilar, Rune Arnesen, Eraldo Bernocchi, Sidsel Endresen, Mike Fearon, Steve Jansen, Bill Laswell, Ian McCullough, Tony McSweeney, Keith Lowe, Nils Petter Molvaer, Robert Musso, Fumio Obata, Shinro Ohtake, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tom Smyth, Chris Vrenna and others