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Getting the award
Paul Rooney works in video, sound and narrative and has exhibited prolifically in the UK and internationally. He is this year’s winner of the Northern Art Prize nominated by Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs at the National Media Museum.
What was the starting point for your work? I was a painter and trained at Edinburgh College, then I went into teaching. In 2001 I gave up teaching, stopped painting, and started to apply for residencies. You stopped painting completely? I stopped painting and haven’t since. I started up the Rooney band. My interest in music developed from when I was teaching at Stoke – there were students in bands and we had a lot of discussion. I had a lot of songs that had been storing up inside for a while. I’d hoped I could make the Rooney band into an art practice, it was part fictional but then it came real as I was approached by musicians and performers. I collaborated with different people – choirs and singers – to create the work. I still do one off days teaching or do talks - it’s quite common for artists to have part time jobs doing something not related to their practice. Teaching is good in that it’s related to artistic practice, but it’s not ideal. It’s pretty exhausting being so close to art all the time, it gets too full on. How did the music lead to the work you are doing now? I did the Peel Sessions in 1999 –...
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