Dr Ralph Overill is an artist, researcher and educator based between Glasgow and Essex, UK.

His art seeks to construct and explore an alternative sci-fi reality that exists in parallel to contemporary society, critiquing the governing systems and powers that appear, in his eyes, unjust and incompetent. Drawing on the concept of hauntology, Ralph creates fragments of lost futures, gesturing times, places and events that might have been. Through adventuring down these untrodden paths, a psychogeography emerges; a web of childhood memories and cultural influences that weave into his home county of Essex - the land of monsters and margins.

With strong foundations in printmaking, Ralph’s practice has evolved to encompass photography, creative writing, performance, installation and site-specific interventions such as projection, spray painting and sticker bombing. In 2022 Ralph was awarded a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art from the University of East London. He works as a printmaking technician and tutor, exhibiting regularly in Greater London. Ralph has been awarded the Clifford Chance Purchase Prize, the Curwen Studio Prize and the Prix de Print for his art.

Currently:

Printmaking technician (intaglio) at The Glasgow School of Art

Short course tutor, Exploring Paper Lithography, West Dean College of Art and Conservation

Senior editor, Journal of Arts Writing by Students

Freelance printmaker: editioning projects, printmaking workshops, presentations of practice.

Previously:

Printmaking technician at East London Printmakers

Printmaking technician at New City College

Printmaking technician and course tutor at London Print Studio

Qualifications:

2022: Professional Doctorate in Fine Art, University of East London

2020: Level 3 Education and Training, Adult College of Barking and Dagenham

2011: MA Printmaking, Camberwell College of Art

2009: BA Fine Art, London Metropolitan University

Publications:

2023: Exiled in the present: the last Cyberman walks in Rettendon. Journal of Arts Writing by Students (7.1&2) Intellect, pp. 81-94

2022: Pandemic subversions: the rise of the Cybermen. Crossing Conceptual Boundaries (XII) University of East London, pp. 88-107

2018: Between the screens: screenprinting moving images. Journal of Arts Writing by Students (4.1) Intellect, pp. 37-47

2017: Prix de Print 25: ‘Over the Hill’. Art in Print (7.3) pp. 42-43

Solo exhibitions:

2022: World of the last Cyberman, Doctorate viva exhibition, University of East London

2020: Memory lanes, Appleby Gallery, Romford, Essex

2017: Journeys through the in-between, Brentwood Road Gallery, Romford, Essex

2016: Passing through, Raum Gallery, London

Selected group exhibitions:

2022: Withheld, Safehouse (Maverick Projects), London

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2019-2022)

LOOP Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London (2014-2022)

Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (2013, 2015, 2017, 2018)