"Though I sang like the sea in my chains"
Dylan Thomas
Born in the UK, Allan's theoretical specialism is in Surrealism.
His area of interest and work is the psychodynamic principles involved
in the process of Art and Education.
Education
Master of Arts, Chelsea School of Art, London
Bachelor of Arts, University of Wales
Post Graduate Certificate of Education, Kings College
Postgraduate Research Mentor Professor Toshio Watanabe
The Psychological Theories of Professors Freud and Jung and Twentieth
Century Surrealism’s Impact upon the Creative Principle and
Individual Development; both Socially and Artistically.
Papers
• Redefinition of Surrealism-Objective Chance-Second Manifesto-Relevance
of Jung.
• Spirit "Surrealisme" England.
• Picasso, Ambiguity and Minotaur.
• A Rethink of Surrealism: Leonora Carrington and Jung:
• Perception of Self, Life and World - Our Only True Sense
of Reality?
Past
• Director, Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea
• Director; English Language School, London
• Assistant Dean of Students, International University, London
• Head of English, London Borough of Ealing
• Complex Needs Unit, Surrey. Working with young people of
secondary school age in an educational and therapeutic environment.
Present
Practising Artist
Owner Rugby Arts
Visiting Lecturer Art and Surrealism
Exhibited at
• AAardvark Gallery,Shropshire, American National Rugby Play Offs (USA); Art House Gallery
St. Ives, Cornwall;
• Bayswater Road Artist Association, London; Bedford Park Arts Festival, London, Birmingham
NEC;
• Glynn Vivian Art Gallery; Swansea;
• Landmark Gallery London; Leadenhall Elevated Art Fair, London, Loplop Studio, Twickenham;
Llangollen International Pavilion.
• Marriott Hotel, Cardiff; Mumbles Road Gallery, Swansea;
• Nostalgia Gallery, London; National Trust, Rhossili Gower,
• Par ici Gallery London; Picture House Gallery Padstow;
• Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London;
• Saltmarshe Gallery Cardiff; Salubrious Gallery, Swansea; Tate, Gallery, St. Ives,
Cornwall, Charity Auction. Tros Gynnal Art Exhibition, Swansea Museum;
• Up Front Rugby Fashion,Covent Garden, London,
• Washington Gallery, Penarth
• Wimbledon Artist Opens Studios,
• World Rugby Museum, Twickenham, London;
• Other various UK Galleries
Collections
Badger Brewery; Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee USA ;
Rugby Football Union(RFU);
Stoney Brooke University, Pennsylvania USA
Articles and Reviews
Artist and Illustrators Magazine; Cardiff University Magazine;
South Wales Evening Post
Times Papers
Subject of student thesis work
