Coordinates: 54°20′02″N 1°25′44″W / 54.334°N 1.429°W / 54.334; -1.429

Hambleton District
—  District  —
Official logo of Hambleton District Coat of Arms of the District Council
Shown within North Yorkshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Administrative county	North Yorkshire
Founded
Admin. HQ	Northallerton
Government
• Type	Hambleton District Council
• Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
• Executive:	Conservative
• MPs:	William Hague, Anne McIntosh
Area
• Total	506 sq mi (1,311 km2)
Area rank	14th
Population (2010 est.)
• Total	87,600
• Rank	Ranked 265th
• Density	170/sq mi (67/km2)
Time zone	Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0)
• Summer (DST)	British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Postcode
ISO 3166-2
ONS code	36UC
OS grid reference
NUTS 3
Ethnicity	99.2% White
Website	hambleton.gov.uk

Hambleton is a local government district of North Yorkshire, England. The main town and administrative centre is Northallerton, and includes the market towns and major villages of Bedale, Thirsk, Great Ayton, Stokesley and Easingwold.

The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974, as a merger of the urban district of Northallerton with Bedale Rural District, Easingwold Rural District, Northallerton Rural District, and part of Thirsk Rural District and Croft Rural District, all in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

The district is named after the Hambleton Hills, part of the North York Moors National Park, on the eastern edge of the district. This area is the subject of a national habitat protection scheme as articulated in the United Kingdom's Biodiversity Action Plan.

Geography[link]

View of the Hambleton Hills and Cowesby

Hambleton covers an area of 1,311.17 km² most of which, 1,254.90 km², is green space.^[1] The district is named after the Hambleton Hills, part of the North York Moors National Park, on the eastern edge of the district. This area is the subject of a national habitat protection scheme as articulated in the United Kingdom's Biodiversity Action Plan.

Towns[link]

• Bedale
• Easingwold
• Northallerton
• Thirsk

Population Size
1. Northallerton
2. Thirsk
3. Bedale
4. Easingwold

Demographics[link]

Firby Hall, Bedale

Cod Beck Weir, Thirsk

In 2007 Hambleton had an estimated population of 86,900 an increase of 3.2% on the population of 84,200 recorded in the 2001 UK census.^[2] In the 2001 census 83% of respondents identified their religion as Christians above the national average for England which was 71.74%. No other religion accounted for more than 0.2% of the population with the next two largest groups of respondents where those with no religion, at 10.40%, and who did not state a religion, at 6.14%.^[3]

Energy policy[link]

In May 2006, a report commissioned by British Gas^[4] showed that housing in Hambleton produced the 8th highest average carbon emissions in the country at 7,242 kg of carbon dioxide per dwelling. Whilst this has come under some scrutiny, it is important to remember that due to the remote nature of the councils parishes (Great Langton, Scorton etc.) carbon emissions are likely to be high.

See also[link]

• Energy efficiency in British housing

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hambleton

• Hambleton District Council

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Richard Hambleton (born June, 1954) is an artist-painter currently living and working in the Lower East Side of New York City. Richard Hambleton has been called the godfather of street art.^[1] He is the surviving member of a group who, together with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, had great success coming out of the New York City art scene during the booming art market of the 1980s.^[2] Much of Hambleton's work is compared to graffiti art, however, Hambleton considers his work to be "public art".^[3]

Early life[link]

Richard Hambleton was born in Vancouver. Canada in June 1954. He earned his Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Emily Carr School of Art in Vancouver in 1975.^[4] Hambleton was also Founder and Co-Director “Pumps” Center for Alternative Art, a gallery, performance and video space in Vancouver.^[4]

Image Mass Murder[link]

Richard Hambleton's early public art is noteworthy for his Image Mass Murder concept. From 1976 to 1979 Hambleton painted a police "chalk" outline around bodies of volunteer "homicide victims." He then splashed some red paint on the outline, leaving behind a realistic looking crime scene. These "crime scenes" were done on the streets of 15 major cities across the United States and Canada.^[5] Like Hambleton's future "Shadowman" paintings, the Image Mass Murder "crime scenes" would often have the effect of startling or shocking passersby.

Shadowman[link]

Richard Hambleton is most famous for his "Shadowman" paintings of the early 1980s. Each painting resembles a life-sized silhouetted image of some mysterious person, a "splashy shadow figure."^[6] These "shadow paintings" were splashed and brushed with black paint on hundreds of buildings and other structures across New York City. Locations were believed to be calculated for maximum impact upon unsuspecting pedestrians.^[2] Very often, a "Shadowman" could be found in a dark alley or lurking just around a street corner.^[7] Hambleton later expanded the scope of his project and painted these "shadowmen" in other cities, including Paris, London and Rome,^[8] and even, in 1984, he painted 17 life-size figures on the East side of the Berlin Wall, returning a year later to paint more figures on the West side of the Berlin Wall.^[9]

"Marlboro Man"[link]

Moving beyond public art, Richard Hambleton produced a variation of his "shadow" work, showing his "Shadowman" as a sort of "rodeo man," or rugged "Marlboro Man," often riding a bucking horse. This series was painted on canvas and other materials, where they could be displayed as works of art. Inspired by the Marlboro (cigarette) magazine advertisements, which in some ways exploited the image of a uniquely "American hero"^[6] to sell its product, Hambleton appropriated and modified the image to create a new series of work.^[6] Some paintings even have the Marlboro lettering of the advertisement showing through a layer of transparent paint, which presents to the viewer the original inspiration behind the work, together with the artist's dramatic alteration and personal expression. The result is a statement of how the boundaries between art and life, can be disrupted. The viewer is put into a position of confronting his or her preconceived ideas on various subjects not unlike the viewer who might of stumbled upon one of Hambleton's public art pieces. Not only the Marlboro Man image but the surrounding landscape (called "Marlboro Country" in the advertisements), was transformed to become part of the overall theme of this series.

Beautiful Paintings[link]

Richard Hambleton followed with a new body of work he entitled, "Beautiful Paintings." In these pieces, Hambleton used transparent paint on a metallic leaf background in order to reflect light and color to and from the viewer, who unwittingly becomes part of the visual effect.^[3] Some pieces were done with metallic leaf on canvas and others on a mirror-like or metallic surface. With strong use of color, these pieces stand in stark contrast to his "shadow" work. Hambleton has stated that this work was a reaction against the abundance of figurative painting displayed in galleries at the time, to which he chose not include figurative work of his own.^[6] Hambleton said that he also intentionally sought out a different mood, "with a different sensibility," from his previous work.^[6]

Galleries, Museums and Collections[link]

During his career, Richard Hambleton's work have been shown internationally in world-class galleries and museums, including paintings on canvas and paper of his "shadow" work.^[10] Richard Hambleton's artwork has been represented in the Venice Biennale in 1984 and 1988,^[11] and his work is part of numerous permanent collections including that of the Museum of Modern Art.^[12]

Renewed interest[link]

In 2007, director of the Woodward Gallery of New York City, John Woodward, helped launch a resurgence of interest in Hambleton's work, by featuring Richard Hambleton in his first solo exhibition in over a decade. The resulting exhibition, entitled "The Beautiful Paintings," gained much recognition for Richard Hambleton, as it gathered the largest collection of the Beautiful Paintings series to date. The exhibit was also the first to associate the artist’s name with his most recent work, the Beautiful Paintings, in the public mind. Richard Hambleton even painted his trademark, a lone, black Shadowman figure, on the gallery’s wall in order to “safe-guard” his paintings, which also highlighted and added context to the artist's bold "post-Shadowman" direction.^[13]

Spotlight and Retrospective[link]

In 2009, the works of Richard Hambleton were displayed in an exhibition celebrating his 40 year career as an artist entitled, "Richard Hambleton - New York." The exhibit was the result of a collaborative effort between Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, Andy Valmorbida, and Giorgio Armani.^[14] Thirty five pieces of Hambleton's work, spanning from the early 1980s to the present were exhibited,^[15] showing his "Shadowman" and "Marlboro Man" works on canvas (and other materials), presented side-by-side with his "Beautiful Paintings." The show was a great success and all the art work sold-out.^[15]

Part of the exhibit featured a series photographic images of photographer, author and music producer, Hank O'Neal, who had taken many photographs of the "Shadowman" works in 1982, and who also attended the show. O'Neal is said to have sought out examples of the "Shadowman" to photograph because he felt they were interesting examples of graffiti art, which itself was so prevalent at the time.^[7] Stunning in beauty and realism, O'Neal's "Shadowman" series now stand as both art and documentation, bringing an honest perspective to the nature of Richard Hambelton's early 1980s public art.

Presented at a space located at 560 Washington Street in New York City, the show was heavily publicized and featured as part of New York Fashion Week. Designed to be an "art event," similar to those in the days of Andy Warhol, the opening attracted many celebrities, including Mary J. Blige, Bruce Willis, Alicia Keys, and Jennifer Aniston; as well as a host of supermodels of the fashion world, including Lily Donaldson and Bar Refaeli. The show opened on September 15, 2009, and is seen by some as firmly solidifying Richard Hambleton's distinguished place in the history of modern art.^[16]

Recent Exhibits[link]

In 2010, Richard Hambelton continued his comeback gaining renewed recognition with an exhibit of artwork in Milan, Italy at the Armani Teatro, presented by Giorgio Armani and curated by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, which was also purported to be sold-out.

At the 2010 annual AIDS charity amfAR dinner party, held during the Cannes Film Festival, two paintings of Richard Hambleton were auctioned for a combined $920,000.00, to help raise funds for AIDS research.^[17]

Art Review and Art Criticism[link]

New York Times art critic Michael Brenson, when commenting on Hambleton's exceptional skill at handling paint, wrote, "When he throws white or black on the canvas, his waves break, his rodeo rider bucks, a man shot seems blown apart."

Papermag in October 2009 wrote of Hambleton: "Memo to Banksy: You owe Richard Hambleton a small fortune in royalties. You too, KAWS. Hambleton’s early ’80’s onsite works-dynamic, painted “Shadowmen” on street corners and in alleyways-are clear precursors of the early ’00’s graffiti-art boom, and Hambleton himself, a contemporary of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, one of its unsung godfathers".

Artist Influence[link]

Blek le Rat (Xavier Prou) commented, when asked by the Wooster Collective what artists he admired, "From the old school I really like Richard Hambleton. This American artist from NYC was the first street artist to export his work all over the world. It was really incredible to do that in the beginning of the 80's! This guy put his shadows in every city in Europe and so you could find them in Paris, London, Roma, Berlin, etc..."^[18]

Victor Matthews, an artist born in Brooklyn in 1963, and a graduate of the New York’s High School of Art and Design, cites artists such as Keith Haring and Richard Hambleton for his inspiration, artists who, he says, "made the city streets and subways their own."^[19]

Banksy’s work may be the most famous street art in the world, but the man who inspired him to first take out his stencils and spray paints in the dead of night was Richard Hambleton.^[20]

References[link]

1. ^ PAPERMAG in October 2009
2. ^ ^{a b} http://www.smokesignalsmag.com/2/hambletonpalaia.htm Franc Palaia article 'art star'
3. ^ ^{a b} http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1np72O2vJe0
4. ^ ^{a b} http://www.artnet.com/artist/7718/richard-hambleton.html
5. ^ http://www.ccca.ca/c/writing/d/dewdney/dew001t.html Vanguard article written by Christopher Dewdney May 1982
6. ^ ^{a b c d e} http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2009/11/13/nat.richard.hambleton.cnn/
7. ^ ^{a b} http://hankonealphoto.com/shadowman.html Shadowman photos by photographer Hank O'Neal
8. ^ Mallory Curley, A Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia (2010), p. 208
9. ^ http://www.graffiti.org/berlin/berlin_3.html Berlin Wall photographs by Georges Rosset, and, The Independent, Arts & Books, p.18-19, 23 November 2010 [1]
10. ^ http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=7718&page_tab=Bio_and_links Richard Hambleton on Artnet
11. ^ http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=1140&cid=122435
12. ^ http://artlog.com/events/4810-richard-hambleton
13. ^ http://www.woodwardgallery.net/hambleton/hambleton-aia-0308.pdf
14. ^ http://www.valmorbida.com/#/gallery Valmorbida.com
15. ^ ^{a b} http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/georgia-okeeffe9-3-09.asp
16. ^ http://www.vmagazine.com/article.php?n=13415 VMagazine article
17. ^ http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64K2EY20100521
18. ^ http://www.woostercollective.com/2003/11/profile_blek_le_rat.html Interview with Blek le Rat
19. ^ http://www.sanart.info/tag/richard-hambleton/ Victor Matthews
20. ^ http://www.shortlist.com/cool-stuff/richard-hambleton-artwork/ Shortlist

External links[link]

• Valmorbida.com
• Richardhambleton.com
• See video on CNN: Evolution of an Artist
• Woodwardgallery.net
• Richardhambleton.net
• 2010 Milan Exhibition