SELECTED WORKS

The Art Direction of the Noguchi Museum, 2018 –

and after: a summer, of yes, more love. 1994, 23.05.21
Oil stick, watercolour & pencil on cotton paper
A3 - 420 x 297 mm

Giles Round, Colour Palette, Living with Buildings, 2018
Colour Palette devised for the exhibition Living with Buildings, 4 October 2018 - 3 March 2019, Wellcome Collection, London
Dimensions Variable

Colour Palette, Living with Buildings is an extensive colour palette investigating the role of colour in architecture on physical and mental health. The colour palette, comprising of 31 found colours compiled from research translated into a workable palette, was used across all elements of the exhibition design scheme and graphics to create an immersive composition.

Commissioned by Wellcome Collection
Graphic Design: Martin McGrath

Radio: Kevin Penney & Giles Round
The sounds of unseen birds, 2018
Soundtrack, Roberts Classic Blutune Radio
49'34"

The soundtrack, transmitted to radio, is compiled from field recordings and Foley elements, taking Barbara Hepworth’s text in the publication Unit 1 (1934) as an instruction for a score:

The present moment is the only real time. [...] In an electric train moving south I see a blue aeroplane between a ploughed field and a green field, pylons in lovely juxtaposition with springy turf and trees of every stature. It is the relationship of these things that makes such loveliness—

The sounds of unseen birds and droning aeroplanes in the sky, part hidden by the leaves of a tree so very much older than I am, [...] the wireless filling the air with music from some foreign station.

Excerpt from Unit 1, The Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture, edited by Herbert Read, (Cassell & Company, 1934)

Photograph: Jules Lister

LEFT: Giles Round
A storm (atmosphere), 2017
Double sided 12” dubplate of a Foley performance, stereo
Side A 00:11:42 Side B 00:11:35
Total duration 00:22:77

Performed by Richard Hinton, Brian Moseley, Shelley Stott and David Yapp
at Bristol Old Vic on 15 March 2017
Recorded by Tom Hobbs
Mixed by Brian Moseley

RIGHT: Superstudio
Passiflora, 1968
Laser-cut and heat-formed Perspex
300 x 410 x 290 mm

Photograph: Stuart Whipps

You know the old story... I can't tell you again!!!, 2015
Four coloured screen print on blue back paper
Dimensions variable

Installation View, Over You/You, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
Curated by Nicola Lees
Photograph by Jaka Babnik

They parted at the end of spring. He couldn’t promise anything, 1967, 2017
Glazed earthenware

Courtesy the artist & Thun Ceramics Residency, Bolzano 
Photograph: Luca Meneghel

LEFT: Giles Round and Phil Sundling
OH, Daffy. What's up?, 2015
Borosilicate glass bong, shelving 

RIGHT: Giles Round
Ettore. Sorry!, 2015
Interpretation panel
1000 x 800 mm

Installation view: Faux Pas, Shananay at Fahrenheit, LA 
Curated by Sabrina Tarasoff 
Photograph by Naoki Sutter-Shudo

Giles Round
Ettore. Sorry!, 2016
Partially glazed stoneware
250 × 240 × 80 mm

Courtesy the artist and JW Anderson Workshops, London
Photograph: Lewis Ronald