Penelope Dalton is an artist, critic and writer.
[2] Dalton taught studio practice and critical theory at Dartington College of Arts and Birmingham City University.
[3] Dalton spent many years as an academic researcher in socially contextualised practice in printmaking and art education, drawing on feminist and linguistic theory.
The arts - she now believes - are being absorbed within the economies of entertainment, social welfare and consumerism.
Her recent work returns to a modernist approach, and focusses on the materiality of painting as an imaginative practice of analogy and poetics.