Adrian Howells

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Full Name	Adrian Howells
Occupation	Book
Date Of Birth	Apr 9, 1962(1962-04-09)
Age	62
Date Of Death	March 16, 2014, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Birthplace	Bapchild
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aries

Adrian Howells Biography

Adrian Howells is one of the most popular and richest Book who was born on April 9, 1962 in Bapchild, England, United Kingdom.

Adrian Howells (9 April 1962 – 16 March 2014) was a British performance artist associated with one-to-one performance and intimate theatre. He performed in the United Kingdom and internationally (including in Israel, Singapore, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy and other countries). He was a pioneer of one- to-one performance, in which an artist repeats and adapts a score for a performance for a single audience member, or audience-participant, and repeats the action serially across a run of several days. The process and outcomes in Howells’ signature works were frequently modelled on activities associated with the service industries or the tertiary sector of the economy, such as washing the audience-participant’s hair or clothes, or giving an audience- member a bath, replicating in some ways the labour of a hairdresser, laundry worker, or caregiver; or he appropriated and adapted intimate interpersonal experiences in carefully mediated situations, like talking around a script or score in a setting such as a Japanese rock garden in The Garden of Adrian (2009), or holding hands, listening to music, and spooning in silence in Held (2008).

From 2001 until around 2008, much of Howells’ work involved the use of a drag persona, namely Adrienne. Adrienne was used as a persona in a broad range of performances, including one-to-ones where Howells: washed and dried a punter’s clothing over the course of an hour (Adrienne’s Dirty Laundry Experience, 2003); washed and styled one’s hair in a hairdressers (Salon Adrienne, 2005); helped audience-participants buy a new outfit (Adrienne’s Personal Shopping Experience, 2005); delivered wine, dessert and conversation to an occupied hotel room (Adrienne’s Room Service, 2005); served food in a bar (Adrienne’s Bar and Grill, 2010); and – in the most arduous of these performances – Adrian/Adrienne lived for a week in a hotel room, without shaving, washing, or removing her make-up, receiving guests as the debris of eating and living mounted in the room (Adrienne: The Great Depression, 2004). In a review, Howells described his investment in intimate participatory performance: ‘I went into one-on-one work because I wanted an equal exchange between performer and audience. I wanted to really connect with an individual and make it something cherish-able and genuine. And there are moments when you puncture the performance and it is something real.’

Adrian Howells Net Worth

Adrian Howells is one of the richest Book from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Adrian Howells 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Howells was born in 1962 in his grandmother’s house in Bapchild, Kent in the South of England. He was raised in nearby Sittingbourne, and attended Minterne County Junior School and Borden Grammar School. In the 1970s, he participated in youth theatre companies including Kent County Youth Theatre and Sittingbourne Youth Theatre. From 1981-84 he attended Bretton Hall College in West Yorkshire, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Drama and English. After working as a jobbing actor and director in provincial productions of plays and pantomimes, in 1990 Howells joined the Citizens Theatre Company in Glasgow, Scotland as an assistant director to Giles Havergal (one of the company’s three pioneering directors, alongside Philip Prowse and the late Robert David MacDonald). While working at the Citizens Theatre, Howells met Stewart Laing, and Laing cast Howells alongside the drag performers Leigh Bowery and Ivan Cartwright in a production of Copi’s scatological play The Homosexual or the Difficulty of Sexpressing Oneself (1971) – Laing’s first directorial production (co-directed with Gerrard McArthur). The play toured to Glasgow, London and Manchester in 1993-94. Howells recalled that ‘Time Out described it as a hymn to tastelessness. I blacked up and was an Asian transsexual with a Carry on up the Khyber accent.’ Bowery was a profound influence on Howells and the two were close friends until Bowery’s premature death in late 1994.

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Later, Howells recalls, ‘I made a conscientious decision to dispense with the mask of Adrienne – the makeup, hair, and costume. I wanted to be much more open and honest about risk, and vulnerability – and the cost, I guess, of an engagement with another person’. This work has been widely discussed in terms of the means by which Howells explored intimacy, the pleasures and difficulties of interpersonal communication, and social relations. After dropping the ‘mask of Adrienne’, Howells created one-to-one performances without a discernible persona. Key examples included The Garden of Adrian (2009); The Pleasure of Being: Washing/Feeding/Holding (2010), in which an audience-participant lay in a bath of water and oils and was washed by Howells, then—after leaving the bath—was fed chocolates and held while wrapped in a towel; and his most extensively toured of these performances, Foot Washing for the Sole (2008), a long encounter modelled on a foot massage.

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Top Facts about Adrian Howells

1. Adrian Howells was a British performance artist born in 1962.
2. He was known for his intimate and immersive performances.
3. Howells won numerous awards for his work, including a Herald Angel Award.
4. He passed away in 2014 at the age of 51.
5. Howells’ most famous works include “The Pleasure of Being: Washing, Feeding, Holding” and “Adrian Howells Presents: The Passengers”.
6. His work often explored themes of identity, intimacy, and vulnerability.
7. Howells taught at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and was an honorary professor at University of Glasgow.
8. He performed all over the world, including in Australia, Canada, and South Africa.
9. In addition to his solo work, he collaborated with other artists on various projects.
10. Howells’ legacy continues to inspire contemporary performance art today.