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Abrahams
RA, Ivor
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1935 - Wigan, Lancashire.
Attended St Martins School from 1952-3 and Camberwell School
of Art 1954 - 57. A major protagonist of the British Pop Art
Movement his work is many public and private collections worldwide.
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Aitchison
RA, Craigie
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1926 - Scotland. From 1952 - 54
studied at the Slade School of Fine Art London. The naive appearance
of his work is mistakenly taken for granted over the strength
and sophistication of his compositions. He is collected widely
and lives and work in London. p
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| Ayres
RA, Gillian |
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1930 - London. Gillian Ayres studied
at Camberwell School of Art and later taught at Winchester School
of Art. As a leading figure of the 'School of London' she has
always commanded respect for her single mindedness and individualistic
work. After teaching at Winchester she moved to Wales and now
lives in Cornwall. p
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| Berg
RA, Adrian |
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1929 - , London. Studied
at Charterhouse Borlands Limited, Caius College, Cambridge and
Trinity College, Dublin. Collectors include, Tate Gallery, Arts
Council (GB) and the British Council. p
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| Bevan, Tony |
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Born 1951, 1968-71 studied at Bradford School of Art , 1971-74 Goldsmiths’ College, London, and 1974-76
Slade School of Fine Art, London. Selected exhibitions: 1998, 'Tony Bevan’, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London; ‘Tony Bevan: Works on Paper’, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London; ‘Tony Bevan’, Robert Miller Gallery, New York; ‘Tony Bevan : The Complete Prints Etchings’, drypoints, linocuts and woodcuts 1969-2002, James Hyman Fine Art, London. p
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| Blow
RA, Sandra |
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1923 - , London. 1942 -
1946 St Martins School of Art. 1946 - 1947 Royal Academy School
and the Academia de Belle Arte, Rome. (1947-8). Since her first
solo exhibition in 1951 she has exhibited widely, nationally
and internationally. Her strong abstract gestural paintings
are represented in many public collections. p
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| Boyd & Evans |
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Boyd 1944 - studied at Leeds University.
Evans 1945 - studied at Leeds College of Art. In 1968 they started
working together. In 1977/78 they spent a year travelling throughout
America as Bi-Centennial Fellows. In 1991 they were invited
by Royal Geographical Society to join the Brunei Rainforest
Project as artists in residence. In 1999 they completed extensive
travel of the West Coast of America. p
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| Buckley,
Steven |
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1944 - Leicester. Studied Newcastle
University School of Art from 1962-7 and Reading University
from 1967 - 1969. Prize winner of John Moores Liverpool exhibition
in 1974. Has shown widely in Europe and America. His abstract
paintings use irregular format of a juxtaposition of different
surfaces. p
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| Caulfield
RA, Patrick |
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1936 - London. 1956 - 59 he attended
Chelsea School of Art, London and then the Royal College Art,
completing his studies in 1963. His work was first shown in
the series 'New Generation Exhibitions" at the Whitechapel
Art Gallery in the early 1960's. He has continued to exhibit
widely throughout the world in group and one man exhibitions.
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Chadwick, Helen |
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1953 - 1996. Born Croydon,
London. She studied at Brighton Polytechnic until 1976, and
graduated from Chelsea School of Art in 1977. Chadwick was Turner
Prize short listed in 1987 for her impressive use of mixed media
demonstrated in her show Of Mutability, held at the Institute
of Contemporary Arts. p
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| Cliffe,
Henry |
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1919 - Scarborough. He studied
painting and lithography at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham where
he also taught. His lithographs were included in the International
Biennial of Contemporary Colour Lithography in Cincinnati and
the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 1954 and 1960. His
work is represented in many public collections including the
V&A Museum, London; Cincinnati Art Museum; Museum of Modern
Art, New York; City Art Gallery, Bristol and the University
of Bristol. p
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| Cohen,
Harold |
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| Collishaw,
Matt |
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1966 - Nottingham. Collishaw
went on to study at Trent Polytechnic and, in 1986, at Goldsmiths
College, London. Whilst at Goldsmiths Matt was invited by Damian
Hirst to show at the 'Freeze' exhibition at Surrey Docks. He
has had solo exhibitions in Paris, Genebra and Naples and was
featured at the 'Sensations' exhibitions at the Royal Academy
in 1997. p
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| Cooper
RA, Eileen |
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1953 - Glossop Derbyshire. Studied
1971 - 77 at Goldsmiths and Royal College of Art. A leading
female painter of her generation Eileen Cooper is renowned for
her depictions of family life through personal experiences.
She lives and works in London and is visiting lecturer of the
Royal College of Art. p
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| Cragg
RA, Tony |
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1939 - Liverpool. He worked as
a laboratory technician at the Natural Rubber Producers Research
Association 1966/8 before attending Gloucestershire College
of Art and Design, and the Royal College of Art1973-77. He has
lived and worked in Germany, since 1977. He was elected
RA in 1994. In the summer of 1999 the forecourt of Burlington
House was given over to an installation of his new work. These
bronze sculptures, developed to a degree of complexity demonstrate
his mastery over form and material. A solo exhibition, A New
Thing Breathing, was held at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, in
spring 2000 and five monumental sculptures form the first exhibition
on the Terrace of Somerset House 2001. p
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| Ellis,
Clifford |
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1907 - 1985. Born Bognor
Regis, Sussex. Printmaker, designer, painter & teacher.
St Martins School of Art 1923, Regent Street poly 1924 - 7,
postgraduate London University 1929. Taught at Bath Technical
College which became Bath Academy. Designed posters and
book jackets Collins. p
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| Emin,
Tracy |
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1963 - London. Grew up in
Margate. She studied fine art at Maidstone College of Art and
then went on to the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1992.
Her first solo exhibition was the following year at White Cube
Gallery, London. She lives and works in London. p
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| Frink,
Elizabeth |
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1939 - Thurlow, Suffolk. Attended
Guildford Art School and Chelsea School of Art where she studied
under Professor Bernard Meadows. Her Collectors include:
Museum of Modern Art, New York and National Gallery of Australia,
Melbourne. p
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Frost, Sir Terry |
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1915 - 2003. Studied
Camberwell School of Art. Collectors include: National Gallery
of Canada, Tate Gallery, London and the Gulbenkian Foundation.
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| Grant,
Alistair |
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1925 - London. Studied at
Birmingham School of Art and Royal College of Art, London.
Collections include: Tate Gallery London, Victoria and Albert
Museum and the Beaverbrook Foundation, Canada. p
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| Green,
Alan |
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1932 - , London. Studied
at the Royal College of Art. Collections include: Museum
of Modern Art, New York and the Arts Council of Great Britain.
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| Hasagowa,
Jun |
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1969 - Japan. Goldsmiths
College 1992 - 5. Exhibitions included White Trash &
Multiple Orgasm at Lost in Space 1995; and New Contemporaries
at Tate Gallery, Liverpool & Camden Arts Centre 1996. p
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| Herman,
Josef |
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1911 - , Warsaw, Poland.
Arrived in England in 1940 becoming a British citizen in 1946.
His paintings are held worldwide by many public collections.
He lived in Wales and Scotland where his depiction of ordinary
working people was the main focus of his subject matter. p
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| Heron,
Patrick |
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1920 - Leeds. Studied at the Slade
School of Art. Collections include Tate Gallery, Arts Council
of Great Britain and Museum of Modern Art, New York. p
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| Hirst, Damien |
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Born in Bristol in 1965 and grew up in Leeds with his mother and stepfather. He took a foundation course in Leeds, moved to London where he took a BA
Fine Art course at Goldsmiths College, graduating in 1989. While still a student Damien organised the Freeze exhibition held in a docklands warehouse which launched the Young British Artists movement.p
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| Hockney
RA, David |
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1937 - Bradford, Yorkshire. Studied
at Bradford School of Art from 1953 to 1957 and at the Royal
College of Art from 1959 to 1962. Probably Britain's best known
painter and printmaker. p
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| Hodgkin,
Sir Howard |
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1932 - London. Hodgkin studied
1949 - 50 at Camberwell School of Art and from 1950 - 54 at
Bath Academy, Corsham alongside William Scott, Gillian Ayres
and Henry Cliffe. He draws his inspiration from personal
experiences and is renowned for his masterful use of colour.
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| Hoyland
RA, John |
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1934 - Sheffield, England. John
Hoyland studied at Sheffield College of Art, 1951-6 and from
1956-60 studied at the Royal Academy Schools, London. he went
on to a two year teaching spells at Hornsey, Croydon and Chelsea
Schools of Art. Has had a life long association with print
making and in 1979 began colour etching at Kelpra Studio, London.
Lives and works in London, Wiltshire and Italy. p
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| Hughes-Stanton,
Blair |
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1902 - 1981. Born London.
Wood engraver, painter, draughtsman and teacher. Royal
Academy Schools 1922 - 3. Leon Underwood's School 1923
- 5. International Prize Engraving, Venice Biennale 1938.
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| Hughes,
Patrick |
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1939 - Birmingham. His first one
man show was at the Portal Gallery in 1961, followed by the
Hanover Gallery and since 1970 with Angela Flowers. His images
play with visual and verbal puns, painted in bright colours.
A printmaker, his work is widely sought after. p
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| Hume,
Gary |
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Born in 1962, Gary Hume studied at Goldsmith's College, London, where he graduated from in 1988. His work was shown in his first group exhibitions the same year with Karsten Schubert Ltd. The following year Gary Hume had his first solo exhibition at the Karsten Schubert Gallery and quickly gained an international reputation. p
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| Hughes,
Patrick |
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1939 - Birmingham. His first one
man show was at the Portal Gallery in 1961, followed by the
Hanover Gallery and since 1970 with Angela Flowers. His images
play with visual and verbal puns, painted in bright colours.
A printmaker, his work is widely sought after. p
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| Ingham,
Bryan |
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1936-1997 Born Preston, England.
Painter, sculptor, collage and graphic artist. St. Martin's
School of Art 1957-61, Royal College of Art 1961-64 and
British Academy, Rome 1966. Ingham engages with
the crucial period of Cubism from 1912-1916 and the work of
Picasso, Braque and Gris in particular. His work
concentrates on both real and implied space within the surface
of the picture. This often entails relief or collage.
In later life he took to interpreting his ideas in three-dimensions
with similar subjects of still life cast in to relief sculptures.
At times Ingham's work is deeply reminiscent of the work of
Ben Nicholson both in terms of subject-matter and treatment.
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| Irvin
RA, Albert |
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1922 - London. Studied at Northampton
School of Art and Goldsmith's College, London. Collections include
Art Council of Great Britain and the Contemporary Arts Society.
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| Kauffman,
J |
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1932 - Ohio, USA. 1951 Cooper
Union Art School, New York followed by art schools in Vienna
and Oxford, England. He then attended the Royal College of Art
from 1959 - 61. for most of his painting career he lived and
worked in London but more recently has moved back to the United
States. p
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| Kitaj
RA, R B |
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1932 - Ohio, USA. 1951 Cooper
Union Art School, New York followed by art schools in Vienna
and Oxford, England. He then attended the Royal College of Art
from 1959 - 61. for most of his painting career he lived and
worked in London but more recently has moved back to the United
States. p
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| Kossoff,
Leon |
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1926 - London. 1949 - 1953 attended
St Martins School of Art and Borough Polytechnic, London where
he studied under David Bomberg. 1953 - 1956 Royal College of
Art, London along with Frank Auerbach Kossoff is one of Britain's
leading expressionist painters. Lives and works in London. p
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| Lijn,
Liliane |
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Born New York. Studied at
the Sorbonne Ecole du Louvre in Paris. Interrupted academic
pursuits to concentrate on painting - was involved with the
Surrealists. Lived in New York from 1961 to 1963, working in
a plastics factory experimenting with fire and acids - did research
into invisibility. By 1980 in London she initiated many
projects, among them the transformation of Manhattan into "The
Hanging Gardens of Rock City" and the "Whirling Wind
Tower", a wind sculpture generating electricity for a small
town. In the 80's established herself as a leading
public sculpture artist in Britain. p
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McLean,
Bruce
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Studied at Glasgow School of Art
from 1961 to 1963, and from 1963 to 1966 at St Martin's School
of Art, London. In 1965 he abandoned conventional studio production
in favour of impermanent sculptures using materials such as
water, along with performances of a generally satirical nature
directed against the art world. In Pose Work for Plinths I (1971;
London, Tate), a photographic documentation of one such performance,
he used his own body to parody the poses of Henry Moore's celebrated
reclining figures. When in 1972 he was offered an exhibition
at the Tate Gallery, he opted, with obviously mocking intent,
for a ‘retrospective' lasting only one day. Mainly a sculptor
McLean turned increasingly to painting, in a witty and subversive
parody of current expressionist styles, and to ceramics p
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McLean,
John
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1939 - Liverpool. St Andrews
University 1957 - 62, Courtauld Institute of Art 1963 - 6.
Taught Chelsea School of Art, Goldsmith's College, Canterbury
University. Exhibited Arts Council, British Council, Scottish
Arts Council, De Beers, Welcome Foundation. p
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| Maloney,
Martin |
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1961 - London. Something of a Renaissance
man, he not only emerged as an artist but, throughout the 90s,
he also contributed to major international art magazines - such
as Artforum and Flash Art - and even, in the mid 90s, ran his
own gallery, Lost in Space, from his South London flat. But
it is his work as an
artist that most fully expresses Maloney's ideas, and his paintings
have been exhibited regularly throughout Europe as well as featuring
in such major exhibitions as 'Sensation' at the Royal Academy
of Arts - which toured to Germany and New York - and both 'New
Neurotic Realism' and 'New Labour' at the Saatchi Gallery. p
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| Mara,
Tim |
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1948 - 1997. Studied at Wolverhampton
Art College, 1970 - 1973. In 1973 attended a printmaking course
at the Royal College of Art where he attained his Masters Degree
under Alistair Grant. He returned in 1990 as Professor of Printmaking.
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| Martin,
Frank |
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1921 - 2005. London. Studied
St Martin's School of Art from 1946-9 and worked as a freelance
illustrator for many years whilst teaching at Camberwell School
of Art where he became Head of Graphic Design, 1976 - 80 and
became a renowned wood engraver. A lifelong fascination with
the silver screen has produced a body of work dedicated to the
glamour of Hollywood. p
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| McComb
RA, Leonard |
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1930 - Glasgow. Studied at Manchester
School of Art from 1954-6 and the Slade from 1956-9. His work
is represented in collections including the Tate and the Art
Council of Great Britain. He is the Keeper of the RA. p
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| Meadows,
Professor Bernard |
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1915 - Norwich. Studied painting
school at Norwich School of Art. 1936 - 1939 studio assistant
to Henry Moore and again after W.W2. Exhibited Venice
Biennale 1952. Appointed Professor of Sculpture at the
Royal College of Art from 1960 - 1980. Has had a profound
influence on modern British sculpture. p
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| Miller,
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Born and raised in Edinburgh.
From an early age he was addicted to travel he found it an essential
form of stimulation for creative formulations. He travelled
extensively visiting over thirty countries but settled for the
last few years of his life in Indonesia. He spent a large
part of his life in Australia were he said the light influenced
his work greatly. His distinctive style is one of diverse
imagery broken up like a mosaic or collage both surreal and
ultra real, glowing with light. Jack Miller has exhibited
in numerous shows worldwide, including the Tate Gallery, Brooklyn
Museum, Serpentine Gallery, Venice Biennale and Dallas Museum.
His work is held in public collections such as the Victorian
and Albert Museum, National Gallery and British Council.
Sadly Jack Miller died this year 2004. p
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| Milroy,
Lisa |
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Coming soon. p
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| Moore,
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Born 30 July 1898, Castleford, Yorkshire, died. 31 August 1986, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.
Educated in Castleford and then the Royal College of Art. In the 1924 he was appointed Instructor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy where he stayed for the seven years. In the 1930s Moore was a member of Unit One, a group of advanced artist including Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. He moved to Much Hadham after his home in Hampstead was hit by a bomb. This remained his home for the rest of his life.
Moore was an advocate of direct carving and expressed natural forms in terms of stone or wood. Works in the open air include Arnheim, London, Paris, Rotterdam and the USA. p
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| Oxtoby,
David |
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1938 - Horseforth, Yorkshire.
Bradford College of Art 1953 - 57 and Royal Academy School,
London 1960 -1964. "The key to Oxtoby as a painter
is his overwhelming affection for his subject; there is no distance,
no sense of detachment......" p
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| Paolozzi
RA, Sir Edouardo |
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1924 - 2005, Leith, Edinburgh,
the son of Italian immigrants. Studied 1944 - 45 St Martins
College, London and then The Slade School of Art 1945 - 47.
Difficult to categorise from his surrealist beginnings to being
a father figure to Pop Art. He is still working vigorously
and creatively as he has done for over 40 years.
Guardian Obituary 23 April 2005 p
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| Pasmore,
Victor |
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1908 - 1998, Chesham, Surrey.
From 1927 - 1931 attended evening classes at the Central School
of Arts and Crafts. In 1937 he, alongside William Coldstream
and Claude Rogers, opened a teaching studio later known as the
Euston Road School. In 1947 he saw a return to the abstract
style of painting which continued for the rest of his career.
His work is in major collections throughout the world. p
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| Paul,
Celia |
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1959 - Trivandrum, India.
1976 - 1981 Slade School of Art, London. Solo exhibitions with
both Bernard Jacobson Gallery and Marlborough Fine Art. p
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| Piper,
John |
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1903 - 1992. In 1926 attended
the Richmond School of Art. Transferred to Royal College
Art in 1927 staying till 1929. Piper was an influential
avante garde artist settling into an illustrious career painting
his personal love of architecture and the country he lived in.
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| Rego, Paula |
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Born Lisbon 1934, educated at St Julian’s School, Carcevelos and the the Slade School of Art, London. Married Victor Willing and they had three children. Solo exhibitions include Serralves Museum Oporto, Tate Britain. Currently lives and works in London.p
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| Riley,
Bridget |
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Born in London in 1931, educated at Cheltenham Ladies College, Goldsmith’s College and the Royal College of Art. Her contemporaries include Richard Smith, Frank Auerbach and Peter Blake.
For the past four decades her career had been distinguished by a series of remarkable innovations. She has continued to develop new style in her work and remains a master of allowing us to question the way we see. p
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| Stainton,
Tricia |
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1952 - Kendal, Cumbria.
Studied at London College of Printing, Chelsea College of Art
and the Royal College of Art. p
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| Staunton,
Sara |
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No biographical information available
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Stevens, Norman |
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1937 - 1988. Norman Stevens
was born in Yorkshire. Studied at Bradford College of
Art along with David Hockney. He went on to the Royal
College of Art 1957 - 1960. He was a naturally gifted
print maker, blessed with a light touch and a keen eye.
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| Tilson
RA, Joe |
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1928 - London. Studied at St Martins
College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. Collections
include: Tate Gallery London, Museum of Modern Art, New York
and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. p
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| Tindle
RA, David |
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1952 - Huddersfield. Studied at
Coventry School of Art. Collections include, De Beers Collection,
Tate Gallery London and the Arts Council of Great Britain.p
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Trevelyan, Julian |
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1910 - 1988. Collections include:
Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, Library of Congress,
New York and Brooklyn Museum, New York. p
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| Wainright,
Albert |
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1898 - 1943. Born Castleford,
Yorkshire. Attended Leeds College of Art from 1914 to
1916. 1919 attended pottery painting classes with Henry
Moore under their former school teacher Alice Gostick. Wainright
exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery 1920, the Goupil Gallery,
London in 1923. From 1927 to 1939 visited the continent
every year painting and sketching. p
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| Webster & Noble |
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Tim Noble,
Stroud, 1966 & Sue Webster Leicester, 1967. United
by their fascination with the mechanics of the media and advertising
industries, and by the notion of the young British artist
as celebrity. They employ a wide variety of visual styles,
combining and confusing the spectacular and the mundane in
a manner best described as consistently inconsistent.
Noble and Webster had their first two-person exhibition at
the Independent Art Space, London in 1996. Its title, 'British
Rubbish', made clear the pair's determination to tackle head
on the stereotypes and hyperbole generated by and around the
'Sensation' generation of young British artists collected
by Charles Saatchi. They set out to test the boundaries of
the club to which they nominally belonged, questioning the
lazy nationalistic and self-congratulatory attitudes upon
which it was constructed. In their 1994 fly-poster,
The Simple Solution, Noble and Webster had collaged their
own faces onto the trademark be suited bodies of Gilbert and
George, grandes dames of the British art world. 'British Rubbish'
displayed the same irreverent spirit but, in the wake of much-reported
survey exhibitions such as 'Brilliant: New Art from London'
at the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, took the critique a
stage further.p
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