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ARTIST			BIOGRAPHY

Blow RA, Sandra			1925 - 2006 , 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.
Boyd & Evans			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.
Caulfield RA, Patrick			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.
Clarke, Brian			1953 - , Oldham. Brian Clarke is a painter and architectural stained glass designer who has, most notably, worked in stained glass. In 1965 on a Junior Scholarship Clarke attended the Oldham School of Arts and Crafts. He went on in 1968 to Burnley School of Art. In 1970 he enrolled at The North Devon College of Art and Design where he went on to receive a first class distinction in Diploma in Art and Design. In 1974 he was awarded the Winston Churchill Memorial Travelling Fellowship to study art and architecture in Rome, Paris and Germany. The second part of the Fellowship was spent in Los Angeles and New York. He is now a trustee of that institution. Although working primarily in art in architecture, his paintings, stained glass, mosaic and tapestry works can be found in architectural settings and private and public collections.>
Emin, Tracy			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.
Frink, Elizabeth			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.
Frost, Sir Terry			1915 - 2003. Studied Camberwell School of Art. Collectors include: National Gallery of Canada, Tate Gallery, London and the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Green, Alan			1932 - , London. Studied at the Royal College of Art. Collections include: Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Arts Council of Great Britain.
Griffin, Peter			Born in 1947, Peter Griffin studied at the Royal College of Art, going on to win the Rome Scholarship in Painting. His recent collaborations with the Pablo Neruda Foundation are shown below. 1998 marked the 25th anniversary of the death of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda. Peter Griffin devoted three years to the development of imagery appropriate to the passion of Neruda's poetry.
Hasagowa, Jun			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.
Hockney RA, David			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.
Hodgkin, Sir Howard			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.
Hoyland RA, John			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.
Hughes-Stanton, Blair			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.
Hughes, Patrick			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.
Ingham, Bryan			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.
Irvin RA, Albert			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.
Kauffman, J			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.
Kiff RA, Ken			1935 - 2001.Ken Kiff, RA was a 20th century British painter. Studying at the Hornsey School of Art (later to become part of Middlesex University) during 1955–61, Kiff was a figurative artist at a time when abstract art held sway. He became a Royal Academician in 1991. During 1991–93, he was Associate Artist at the National Gallery in London. Kiff's dealer was Marlborough Fine Art in London and he exhibited there amongst other galleries. A mini retrospective exhibition of Kiff's paintings was held at the Marlborough Fine Art gallery in 2008.
Kitaj RA, R B			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.
Lijn, Liliane			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.
McFadyen, Jock			Jock McFadyen was born in 1950 in Paisley, Scotland. He studied at Chelsea School of Art from 1973 to 1977, then teaching part-time at the Slade School of Fine Art. McFadyen was Artist-in-residence at the National Gallery in 1981 and lives in London. His painting celebrates the decay and abuse of the urban environment, the grime and graffiti in chorus with the painted surface of his grand pictures. Selected solo exhibitions include the National Gallery, London, 1982; The Imperial War Museum, London, 1991; Galleri 27, Oslo, Norway, 1996; The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland, 1999. He currently ives and works in London.
McLean, John			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.
Maloney, Martin			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.
Mara, Tim			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.
Martin, Charles			1884 - 1934. Born in Montpellier, Charles Martin studied art in Montpellier and at the Académie Julian and the Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was a pupil of Fernand Cormon. Martin was an important figure in Art Deco, as illustrator, poster-designer, fashion, ballet, and theatre designer, as well as contributor to fashion journals such as the Gazette du Bon Ton and the Journal des Dames et des Modes.
Martin, Frank			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.
Meadows, Professor Bernard			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.
Miller, Jack			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.
Milroy, Lisa			Coming soon.
Moore, Henry			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.
Morton, Victoria			Born 1971 in Glasgow. She studied at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. She has had solo shows in Britain, Europe, and the United States including at Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, 2004, and Plus and Minus, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2002. Group exhibitions include Glasgow In Viaggio, Museo Corta Alta, Fossombrone, Italy, 2004, and Painting Not Painting with Jim Lambie, Julie Roberts, and Richard Slee at Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, 2003.
Ocean, Humphrey			Born in Sussex in 1951, Humphrey Ocean went to art schools in Tunbridge Wells, Brighton and Canterbury. From 1971 to 1973 he was bass player with Kilburn and the Highroads and was elected a Royal Academician in 2004. In 1984 he painted a portrait of Philip Larkin for the NPG, described by Nick Hornby as 'unanswerable'. Four years later he went to Northern Brazil with the American anthropologist Stephen Nugent and their book 'Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks' was published by Fourth Estate in 1990.
Oxtoby, David			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......"
Paolozzi RA, Sir Edouardo			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
Pasmore, Victor			Born Chesham Surrey 1908. Died 1998. From 1927 - 1931 Victor Pasmore 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.
Paul, Celia			1959 - Trivandrum, India. 1976 - 1981 Slade School of Art, London. Solo exhibitions with both Bernard Jacobson Gallery and Marlborough Fine Art.
Rego, Paula			Born Lisbon 1935, 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.
Remfry, David			Born 1942, Remfry's work is based on the figure. He attended Hull College of Art from 1959-1964 before moving to London. He has exhibited at galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Florida and in 2002 had a solo exhibition at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, Museum of Modern Art affiliate, curated by Alanna Heiss and Daniel Marzona. Solo museum shows in England include the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Ferens Art Gallery Hull, (1975 and 2005), Middlesbrough Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The National Portrait commissioned Remfry to paint Sir John Gielgud in 1981 and also acquired his watercolor of Jean Muir.
Riley, Bridget			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.
Smith, Kiki			Born January 18, 1954, in Nuremberg, Germany, Kiki Smith is an American artist classified as a feminist artist, a movement with beginnings in the twentieth century. Her Body Art is imbued with political significance, undermining the traditional erotic representations of women by male artists, and often exposes the inner biological systems of females as a metaphor for hidden social issues.
Staunton, Sara			No biographical information available
Tilson RA, Joe			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.
Tyson, Nicola			Born 1960 in London, Nicola Tyson studied at Chelsea School of Art and Central St Martin’s School of Art, London. In 2009 she had a solo show at Sadie Coles HQ and in 2007 at the Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
Wainright, Albert			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.
Webster & Noble			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.