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Biography |
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1932 |
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Born November 29, in Swindon, Wiltshire |
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1943 - 1948 |
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Attended the Commonwealth Secondary Grammar School in Swindon and received the School Leaving Certificate of Education from the London Matriculation Board |
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1949 - 1951 |
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Worked as a scientific assistant at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, Berkshire, and attended the Oxford Polytechnic on a day release basis to study for the National Diploma in chemistry |
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1952 - 1954 |
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Fulfilled the obligatory duty as National Serviceman in the Royal Air Force |
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1955 |
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Entered the Swindon School of Art |
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1956 |
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Applied to and was accepted by the Slade School of Fine Art in London for a three year full time painting course with a government undergraduate grant |
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1957 |
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Received the Pre Diploma Certificate in Fine Art from the Swindon School of Art |
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1957 |
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Entered the Slade School of Fine Art and studied particularly with Ceri Richards and Keith Vaughan |
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1960 |
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Awarded the Slade Diploma in Fine Art and a Boise Travelling Scholarship |
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1961 |
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Travelled in Italy on the Boise scholarship. Worked at Jean Pons’ lithographic printing studio in Paris |
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1962 - 1972 |
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Taught part time at several art schools including the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham and the Hornsey College of Art in London |
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1973 |
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Appointed Principal Lecturer in Painting at the Central School of Art and Design in London |
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1977 |
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Received a British Arts Council Major Award that enabled him to take a term off from teaching |
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1978 |
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Executed a mural commissioned by IBM (United Kingdom) for their office and warehouse buildings in Greenford Middlesex, designed by Norman Foster Associates |
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1986 |
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Appointed Head of Painting at the Central/St Martins College of Art and Design in London |
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1989 |
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Resigned from full-time teaching to concentrate on his own work |
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2003 |
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Nominated for the Jerwood Painting Prize |
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Public Collections: |
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Arts Council of Great Britain; Ministry of the Environment, London; University College, London; Victoria and Albert Museum; City Art Gallery Bradford; City Art Gallery, Leeds; Leicestershire Education Authority; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Sundsvalls Museum, Sweden; Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade; Folkwang Museum, Essen; Städt Museum, Bielefeld; Städt Museum, Bochum; Städt Museum, Gelsenhirchen; Landes Museum, Munster; Gulbenkian Foundation; Contemporary Arts Society, London; Tate Gallery; York Art Gallery; Wilhlem Hack Museum, Germany; Archer Huntingdon Museum, Austin, Texas |
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Exhibitions |
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2005 |
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Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo show) |
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2002 |
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Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo show) |
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1998 |
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Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo show) |
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1996 |
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Redfern Gallery, London (solo show) |
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1996 |
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Drawings, Spring Mixed Exhibition, Redfern Gallery (group show) |
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1996 |
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Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition, Cheltenham (group show) |
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1996 |
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British Abstract Art, Drawings, Flowers East, London (group show) |
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1994 |
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Redfern Gallery, London (solo show) |
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1994 |
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London Group, Barbican Gallery, London (group show) |
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1994 |
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British Abstract Art, Flowers East, London (group show) |
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1994 |
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Tensions, Curwen Gallery, London (group show) |
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1993 |
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Mixed Show, Redfern Gallery, London (group show) |
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1993 |
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The Sixties Scene in London, Barbican Gallery, London (group show) |
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1993 |
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Mixed Spring Show, Redfern Gallery, London (group show) |
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1993 |
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London Group, Barbican Gallery, London (group show) |
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1993 |
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Works on Paper from the Sixties, Redfern Gallery, London (solo show) |
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1992 |
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Concentrazione, Torino, Italy (group show) |
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1992 |
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Mixed Summer Show, Redfern Gallery, London (group show) |
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1991 |
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Small is Beautiful, Abstract, Flowers East, London (group show) |
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1991 |
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Anderson O’Day Gallery, London (solo show) |
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1990 |
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Centre for International Contemporary Art, New York (solo show) |
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1989 |
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Park Gallery, College of St Paul and St Mary, Cheltenham (solo show) |
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1989 |
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London Group, Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art, London (group show) |
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1989 |
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1989 Whitechapel Open: The Exhibition of New Art in East London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (group show) |
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1988 |
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London Group, Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art, London (group show) |
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1985 |
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John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 14, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (group show) |
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1985 |
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Thirty London Painters, Royal Academy, London (group show) |
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1984 |
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London Group, Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art, London (group show) |
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1981 |
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Contemporary Artists in Camden, Camden Arts Centre, London (group show) |
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1979 |
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The Whitechapel Summer Show ’79, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (group show) |
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1976 |
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Mai Külföldt Graphika Magyar Gyüjtemenyekben I, Egyetem Galélia, Debrecen, Hungary (group show) |
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1976 |
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AIR Exhibition 6, AIR Gallery, London (group show) |
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1975 |
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Mai Külföldt Graphika Magyar Gyüjtemenyekben I, Egyetem Galélia, Debrecen, Hungary (group show) |
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1974 - 1975 |
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Artistas Graphicos Britanicos de la Década del 60/Gravures de Artistas Britanicos na Década dos 60, British Council touring exhibition in South America (group show) |
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1974 |
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British Painting ‘74, Hayward Gallery, London (group show) |
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1974 |
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Künstler Machen Gahnen für Rottweil, Stadtfest Rottwed 74, Federal Republic of Germany (group show) |
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1973 |
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Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Two-person show with Tess Jaray (solo how) |
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1972 |
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Grabados Ingleses Contemporaneos 60-70, Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneos, Madrid, British Council touring exhibition (group show) |
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1970 |
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Some Recent Art in Britain, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England (group show) |
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1970 |
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Axiom Gallery, London (solo show) |
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1970 |
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3rd Salon International de Galeries Pilotes: Artistes et Découvreurs de Notre Temps, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (group show) |
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1970 |
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The Captain Cook Bicentenary: Colour and Structure - Recent British and Australian Paintings, Farmers Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, Australia (group show) |
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1969 |
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Konzeptionelle Bilder, Westfälisher Kunsteverein, Münster, Federal Republic of Germany (group show) |
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1969 |
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Recent British Prints, IBM Gallery, New York (group show) |
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1969 |
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Fine Art for Industry, RCA Gallery, London (group show) |
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1969 |
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Contemporary British Graphics, British Council touring exhibition in the US (group show) |
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1969 |
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Galerie Wilbrand, Cologne (solo show) |
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1968 |
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100th Exhibition, Grabowski Gallery, London (group show) |
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1968 |
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British Painting: Collection of Leicestershire Education Authority, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (group show) |
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1968 |
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Grabados de Artistas Britanicos Nuevas Tendencias 1968, Galeria de Exposiciones Temporales, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (group show) |
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1968 |
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Twenty-five Camden Artists, Central Library, Swiss Cottage, London (group show) |
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1965 - 1968 |
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Recent Prints by Some British Painters and Sculptors, British Council touring exhibition in India (group show) |
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1967 |
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Axiom Gallery, London (solo show) |
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1967 |
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The Ninth International Art Exhibition of Japan, the Mainighi Newspaper and the Japan International Art Promotion Association, Tokyo (group show) |
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1967 |
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Brittiska Gouacher och Färggragik, Sundsvalls Konstförening Sundsvall, Sweden (group show) |
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1967 |
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VI John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (group show) |
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1967 |
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Transatlantic Graphics, Camden Arts Centre, London (group show) |
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1967 |
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Six Artists: Denny, Hoyland, Vaux, Lancaster, Boshier, Evans, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (group show) |
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1967 |
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Society of Scottish Artists 73rd Exhibition of Painting Sculpture, Drawings, Applied Art and Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh, Scotland (group show) |
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1967 |
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Junge Engländer, Galerie Heide Hildebrand, Klangenfurt, Austria (group show) |
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1967 |
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Graphick Junger Engländer, Glaerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland (group show) |
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1967 |
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Spring Exhibition 1967, Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford (group show) |
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1966 |
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London under Forty, Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy (group show) |
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1966 |
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Vormen van de Kleur, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Württembergischer (group show) |
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1966 |
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Kunstvetein, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany; and Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland (group show) |
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1966 |
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Form and Image, Leeds Institute Gallery, Leeds, England (group show) |
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1966 |
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Spring Exhibition 1966, Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford (group show) |
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1966 |
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Hamilton Artists, Hamilton Galleries, London (group show) |
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1965 |
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Premio Internazionale Biella Per l’Incisione, Circolo degli Artisti di Biella, Biella, Italy (group show) |
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1965 |
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Spring Exhibition 1965, Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford (group show) |
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1965 |
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Second Commonwealth Biennial of Abstract Art, Commonwealth Institute, London (group show) |
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1965 |
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Hamilton Galleries, London (solo show) |
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1965 |
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John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (group show) |
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1965 |
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Syn, Galerie Vaier, Mainz and Galerie Margarete Lauter, Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany (group show) |
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1964 |
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About Round: London Galleries, Leeds University, Leeds, England (group show) |
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1964 |
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Spring Exhibition 1964 Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford (group show) |
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1963 |
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V Mednarodna Graficna Rozstava/ VExposition Internationale de Gravure, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (group show) |
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1963 |
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Grabowski Gallery, London. Two-person show with Tess Jaray (solo show) |
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1962 - 1963 |
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Situation: An Exhibition of Recent British Abstract Art, British Arts Council touring exhibition in England (group show) |
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1962 |
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9 Painters from England, Galleria Trastevere, Rome (group show) |
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1961 |
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Neu Malerei in England, Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Federal Republic of Germany (group show) |
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1961 |
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2nd Biennale de Paris, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris (group show) |
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1961 |
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New London Situation: And Exhibition of British Abstract Art, New London Gallery, London (group show) |
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1960 |
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Situation: British Abstract Art, R.B.A. Galleries, London (group show) |
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1960 |
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London Group, R.B.A. Galleries, London (group show) |
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1959 - 1960 |
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Young Contemporaries, R.B.A. Galleries, London (group show) |
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