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John Edwards    (British, 1938)

 John Edwards - Nexus Study (Paintings) h: 28 x w: 36 in / h: 71.1 x w: 91.4 cm
John Edwards
Nexus Study 1978
 
 John Edwards - Nexus Study II (Paintings) h: 28 x w: 36 in / h: 71.1 x w: 91.4 cm
John Edwards
Nexus Study II 1978
 
 John Edwards - Ox Blood (Paintings) h: 28 x w: 36 in / h: 71.1 x w: 91.4 cm
John Edwards
Ox Blood 1978
 

Biography
1938 Born
1951 - 1953 Willesden Technical College, London
1953 - 1956 Hornsey College of Art London
1958 - 1960 Hornsey College of Art London
1962 - 1963 Leeds University Institute of Education
1963 - 1964 L'Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture et d'Art Visuel, Brussels
1975 - 1976 Syracuse University, New York
1977 - 1978 Chairperson, Greater London Arts Association
1978 Chairperson, Visual Arts Awards Scheme
1983 Perceptions, Redruth, Cornwall
1972 - 1985 Management Committee Acme Housing/Gallery
1967 - 1986 Rowan Gallery Contract
1980 - 1986 Head of Department Grade lV, Painting St. Martin's School Of Art London
1983 - 1986 Special Advisor, CNAA
1986 - 1988 Head of Department Grade lV, Painting and Sculpture St. Martin's School Of Art (London Institute) London
1989 From Prism to Paintbox, Oriel Gallery Theatre, Clwyd, Wales
1986 - 1990 Director of Chisenhale Studios APT
1990 Member, Art & Architecture
1990 Colour Conference, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1990 Painting Symposium 1990, Glogów, Poland
1990 Henry Moore Sculpture Workshops, Morley College, London
1991 Glogów XIV Plener Malarski, Poland
1992 Member, Florence Trust, London
1992 Catalogue Conversation Phillip King, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
1995 State of the Environment, Report for London
1995 - 1997 Chair Sobell Neighbourhood Forum
1998 Associate Royal Society British Sculptors
1996 - 2000 The Painting School of Montmiral, France
1998 - 2002 Visiting Artist School of Visual Arts, New York
Honours and Awards
1963 - 1964 British Council Awards, Brussels
1984 Northwick Park Hospital Harrow-on-the-Hill London
1988 Leverhulme Research Grant Greater London Arts Award
1989 John Hansard Gallery, Sculpture Commission, The University Southampton
1989 Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship
1994 - 1995 The Elephant Trust
1996 Groundwork Hackney Gallery Sculpture Commission London
1996 Pollock - Krasner Foundation Grant
1998 Associate Royal Society of British Sculptures
2004 British Council Travel Grant, India
Commissions
1984 Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow-on-the-Hill, London
1989 John Hansard Gallery, Sculpture Commission, The University Southampton
1996 Groundwork Hackney, Sculpture Commission, London
1997 Installation, Smith Village Gallery, London
1998 Sculpture, New Art Centre, Roche Court, England

Exhibitions
2005 Jaipur Festival, supported British Council, India
2004 Artists in Britain 1962-1995. Sothebys, London
2004 New Paintings, Jawahar Kala Kendra Gallery, Jaipur (solo)
2004 New Paintings, Galleria Artenero, Turin (solo)
2004 New Paintings, British Council, New Delhi (solo)
2004 Rajput Paintings Rajputan Palace Sheraton Hotel, Jaipur (solo)
2003 Fusion, Rajasthan School of Art, Jaipur (solo)
2003 Summer Show, Royal Academy, London
2003 War and Peace, Flowers Central London
2001 A Master Class; British Painting, with Basil Beattie, John Hoyland, John Walker
2001 Galerie Alain LeGaillard, Paris
2001 Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
2001 Sculpture at Burghley Sculpture Garden
2001 Christmas Takeaway, RBS Gallery, London
2001 Small is Beautiful XIX, Flowers East, London
2000 Summer Show Royal Academy of Arts, London
1999 Galerie Stefan Szydlowski Warsaw
1999 Sculpture at Roche Court England
1999 Summer Show Royal Academy Artfutures99 CAS, Royal Festival Hall, London
1999 The Contemporary Print Fair, Atlantis Gallery, London
1998 Sculpture at Roche Court England
1998 Summer Show, Royal Academy, London
1998 The Contempoary Print Fair, Barbicon London
1997 Ten Years On H.S.P. Winchester England
1996 London Group, Concourse Gallery, Barbican, London
1996 New Sculptures, The Economist London (solo)
1996 Sculptures, Reg Art, Caussade, France (solo)
1996 Sculptures, The Space, London (solo)
1995 Recent Paintings, The Art Room, The Book Shed, London (solo)
1995 London Group, Concourse Gallery, Barbican, London
1994 Touch, AIM, Milton Keynes
1994 FutureWorld, AIM, Milton Keynes
1994 Painting & Sculpture, British International Artists, Raw Gallery, London
1994 Paintings and Sculpture 1991-94 , Raw Gallery London (solo)
1993 Summer Show, Gallery K, London
1993 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
1992 London Group, Morley College, London
1992 Inaugurations 1991, Glogów, Poland
1992 Bucke Zjum Osten im Haus Europa, Frankfurt Oder, Germany
1992 Printworks, Smiths Galleries, London
1992 Royal Academy Summer Show, London
1992 Myth, Gallery K, London
1992 CNNA Collection, John Jones Gallery, London
1992 London Group, Barbican, London
1992 Florence Trust, London (Guest Sculptor)
1991 Glogów 90 XXIII, Glogów, Poland
1991 Royal Academy Summer Show, London
1991 Sites and Monuments, Galelrie 3, Athens
1991 Made in Poland, Galerie of the President of Warsaw
1990 Recent Directions, London/Amsterdam
1990 Galerie Jossine Bokkshoven, Amsterdam
1990 Royal Academy Summer Show, London
1990 The London Group, Royal College of Art, London
1989 Four Abstract Painters, Flaxman Gallery, London
1989 The London Group, Royal College of Art, London
1989 Royal Academy Summer Show, London
1989 Beelden, Galerie Bokhoven Wennekes, Amsterdam
1989 International Architecturworkshopp, Atelier WG, Amsterdam
1989 Accrochage, Flaxman Gallery, London
1989 From Prism to Paintbox, Oriel Gallery, Warrington Copper Gallery, Barnsley
1989 Sculptures John Hansard Gallerym, The University Southampton (solo)
1989 Flaxman Gallery London (solo)
1989 Galerie Merce , La Pera Gerona Spain (solo)
1989 Galerie Merce Ettinghauseen, La Pera, Gerona, Spain (solo)
1989 Painted Sculptures Atelier WG Amsterdam, painted Sculptures, studio show (solo)
1988 English Art Bokhoven Wenneker Doorn Holland
1988 Beelden Galerie Bokhoven Wennekes Amsterdam Holland
1988 From Prism to Paintbox Oriel Gallery Warrington Copper Gallery Barnsley
1988 Maginot Line, Riverside Studios, London
1988 75 Group, Royal College of Art, London
1988 Homage to the Square, Flaxman Gallery, London
1986 Harrogate in Colour, Royal Baths, Harrogate
1984 - 1986 New Works on Paper, British Council Exhibition touring Poland, Australia and New Zealand
1985 Small Works, Juda Rowan Gallery, London
1985 Twenty-five Years: Three Decades of Contemporary Art, Juda Rowan Gallery, London
1985 30 London Painters, Royal Academy, London
1984 Juda Rowan Gallery London (solo)
1984 Arcade Gallery, Harrogate, Yorkshire (solo)
1984 Twenty-Five Years: Three Decades of Contemporary Art Juda Rowan Galler London
1983 Aspects of British Art Guggenheim Museum New York
1983 Pintura Britanica Contempoanea Museo Municipal Madrid
1982 British Contemporary Art, British Council Exhibition touring Japan
1982 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
1982 Tochigi Prefectural Museum
1982 National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka
1982 Fukuoka Art Museum
1982 Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
1982 Royal Academy, Summer Show
1982 St Martin’s Painters, St Martin’s School of Art, London
1982 Wapping Artists Open Studio 1982, New Crane & Metropolitan Wharf, Selection of Artists from Wapping Studios, Musée Municipal des Beaux- Arts, Touring France
1982 London Group 82, Gardiner Centre Gallery, University of Sussex and tour
1981 Summer Exhibition, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford
1981 Eaton/Shoen at the HC Price Grandmother House, Scottsdale, Arizona
1981 Eaton/Shoen Gallery San Francisco (solo)
1981 Rowan Gallery, London, Small Works (solo)
1967 - 1981 (9 Shows) Rowan Gallery London (solo)
1980 Osuna Gallery Washington DC (solo)
1980 British Art Now
1980 Guggenheim Museum, New York
1980 University of Austin, Texas
1980 San Diego Museum of Art, California
1980 Telfair Academy, Savannah, Georgia
1980 Royal Academy of Arts, London
1980 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1980 The Newcastle Connection, Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery
1979 - 1980 The British Art Show Arts Council Exhibition (organised by William Packer) Tourin Sheffield, Newcastle & Bristol
1979 Drawings, Gainsborough House, Sudbury
1979 Small Works, Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery
1978 Gallery Artists, Rowan Gallery, London
1978 Small Works, Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery
1977 British Painting 1952 - 1977 Royal Academy London
1977 Gallery Artists, Rowan Gallery, London
1977 Small Works, Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery
1976 Contemporary British Art, Galleries of the Cleveland Institute of Art
1976 7 Artists from the Rowan Gallery, Sunderland Arts Centre
1976 University of Syracuse Lubin House New York City (solo)
1976 John Edwards Syracuse Works 1976. Sims Hall, Syracuse University, New York (solo)
1976 John Edwards Paintings (‘74-’78): Newcastle-upon- Tyne Polytechnic, Art Gallery and touring, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, Mapping Gallery Sheffield, Morley College, London, Rowan Gallery, London (solo)
1975 Rowan Gallery, London (solo)
1975 CAS Art Fair Mall Galleries London
1974 Gallery Artists, Rowan Gallery, London
1974 John Moores Exhibition 9, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1974 Industrial Sponsors, Grosvenor House Hotel, London (organised by Sue Grayson)
1974 Graphics Exhibition, Rowan Gallery, London
1973 Graphics Exhibition, Rowan Gallery, London
1973 Rowan Gallery, London (solo)
1973 Park Square Gallery, Leeds (solo)
1972 John Moores Exhibition 8 Walker Art Gallery Liverpool
1972 Contemporary Prints, Ulster Museum, Belfast
1969 Graphic Exhibition, Rowan Gallery, London
1969 Some Recent Art in Britain, Leeds City Art Gallery
1969 Contemporary Paintings: Sebastian de Ferranti Collection, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1969 Universities Festival, Lancaster
1968 Britische Kunst Heute, Kunstverein, Hamburg
1968 Summer Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1968 Summer Exhibition, Rowan Gallery, London
1964 MUBEF Brussels
Public Collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
Bradford Corporation Gallery
British Council
Contemporary Art Society, London
Council for National Academic Awards
Eastern Arts Association
European Parliament Collection
Government Art Collection
Gulllbankian Foundation
Leicestershire Education Authority
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Ministry of Works, Brussels
Power Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Salford University
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
Swedish Lloyd
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic
Unilever
Musee Glogów, Poland

Literature
2004 Dainak Bhaskar, 7 December
2004 Dainik Bhaskar. 11 April 2004
2004 Mahka Bharat 11 April 2004
2004 HT Jaipur Live 11 April 2004
2004 Rajisthan Patrika 11 April 2004
2004 Edwards, i colori del cuore, Luna Nuova 21 May 2004
2004 Hindustani Times, 4 September 2004
2004 Today, 7 September 2004
2004 Hindustani Times, 7 December 2004
2004 Times of India, 10 December 2004
2004 Rajasthan Patrika, 7 December 2004
2003 Today in Jaipur, Hindustani Times, Sunday September 21, 2003
2003 Navjyoti New Paper, 22 September 2003
2003 Bhasker Daily 21 September 2003
2003 Mahanga Bharat 22 September 2003
2001 Parcours inedit dans la peinture d'apres-guerre. La Monde 26 Fevrier
2001 Visual Arts, William Packer, Financial Times, 13 March 2001
1999 Who's Who In Art, The Art Trade Press Ltd
1991 - 1999 People of Today, Debretts Publications, London
1991 - 1999 Dictionary of International Biography, Twenty-Second Edition
1991 - 1999 International Biography, Cambridge
1997 John Edwards Hitchcocks Reel, Art & Architecture, no. 46.
1996 John Edwards at The Economist,What’s On, March 27, Andrew Lambirth
1996 Hackney Today, April 24, Front Cover, Painting in the Third Dimension, Mark Croxford, Hackney Gazette, April 4
1996 John Edwards Sculptures, Winston Churchill Newsletter, August 1996
1996 John Edwards Expose, Reflex Magazine, July 1996.
1996 Public Sculpture Opened, Hackney Gazette, Oct 1996.
1995 The Guardian, August 8, Money Guardian
1993 Evening Standard, December 3, The London Group, Brian Sewell
1992 Ham & High, July 24, A Classical Alphabet Soup
1992 The Greek Review, June 30, A Greek Inspired Exhibition
1992 Ta Nea, July 9, Myth at Gallery K
1992 The Greek Gazette, Art at K Gallery
1992 Times Higher Education Supplement, September, The CNAA Collection
1991 Polish Word Glogów: Mekka of Painters, , February 16
1991 Glogowska, Man Preserves the Environment February 18
1991 The Soldier of the Country, Openness of the Army, Februa Konkrety, Glowgów’s Thirteenth Palner February
1991 The Athenian, June, Cretan Sculptures, Painted Hands, Einai, June, Hypothetical Existence, First Research, May 15
1991 Kathimerini, A Wealth of Imagination, May 14
1990 The Marxist Monthly, State of Art 1990, Corinna Lotz and Andy Co
1990 Prism to Paintbox, Arts Review March, Ellen Williams
1990 Art & Architecture No. 25, Autumn 1990
1989 Flaxman Gallery and John Hansard Gallery Catalogue, John Edwards; Painted Sculptures, Andrew Lambi
1989 Time Out, April 5-12, John Edwards, Robert MacDonald
1989 Arts Review, April 7, John Edwards, Mary Rose Beaumont
1989 Gondsche Courant Schoonhovennse, ,July 28, Kunst geeft karakter aan anoniem gebouw
1989 Gondsche Courant, August 3, Kunst geeft karakter aan anoniem gebouw
1989 NRC, August 16, Voorker Galleries, John Edwards
1989 Diari de Girona, August 23
1989 Southern Evening Echo, September 13, Sculpture sparks copy cat claims
1989 Galleries, June, John Edwards, Andrew Lambirth
1988 The Guardian, December 1988, A World Fit for Squares, Tim Hilton
1986 Harrow & Wembley Observer, April 25, Grander Art for Hospital, Veronica Hallam
1985 The Listener, July 11, The Art of Healing, Richard Cork
1984 Evening Standard, January 19, Where Have All the Artist Gone?, Angus McGill
1984 Financial Times, February 7, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, William Packer
1984 Oracle Teletext, ITV, February y3-25, The Main Event Diary, Alison Lamont
1984 Apollo, February y3-25, A Rag-Bag of Styles, James Burr
1984 Galleries, February, Illustration
1984 Burlington Magazine, April, Richard Stone
1984 Arcade Gallery, Harrogate, May, Catalogue for Exhibition, John Edwards, Mary Rose Beaumont
1984 The Yorkshire Post, July 19, Recent Paining by John Edwards, W T Oliver
1983 Masters of Acrylic Painting, Nicholas Roukes, Watson-Guptill, New York
1981 Financial Times, March 7, Drawings from outer space William Packer
1981 Arts Review, March 13, John Edwards, Philip Ward-Green
1981 Nob Hill Gazette (San Francisco), September, John Edwards at Eaton/Schoen Mary Stofflet
1981 San Francisco Bay Guardian, ,September 16, Business as usual, Robert Atkins
1981 El Pais (Madrid), April 7, Una muestra antologica de pinturaa britannicaa contemporanea, exhibida por primera vez in Madrid
1981 The Guardian, June 1, The Nation’s Arts and Crafts, Dale Harris
1981 Artscribe, 44, December, John Edwards: New Moves, Helena Drysdale Artforum, April, Reviews, Stuart Morgan
1981 Los Angeles Times, April 7, Trio of Britons join Sidney Janis on San Diego’s scene, Elise Miller
1981 Los Angeles Times, April 13, What’s going on in British Art? - Not Much, William Wilson
1981 Van guard, (USA), Summer, A British Pastorale, Donald B Kuspit
1981 The Times, October 26, Missed opportunity, William Feaver
1981 Apollo, November, A Faded Union Jack, James Burr
1981 Federation of British Artists Magazine, Winter, Notes on crisis, critics and eccentrics; Abstract and figurative art, Simon Vaughan-Winter
1980 Washington Star, January 6, Commercial galleries breathe life into s dull museum season, Benjamin Forgey
1980 The Daily Telegraph, January 18, Log pile shows there is still life in Britain, Ian Ball
1980 New York Times, January 25, British News at the Guggenheim, Hilton Kramer
1980 Flash Art, Arch/April, Modern Painting and Modern Criticism in England, Art Monthly, 344, British Art Now in New York, Duncan Macmillam
1980 La Jolla Lights, March 28, An introduction to some exciting British artists, Isabella Wasserman
1979 The Observer, April 22, Young Professionals, William Feaver Arts Review, April 27, John Edwards, Bruce Kileen
1979 Cambridge Evening News, April 17, Art like dancing brickies, Frank Whitford
1979 Evening News, May 4, Edwards bursts out of the shadows, S Vaughan-Winter
1979 Art Monthly, May 26, Tolly Cobbold/John Edwards, Allan Davies
1979 The Spectator, May 19, John McQueen
1979 Evening Standard, June 18, How to solve an art riddle, Ewan Maclachan
1979 Artscribe, July 18, John Edwards, Adrian Searle
1979 The Observer, July 1, Garretts in Wapping, Anthony Ellis
1979 London Index, 4, Wapping Warehouses for Artistic Artisans, Alistair Scott- Wilson
1979 Contemporary British Artists, Photographs by Walia, Bergstrom and Boyle, London
1978 Architectural Review, April CLXIII(974) Marginalia - Sculpture Garden, T Rendle
1977 Artscribe, April, John Edwards’ Paintings, Terence Maloon
1977 The Spectator, May 14, Star Struck, John McEwen
1977 Art and Australia, Summer, December, Power Acquisitions
1976 The Journal (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), January 31, Gallery Exhibits London Works, John Kelsey
1976 Arts Review, April 2, Drawings, Marina Vaizey
1976 Art International, XX(10), December, Some recent exhibitions visited by the Editor in London, Paris, Rome, Zurich ... and elsewhere, James Fizsimmons
1975 The Guardian, June 30, John Edwards, Judy Marle
1975 Syracuse Herald-Journal, July 28, Colorful Prof Visits SU, Rosemary Brady
1975 Studio International, September/October, UK Review, ,James Faure Walker
1975 Art International, September, London , Fenella Crichton
1974 One, November, Interview by Barry Martin
1973 Arts Review, February 10, Drawings by Gallery Artists, Pat Gilmour
1973 Yorkshire Post, April 9, Enchanting the Eye, W T Oliver
1973 Arts Review, April 21, John Jones
1973 Arts Review, September 9, James Heard
1973 The Observer, September 16, Painter in a tall straitjacket, Tim Hilton Studio International, October, R J Rees
1973 Art & Artists, ,November, Eddie Wolfram
1973 Art International, November, Fenella Chrichton
1973 Studio International, December, Correspondence, letter from Barry Martin
1972 Arts Review, September 9, Peter Dyke
1972 Art & Artists, September, London, Eddie Wolfram
1972 Financial Times, September 233, Sugar Me Sweet, Marina Vaizey
1972 Evening Standard, September 21, Last stop for the avant-garde, Richard Cork
1972 Ulster Museum, Belfast, Contemporary Prints Catalogue
1971 The Sunday Times, June 13, Best China, Edward Lucie-Smith
1971 Art & Artists, June, William Packer
1971 Harpers & Queen, June 13, From Durer to Moore
1970 The Times, October 4, Easy on the Eye, Guy Brett
1970 Queen, October 23, Mainly Plains, Keith Sutton
1970 Arts Review, March 18, Pierre Rouve
1968 Arts Review, September 14, Dennis Bowen
1968 Appollo, September
1968 The Observer, September 22
1968 What’s On in London, October 4, Around the New Shows
1967 The Sunday Telegraph, February 12, Movies into ‘Stills’, Edwin Mullins
1967 Arts Review, February 18, Conroy Maddox
1967 The Sunday Times, February 19, Spectacular Re-hang, John Russell
1967 The Observer, February 1999, Nigel Gosling
1967 The Times, February 22, Jack Bush and John Edwards Exhibitions, Norbert Linton Studio International, March
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