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1920
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Born on January 30th in Headingley, Leeds, Yorkshire
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1935 - 1939
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Works as designer for his father’s firm, Cresta Silks
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1937 - 1939
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Studied at the Slade School of Art
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1944 - 1945
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Assistant at Bernard Leach’s pottery, St Ives
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1945
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Moves to Holland Park, London
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1944 - 1950
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Works as designer for his father’s firm, Cresta Silks
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1953 - 1956
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Taught at the Central School of Art, London
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1956
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Moves to Eagles Nest, Zennor, Cornwall
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1945 - 1958
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Critic for New English Weekly, New Statesman and Nation and Arts (New York)
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1958
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Moves into Nicholson’s studio at Porthmeor, St Ives
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1959
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Winner of Grand Prize, in 2nd John Moores Exhibition
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1965
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Awarded Silver medal in the VIII Sao Paulo Bienal
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1972
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Retrospective at the Whitechapel Art Gallery
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1985
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Retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery
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1998
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Retrospective at Tate Britain
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1999
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Died in St Ives, 20 March
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2008 |
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The Effect Haim Steinbach, Waddington Galleries, London |
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2005 |
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Patrick Heron: Gouaches from 1961 to 1996, Waddington Galleries, London |
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1998 |
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Tate Gallery, London |
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1993 |
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Inaugural Exhibition, Tate St Ives, Cornwall |
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1959 - 1987 |
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Waddington Galleries, London |
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1985 |
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Barbican Art Gallery, London |
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1985 |
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St Ives 1939-64, Tate Gallery, London |
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1985 |
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British Art in the Twentieth Century: The Modern Movement, Royal Academy, London |
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1979 |
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Oriel Gallery, Cardiff |
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1977 |
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British Painting 1952-1977, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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1972 - 1973 |
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Decade: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Britain 1940-9, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, touring to Southampton, Durham, Carlisle, Manchester, Bradford and Aberdeen |
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1972 |
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Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
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1968 |
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Museum of Modern Art, Oxford |
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1965 |
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São Paulo Bienal VIII, (Silver Medal) (exhibition toured South America in 1966) |
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1963 |
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Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zürich |
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1962 - 1963 |
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British Art Today, San Francisco Museum of Art, California, touring to Dallas and Santa Barbara |
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1960, 1962, 1965 |
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Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York |
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1959 |
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John Moores Liverpool Exhibition II, Liverpool |
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1947 - 1958 |
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Redfern Gallery, London |
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1954 |
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British Painting and Sculpture 1954, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
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1953 |
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Space in Colour, Hanover Gallery, London |
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1950 |
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Aspects of British art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London |
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2001 |
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Patrick Heron, Fiona MacCarthy, Tate Gallery, London |
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1998 |
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Patrick Heron, Tate Gallery, London |
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1994 |
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Patrick Heron, Mel Gooding, Phaidon, London |
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1988 |
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Patrick Heron, Vivien Knight, John Taylor/Lund Humphries, London |
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Links to further information |
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