C V 
 

Born 1948 Holbrook, Derbyshire.
 

One-man exhibitions :

2005  Familiar Walks, work on paper, Purdy/Hicks Gallery, London.

2004  Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA.

           Scanning the ground, Purdy/Hicks Gallery, London.

           Sloschberg gallery, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA, USA.

2003  Work on Paper, Purdy/Hicks Gallery, London. 

           Pathless Woods and Lonely Shore, Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

2002  A Sense of Place, Purdy/Hicks Gallery, London. 

           Gwavas Lake, The Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park, Berkshire.

2001  Gwavas Lake,Tate Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall.  Purdy/Hicks Gallery, London.

           Six Chapel Row, Bath.  (with Christopher Cook).

2000  Purdy/Hicks Gallery, London.  Galerie Brennecke, Berlin.

1999  Tregoning Fine Art, The Ashbourne Gallery, Derbyshire.

           Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.  Invited Artist, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland.

1998  Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham.  The Arts Centre, Plymouth.

           Falmouth College of Art Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall.

1997  Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.

1996  Two-person eshibition, Terrace Gallery, Harewood House, Yorkshire.

           Abbot Hall, Kendal.

1995  Hatton Gallery, Newcastle.  Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.

           Two-person exhibition, Galerie Bellint, Paris.

1992  Whitworth Gallery, Manchester.  The Museum and Art Gallery, Derby.

           Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland.  Mead Gallery, Warwick University, Coventry.

           Midland Contemporary Art, Birmingham.

1993  Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.

1994  University of Nottingham Art Gallery, Nottingham.

           Atkinson Gallery, Milfield, Somerset,  The Stansell Gallery, Taunton, Somerset.

           Royal Botanical Gardens Gallery, Edinburgh.

1991  Blason Gallery, London.  Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London.

1988  Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London.  Mappin Gallery, Sheffield.

1986  Galeria Akumulatory 2, Poznan, Poland.

1985  Anne Berthoud Gallery, London.

1984  Ian Birksted Gallery, London.

1983  Ian Birksted Gallery, London.  National Gallery, London.

1982  Atlantis Gallery, London.

1981  Ian Birksted Gallery, New York.

1980  Ian Birksted Gallery, London.  Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge.

           Matt’s Gallery, London.

1978  Ian Birksted Gallery, London.

1976  Acme Gallery, London.

Selected Group Exhibitions since 1980 :

2006  Gallery Artists, Purdy/Hicks Gallery, London.

           Summer Exhibition, Jane Deering Fine Art, Mass, USA.

           Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.

           Bodies of Water, touring exhibition, Southampton City Art Gallery.

           Lemon Street Gallery, Truro.

           Forest Dreaming part 2, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter

2005  Paintings the Landscape, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives.

          RWA Open Bristol  (1st Prize winner)

          Beyond Landscape. RWA, Bristol.

          Summer Exhibition, Jane Derring Fine Art, MA, USA.

          Bodies of Water, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath with Susan Derges and Hughie O’Donoghue

          Mixed Exhibition, Le Soliel sur la Place Gallery, Lyon, France.

          Summer Exhibition, Purdy/Hicks Gallery, London.

          Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.

          Imag(e)ing the Sea, University of Plymouth Gallery.

          Lemon Street Gallery, Truro.

2004  Ocean View, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, Massachusetts, USA.

          Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London.

          Summer Show, Jane Derring Fine Art, Annisquam, Massachusetts, USA.

          English Nature and the Arts, Nature in Art Museum, Gloucester and Tour.

          LAN2D Exhibition, Dean Clough, Halifax and Tour.

          Matisse to Freud, A Critics Choice, The British Museum, London.

2003  Gallery Artists, Purdy/Hicks Gallery, London. 

          Themes in Painting, Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany.

          Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London. 

          Paintings from Purdy/Hicks Gallery, Jane Deering, Annisquam, Massachusetts,

          Summer Exhibition, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall.

          Discerning Eye,  Mall Galleries, London.

          LAN2D Bridge Project Exhibition,  UWE, Bristol.

2002  Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany.  

          British and Irish Contemporary Art, Jane Deering, Annisquam, Massachusetts.

          Summer Show, Purdy/Hicks Gallery, London.  Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall.

2001  West by South West, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.

          Britannia Works, Derby University.  Royal West of England Academy Open, Bristol.

          Summer Exhibition, Purdy/Hicks Gallery, London.

 2000  Into the Light, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall.  Painting at Purdy/Hicks, London.

          West by South West, Art Haven, Exeter.

          Papier, Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany.

1999  York City Art Gallery.  The Laing Gallery, Newcastle.

           Purdy/Hicks Gallery, London.  Royal Photographic Society, Bath.

           West by South West, Haugesund Billedgalleri and Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway.

1998  Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.  Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.

          Cartwright Hall, Bradford.  Orleans House, Twickenham.

          Towner Gallery, Eastbourne.  The Mall Gallery, London.

1997  Group Exhibition, Galerie Bellint, Paris. 

          2nd International Biennial of Water Colours, Municipal Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

          10th Anniversary Exhibition, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.

          Back to Nature, Art First, London.

          30 Years of Cheltenham Fellows, Gloucestershire College of Art, Cheltenham.

          History, Image-based art in Britain in the late 20th century, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull and

          tour.

1996  Hunting Group Prize Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London.

          Second Impressions, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland.

          Chemins Parallels, Galerie Bellint, Paris.  Gallery Artists, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.

          Works on paper, Victoria College of Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

          Works on Paper, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.

1995  Gallery Artists, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.  Cabinet Art, Jason & Rhodes, London.

          30 Years of the Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester.

          Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London.

1994  Drawing, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.  Du paysage a la figure, Galerie Bellint, Paris.

1993  Nature in Art, Wallsworth Hall, Gloucestershire.

          Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.

          St Michael’s Gallery, Derby.  Painters as Printmakers, Art Space Gallery, London.

1992  Museum of Contemporary Art, Metz, France.

          Primipiani e Lontananze, Works on Paper by Eight British Artists, Gallery Serpentini,  

          Rome.  Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London.

          Contemporary Museum of Art, Warsaw, Poland.                                                      

          Robert Medley and Michael Porter, David Holmes Art Gallery, Peterborough.

          Heaven and Hell, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London.

1991  The Absent Presence, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.

          Paysages, Vision Contempraine, Galerie Du Credit Communal, Bruxelles.

1990  Singular Visions, Mead Gallery, Warwick University; touring to Pomeroy Purdy Gallery.

          Anne Berthoud Gallery, London.  New Works by gallery artists, Pomeroy Purdy        Gallery.

          Smolyan Art Gallery, Bulgaria.  Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London.

          Le Paysage Dans L’art Contemporain, Abbaye De Noirlac, France.

1989  Landscape Now, Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery.

          The Tree of Life, South Bank Centre, Touring Exhibition.

1988  5th International Biennale European Graphic Art, Baden-Baden.

          The Romantic Tradition in Contemporary British Painting, Sala de Exoosiciones, Murcia;

          Circulo de Bellas Arts, Madrid; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.

          Landscape and Beyond, Cleveland Gallery, Middlesborough.

          Dival 88, Nogent-sur-Seine, France.

1987  Land:Sea:Air, The Herbert Reed Gallery, Coventry.

1985  7th Cleveland International Drawing Biennale, Middlesborough.

1984  Michael Porter and John Newling, Mineta Move, Brussels.

           Landscape Memory and Desire, Serpentine Gallery, London.

1982  Prophecy and Vision, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol and tour.

           Three British Artists, Gereinde-Galerie, Emmen, Germany.

1981  13 British Artists, Neue Galerie, Aachen, toured Kunstverein Mannheim and

           Kunstverien Braunschweig, Germany.

1980  Young British Painters, Aspect Gallery, Brussels.

Collections :

 Arthur Andersen,  The Arts Council,  The British Council,

 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery,  Bolton Museum and Art Gallery,

 The Contemporary Arts Society,  Department of the Environment,  Deutsche Bank,

 Government Art Collection,  Harewood House,  Leicestershire Education Authority,

 Mag Collection  Ferens Art Gallery  Hull,  National Gallery  Canberra  Australia,

 National Gallery  Cape Town  South Africa,  National Gallery  London,

 Nature in Art Museum  Walworth  Gloucestershire,  New York Public Library,

 Nottingham University,  Reynolds Porter Chamberlain Collection,

 Royal Botanic Gardens Kew,  The Royal West of England Academy,  

 Smolyan Art Gallery  Bulgaria,  Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery,  Unilever,

 Victoria and Albert Museum,  Warsaw Contemporary Art Museum  Poland,

 Warwick University,  Westminster Hospital,  The Whitworth Art Gallery  Manchester.

Awards : 

2005        Obin Award, RWA Open.

2004        Arts Council Major Award.
                 Residency at Cape Ann Historical Museum.

2000-03  A.H.R.B. Senior Research Fellow at Falmouth College of Art.

1999        Honorary Doctorate in Professional Practice, The University of Derby
                 Residency at Eggbuckland Community College.

1993-94  The Lorne Award, London University.

1990        International Artist Meeting in Bulgaria (supported by The British Council).
                 Residency at Warwick University.  

1982-83  Artist-in-Residence National Gallery, London.

1981        G.L.A.A. Major Award.

1980        Gold Medal, European Prize for Painting, Belgium
                 Lina Garnade Memorial Prize, Guildford.

1976        Arts Council of Great Britain Minor Award.

1972        Fellow in Fine Art, Gloucestershire College of Art.

1971        Arthur Tooth Gallery Prize.
                 Peter Stuyvesant Prize.

1970        Biddulph Scholarship, 
                 Arts Council of Great Britain Prize.
                 Peter Stuyvesant Prize.

1968        Earp Scholarship.