Biography, selected exhibitions, collections, films, books and related projects.
Biography
- 1951 Born Birkenhead, Merseyside
- 1968-70 Laird School of Art, Birkenhead
- 1970-73 Bristol Polytechnic, Faculty of Art and Design
- 1975-98 Various grants and awards from Arts Associations
- 1991 Senior Abbey Award in Painting at the British School in Rome for 1992
- 2000 I.C.C.D. studio residency in Trivandrum, Southern India.
- 2003 Arts Council England, Travel Award
- 2003 International Fellowship award at the Vermont Studio Center, USA
- 2025 Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Winsor and Newton prize
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 1973 Bristol Art Centre
- 1979 Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- 1980 Liverpool Academy
- 1981 South Hill Park Bracknell, touring to Sunderland Arts Centre, The Minories Colchester.
- 1982 The Roundhouse, London
- 1984-88 Artweek, Oxford
- 1987 Basle Art Fair
- 1988 Gallery, Cardiff
- 1988 Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
- 1989 Nerlino Gallery, New York
- 1990 Nerlino Gallery, New York
- 1991 Allan Art Singapore
- 1991 Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
- 1992 British School, Rome
- 1994 Jill George Gallery, London
- 1995 Kunsthaus Lübeck, Germany
- 1995 Powell Moya Partnership, London
- 1995 Jill George Gallery, London – Small Works
- 1995-96 ‘The Green Room and other Paintings’ – Williamson Museum and Art Gallery, Birkenhead – a semi-retrospective show travelling to the Jill George Gallery, London and Brighton Art Gallery and Museum
- 1997 ‘The Green Room’ Brighton Fringe Festival
- 1997 The New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
- 1998 Rivington Gallery, London.
- 1999 Straight to Red, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
- 2000 Straight to Red, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
- 2000 ‘Small works for the Comfort Station,’ The New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
- 2001 Light Sweet Crude, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
- 2004 “Graham Dean Project”, Blanch House, Brighton
- 2004 “Shimmer”, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
- 2004 Maltby Gallery, Winchester
- 2004 ‘Art of the 20th Century’ Armoury, New York
- 2005 ‘Thinking Bodies’ Waterhouse & Dodd, London
- 2006 ‘Above and Below’ Galerie Frans Jacobs/Judith Bouknegt, Paris and Amsterdam
- 2007 ‘White Noise’Waterhouse & Dodd, London
- 2008 ‘Fragile lessons’, Kunsthandel Frans Jacobs, Hilversum, The Netherlands
- 2009 ‘Two Artists/Two Worlds’, Kunst en Cultuur, Aalsmeer, The Netherlands
- 2010 ‘Sleepers’ Waterhouse and Dodd, London
- 2010 Solo show – Artantique Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 2010 Solo show – New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
- 2011 Solo Show – The Basilica, Maastricht, Netherlands
- 2011 ‘Painting Music’ touring performances with David Rhodes. Aachen, Herleen, Maastricht
- 2012 Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead. 60th birthday exhibition
- 2012 Victoria Art Gallery and Museum, Bath. ‘Fitter, Quicker, Longer’
- 2012 Waterhouse and Dodd, London. ‘Fitter, Quicker, Longer’
- 2013 Galerie Dis, Hotel Dis, Maastricht, Holland
- 2013 Triumph Gallery, Moscow, ‘Thinking Bodies’
- 2014 Mid-Century Modern solo show, Hoorn, Holland
- 2014 Van Breugel Art Projects, Utrecht, Holland. Solo show
- 2016 Cameron Contemporary Art, Brighton
- 2017 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
- 2020 Darnley Fine Art, London. ‘Early Works Retrospective’ February 5th to March 4th
- 2020 Waterhouse and Dodd London Viewing Room Online exhibition
- 2021 Zephyr and Maize New York ‘Dreamscapes’ Online exhibition
- 2021 Zephyr and Maize New York ‘Colour Red’ Online exhibition
- 2021 Zephyr and Maize New York ‘Boat Paintings’ Online exhibition
- 2021 Zephyr and Maize New York ‘ Works on Paper’ Online exhibition
- 2021 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham ‘ Small Size Only’
- 2021 Modern Fine Art, 15 East 76th St, New York from October 15th to November 19th
- 2024 Sense of Intimacy, Modern Fine Art, New York
- 2024 Hidden Places, The Regency Town House, Hove (Cameron Contemporary)
- 2026 Cameron Contemporary
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 1976 British Realists, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
- 1977 Del Naviglio Gallery, Milan
- 1977 Museum of Modern Art, Paris
- 1978 ‘Art for Society’, Whitechapel Art Gallery
- 1978 ‘Art for Society’, Ulster Museum, Belfast
- 1979 Grandes et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui, Grand Palais, Paris
- 1979 Critics Choice, London
- 1980 John Moores 12, Liverpool
- 1981 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
- 1981 Leiden Museum, Holland
- 1981 The Real British, Fischer Fine Art, London
- 1981 Ostermalm Gallery, Stockholm
- 1981 Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition
- 1982 Alternative Tate, Paton Gallery and Artscribe Magazine, London
- 1982 Arnold Katzen Gallery, New York
- 1982 Art and the Sea, ICA London, Liverpool Academy and Sunderland Arts Centre
- 1983 Cartwright Hall, Bradford
- 1987 Athena Art Awards, Barbican, London
- 1987 The Self Portrait, Artsite Gallery, Bath, and Museum Touring Exhibition
- 1988-97 ”Paintings for the Sky’ Goethe Institute – Museum Touring exhibition to seven major museums in Japan, then to museums in Munich, Paris, Düsseldorf, Moscow, Hamburg, Lisbon, Brussels, Berlin, Copenhagen, Turin, Rome, EXPO 92 Seville, Kassel Documenta Halls, Montreal, Sydney, Chile, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Sao Paulo.
- 1990 The Spectator Art Awards, Scottish Gallery, London
- 1993 Heads – Canterbury Museum and Ipswich Museum
- 1997 Royal Academy – Summer Show
- 1997 Critics’ Choice (Clare Henry), Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh
- 1997 Artists of Fame and Promise, Beaux Arts London
- 1998 Bilder Für Den Himmel, Halle Victor Hugo, Luxemburg-Llimpertsberg
- 1998 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
- 1998 White Gallery, Brighton
- 1999 The Print Show – Barbican Art Centre
- 1999 Royal Academy – Summer Show
- 1999 Summer Show – Stephen Lacey Gallery
- 1999 Pure Paint – Stephen Lacey Gallery
- 2000 ‘The World According to Great Britain’, Odapark, Venray, Holland
- 2000 ‘Art London’ Chelsea, London
- 2000 Gallery Artists 2000 – Stephen Lacey Gallery
- 2000 ‘Display Heads’ – Millennium project, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham.
- 2001 Art London, Chelsea, London
- 2001 Strip, National Portrait Gallery, London.
- 2001 Festival Art (Prints), Edinburgh Festival
- 2002 Small Works – Stephen Lacey Gallery
- 2003 Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, Netherlands
- 2003 Art 2003, BDC, Islington, London
- 2003 Art London, Chelsea, London
- 2004 Art 2004, BDC, Islington, London
- 2005 Palm Beach 3 Fair, Palm Beach, Florida
- 2005 TEFAF Maastricht Art Fair
- 2006 Pan Art Fair, Amsterdam
- 2006 Singer & Frielander/Sunday Times watercolour competition
- 2006 ‘Weltanschauung’ Palermo, Sicily and New York.
- 2007 ‘Weltanschauung’ Hiroshima, Peking, Moscow, Berlin, Paris and Buenos Aires
- 2006/7/8/9/10 TETAF Maasrict art fair
- 2010 Art Hamptons, New York
- 2010 Scope Basel
- 2010 Art Nocturne Knocke, Belgium
- 2010 Scope Miami
- 2011 ‘O Miroir’ Galerie Maubert, Paris
- 2012 Maastricht Art Fair (TEFAF) with Frans Jacobs Galerie, Amsterdam
- 2012 ArtRai, Amsterdam
- 2012 Scope Basel
- 2012 The Print Show, Waterhouse and Dodd, London
- 2013 C&H Space, Amsterdam
- 2013 The London Art Fair with Waterhouse and Dodd
- 2013 The London Art Fair
- 2013 TEFAF, the Maastricht Art Fair. Exhibiting with Frans Jacobs Galerie of Amsterdam.
- 2013 Mixed exhibition, Scope Basle with Frans Jacobs
- 2013 Moscow Art Fair with Triumph Gallery of Moscow
- 2013 Down to the Bone charity exhibition, Onca Gallery, 14 St George’s Place, Brighton.
- 2014 The Threadneedle Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London
- 2014 The Curwen Gallery, London
- 2014 Judith Wolberink Gallery, Amsterdam
- 2014 Art Paris
- 2015 Art Paris
- 2015 Gallery 874 Atlanta, Georgia (a Salamatina Gallery project)
- 2016/17 ‘Synthetic Color’, Qingdao Biennale, Qingdao Art Museum, China.
- 2017 ‘Skin’ Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
- 2020/1 Gallery 94 Glyndebourne Opera House ‘Fair Ground’
- 2020/1 Cameron Contemporary Brighton /Hove Winter Exhibition
- 2021 Foley Gallery, New York. ‘The Colour of Water‘
- 2021 Art Miami
- 2022 Palm Beach Show
- 2022 Summer Show, Modern Fine Art, New York
- 2022 The Fall Show with Waterhouse and Dodd, San Francisco
- 2022 Art Miami with Waterhouse and Dodd, Florida
- 2022 ‘Fairground’ Glyndebourne Opera House
- 2026 London Art Fair
- 2026 Beaux Arts Bath
Collections include
- Anita and Gordon Roddick collection
- Arthur Anderson
- Arts Council
- Contemporary Arts Society
- David Geffen, L.A.
- Dundee Museum and Art Gallery
- Ferens Museum and Art Gallery, Hull
- Financial Services Authority, London
- Forbes Foundation, New York
- GE Club, Great Eastern Hotel, London
- Glasgow Museum of Modern Art
- ING Art Collection, Amsterdam
- Meryll Lynch
- Musik-Und Kongresshalle, Lübeck
- National Gallery of Jamaica
- Nigel Gee
- Omer Koc Collection, Istanbul
- Peter Gabriel/Real World studios
- Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam
- Qingdao Art Museum, China
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Scheringa Museum of Realist Art, Spanbroek, Holland
- Simmons and Simmons, London
- Southern Arts
- The Body Shop International
- V&A Museum, watercolour collection
- Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
- Williamson Museum and Art Gallery, Birkenhead
Films include
- 1979 Copy (music by David Rhodes)
- 1981 Undercurrents (music by Peter Gabriel)
- 1983 Any Special Peculiarities (music by David Rhodes)
- 1985 Breaking the Surface (music Barry Guy)
- 1991 Paintings 1987-1990 (music by David Rhodes)
- 1992 Mamatoto (music by various artists)
- 1993 Solsbury Hill with Peter Gabriel
In Your Eyes with Peter Gabriel - 1997 Surfacing (Commission for The Pier, Meridian Television)
Sets and Films with dancer/choreographer Darshan Singh Bhuller - 1984 No Go Zone
- 1985 Breaking the Surface (Channel Four Television)
- 1991 Virtual Reality (London Contemporary Dance)
- 1996 White Picket Fence (Phoenix Dance)
- 2010 Falling Between the Floorboards’
- 2014 ‘Waterproof’
Books
- 1986 Roald Dahl: ‘Two Fables’ (Viking)
- 1988 Roald Dahl : ‘La Princesse et le Braconnier’ (Gallimard)
- 1988 Steven Berkoff: ‘America’ (Hutchinson)
- 1977 Elizabeth Smart: ‘A Bonus’ (Polytantric Press)
- 1979 Roger McGough: ‘Holiday on Death Row’ (Cape)
- 1981 Roger McGough: ‘Strictly Private: Anthology’ (Puffin Plus)
- 1986 Roger McGough: ‘ Kingfisher Book of Comic Verse (Kingfisher)
- 1987 Roger McGough: ‘Selected Poems 1967-1987′ (Cape)
- 1974 Woody Guthrie: ‘Bound for Glory’
Misc
- 1983 1983 ‘ Painting by Radio’ BBC Radio 4
- 1987 Letterhead for Real World Studios and Peter Gabriel Ltd.
- 1988 – 2011 Banner for Amnesty International (‘Liberty’)
series of performances with David Rhodes called ‘Painting Music’. In Aachen, Herlen and Maastricht