Artist statement
ConceptsExplorations of memory, experience and ideas of experience, from landscape, interiors, human predicament attempting to capture and play with images jostling to form- just before perception - a kind of mental cubism. Works, on the edge of representation, varying in intent, scale, depiction, try to reconcile illusion/allusion, abstract/figurative, past/present pictorial languages to create an autonomous, unforeseen visual experience.
Influences
Aesthetic/Formal concern, The human figure, Psychology, Ideas of memory and experience, British, European Art.
Career path
Qualifications:
1955 ARCA (1st class hons), Royal College of Art
1952 NDD, Chelsea School of Art
Teaching Experience:
1958/90 Part-time Lecturer, Chelsea School of Art, BA and MA
1963/90 Part-time Lecturer, St. Martin's School of Art, BA
Royal Academy (occasional) - MA
Canterbury - BA
Areas of work:
Exhibiting
Collections:
City Art Galleries, Sheffield
Power Art Gallery
Huddersfield Art Gallery
Arts Council of England, Collection
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Tate Gallery, London
Royal Academy, London
Museo de Arte Moderno, Murcia, Spain
Solo exhibitions
- 2000 Trees, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
- 2000 Pueblo Landscapes, Friends Room, Royal Academy
- 1997 Art First, London
- 1994 Barbican Centre, touring - Exeter, Ayr, Dublin, Huddersfield, Newcastle, Sheffield, 1995 Newport, Bolton
- 1993 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
- 1992 Art Space, London
- 1991 Blason Gallery, London
- 1989 Galerie infaust, Hamburg, Shanghai
- 1987 Royal Academy of Art, London, touring - Newcastle, Warwick, Southampton, Exeter
- 1986 Large Landscapes, Royal Academy
- 1984 Nicola Jacobs, London
- 1983 Nicola Jacobs, London
- 1981 Nicola Jacobs, London
Group exhibitions
- 1994 Whitechapel Open
- 1993 Royal West of England Academy, annual exhibition
- 1990 Le Paysage, touring - France, Belgium
- 1989 John Moores, Liverpool
- 1988 The Romantic Tradition, touring - Spain
- 1985 Tolly Cobbold, touring
- 1984 Spuren und Zeichen, Germany
- 1980 Hayward Annual
- 1980 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, annually
- 1979 British Artshow Tour
- 1977 British Painting, Royal Academy
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