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Adrian Heath 1920-1992 (BAA 1956-77) Born in Burma. 1925 came to England. 1938 pupil of Stanhope Forbes, Newlyn, Cornwall. 1939 Slade School of Art. Joined RAF, 1941-45 POW camp where he met Terry Frost and encouraged him to paint. 1945-47 resumed studies at Slade School of Art; travelled to France, first one-man exhibition Musêe des Beaux Arts, Carcassone. 1949 re-met Terry Frost in St Ives. 1951 returned to Cornwall. 1951 Abstract Art AIA Gallery. 1951-53 arranged exhibitions of abstract art in his Fitzroy Street Studio. 1953 his book Abstract Art: Its Origins and Meaning published; first of frequent one-man exhibitions Redfern Gallery. 1954 included in Lawrence Alloway’s Nine Abstract Artists (with Scott and Frost etc.). 1955-64 Chairman AIA. Introduced to Ellis via Scott and Wynter. 1956 began teaching part-time travelling from London. 1959 first of three one-man exhibitions Hanover Gallery. 1966 became Senior Lecturer in Painting at BAA, left 1977. 1962 elected member London Group. 1963 British Painting in the Sixties Tate Gallery. 1964 Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 54-64 Tate Gallery and London Group 1914-64 Jubilee Exhibition Tate Gallery. 1964-67 served on Arts Council Art panel. 1969 Artist in Residence University of Sussex. 1971/72 retrospective Bristol City Art Gallery and 1976 Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge. l980 became part-time lecturer University of Reading. 1981 one- man exhibition Pallant House, Chichester. 1984 British Council tour of Norway. 1985 St Ives 1939-64 Tate Gallery. 1988 one-man exhibition Redfern Gallery. 53 Orange and Purple 1956 oil on canvas 50 x 40 inches Exh: Arte Britanica no Seculo XX Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Arts Council Touring Exhibition Coimbra, Porto) 1962 (73) 54 Painting Black and Pink 1960 oil on canvas 72 x 48 inches Exh: Adrian Heath Exhibition of Paintings and Gouaches Hanover Gallery, December 1960-January 1961 (4); Adrian Heath Hans Tisdall Gernalde Gouaches Wandteppiche Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, May-June 1961 (11, illustrated) Lit: Contemporary British Art (Revised Edition) Herbert Read, Pelican Books 1964 (illustrated p1 VI) 55* Painting c.1963 oil on canvas 30¼ x 42 inches 56* Painting Mixed Media 1962 |
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