Peter Kinley 1912-1988 (BAA & BCHE 1971-88) Born in Vienna. 1936 left Austria. 1944-48 served British Army, studied one year Dusseldorf Academy. having spent latter part of time in army in Germany. 1949-53 St Martin’s School of Art. 1951 first exhibited Young Contemporaries. 1954 first one-man exhibition Gimpel Fils (frequently over following ten years). 1954-64 taught St Martin’s School of Art. 1956 selected by Herbert Read for Critics Choice Arthur Tooth & Sons; 1961 exhibited Paul Rosenberg, New York. 1962/63 British Art Today. San Francisco (touring exhibition); 1963 British Painting in the Sixties Tate Gallery. 1965-70 taught Wimbledon School of Art. 1968 first of several one- man exhibitions, Arthur Tooth & Sons. 1971 taught BAA initially part-time, moved to Corsham, became Head of Painting (retired from BCHE Summer 1988). 1976 first visited India, exhibited in A Proper Study. British Council travelling exhibition of India. 1980 one-man exhibition Arnolfini, Bristol; 1982 retrospective MOMA, Oxford; 1985 Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. 1986 one-man exhibition Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge (touring). 67 Fields 1972 |