Chronology |
1966 |
Born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK.
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1982-1984 |
Dewsbury and Batley Art College.
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1984 |
Meets David Blackburn, who becomes a mentor.
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1985-1988 |
Manchester School of Art; awarded BA (Hons) in Fine Art. |
1988-1990 |
Slade School of Art; Postgraduate Study in Fine Art. |
1989 |
Regular visits to British Museum and Petri Museum, UCL. |
1990 |
First solo exhibition, Hart Gallery, Nottingham. Wins Joseph Webb prize for draughtsman under 35 years. |
1991-1992 |
Awarded place at Hochshule Der Kunst, Berlin, as Artist in
Residence. Visits museums and galleries. |
1992 |
Begins to develop methods using mixed media on paper. |
1997 |
Touring exhibition, Wakefield, Harrogate, Salford, Huddersfield. Wins Villiers David Prize. Travels extensively through USA (East and West Coast), Australia and Mexico, visiting anthropology museum in Mexico City and travelling to the Gulf of Mexico. |
1998-1999 |
Completes textural aerial views inspired by travels. Villiers David Prize exhibition, Hart Gallery. |
2002 |
First solo exhibition at Albemarle Gallery, London. |
2003 |
Travels to Belgium, visiting museums in Bruges, Brussels and Ghent, seeing works by Van Eyck and Permecke. |
2007 |
Exhibits in Milan and Bologna. Regular visits to East coast near Whitby. |
2010 - 2011 |
‘Four British Figurative Painters’, Albemarle Gallery and Ettinger Gallery, New York. |
2012 |
Early works from the David Blackburn collection at 108 Gallery, Harrogate.
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2014 |
Making of the film 'Figures in Solitude'. |
2017
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First solo exhibition at Messum's. London. Second solo exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery, entitled 'A Sense of Place'.
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2018 |
Second Solo Exhibition at Messum's London. |
2019 |
Co-curated David Blackburn exhibiton at Huddersfield Art Gallery. Travels to the Western Isles. |
2020 |
First Solo Exhibition at David Messum's, St James, London. |
2022 |
Travels to the south coast in Devon and Cornwall. |
Selected Essays and Publications
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2025 |
Double page feature in Yorkshire Post magazine, April 19th, by Catherine Scott. |
2025 |
Network page in World on Interiors magazine, May. |
2025 |
Catalogue forward by Patrick Duffy. |
2023 |
Front cover for quarterly magazine, Slightly Foxed, Autumn issue no 79. |
2023 |
Dartmouth Chronical, 15th March. |
2023 |
Kingsbridge and Salcombe Gazette, 11th March. |
2023 |
Catalogue Foward by Patrick Duffy. |
2022 |
Messum's catalogue essay by David Haycock. |
2022 |
Country Life, Art market overview by Huon Mallaleui, January 21st |
2020 |
Messum's catalogue essay by David Haycock. |
2019 |
Catalogue forward by Maxwell Doig for David Blackburn Exhibtion, Huddersfield Art Gallery |
2018
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Pick of the Week, Art Market by Huon Mallalieu, September, Country Life Magazine |
2018
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Messums Catalogue forward by David Boyd Haycock
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2018 |
My Yorkshire, Yorkshire Post Magazine, 13th January 2018 |
2018 |
Artist and Illustrators Magazine, January 2018 |
2017 |
Feature by Andrew Hirst, Huddersfield Examiner, 3rd November 2017 |
2017
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Feature by Hilarie Stelfox, Huddersfield Examiner, January 2017 |
2017
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Messum's Solo Exhibition Catalogue Foreward by Andrea Gates
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2015 |
Essay by Robert Hall |
2015
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Feature by Hilarie Stelfox, Huddersfield Examiner, February 2015 |
2015
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The Silence of Solitude: The Vision of Maxwell Doig, Catalogue Essay by Lynne Green
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| 2013 |
Feature by Hilarie Stelfox, Huddersfield Examiner, September 2013
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2013 |
'Studio Visit" critical essay by Jo Manby |
2013 |
Ithaca Lit, Spring. Featured artist by Michelle Lesko |
2012 |
'The Art of the Nude' by John O'Hern, 'Amercian Art Collector Magazine', October 2012 |
2012 |
Feature by Val Javin, September, Huddersfield Examiner |
2012 |
In Conversation with Andrew Stewart, Exhibition Catalogue |
2011 |
Exhibition review, ‘British Figurative Painting’ at Ettinger Gallery, New York, American Arts Quarterly, Summer 2011, Volume 28, No 3. |
2008 |
Exhibition review by Steve Pil for Artists & Illustrators (May) |
2007 |
Catalogue essay by Barbara Frigario, ‘Figures in Solitude’. |
2007 |
Exhibition review by Alessandro Redaelli for Art magazine (October) |
2006 |
Catalogue essay by John Russell Taylor, solo exhibition, Albemarle Gallery. |
2006 |
Book cover: The Novel Now by Richard Bradford (Oxford: Blackwell) |
2005 |
Interview with Jenny Parkin for Huddersfield Examiner 11th February. |
2003 |
Who’s Who in Art, 31st Edition, Hilmarton Manor Press |
2003 |
Christies exhibition review ‘Formal & Dignified’ by Tim Forrest, Mayfair Life (August) |
2001 |
Exhibition review by Elspeth Moncrieff for The Art Newspaper (No. 114, May) |
2001 |
Front cover, ‘Galleries’ magazine with painting ‘Warehouse Roof’. |
2001 |
‘Profile’ by Joe Manby in Arts Review (May) |
2000 |
Book cover: Blue Fever by Clare MacDonald Shaw (Blackwater Press) |
1999 |
Exhibition review by John Russell Taylor for The Times (19 January) |
1999 |
Exhibition review by Charlotte Mullins for Galleries (January) |
1998 |
‘Sense and Sensation’, article by Houn Mallalieu for Country Life (June) |
1998 |
Featured artist, ‘i2i’, artist newsletter, in conversation with Kirsty McGee. Touring exhibition review, ‘City Life’, Manchester by Kirsty McGee (April). |
1998 |
Catalogue essay for ‘Villiers David’ Prize Exhibition, by Bridget Hayden |
1997 |
Catalogue essay by Charlotte Mullins for touring exhibition. |
1997 |
Exhibition review by Bridget Hayden for the 'Big Issue' |
1997 |
Exhibition review by Deborah Stone for the Daily Express’ |
1995 |
Provident Financial Art Collection Catalogue: A Celebration of 25 years of Collecting, critical assessment by John Sheeran |
1995 |
Book cover: In a Rare Time of Rain by Milner Place (London: Chatto & Windus) |
1995 |
Publication of essays: The Gaze of Love: Meditations on Art by Sister Wendy Beckett (London: Marshall Pickering) |
1994 |
Exhibition review by Mary Sara for the Yorkshire Post |
1993 |
'A Poetic Dialogue: Seven Painters', The Hart Gallery |
1991 |
Illustrated essay by Malcolm York for the 'Green Book' |
1990 |
Catalogue introduction by David Blackburn, intro by John Hart |
