Basil Beattie

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Basil Beattie is a British artist, born in 1935 in West Hartlepool, County Durham, England. His work revolves around abstraction and is known for its emotive and gestural forms.

Beattie attended the West Hartlepool College of Art from 1950 until 1955. He continued his education at the Royal Academy schools from 1957 until 1961. He then began a long teaching career: during the 1980s and 1990s, Beattie taught at Goldsmiths College in London. He retired from the role in 1998, spending a further year as assessor at the Chelsea School of Art.

He was shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize in both 1998 and 2001, in addition to the Charles Woolaston Prize in 2000. An exhibition of paintings produced from the 1990s was held at Tate Britain in 2007^[1] and his works are part of the Tate permanent collection.^[2]

Beattie lived in the 1970s with Mavis Cheek, later a successful novelist, and has a daughter by her.^[3]

References

↑ tate.org.uk
↑ tate.org.uk
↑ Observer interview with Cheek, 3 March 2002: Retrieved 2 April 2012.

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