Ray Atkins
Ray Atkins is a British figurative artist, member of the St Ives School & the London Group and educator. He was born in 1937 in Exeter, Devon, and studied art at Bromley College of Art and at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Career
After graduating from the Slade in 1964, Atkins initially worked in London before moving to Reading in 1970 to take up a teaching post. In 1974 he moved to Cornwall. Since 2009 he has been living in the Haute Garonne in the foothills of the French Pyrenees.
Collections
Atkins' works can be found in many public and private collections, including the British Council,[1] the Arts Council of England,[2] the British Museum,[3] the Newlyn Art Gallery and Reading University's collection.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
- 1970: Piers Morris Gallery, London
- 1974: Whitechapel Art Gallery
- 1977: Newlyn Art Gallery:
- 1983: Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro
- 1985: Galerie Leisten und Thiesen, Munster, Germany
- 1988: Eurogallery, London
- 1996: Ray Atkins retrospective, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
- 2001: Broken Ground, Wheal Jane mine, Truro (in collaboration with poet Peter Redgrove and composer Paul Hancock
- 2009: Aspet s'Expose (invité d'honneur), Aspet, Haute-Garonne, France
- 2012: Ray Atkins' The Long View: from Cornwall to the Pyrenees, Dean Clough Art Gallery, Halifax, West Yorkshire
- 2014: Jean Marmignon Theatre Gallery, St Gaudens, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 1961 onwards: London Group exhibitions.
- 1964: Young Contemporaries
- 1968: From Life, Camden Arts Centre
- 1974: British Painting '74, Hayward Gallery, London
- 1978: Newlyn Society at Pont Aven, Brittany, France
- 1982: Summer Show I, Serpentine Gallery, London
- 1983: Cleveland International Drawing Biennale
- 1984: Dortmund Art Fair, Germany
- 1985: Royal Society of British Artists(invited artist), Mall Galleries, London
- 1986: Twentieth Century British Artists and the Sea, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
- 1989: Salute to Turner, Agnew's, London
- 1995: Royal Academy summer exhibition
- 2001: The London Group at the Walk
- 2005: Tree-Mendous, Falmouth Art Gallery
- 2011: Flashback, Art Space Gallery, London
Bibliography
Buckman David, (2006), Artists in Britain since 1945, Vol 2, Art Dictionaries Ltd, Bristol
References
External links
- the Guardian on Ray Atkins' 2012 exhibition at Dean Clough
- Ray Atkins' pictures on the BBC/Public Catalogue Foundation our Paintings website
- Art critic William Feaver on Ray Atkins' work