1st Class: Grayson Perry - Summer Exhibition
Grayson Perry CBE is particularly renowned for his ceramic vases but also
works with printmaking, drawing and embroidery. He is an astute
commentator on contemporary society and culture and has a female
alter-ego, Claire. He did an art foundation course at Braintree College of
Further Education before graduating with a Batchelor of Arts Fine Art
degree in 1982. He has written several books as well as made TV
documentaries and is a Turner Prize winner.
1st Class: Fiona Rae - Queen of the Sky
Hong Kong-born artist Fiona Rae has developed a distinctive style of work
over the past 25 years, which is full of restless energy, humour and
complexity and which has set out to challenge and expand the modern
conventions of painting. She studied Foundation at the Croydon College of
Art before gaining a BA Honours in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in 1987.
She has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize, served as a Tate Artist
Trustee and became the first female Professor of Painting at the Royal
Academy of Schools in 2011. She has exhibited extensively in galleries and
museums throughout the world and her work is held in prestigious public
and private collections.
£1.25: Norman Ackroyd - St Kilda: The Great
Sea Stacs
Leeds born Norman Ackroyd CBE is an artist and printmaker who has been a
Royal Academician for 30 years. He was appointed Professor of Etching at
the University of Arts in 1994 and elected Senior Fellow at the Royal
College of Art in 2000. His work can be found in several British and
American galleries including the Zillah Bell Gallery, the Tate, the
British Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. He has also
appeared in several television programmes, the most recent being a feature
in an episode of BBC’s Countryfile in 2017.
£1.25: Barbara Rae - Inverleith Allotments
and Edinburgh Castle
Barbara Rae CBE is a Scottish painter and printmaker who studied at the
Edinburgh College of Art and has taught art at the Aberdeen College of
Education as well as at the Glasgow School of Art. She has received
numerous awards for her art, with a number of works being displayed in
institutions such as the University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow,
British Museum and Whitworth Art Gallery. The Royal Academy of Arts’
magazine, RA, has described Rae’s works as “intense colour bursts that
evoke dramatic landscapes but remain resolutely abstract… distilling the
colour, light and forms of nature into dazzling visions”.
£1.55: Yinka Shonibare - Queuing at the RA
Yinka Shonibare MBE is a British-Nigerian artist whose work explores
cultural identity, issues of race and class through the media of painting,
sculpture, photography and film. He studied Fine Art at the Byam School of
Art (now Central Saint Martin’s College) as well as Goldsmiths College. A
Turner Prize nominee, he was awarded a MBE in 2004, a title he has added
to his professional name. He has not allowed his physical disability to
restrict his creativity, using assistants to make works under his
direction. He has works displayed in prestigious institutions including
the Royal Opera House, the Tate Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum,
the National Museum of African Art and the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington DC.
£1.55: Tracey Emin - Saying Goodbye
Tracey Emin CBE is renowned for her autobiographical, confessional and
often candid art, working with a variety of media including drawing,
painting, sculpture, needlework, film and photography. Born in Croydon in
1963, she studied fashion at the Medway College of Design and later
printing at Maidstone Art College before obtaining a Master of Arts in
painting at the Royal College of Art in London. She became a Royal
Academician in 2007 and in December 2011 she was appointed Professor of
Drawing at the Royal Academy, being one of the first two female RA
Professors along with Fiona Rae. She has exhibited and given lectures
extensively throughout the world and is a Turner Prize nominee. .
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