Jerwood is lending Edward Bawden's Brighton Pier to the current exhibition, Sea Fever: From Turner to Today, at Southampton City Art Gallery.
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The Jerwood Foundation has presented its first Jerwood Prize at the Royal Academy Schools to Hayoung Kim. Established with the Royal Academy Schools, the prize is an annual purchase award granted to a second year student during the Premiums show to recognise exceptional talent and to support the Schools.
Continue reading...5th February 2010
Born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Paul Feiler was sent to England in 1933 and studied from 1936 to 1939 at the Slade School. Interned in Canada when the Second World War broke out, Feiler returned to Britain in 1941, teaching at the Combined Colleges of Eastbourne and Radley and the West England College of Art from 1941 to 1975.
Continue reading...5th February 2010
Craigie Aitchison was the winner of the first Jerwood Painting Prize in 1994. Sir Peter Wakefield (former Director of the National Art Collections Fund) chaired the distinguished panel made up by Judith Collins (Assistant Keeper of the Modern Collection at the Tate Gallery), Anna Ford (Broadcaster), Lord Gowrie (Chairman of the Arts Council), Hilton Kramer (Editor of the New York-based magazine New Criterion) and John McEwen (The Sunday Telegraph’s art critic) and the prize exhibition was shown at London’s Royal Academy and Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy.
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Born near Liverpool, Christopher (‘Kit’) Wood first showed an interest in drawing while bedridden during his recovery from septicaemia from 1915 to 1918. As an Architecture student at Liverpool University he met Augustus John who encouraged him to be a painter and in 1921 he studied at the Academie Julian in Paris
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The daughter of a Scottish tweed designer, Anne Redpath studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1913 to 1919. Soon after graduating she married and lived in France from 1920 to 1934, painting little during these years while she raised her family. After returning to her hometown of Hawick in 1934 she became a regular exhibitor in Edinburgh, moving there in the late 1940s
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28th April 2010