Graham Crowley
4 September to 30 September
Biography
1950
Born, Romford Essex
1968 - 72
St. Martin's School of Art, London
1972 - 75
Royal College of Art, London MA (RCA)
1978 - 85
Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art (Painting), London
1982 - 83
Artist-in-Residence, Oxford University
1982 - 88
Member of the Fine Art Faculty, British School at Rome
1983 - 86
Lived and worked in London
1984 - 86
Visiting Lecturer, Goldsmith's College, London
1986 - 89
Senior Fellow in Painting; South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Ed,
Cardiff
1985 - 89
Member of the advisory board, ICA, London
1987 - 88
N.A.B. Fine Art Working Committee
1991 - 92
Riverscape International drawing residency, Cleveland County
1994 - 95
Artist in residence, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
1995 - 96
Tutor, Drawing Studio, Royal College of Art, London
1996 - 98
Head of Fine Art, City and Guilds of London Art School, London
1998 - 06
Professor of Painting, Royal College of Art, London
Solo Exhibitions
1982
Air Gallery, London
1983 Home Comforts, MOMA,
Oxford and Touring
1984 Reflections, Riverside
Studios, London
High Life, ICA, London
Table Manners, Edward Totah Gallery, London
Forum, Zurich Art Fair
1986 Domestic Crisis, Totah
Gallery, New York
1987 In Living Memory, The
Orchard Gallery, Derry and Touring
1991 Somewhere Else, Edward
Totah Gallery, London
1992 Northern Seen, Northern
Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
1993 Millfield Gallery,
Somerset
1995
The Last Decade, Lamont Gallery, London
Warrens Boat House, Eire
British Representative and prize winner, Cagnes-Sur-Mer
International Festival of
Painting, France
1997
Rineen, Lamont Gallery, London
1998 The Flower Show,
Lamont Gallery, London
1999 A Drift, exhibition and
inaugural lecture, Royal College of Art, London
2001 Familiar Ground, Beaux
Arts, London
2002 Are you serious? Wolsey
Art Gallery, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich
2003 Beaux Arts, London
2006
Beaux Arts, Bath
Selected Group
Exhibitions
1976, 80, 82, 83, 85, 87, 93 John Moores,
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1977, 81, 83, 85 Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge
1977 Arnolfini Gallery,
Bristol
A Free Hand, Arts Council Touring Exhibition
Drawing in Action, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull and Touring
1979 Open Attitudes, MOMA,
Oxford
1980 7 Artists, Kettles Yard
Gallery, Cambridge and Touring
1981 Contemporary Artists in
Camden, Camden Arts Centre, London
1982 South Bank Show, London
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
Paris Biennale
4 British Painters, Lucerne, Switzerland and Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1983 Stroke, Line and Figure,
Gimpel Fils, London
1984 Art within Reach, Air
Gallery, London and Touring
The Image as Catalyst, Ashmolean and Touring
Playing Live, Leicester Museum
CAS Contemporary Art Market, London
Drawing, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York
Venice Biennale, Anthony Reynolds Gallery
1985 The Proper Study, British
Council, New Delhi
Proud and Prejudiced, Twinings Gallery, New York
Figure 1, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Artists Against Apartheid, Royal Festival Hall, London
1986 Figures and Myths for the
late twentieth Century, Edward Totah Gallery, London
No Place Like Home, Cornerhouse, Manchester
1987 Edward Totah Gallery,
London
Self Portrait: A Modern View, Artsite, Bath and Touring
Critical Realism, Nottingham Castle Museum and Touring
1988 Figuring out the 80's,
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
British Drawing, Thumb Gallery, London
The New British Painting, Cincinnati and Touring
Food, Odette Gilbert, London
1989-90 Real Life Stories, Cleveland Council's Collection on Loan, Spacex,
Exeter
1990 Mixed Show, Gallery
Dagmer, London
The New British Painting, Queens Museum, New York
Print News, Oriel & Chapter Galleries, Cardiff and Touring
The Brewhouse Open 1990, Taunton, 1st prize winner
Hunting Group Exhibition, London and Touring
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
1991 Art for Amnesty Auction,
London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Cleveland Drawing Biennale
1992 A Collector's Choice,
Bristol City Art Gallery and Museum (curator: Keith Parkin)
Compendium Show, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Silver Longboat Competition, Darlington
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (invited) , London
Riverscape, Cleveland Art Gallery
Self Portrait Exhibition, Plymouth Art Gallery
1993 Riverscape Exhibition,
Cleveland Gallery
Millfield Open (invited), Somerset
One of four judges for the 1993 (11th) Cleveland Drawing Biennale
1994 One of three judges for
the 1994 Derwent Drawing Open, Sunderland
Moussorsky Project, Touring
John Jones / 1st London Open 1st prize winner
Back to Basics, Flowers East Gallery, London
British Library, London
1995 Keynote Speaker at West
of England Conference on Arts Residencies
British Representative in Bangkok - European Union Exhibition (British
Council)
Small is Beautiful - Food, Flowers East Gallery, London
1996 Small is Beautiful XIV -
Sex, Flowers East Gallery, London
5 Artists in Arthur Anderson's, London
1997 Small is Beautiful XV -
Death, Flowers East Gallery, London
Summer Show, Lamont Gallery, London
Hunting Group Art Prizes, London and touring
1998
Paintings of Modern Life, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford
Small is Beautiful XVI - Music, Flowers East Gallery, London
1999 The Flower Show, Harwood
House, Leeds
2000 Summer Show, Beaux Arts,
London
Order and Event: Landscape Now, Artspace, London
The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
2001 ART2001, Beaux Arts, BDC,
Islington, London
London Underground, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea (British Council)
The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
Small is Beautiful XIX, Flowers East Gallery, London
Summer 2001, Beaux Arts, London
20/21 British Art Fair, Beaux Arts,
RCA, London
2002 ART2002, Beaux Arts, BDC,
Islington, London
London Underground, Thai Pai, Taiwan
Small is Beautiful XX, Flowers East Gallery, London
Summer 2002, Beaux Arts, London
Finalist Jerwood Painting Prize, London and Birmingham
20/21 British Art Fair, Beaux Arts,
Commonwealth Institute, London
Bibliography
1982
Hayward Annual, British Drawing
12th Paris Biennale (catalogue)
1983
Artscribe No.40 Graham Crowley by Robert Ayers
Home Comforts, (catalogue) Marco Livingstone, for MOMA, Oxford
1984 Playing Live,
(catalogue) Robert Ayers
The image as Catalyst, (catalogue) Jaynie Anderson
1985 Still Life: A New
Life, (catalogue) Vivienne Bennet
The Proper Study, British Council (catalogue) Marco Livingstone
Figure 1; (catalogue) Tony Godfrey
1987
In Living Memory, (catalogue) William Feaver
Crucial Realism, (catalogue) Brandon Taylor & Juliette Steyn
The Self Portrait, (catalogue) Edward Lucie-Smith
Comic Iconoclasm, (catalogue) ICA, Sheena Wagstaff
Modernism, Post-Modernism, Realism, Brandon Taylor
Art for Architecture, edited by D Petherbridge HMSO
Mute Accomplices; (catalogue) Stephen Farthing
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, by Marco Livingstone
1988
Cries and Whispers, (catalogue) British Council, Lewis Biggs & Teresa
Gleadowe
Painted Dreams, Art News, February 1988, Judith Higgins
Figuring Out the 80s, (catalogue) Tony Godfrey
The New British Painting, (catalogue) Cincinnati & Touring, Edward
Lucie-Smith,
Carolyn
Cohen & Judith Higgins
Destruction, Art & Design
Art in the Age of Pluralism, Art & Design
British Art Now, Art & Design
1989 The New Romantics,
Art & Design, January 1989
40 over 40, Art & Design
Modern Painters, review by William Feaver, Autumn 1989 Issue
British Figurative Painters of the 80s, Art Random, by Marco Livingstone
1990 Pop Art, by Marco
Livingstone
Dictionary of British Art, Vol.6, Thames & Hudson
Painters and Sculptors, Francis Spalding
1991
Somewhere Else, (catalogue) Edward Totah Gallery
1993
Riverscape, (catalogue) Deanna Petherbridge
1996
Marking Presence, (catalogue) Artsway, Hampshire
Art 96 Feature, Art Review, January (article)
1997 Modern Painters, Review
by Nicholas Usherwood, Summer Issue
1998 Art Collecting, The
Independent, January (article)
The Flower Show, (catalogue) Lamont Gallery, text by Andrew Lambirth
1999
The Flower Show, Group Show, Harwood House (catalogue)
Art & Design, 100 Years at the Royal College of Art, by Christopher
Frayling
2000
Contemporary Landscapes, CVA magazine, article by Keith Patrick
Graham Crowley, Modern Painters, article by Craig Burnett
2001
Familiar Ground, (catalogue) Beaux Arts, text by Andrew Lambirth
London Underground, (catalogue) Sungkok, Seoul, Korea
2002
Are you serious? (catalogue) text by Andrew Lambirth
2003
Beaux Arts (catalogue) text by William Feaver
Public Collections
Imperial War Museum
Contemporary Arts Society
Museum of Auckland, New Zealand
Kettles Yard, Cambridge
Arts Council of Great Britain
Castle Museum, Nottingham
Ipswich Museum
Newcastle Polytechnic
Leicester Education Authority
Kirkleatham Museum, Redcar
Leeds Education Authority
Gray Art Gallery, Hartlepool
Victoria and Albert Museum
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
British Council
Prince Albert Museum, Exeter
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