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Basil Beattie
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British
, born 1935)
Basil Beattie
Odds and Evens,
1996
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Biography
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Timeline
1935
Born in West Hartlepool
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Saatchi Collection, London
NatWest Group Art Collection
Government Art Collection, London
Deutsche Bank, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
Birmingham City Art Gallery
BUPA
Tate Gallery, London
Arts Council Collection, London
2001 Shortlist Jerwood Painting Prize
1999 Nordstern Print Prize, Royal Academy
1998 Shortlist Jerwood Painting Prize
1989 John Moores - 2nd Prize-winner
1986 Athena Awards winner
1976 Major Arts Council Award
Awards
Studied at the Royal Academy Schools
Collections
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
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Exhibitions
2010
Paintings from the Janus Series, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal (solo)
2009
Paintings from the Janus Series, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (solo)
Drawn In, Drawn Out, Eagle Gallery, London (solo)
Two Rooms, Auckland (solo)
2008
Royal Academy summer exhibition
London Original Print Fair – Eagle Gallery
Exchange: London/Dublin, Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin
2007
London Original Print Fair - Eagle Gallery
Rabley Drawing Centre, UK
Prints / Publications - Eagle Gallery
Tate Britain. Goodison Room - BP New Displays (solo)
2006
The Spiral of Time APT Gallery, London
Basil Beattie & Ian Tyson, Eagle Gallery, London
Marking a Year Childers Street, London in association with the Eagle Gallery (solo)
2005
The Spiral of Time OHOS Gallery, Reading
2004
Stacks Atkinson Gallery, Millfield (solo)
Wendy Anderson, Basil Beattie, Manijeh Yadegar, Eagle Gallery, London
2003
Drawn to be Alive Hales Gallery, London
20 X 5 Drawings, Eagle Gallery, London
2002
Viewpoints Eagle Gallery, London
Above and Below commissioned by Sadler’s Wells in association with the Eagle Gallery - Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London (solo)
Square Root Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
Three Big Paintings Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
Three Artists from Hartlepool Hartlerpool Art Gallery
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Jerwood Painting Prize 2001 Jerwood Gallery, London
Monoprints Art Space Gallery, London
That Irresistible Climb Advanced Graphics, London
Drawing with Frances Aviva Blane, ecArt, London
British Abstract Painting Flowers East, London
Retroperspective I Eagle Gallery, London
Master Class: Basil Beattie, John Edwards, John Hoyland, John Walker, Galerie Alain Le Gaillard, Paris and Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
Works on Paper 1980-1990 Curwen Gallery, London (solo)
2001
That Irresistible Climb Advanced Graphics, London (solo)
Tradition and Innovation City Art Gallery, York
Storey Gallery, Lancaster (solo)
Recent Acquisitions 2000 Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2000
British Airways Terminal, JFK Airport, New York
Five British Abstract Painters Flowers West, Los Angeles
1999
Thinking Aloud Camden Arts Centre, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Cornerhouse, Manchester
Small is Beautiful Flowers East, London; Flowers West, Los Angeles
Works on Paper West Beth Gallery, New York
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - Nordstern Print Prize
Regrouping The Nunnery, London
Eagle Gallery, London - with Peter Abrahams, Chris Baker, Thomas Gosebruch
Todd Gallery, London (solo)
Cologne Art Fair - Galerie Renate Bender
1998
Frankfurt Art Fair - Galerie Renate Bender
Jerwood Painting Prize '98 Jerwood Gallery
1997
Reg Vardy Arts Foundation Gallery, Sunderland (solo)
Galerie Renate Bender, Munich (solo)
yellow Todd Gallery, London
John Moores Exhibition 20 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1996
Path Galerie, Aalst, Belgium (solo)
Todd Gallery, London (solo)
Ace! Arts Council Collection touring exhibition:
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Oldham Art Gallery
Hayward Gallery, London
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
Harlech Biennale Harlech
1995
Monoprints Artspace Gallery, London
Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (solo)
Todd Gallery, London (solo)
Cologne Art Fair - Maak Gallery, Todd Gallery, Bodo Niemann Gallery
British Abstract Art: Part 1 Painting Flowers East, London
Lead and Follow Robert Loder Collection, Atlantis Gallery, London
Credo Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Newton Gallery, Johannesburg (solo)
1994
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (solo)
Paintmarks Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
1993
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (solo)
Maak Gallery, London (solo)
Todd Gallery, London (solo)
1992
Gillian Ayres, Basil Beattie, Brian Fielding, John Hoyland
Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
Painting and Sculpture Maak Gallery, London
1991
Chicago Art Exposition - Curwen Gallery
Basel Art Fair - Curwen Gallery
Goldsmiths' College Centenary Exhibition Goldsmiths' Gallery, London
Small is Beautiful Flowers East, London
John Moores Exhibition 17 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Drawing on the Interior - installation, Eagle Gallery, London (solo)
1990
Curwen Gallery, London (solo)
The Abstract Connection Flowers East, London
1989
John Moores Exhibition 16 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1988
Chicago Art Exposition - Curwen Gallery
Presentation 1988 Curwen Gallery, London
The Presence of Painting Mappin Gallery, Sheffield
Three British Painters Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
1987
John Moores Exhibition 15 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Eight by Eight Curwen Gallery, London
Curwen Gallery, London (solo)
Impressions of a Town, Bede Gallery, Jarrow
1986
Gray's Art Gallery, Hartlepool (solo)
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (invited artist), London
1985
The Joy of Paint Bede Gallery, Jarrow
Curwen Studio Publications Curwen Gallery, London
1984
British Art Show Arts Council Travelling Exhibition
Bede Gallery, Jarrow (solo)
European Painting Trier, Germany
Minories Gallery, Colchester (solo)
Goldsmiths' Gallery, London (solo)
London Group Exhibition
1982
Hayward Annual: British Drawing Hayward Gallery, London
The London Suite Anne Berthoud Gallery, London
1981
Atlantis Gallery, London
1980
Hayward Annual Hayward Gallery, London
1979
Drawings Studio School, New York
Newcastle Polytechnic (solo)
1978
New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
A Free Hand Arts Council Travelling Exhibition
1977
Small Works Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery
1976
Colour Southern Arts Travelling Exhibition
AIR Gallery, London
1975
Drawings Hoya Gallery, London
1974
First Contact (Industrial Sponsors), London
Hoya Gallery, London
British Painting Hayward Gallery, London
Hoya Gallery, London (solo)
1973
Consort Gallery, London (solo)
1971
Mayfair Gallery, London (solo)
Big Paintings for Public Places Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
Four Painters Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Art Spectrum Alexandra Palace, London
1970
Large Paintings Hayward Gallery, London
London Now in Berlin Germany
1969
Big Paintings for Public Places Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
London Group Exhibition
Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London (solo)
Royal Academy Bicentenary exhibition, London
1968
Four British Artists Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Poet's Choice AIA Gallery, London
1967
Survey '67 Camden Arts Centre, London
1966
Belfast Open
1965
John Moores Exhibition 4 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1961
Four Young Contemporaries Paris Gallery, London
1958 - 1961
Young Contemporaries Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
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Literature
2008
Irish Times, Aidan Dunne (09/04/08)
2006
Art on a Broad Canvas Charlotte Cripps, Independent (2/01/06)
The Spiral of Time Martin Holman, catalogue text, APT Gallery, London
Basil Beattie Jane Ross, The Week (15.12.06)
2005
Marking a Year Nick de Ville, catalogue introduction, publ. Eagle Gallery, London
The Naked Art Richard Dyer, exhibition text OHOS Gallery, Reading
Basil Beattie: Above and Below Laura Gascoigne, What’s On (18/09/02)
Basil’s brush with the process of painting Helen Smithson
Highbury and Islington Express (6/09/02)
2002
Change and Decay John McEwen, The Sunday Telegraph (6/10/02)
Contemporary Market Colin Gleadell, The Daily Telegraph (4/11/02)
2001
That Irresistible Climb Mel Gooding, catalogue introduction, publ. Advanced Graphics, London
Basil Beattie Norbert Lynton, Jerwood Painting Prize catalogue introduction
Scrape it off and start all over again John McEwen, Sunday Telegraph (16/9/01)
That climb Robin Dutt, RA Magazine, no. 72
The Significance of Symbols Pryle Behrman, Printmaking Today, Summer 2001
1999
Ur-Architecture and the Sign Nick de Ville, Contemporary Visual Arts, no.21
Jerwood Painting Prize Tim Hilton, The Independent on Sunday (4/10/98)
Basil Beattie Lynn MacRitchie, Jerwood Painting Prize catalogue introduction
Portraits of Places Mel Gooding, NatWest Group catalogue
1998
Basil Beattie John McEwen, catalogue introduction publ. Todd Gallery, London
Pinstripe Medicis John Windsor, The Independent on Saturday magazine (30/5/98)
1996
Ace! catalogue Hayward Gallery, London
Tim Hilton, Independent on Sunday (29/9/96)
Around the Galleries Sacha Craddock, The Times (29/10/96)
Ace!, Hayward Gallery, London, Sarah Kent, Time Out (6/11/96)
Basil Beattie Sue Hubbard, Time Out (13/11/96)
Critics Choice John McEwen, The Sunday Telegraph (14/5/95)
1995
New Paintings Paul Moorhouse, catalogue introduction publ. Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
1994
A Brush with the Unexpected Tim Hilton, The Independent on Sunday (14/8/94)
Hermetic Society Giles Auty, The Spectator (20/8/94)
Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, Off to Work They Go Adrian Searle, The Independent (30/8/94)
British Abstract Art: Part I Painting Bryan Robertston, catalogue introduction publ. Flowers East, London
John McEwen, The Sunday Telegraph (12/12/93)
Sarah Kent, Time Out (29/12/93)
1993
Paintings 1990-1993 Adrian Searle, catalogue introduction publ. Maak Gallery and Todd Gallery, London
William Feaver, The Observer (28/11/93)
1992
Basil Beattie at Todd Gallery David Lillington, Time Out (25/3/92)
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