Robert Sawyers, 1923-2002

Robert Sawyers    ARCA

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A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY

1923 Born London
   
  EDUCATION...
1935-1940 Beckenham & Penge Grammar School
1940-1942 Beckenham School of Art
1942-1945 Royal College of Art
 awarded Herbert Baker Scholarship (Florence)
1945-1947 Florence
   
  TEACHING...
1947-1956 Leeds College of Art
 now Leeds College of Art & Design
1956-1958 Middlesbrough College of Art
1959-1960 Cornwall College, Montego Bay, Jamaica
1960-1962 Principal, Jamaica School of Art, Kingston, Jamaica
 now Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts
   
1962- Self-employed artist
2002 Died Aberdeen, Scotand

EXHIBITING SINCE 1947

Royal Academy
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters (London Group)
United Artists
New English Art Club
The Mall Galleries, London
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Water Colour Exhibitions
Royal Western Academy (R.W.A. Cornelius Prize Winner 1995)
Dorchester Gallery, Dorchester, Dorset
The Hambledon Gallery, Blandford, Dorset
Alpha Gallery, Swanage, Dorset
Grape Lane Gallery, York, Yorkshire
Kentmere Gallery, Ambleside, Westmorland
Bath University Gallery, Bath, Somerset
Fountain Fine Art, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Middlesbrough Art Gallery
Kingston, Jamaica
The Hambledon Gallery, Blandford, Dorset
Marjorie Gale Gallery
Alpha Gallery, Swanage, Dorset
Other West of England Galleries

COLLECTIONS

Educational collections in London, Leeds & Manchester
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Institute of Jamaica
Jamaican Government Collection
Private collections in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Sweden, Iceland, Switzerland, Germany, France and USA
 

[Page last updated: 17th June 2006]

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