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JAMES HYMAN GALLERY
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Dennis Creffield
1931
Born in London
1948-51
Studied with David Bomberg at the Borough Polytechnic, London
1957-61
Slade School of Fine Art, London
winner of the Tonks Prize for Life Drawing
winner of the Steer Medal for Landscape Painting
1961
Prizewinner John Moore's Liverpool Exhibition
1964-68
Gregory Fellow in Painting at the University of Leeds
1977
Arts Council Major Award for Painting
1987
Commissioned by the South Bank Board to draw all the Medieval Cathedrals of England
1990
House of Commons Fine Art
Committee commission
1990/92/94/96
National Trust's Foundation for Art commissions
1997
Abbey Scholarship 1997
2002
Commissioned by the Globe Gallery, Hay-on-Wye, England
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007
Dennis Creffield. Body and Soul, James Hyman Gallery, London
2006
Imagining Mozart, Globe Gallery, Winchester
2005
Retrospective Exhibition, Flowers East, London
2002
Impressions of Castles, Drawings of Welsh and English Castles, Globegallery, Hay-on-Wye
2001
Orford Ness - The Pagodas and Other Buildings, Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery, Suffolk
1999
A Year of Saturdays, Paintings and Drawings of London, Clifford Chance, London
1995
Paintings and Drawings of Orford Ness, Connaught Brown, London
1993-5
Paintings of Petworth, Gillian Jason Gallery, London, traveling exhibition: Petworth House; Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham; Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery; Durham Art Gallery; Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
1992
Paintings and Drawings of London 1960-90, Barbican Gallery, London
Selected Paintings and Drawings 1963-83, The Charleston Gallery, Sussex
1991
French Cathedrals, Albermarle Gallery, London
1988-90
English Cathedrals, South Bank Touring exhibition
1989
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Painting and Drawing, Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham & RSC Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon
1981
The Wraxall Gallery, London
1980
Drawings, Serpentine Gallery, London
Paintings, Air Gallery, London
1979
University of Essex, Colchester
1977
Brighton Polytechnic Gallery
1974
Morley Gallery, London
1971
Gardner Centre for the Arts, University of Sussex
1967
Queen's Square Gallery, Leeds
1966
Leeds City Art Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004
War Fields Exhibition, The Imperial War Museum, The Wolsley Gallery, Ipswich
Bomberg and Pupils: The Borough Group, 1946-51, The Boundary Gallery, London
Tom Bendhem: Collector, Contemporary Art Society Travelling Exhibition, 2004-5
2001
Small is Beautiful; Flowers East, London
1999
Starting a Collection; Art First, London
1997
The Art of Drawing; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
1996-8
The Ice Gallery, New York
1996
Inside Bankside; South London Gallery
1995
The National Trust Centenary Exhibition, Christie’s, London
1993
The Sussex Scene; Artists in Sussex in the Twentieth Century, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne and Hove Museum
Portrait of the Artists Mother from Memory, Flowers East, London
1992-3
Prospects, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Innocence and Experience; Art Council Touring Exhibition
British Figurative Painting in the 20th Century; The British Council, Sotheby’s London and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1991-2
Hortus Cambrensis; Welsh Gardens; Touring Exhibition in Wales
1991
Marks of Tradition; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1989-90
New Icons, Warwick, Exeter; Lincoln
1988
Cathedral Drawings, The Bar Convent Museum, York
1987
Landscapes, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Looking into Paintings - Narrative; Arts Council Touring Exhibition
Past and Present - Contemporary Artists Drawing from the Masters; South Bank Centre, Touring Exhibition 1987-88
1986-87
English Flower Paintings; Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1985-87
Rocks and Flesh - British Drawings; Touring Exhibition
1985
Human Interest - 50 Years of British Art About People; Arts Council Exhibition
1984-6
Two Dimensions; SE Arts Council/Sweden Exchange Exhibition; Sweden
1983
British Artists at the Cypress Summer School, Woodlands Gallery, London
Drawings, Anne Berthoud Gallery, London
1982
Figurative Art Today (with Davidson and Epstein); 7 Dials Gallery, London
1981
Drawings, Moira Kelly Gallery, London
The Tolly Cobbold; Eastern Arts Exhibition
Artists for Nuclear Disarmament, Acme Gallery, London
1979-80
The British Art Show, Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1978
British Painting 1953-1978; The Royal Academy; London
1977
Life Drawing (with John Epstein) Brighton Polytechnic Gallery
1972
Brighton Festival, Brighton Poly Gallery
1971
Art Spectrum South; Arts Council Touring Exhibition
The Slade Centenary Exhibition 1871-1971; The Royal Academy
1967
Nudes, Grosvenor Gallery, London
1966
Survey 66; Figurative Painting; Camden Arts Centre, London
The Gregory Fellows with Neville Boden, AIA Gallery, London
1965
International Exhibition of Drawing, Toronto
1964
London Group Jubilee Exhibition 1914-64; The Tate Gallery
1961
Six Young Painters; Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1960
Seven Figurative Painters, AIA Gallery, London
1957-61
Young Contemporaries (awarded Arts Council Prize 1960)
1952
Four English Painters (with Holden, Mead and Richmond), Stockholm
Selected Collections
Accenture
Arts Council of Great Britain
Balliol College, Oxford
Brighton University
British Land
The Contemporary Art Society
The Contemporary Art Society for Wales
Clifford Chance, London
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
The Government Art Collection
East Sussex County Council
The Guildhall Museum, London
Hong Kong Land
Hong Kong Provisional Regional Council
The House of Commons
Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Keble College, Oxford
Imperial War Museum, London
Leeds City Art Gallery
Leicestershire Museums and Art Gallery
Liverpool University Art Gallery
Long Term Credit Bank of Japan, London
Los Angeles County Museum, USA
Magdalene College, Cambridge
The Mercer Gallery, Harrogate, Yorks
The Museum of London
The National Trust
Norwich City Art Gallery
Pallant House Collection, Chichester
Peterborough City Art Gallery
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
St. John’s College, Cambridge
South Eastern Arts
Sussex University
Swindon Art Gallery
Tate Gallery, London
Texaco Properties Ltd, London
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
University College, London
Warwick University
Whitworth Museum, Manchester
Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, USA
Worcester City Art Gallery
Selected Publications
Dodd, P. & Creffield, D., Midsummer Night's Dream: Drawings and Paintings by Dennis Creffield, Goldmark, 1989.
Cork, R., Dennis Creffield, Albemarle Gallerry, 1991.
Cork, R. & Creffield, D., French Cathedral Drawings by Dennis Creffield, Albemarle Gallery, 1991.
Creffield, D., English Cathedrals, South Bank Centre, 1987.
Creffield, D., Paintings of Petworth, Gillian Jason Gallery, 1995.
Creffield, D., Paintings and drawings of Orford Ness: in association with the National Trust's Foundation for Art, Connaught Brown Gallery, 1995.
Creffield, D., Paintins & Drawings of Orford Ness, Connaught Brown in association with the National Trust's Foundation for Art, 1995.
Creffield, D., Paintings of Petworth, Gillian Jason Gallery in association with the National Trust's Foundation for Art, 1994.
Jacobson, H. & Morris, L., Dennis Creffield: A Retrospective, Flowers East, 2005.
Martin, R., New Icons Christian Iconography in Contemporary Art, Craigie Aitchison, Stephen Cox, Dennis Creffield, Brian Falconbridge, Michael Finn,, Peter Fraser Etc..., Mead Gallery Warwick Arts Centre, 1989.
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