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William Crozier HRHA
Please find below some samples of William Crozier HRHA's work. A brief description about the artist can be found to the right. Click on an image below for details.
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About the artist:
William Crozier was born in Glasgow in 1930. He grew up in the seaside town of Troon, Ayrshire and studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1949 to 1953 and in Paris before moving to Dublin to work as a set painter for the Olympia Theatre and the Theatre Royal. He moved to London where he established his reputation at the forefront of his contemporaries through solo exhibitions at the ICA, Drian, Tooth, Serpentine, Scottish and Bruton Galleries. From the mid-1950s onwards, Crozier spent long periods living in Dublin and Paris, followed by a period in southern Spain which was to prove central to his development as an artist. He has represented the UK and Ireland overseas, and has been awarded the Premio Lissone. In 1991 the Crawford Art Gallery Cork and the Royal Hibernian Academy curated a large retrospective of his work. He was elected to Aosdana in 1992 and is an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. Crozier taught at Bath School of Art before being elected Professor Emeritus at Winchester School of Art in 1987. He currently resides in Hampshire, West Cork where he maintains a studio.
Several films have been made about Crozier and his work, work, such as ‘The Truth about a painter’ directed by Cian O hEigertaigh for RTE in 1993 and ‘The Frame: Jane Bown photographs William Crozier’ for Meridian UK in 2000. Crozier’s work features in all major reference works on Irish and Scottish Art. Crozier’s work can be seen in the major public and private collections in these islands, as well as in the national galleries of Canada, Poland and Australia and major corporate collections such as the Allied Irish Banks and BNP Paribas.
His work is represented in numerous collections worldwide, including Copenhagen Museum of Modern Art, Dallas Museum of Modern Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Gdansk National Museum, Poland, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Canada, Warsaw National Museum and the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1951 Carnegie Library, Ayr, Scotland
1957 The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1957 - 1970 The Drian Gallery, London
1958 Galerie Blu, Milan
1959 – 1964 Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
1960 Galerie Madeleine, Paris
1968, 1983 Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
1975 Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1978 Serpentine Gallery, London
1986 Galeria del Ayuntamiento, La Coruña
Museo Conde Duque, Madrid
1989 Scottish Gallery, London
1990 National Gallery, Gdansk, Poland
1991 RHA Gallagher Galleries Dublin
1995 - 1996 Bruton Gallery, London
1997 Galerie St Jacques, Brussels
1998 Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2002 Fenton Gallery, Cork
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2004 Taylor Gallery, Dublin
SELECT CURATED GROUP EXHIBTIONS
1961, 1963,
1964, 1982 John Moores, Liverpool
1963 British painting in the 60s Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1969 English Landscape in the 20th Century Camden Arts centre, London
1974 British Figurative Art Today Copenhagen
Hertzlandschaften International Galerie Stein, Cologne
1978 Painters in Parallel Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh
Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw
1981 Fragments Against Ruin Arts Council of Great Britiain
1983 British Art: New Directions Puck Building, New York
1985 Another View of Ireland Seven Dials Gallery, London
Cork Art Now Crawford Gallery, Cork
1990 Contemporary Artists from Ireland Austin Desmond Gallery, London
1995 Irish Masters Washington, Philadelphia and New York
2002 An Leabhar Mor: The Great Book of Gaelic Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, and tour
AWARDS
1960 Remio Lissone, Milan
1979 Visiting Fellowship, New York Studio School, New York
1987 Professor Emeritus, Winchester School of Art, UK
1992 Elected member, Aosdana
1994 Gold medal for Painting, The Oireachtas, Dublin
2000 Elected Honorary member, Royal Hibernian Academy
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