Derrick Greaves, b.1927

Biography

1927        
Born in Sheffield

1943-48        
Apprenticed as a sign-writer

1948-52        
Studied at the Royal College of Art

1952-54        
Abbey Major Scholarships to study in Italy

1954-64        
Taught part-time at St Martin’s School of Art, London.

1957        
Visited USSR.

1957        
Awarded prize at John Moore’s Exhibition, Liverpool.

1960s        
Taught part-time at Maidstone College of Art and Royal Academy Schools.

1962
Awarded purchase prize in Belfast Open Painting Exhibition.

1979        
Visited Israel with nine other British artists to produce work for ‘Israel Observed’ project.

1983-91        
Head of Printmaking at Norwich School of Art.


Selected Solo Exhibitions

1953        
Beaux Arts Gallery, London

1955        
Beaux Arts Gallery, London.

1958        
Zwemmer Gallery, London.

1960
Zwemmer Gallery, London.

1962        
Zwemmer Gallery, London.

1963
Zwemmer Gallery, London.

1969
Institute of Contemporary Art, London.

1970        
Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford.

1970
Galleria La Citta, Verona, Italy.

1970
Galleria La Citta, Padua, Italy.

1971
Institute of Contemporary Art, London.

1972
Arts Council Gallery, Belfast.

1972
David Hendricks Gallery, Dublin.

1973
Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford.

1973        
Whitechapel Gallery, London.

1973        
Monika Kinley, London.

1974
Monika Kinley, London.

1975
Monika Kinley, London.

1975
City Gallery, Milton Keynes.

1976
Monika Kinley, London.

1976
City Gallery, Milton Keynes.

1977
Monika Kinley, London.

1977
City Gallery, Milton Keynes.

1978
Monika Kinley, London.

1978
City Gallery, Milton Keynes.

1978
Cranfield Institute of Technology.

1980        
‘Derrick Greaves: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings 1953-1980’, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.

1980        
‘Derrick Greaves: Retrospective Exhibition of Prints 1969-1980’, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery.

1980        
Fischer Fine Art, London.

1986        
‘Derrick Greaves, Forty from Ten’, Loughborough and tour.

1992        
King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich.

1996        
Gallerie Daniel Wahrenberger, Zurich, Switzerland.

1997        
Hart Gallery, Islington.

1997        
King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich.

1999        
‘Drawing for Paintings’, School House Gallery, Wighton.

2000        
‘Collage Drawings’, Chappel Gallery, Chappel.

2002        
‘Six Decades of Painting’, Wingfield Arts Centre, Wingfield, Suffolk.

2003
'Derrick Greaves Paintings and Drawings 1952-2002', James Hyman Fine Art, London.

Group Exhibitions

1956        
Contemporary Arts Society, London.

1956        
Venice Biennale.

1957        
‘Looking at People’ exhibition in Pushkin Museum, Moscow.

1957        
John Moore’s Exhibition, Liverpool.

1959        
John Moore’s Exhibition, Liverpool.

1960        
Guggenheim Selection, Pittsburgh / London.

1961        
John Moore’s Exhibition, Liverpool.

1963        
John Moore’s Exhibition, Liverpool.

1963        
‘British Painting in the 60s’ Whitechapel Gallery, London.

1964        
Carnegie International Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1969        
John Moore’s Exhibition, Liverpool.

1974        
‘British Painting ‘74’ at Haymarket Gallery, London.

1977        
‘British Painting 1952-77’, Royal Academy, London.

1978         
‘Exposicion International de la Plastica’, Chile.

1980        
‘The British Art Show’, recent paintings and sculpture by 112 artists selected by William Packer, toured Sheffield, Newcastle and Bristol.

1981        
‘Israel Observed’, Mall Galleries, London.

1981        
‘Books and Folios’, Arts Council Touring Exhibition.

1984        
‘The Forgotten Fifties’ travelling exhibition.

1984        
‘British Artists’ Books 1970-1983’, Atlantis Gallery.

1986        
‘Generations Apart’, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield.

1987        
150th Anniversary Exhibition of Printmaking from the Royal College of Art.

1987        
‘Within these Shores - A Selection of Works from the Chantrey Bequest 1883 - 1985’, Tate Gallery, London.

1988        
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London

1989        
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London.

1989        
‘Portrait of the Artist’, The Tate Gallery.

1990        
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London.

1991        
‘The Kitchen Sink Painters’, Mayor Gallery, London.

1991        
‘Norfolk Portfolio’, Castle Museum, Norwich.

1991        
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London.

1991        
‘The Discerning Eye’, Mall Galleries, London.

1992        
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London.

1993        
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London.
1993        
‘New Norfolk Drawings’, King’s Lynn Arts Centre.

1993        
‘Open Exhibition’, King’s Lynn Arts Centre.

1993        
‘Christmas Exhibition’, King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich.

1994        
‘Kitchen Sink and Other Drawings of the Fifties’, Mayor Gallery, London.

1996        
‘Private Views’, Contact Gallery, Norwich.

1996        
‘Flowers in May’, King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich.


Selected Bibliography

‘British Painting 1952 - 1977’, Royal Academy, Catalogue, 1977.

‘The British Art Show, Recent Paintings and Sculpture by 112 Artists Selected by William Packer’, toured Sheffield, Newcastle and Bristol, Catalogue, 1980.

‘Derrick Greaves, Paintings 1953 - 80’, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, Catalogue, 1980.

‘Israel Observed’, An Exhibition by 10 British Artists’, Catalogue, 1981.

‘Books and Folios’, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Catalogue, 1981.

‘British Artists’ Books 1970-83’, Atlantis Gallery, Catalogue, 1984.

‘The Forgotten Fifties’, Catalogue, 1984.

‘Derrick Greaves - Forty from Ten’, Loughborough and tour, Catalogue with text by Peter Wheeler, 1986.

‘150th Anniversary Exhibition of Printmaking from the Royal College’, Catalogue, 1987.
‘Exhibition Road - Painters at the Royal College of Art’, Phaidon-Christie’s Ltd, 1988.

‘Portrait of the Artist’, Tate Gallery Publications, 1989.

‘Within these Shores - A Selection of Works from the Chantrey Bequest 1883 - 1985’, The Tate Gallery Publications, Catalogue, 1989.

‘The Kitchen Sink Painters’, Mayor Gallery, London, Catalogue, 1993.

‘New Norfolk Drawings’, King’s Lynn Arts Centre, Catalogue with text by Elspeth Barker, 1993.

‘The Kitchen Sink School’, Arts Review, 1994.

‘Except the Kitchen Sink’, Derrick Greaves, Arts Review, June 1994.

‘Kitchen Sink and other drawings of the Fifties’, Mayor Gallery, London, Catalogue with text by Gail-Nina Anderson, 1994.

‘The Artist’s Eye’, Arts Review, 1997.

‘Artist’s Profiles - Derrick Greaves’, Print Making Today, 1997.

‘The Battle for Realism’, James Hyman, Yale University Press, 2001


Artists Books and Folios

‘The Sower as Self-Portrait, Homage to Van Gogh’, A portfolio of screenprints and etchings, published by the Artist, 1986.

‘Also’, Seven screenprints with text by Roy Fisher, published by Tetrad Press, London 1972.

‘The Songs of Bilitis’, Suite of 25 screenprints, published by the Artist, 1977.

‘Sanskrit Love Poems’, Nine screenprints with text, published by Tetrad Press, 1987.


Works in Public Collections

Arts Council of Great Britain
Bank of Ireland, Dublin
British Council
British Museum
Castle Museum, Norwich
Chantrey Bequest
City of Milton Keynes Collection
Contemporary Arts Society
Cranfield College of Technology
Department of the Environment
Government Art Collection
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
IBM, New York
Johannesburg Public Gallery
Leeds Art Gallery
Leicestershire County Collection
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
New York Public Library
Norfolk Contemporary Arts Association
North Wales Association of Arts
Northwestern University, Chicago
Pembroke College, Oxford
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Public Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
Reading Art Gallery
Southampton Art Gallery
Tate Gallery, London
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Wesleyan University, Chicago