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7 September - 9 October 2004Main Gallery:Frank Bowling Survey ShowBorn in Guyana in 1936, Frank Bowling is widely considered one of the most distinguished black artists to emerge from the post-war British art schools. He belongs to the famous class of 1962 at the Royal College of Art, which included David Hockney, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips, the generation who laid the foundation of Pop Art in Britain. At graduation, Hockney won the gold medal while Bowling won the silver. A transfer of residence to New York a few years later exposed Bowling to his American contemporaries and won him a place in the 1971 Whitney Biennial. Since that time Bowling has been awarded not one but two Guggenheim Fellowships.
Frank Bowling is currently in “Art and the 60’s – this was tomorrow” at Tate Britain. In October he will also be having a major retrospective at Phillips Art Museum, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA entitled “Frank Bowling Four Decades in Colour”. Also during October he has a solo show of recent work at the Heidi Cho Gallery, W23rd and 10th, New York and in Philadelphia at the Sande Webster Gallery.
This will be the first major survey of this increasingly respected and recognised artist.
Lower Gallery: Mark Foulds New WorkMark Foulds was born in 1963. He studied at Jacob Kramer College Leeds and Maidstone College of Art 1981-82, Nottingham Trent University 1982-85 and Chelsea School of Art 1987-88. His first exhibitions were at Dean Clough, Halifax, in 1986 and '87. Between 1990 and 1993 he lived in Paris and Germany, since when he has worked and exhibited in London.
"I seem to have a fixation with the colour of paint, preferring gloss at the moment – its splash, elasticity and pourability. On a smooth surface, placed horizontally, I put down colours and take them out – countless times."
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