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EDUCATION
1963 - 1964 L'Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture
et d'Art Visuel, Brussels
1962 - 1963 Leeds University Institute of Education
1953/1956 - 1958/1960 Hornsey College of Art London
1951-1953 Willesden Technical College, London
HONOURS AND AWARDS
| 2004 British Council
Travel Grant, India |
| 1998 Associate Royal Society of British
Sculptures |
| 1996 Pollock - Krasner
Foundation Grant |
| 1996 Groundwork Hackney Gallery Sculpture
Commission London |
| 1994 - 1995 The
Elephant Trust |
| 1989 Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship |
| 1989 John Hansard
Gallery, Sculpture Commission, The University Southampton |
| 1988 Leverhulme Research Grant Greater
London Arts Award |
| 1984 Northwick Park
Hospital Harrow-on-the-Hill London |
| 1963 - 1964 British Council Awards,
Brussels |
COMMISSIONS
| 1998 Sculpture,
New Art Centre, Roche Court, England. |
| 1997 Installation, Smith Village
Gallery, London |
| 1996 Groundwork
Hackney, Sculpture Commission, London |
| 1989 John Hansard Gallery, Sculpture
Commission, The University Southampton |
| 1984 Northwick Park
Hospital, Harrow-on-the-Hill, London |
ACADEMIC POSTS (Full-time)
1986 - 1988 Head of Department Grade lV, Painting and Sculpture
St. Martin's School Of Art (London Institute) London
1980 - 1986 Head of Department Grade lV, Painting St. Martin's
School Of Art London
VISITING ARTIST
1998-2002 Visiting Artist School of Visual Arts, New York
1996-2000 The Painting School of Montmiral, France
1975-76 Syracuse University, New York
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 New Paintings,
Jawahar Kala Kendra Gallery, Jaipur
New
Paintings, Galleria Artenero, Turin
New
Paintings, British Council, New Delhi
Rajput
Paintings Rajputan Palace Sheraton Hotel, Jaipur |
| 2003 Fusion, Rajasthan School of
Art, Jaipur |
1996 New Sculptures,
The Economist London
Sculptures,
Reg Art, Caussade, France
Sculptures,
The Space, London. |
| 1995 Recent Paintings, The Art Room,
The Book Shed, London |
| 1994 Paintings and
Sculpture 1991-94 , Raw Gallery London |
1989 Sculptures John Hansard Gallerym,
The University Southampton
Flaxman
Gallery London
Galerie
Merce , La Pera Gerona Spain
Galerie
Merce Ettinghauseen, La Pera, Gerona, Spain
Painted
Sculptures Atelier WG Amsterdam, painted Sculptures, studio
show |
1984 Juda Rowan
Gallery London
Arcade
Gallery, Harrogate, Yorkshire |
1981 Eaton/Shoen Gallery San Francisco
Rowan Gallery,
London, Small Works |
| 1980 Osuna Gallery
Washington DC |
1976 University of Syracuse Lubin
House New York City
John Edwards Syracuse Works 1976. Sims Hall, Syracuse
University, New York
John
Edwards Paintings (‘74-’78):
Newcastle-upon-
Tyne Polytechnic
Art
Gallery and touring, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
Mapping
Gallery Sheffield
Morley
College, London
Rowan
Gallery, London |
| 1975 Rowan Gallery,
London |
1973 Rowan Gallery, London
Park Square
Gallery, Leeds |
| 1967 - 1981 (9 Shows)
Rowan Gallery London |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2005 Jaipur Festival, supported British Council, India
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| 2004 Artists in Britain 1962-1995.
Sothebys, London |
2003 Summer Show,
Royal Academy, London
War and Peace,
Flowers Central London |
2001 A Master Class; British Painting,
with Basil Beattie, John Hoyland, John Walker
Galerie Alain
LeGaillard, Paris
Stephen
Lacey Gallery, London
Sculpture
at Burghley Sculpture Garden
Christmas
Takeaway, RBS Gallery, London
Small is Beautiful
XIX, Flowers East, London. |
| 2000 Summer
Show Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1999 Galerie Stefan Szydlowski Warsaw
Sculpture at Roche
Court England
Summer Show Royal Academy Artfutures99 CAS, Royal Festival Hall,
London
The Contemporary
Print Fair, Atlantis Gallery, London |
1998 Sculpture at
Roche Court England
Summer
Show, Royal Academy, London.
The
Contempoary Print Fair, Barbicon London. |
| 1997 Ten Years On H.S.P. Winchester
England |
| 1996 London Group,
Concourse Gallery, Barbican, London |
| 1995 London Group, Concourse Gallery,
Barbican, London |
| 1994 Touch,
AIM, Milton Keynes
FutureWorld,
AIM, Milton Keynes
Painting &
Sculpture, British International Artists, Raw Gallery, London |
1993 Summer Show, Gallery K, London
Summer Exhibition,
Royal Academy, London |
| 1992 London
Group, Morley College, London
Inaugurations
1991, Glogów, Poland
Bucke Zjum
Osten im Haus Europa, Frankfurt Oder, Germany
Printworks,
Smiths Galleries, London
Royal Academy
Summer Show, London
Myth, Gallery
K, London
CNNA Collection,
John Jones Gallery, London
London Group,
Barbican, London
Florence Trust,
London (Guest Sculptor) |
| 1991 Glogów 90 XXIII,
Glogów, Poland
Royal Academy
Summer Show, London
Sites and
Monuments, Galelrie 3, Athens
Made in Poland,
Galerie of the President of Warsaw |
| 1990 Recent
Directions, London/Amsterdam
Galerie Jossine
Bokkshoven, Amsterdam
Royal Academy
Summer Show, London
The London
Group, Royal College of Art, London
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1989 Four Abstract Painters, Flaxman
Gallery, London
The
London Group, Royal College of Art, London
Royal
Academy Summer Show, London
Beelden,
Galerie Bokhoven Wennekes, Amsterdam
International
Architecturworkshopp, Atelier WG, Amsterdam
Accrochage,
Flaxman Gallery, London
From
Prism to Paintbox, Oriel Gallery, Warrington Copper Gallery,
Barnsley |
| 1988 English
Art Bokhoven Wenneker Doorn Holland
Beelden Galerie
Bokhoven Wennekes Amsterdam Holland
From Prism to Paintbox
Oriel Gallery Warrington Copper Gallery Barnsley
Maginot Line,
Riverside Studios, London
75 Group,
Royal College of Art, London
Homage to
the Square, Flaxman Gallery, London |
| 1986 Harrogate in Colour, Royal Baths,
Harrogate |
1985 Small Works,
Juda Rowan Gallery, London
Twenty-five
Years: Three Decades of Contemporary Art, Juda Rowan Gallery,
London
30
London Painters, Royal Academy, London |
| 1984-1986 New Works on Paper,
British Council Exhibition touring Poland, Australia and New
Zealand |
| 1984 Twenty-Five
Years: Three Decades of Contemporary Art Juda Rowan Galler London |
| 1983 Aspects of British Art Guggenheim
Museum New York
Pintura Britanica
Contempoanea Museo Municipal Madrid |
| 1982 British
Contemporary Art, British Council Exhibition touring Japan
Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum
Tochigi
Prefectural Museum
National
Museum of Modern Art, Osaka
Fukuoka
Art Museum
Hokkaido
Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
Royal
Academy, Summer Show
St Martin’s
Painters, St Martin’s School of Art, London
Wapping
Artists Open Studio 1982, New Crane & Metropolitan Wharf,
Selection
of Artists from Wapping Studios, Musée Municipal des
Beaux- Arts, Touring France
London
Group 82, Gardiner Centre Gallery, University of Sussex and
tour |
1981 Summer Exhibition, Guildford
House Gallery, Guildford
Eaton/Shoen
at the HC Price Grandmother House, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 1980 British
Art Now
Guggenheim
Museum, New York
University
of Austin, Texas
San Diego
Museum of Art, California
Telfair Academy,
Savannah, Georgia
Royal Academy
of Arts, London
Whitechapel
Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
The Newcastle
Connection, Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery |
| 1979-1980 The British Art Show
Arts Council Exhibition (organised by William Packer) Tourin
Sheffield, Newcastle & Bristol |
1979 Drawings,
Gainsborough House, Sudbury
Small
Works, Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery |
1978 Gallery Artists, Rowan Gallery,
London
Small
Works, Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery |
| 1977 British
Painting 1952 - 1977 Royal Academy London
Gallery Artists,
Rowan Gallery, London
Small Works,
Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery |
1976 Contemporary British Art, Galleries
of the Cleveland Institute of Art
7
Artists from the Rowan Gallery, Sunderland Arts Centre |
| 1975 CAS Art
Fair Mall Galleries London |
| 1974 Gallery Artists, Rowan Gallery,
London
John Moores
Exhibition 9, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Industrial
Sponsors, Grosvenor House Hotel, London (organised by Sue
Grayson)
Graphics Exhibition,
Rowan Gallery, London |
| 1973 Graphics Exhibition,
Rowan Gallery, London |
| 1972 John Moores Exhibition 8
Walker Art Gallery Liverpool
Contemporary
Prints, Ulster Museum, Belfast |
1969 Graphic Exhibition,
Rowan Gallery, London
Some
Recent Art in Britain, Leeds City Art Gallery
Contemporary
Paintings:
Sebastian
de Ferranti Collection
Whitworth
Art Gallery, Manchester
Universities
Festival, Lancaster |
| 1968 Britische Kunst Heute, Kunstverein,
Hamburg
Summer Exhibition,
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Summer Exhibition,
Rowan Gallery, London |
1964 MUBEF Brussels
SELECTED
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Arts Council of Great Britain British Council
Contemporary Art Society Council for National Academic Awards
European Parliament Collection Government Art Collection Gullbenkian
Foundation Leicestershire Education Authority Power Institute
of Contemporary Art, Sydney Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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Arts Council of Great Britain
Bradford Corporation Gallery
British Council
Contemporary Art Society, London
Council for National Academic Awards
Eastern Arts Association
European Parliament Collection
Government Art Collection
Gulllbankian Foundation
Leicestershire Education Authority
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Ministry of Works, Brussels
Power Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Salford University
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
Swedish Lloyd
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic
Unilever
Musee Glogów, Poland |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 1998 Associate Royal
Society British Sculptors |
| 1995-1997 Chair Sobell Neighbourhood
Forum |
| 1992 Member, Florence
Trust, London |
| 1990 Member, Art & Architecture |
| 1986-1990 Director
of Chisenhale Studios APT |
| 1983-1986 Special Advisor, CNAA |
| 1978 Chairperson,
Visual Arts Awards Scheme |
| 1977-1978 Chairperson, Greater London
Arts Association |
| 1972-1985 Management
Committee Acme Housing/Gallery |
| 1967-1986 Rowan Gallery Contract |
PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION
| 1995 State of the
Environment, Report for London |
| 1992 Catalogue Conversation Phillip
King, Yorkshire Sculpture Park |
| 1991 Glogów
XIV Plener Malarski, Poland |
| 1990 Colour Conference, Arnolfini
Gallery, Bristol |
| 1990 Painting Symposium
1990, Glogów, Poland |
| 1990 Henry Moore Sculpture Workshops,
Morley College, London |
| 1989 From Prism
to Paintbox, Oriel Gallery Theatre, Clwyd, Wales |
| 1983 Perceptions, Redruth, Cornwall |
COURSES
Health and Safety: Welding, Hackney College, London
Senior Management Course, Coombe College, London
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2004 Dainik Bhaskar.
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Today, 7 September 2004
Hindustani Times, 7 December 2004
Times of India, 10 December 2004
Rajasthan Patrika, 7 December 2004
Dainak Bhaskar, 7 December |
2003 Today in Jaipur, Hindustani
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Bhasker Daily 21 September 2003
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2001 Parcours inedit
dans la peinture d'apres-guerre. La Monde 26 Fevrier
Visual Arts, William Packer, Financial Times, 13 March 2001 |
| 1997 John Edwards Hitchcocks Reel,
Art & Architecture, no. 46. |
1996 John Edwards
at The Economist,What’s On, March 27, Andrew Lambirth
Hackney Today, April 24, Front Cover, Painting in the Third
Dimension, Mark Croxford, Hackney Gazette, April 4
John Edwards Sculptures, Winston Churchill Newsletter, August
1996
John Edwards Expose, Reflex Magazine, July 1996.
Public Sculpture Opened, Hackney Gazette, Octob1996. |
| 1995 The Guardian, August 8, Money
Guardian |
| 1993 Evening Standard,
December 3, The London Group, Brian Sewell |
1992 Ham & High, July 24, A Classical
Alphabet Soup
The Greek Review, June 30, A Greek Inspired Exhibition
Ta Nea, July 9, Myth at Gallery K
The Greek Gazette, Art at K Gallery
Times Higher Education Supplement, September, The CNAA Collection |
1991 Polish Word
Glogów: Mekka of Painters, , February 16
Glogowska, Man Preserves the Environment February 18
The Soldier of the Country, Openness of the Army, Februa Konkrety,
Glowgów’s Thirteenth Palner February
The Athenian, June, Cretan Sculptures, Painted Hands, Einai,
June, Hypothetical Existence, First Research, May 15
Kathimerini, A Wealth of Imagination, May 14 |
1990 The Marxist Monthly, State of
Art 1990, Corinna Lotz and Andy Co
Prism to Paintbox, Arts Review March, Ellen Williams
Art & Architecture No. 25, Autumn 1990 |
| 1989 Flaxman
Gallery and John Hansard Gallery Catalogue,
John Edwards; Painted Sculptures, Andrew Lambi
Time Out, April 5-12, John Edwards, Robert MacDonald
Arts Review, April 7, John Edwards, Mary Rose Beaumont
Gondsche Courant Schoonhovennse, ,July 28, Kunst
geeft karakter aan anoniem gebouw
Gondsche Courant, August 3, Kunst geeft karakter aan anoniem
gebouw
NRC, August 16, Voorker Galleries, John Edwards
Diari de Girona, August 23,
Southern Evening Echo, September 13, Sculpture sparks copy
cat claims
Galleries, June, John Edwards, Andrew Lambirth |
| 1988 The Guardian, December 1988,
A World Fit for Squares, Tim Hilton |
| 1986 Harrow &
Wembley Observer, April 25, Grander Art for Hospital, Veronica
Hallam |
| 1985 The Listener, July 11, The Art
of Healing, Richard Cork |
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1984 Evening Standard, January 19, Where Have All the Artist
Gone?, Angus McGill
Financial Times, February 7, Here We Go Round the Mulberry
Bush, William Packer
Oracle Teletext, ITV, February y3-25, The Main Event Diary,
Alison Lamont
Apollo, February y3-25, A Rag-Bag of Styles, James Burr
Galleries, February, Illustration
Burlington Magazine, April, Richard Stone
Arcade Gallery, Harrogate, May, Catalogue for Exhibition,
John Edwards,
Mary Rose Beaumont
The Yorkshire Post, July 19, Recent Paining by John Edwards,
W T Oliver |
1981 Financial Times, March 7,
Drawings from outer space William Packer.
Arts Review, March 13, John Edwards, Philip Ward-Green
Nob Hill Gazette (San Francisco), September, John Edwards
at Eaton/Schoen Mary Stofflet
San Francisco Bay Guardian, ,September 16, Business as usual,
Robert Atkins
El Pais (Madrid), April 7, Una muestra antologica de pinturaa
britannicaa contemporanea, exhibida por primera vez in Madrid
The Guardian, June 1, The Nation’s Arts and Crafts,
Dale Harris
Artscribe, 44, December, John Edwards: New Moves, Helena Drysdale
Artforum, April, Reviews, Stuart Morgan
Los Angeles Times, April 7, Trio of Britons join Sidney Janis
on San Diego’s scene, Elise Miller
Los Angeles Times, April 13, What’s going on in British
Art? - Not Much, William Wilson
Van guard, (USA), Summer, A British Pastorale, Donald B Kuspit
The Times, October 26, Missed opportunity, William Feaver
Apollo, November, A Faded Union Jack, James Burr
Federation of British Artists Magazine, Winter, Notes on crisis,
critics and eccentrics; Abstract and figurative art, Simon
Vaughan-Winter |
1980 Washington
Star, January 6, Commercial galleries breathe life into s dull
museum season, Benjamin Forgey.
The Daily Telegraph, January 18, Log pile shows there is still
life in Britain, Ian Ball
New York Times, January 25, British News at the Guggenheim,
Hilton Kramer
Flash Art, Arch/April, Modern Painting and Modern Criticism
in England, Art Monthly, 344, British Art Now in New York, Duncan
Macmillam
La Jolla Lights, March 28, An introduction to some exciting
British artists, Isabella Wasserman |
1979 The Observer, April 22, Young
Professionals, William Feaver Arts Review, April 27, John Edwards,
Bruce Kileen
Cambridge Evening News, April 17, Art like dancing brickies,
Frank Whitford
Evening News, May 4, Edwards bursts out of the shadows, S Vaughan-Winter
Art Monthly, May 26, Tolly Cobbold/John Edwards, Allan Davies
The Spectator, May 19, John McQueen
Evening Standard, June 18, How to solve an art riddle, Ewan
Maclachan
Artscribe, July 18, John Edwards, Adrian Searle
The Observer, July 1, Garretts in Wapping, Anthony Ellis
London Index, 4, Wapping Warehouses for Artistic Artisans, Alistair
Scott- Wilson |
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1978 Architectural Review, April CLXIII(974) Marginalia -
Sculpture Garden, T Rendle |
1977 Artscribe, April, John Edwards’
Paintings, Terence Maloon
The Spectator, May 14, Star Struck, John McEwen
Art and Australia, Summer, December, Power Acquisitions |
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1976 The Journal (Newcastle-upon-Tyne),
January 31,
Gallery Exhibits London Works, John Kelsey
Arts Review, April 2, Drawings, Marina Vaizey
Art International, XX(10), December, Some recent exhibitions
visited by the Editor in London, Paris, Rome, Zurich ... and
elsewhere, James Fizsimmons |
1975 The Guardian, June 30, John
Edwards, Judy Marle
Syracuse Herald-Journal, July 28, Colorful Prof Visits SU, Rosemary
Brady
Studio International, September/October, UK Review, ,James Faure
Walker
Art International, September, London , Fenella Crichton |
| 1974 One, November,
Interview by Barry Martin |
| 1973 Arts Review, February 10,
Drawings by Gallery Artists, Pat Gilmour
Yorkshire Post, April 9, Enchanting the Eye, W T Oliver
Arts Review, April 21, John Jones
Arts Review, September 9, James Heard
The Observer, September 16, Painter in a tall straitjacket,
Tim Hilton Studio International, October, R J Rees
Art & Artists, ,November, Eddie Wolfram
Art International, November, Fenella Chrichton
Studio International, December, Correspondence, letter from
Barry Martin |
1972 Arts Review,
September 9, Peter Dyke
Art & Artists, September, London, Eddie Wolfram
Financial Times, September 233, Sugar Me Sweet, Marina Vaizey
Evening Standard, September 21, Last stop for the avant-garde,
Richard Cork
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Contemporary Prints Catalogue |
1971 The Sunday Times, June 13,
Best China, Edward Lucie-Smith
Art & Artists, June, William Packer
Harpers & Queen, June 13, From Durer to Moore
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1970 The Times,
October 4, Easy on the Eye, Guy Brett
Queen, October 23, Mainly Plains, Keith Sutton
Arts Review, March 18, Pierre Rouve |
1968 Arts Review, September 14,
Dennis Bowen
Appollo, September
The Observer, September 22
What’s On in London, October 4, Around the New Shows,
Max
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1967 The Sunday
Telegraph, February 12, Movies into ‘Stills’, Edwin
Mullins
Arts Review, February 18, Conroy Maddox
The Sunday Times, February 19, Spectacular Re-hang, John Russell
The Observer, February 1999, Nigel Gosling
The Times, February 22, Jack Bush and John Edwards Exhibitions,
Norbert Linton Studio International, March |
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| 1999 Who's Who In
Art, The Art Trade Press Ltd |
1991/99 People of Today, Debretts
Publications, London
Dictionary of International Biography, Twenty-Second Edition
International Biography, Cambridge
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| 1983 Masters of
Acrylic Painting, Nicholas Roukes, Watson-Guptill, New York |
| 1979 Contemporary British Artists,
Photographs by Walia, Bergstrom and Boyle, London |
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