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Eric Rimmington Born 1926 Red Wall Oil on canvas 2006 26x 36cm |
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An exhibition and auction of works donated by British & international artists to raise funds for the Helen Bamber Foundation 5 - 7 May 2009 at Maddox Arts, 52 Brook's Mews, London W1K 4ED |
One of Eric
Rimmington's continuing series of paintings of the London Underground.
'Rimmington's quirky vision captures the contradictions of a world where the
Victorian era meets the 21st century; a place of light and dark, of straight
tracks and blind corners, of age-old grime and space-age surfaces, of
friendliness and not-meetings, that is, in Rimmington's paintings, for ever
England.'
Laura Gascoigne
CHRONOLOGY
1926 Born in Portsmouth
1942-1944 Southern College of Art, Portsmouth
1947-1949 Southern College of Art, Portsmouth
1949-1952 The Slade School, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1963 Lane Gallery,
Bradford
1964 Edinburgh University; Monks
Hall, Manchester; Four
Yorkshire Galleries (touring)
1969 Midland Institute, Birmingham
1977 University of Wisconsin, Stout, USA
1983 Mercury Gallery, London
1985 Mercury Gallery, London
1987 Mercury Gallery, London
1989 Mercury Gallery, London
1990 Swiss Cottage Library, London; Mercury
Gallery, London
1992 Mercury Gallery, London
1993 Vortex Gallery, London; Culture
Centre, Skopje; Ecosreda
Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
1994 Mercury Gallery, London
1995 Leigh Underhill Gallery, London
1996 Mercury Gallery, London
1998 Mercury Gallery, London
1999 Mercury Gallery, London
2000 Mercury Gallery, London
2001 Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
2003 Millinery Works Gallery, London, Drawing a Line North
2003 Scolar Fine Art, London
2004 Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
2005 Millinery Works Gallery, London, Painted Sea
2006 Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
2008 Millinery Works Gallery, London, Interiors; Bohun
Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, New Paintings
Selected group exhibitions
1950 RBA Galleries Young
Contemporaries
1960 Bradford City Art Gallery Four Yorkshire
Artists
1961 Liverpool John Moores
1962 Wakefield City Art Gallery Four Painters
1964 Skopje, Yugoslavia British Artists; Edinburgh
University Four Artists
1969 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1971 Frankfurt, Germany Midland Artists
1972 Wolverhampton Polytechnic Eric
Rimmington and Patrick Hughes
1974 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Wolverhampton
Polytechnic
1976 University of Wisconsin, Stout, USA
1983-1989 Angela Flowers, London Small is
Beautiful
1984 Royal Festival Hall, London Spirit of
London
1985 Arts Council of Great Britain (touring) Still
Life, New Life
1987 Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal (and touring) The
World's Waste
1992 Maureen Michaelson, London
1999 Bury St.Edmunds Art Gallery Intimate Interiors
1983-2000 Mercury Gallery, London (annual)
1992-2004 Flowers East, London Small Is
Beautiful (annual)
1999-2009 The Millinery Works Gallery, London Contemporary
British Art
(annual)
2001-2005 Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames Artists
of Fame and Promise
2001 Maureen Michaelson, London; Browse and
Darby, London; Albemarle
Gallery, London Still Life
2004 Scolar Fine Art, London Contemporary British Masters, Portsmouth
City Museum and Art Gallery, Owen Bicentenary Festival; Imperial
War Museum Open Secret
2006 Millais Gallery, Southampton A
Beautiful South, Mall
Galleries, London The Discerning Eye
2007 Geffrye Museum, London Home and Garden
Works in public collections
Bradford City Art Gallery, Gulbenkian Foundation, Hertfordshire County Council, Imperial War Museum, Leeds University, Museum of London, Scarborough Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, USA, Reading Museum and Art Gallery
Public murals
Beddow Hall, Portsmouth, 2000 Trafalgar Institute, Portsmouth
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Publications
Guy Brett, 'Eric Rimmington: Paintings 1989-91', catalogue essay, Mercury Gallery, January 1992
Laura Gascoigne, 'Eric Rimmington: New Work', catalogue essay, Mercury Gallery, 2000
Laura Gascoigne, 'Drawing a Line North: Painting and Drawings 1985-2000' catalogue essay, Millinery Works Gallery, 2003
Mary Michaels, 'Eric Rimmington: New Paintings', catalogue essay, Scolar Fine Art, 2003
Mary Michaels, 'Eric Rimmington: Painted Sea', catalogue essay, The Millinery Works Gallery, 2005
David Lee, 'Eric Rimmington:
Recent Paintings', catalogue essay, Bohun Gallery, 2006
Angela Weight, 'Eric Rimmington: Interiors', catalogue essay, The
Millinery Works Gallery, 2008
William Packer, 'Eric Rimmington, A World on a shelf', catalogue essay,
Bohun Gallery, 2008
Articles and selected reviews
John Russell, Sunday Times, 5 May 1957, Anthony Tucker, Guardian, 15 October 1962, W T Oliver, Yorkshire Post, 1 April 1963, Anthony Everitt, Birmingham Post, 28 January 1972, Anthony Everitt, 'Midland Art Now', Birmingham Post, January 1977, Terence Mullaly, Daily Telegraph, 5 July 1983, Guy Brett, City Limits, 15 July 1983, Brian Sewell, Evening Standard, 20 December 1984, Nigel Pollit, City Limits, 11 October 1985, William Packer, Financial Times, 17 October 1985, Lois Miles, Hampstead and Highgate Express, 26 October 1990, M G, Daily Telegraph, 19 January 1992, Laura Gascoigne, 'Eric Rimmington: living things, the object as subject', Artists and Illustrators, October 1998, Laura Gascoigne, 'The Tubist School', The Oldie, June 1999, Andrew Martin, 'Tube Talk', Evening Standard Magazine, July 1999, Laura Gascoigne, 'Close Encounters of the Underground Kind', Artists and Illustrators, July 1999, William Packer, 'Old-fashioned Modernism', Financial Times, 13 June 2000, Helen Smithson, 'Drawn to city life', Hampstead and Highgate Express, Art, May 9, 2003 Laura Gascoigne, 'Delighting in Flotsam', The Spectator, 1 November 2003, William Packer, Financial Times Magazine, Issue 29, 8 November 2003, 'Easel Words', The Jackdaw, No.43, November 2004, Laura Gasgoigne, The Spectator, 18 November 2006
Dissertation
Christopher Meek, 'Eric Rimmington in context', BA dissertation, University College, Scarborough, May 1998
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