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Graham Ovenden ~ Exhibitions

 

Principal Exhibitions

1969

Gallery 200, Amsterdam

1970

The Piccadilly Gallery, London
10 February 1970 - 7 March 1970
13 drawings and 17 oil paintings including 4 portraits of Alice

1972

Piccadilly Gallery, London
28 March 1972 - 22 April 1972
11 paintings, 8 drawings and 7 prints

1973

G. S. Ovenden Prints, Waddington Galleries, London

1974

The Piccadilly Gallery, London
19 February 1974 - 16 March 1974
8 paintings and 12 drawings

1975

Lolita Drawings and Prints 1972-5, Waddington Galleries, London

1977

Ovenden Drawings and Prints, Asard and Asard Gallery, Stockholm

1978

The Piccadilly Gallery, London
17 October 1978 to 11 November 1978

1981

Gallery XX, Hamburg

1981

The Piccadilly Gallery, London
10 March 1981 - 4 April 1981

1981

The Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg

1984

[Photographs] The Plymouth Arts Centre

1984

The Piccadilly Gallery, London
20 March 1984 - 14 April 1984
14 oil paintings

1984

[Photographs] The Olympus Gallery, London

1987

Recent Paintings and Drawings, The Piccadilly Gallery, London
1 July 1987 - 31 July 1987
19 oil paintings; 6 drawings; 4 acrostic portraits (mixed media, with rhymes by Ovenden and black and white decorations by Brian Partridge); 3 cliche papiers

1988

Parco Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

1990

The Piccadilly Gallery, London
to 27 July 1990
Reviewed by Helen de Borchgrave in Arts Review, 13 July 1990, pages 394-5, including colour reproduction of Shropshire Valley (Oil).

1992

Street Memories, Portfolio Gallery, London
16 April 1992 - 16 May 1992 (Private View: 15 April 1992)
44 photographs of London East End scenes

1992

Recent Paintings and Drawings, The Piccadilly Gallery, London
1 July 1992 - 31 July 1992
17 oil paintings, 6 drawings

1993

East End Photographs, Akehurst Gallery, London

1995

The Piccadilly Gallery, London
18 May 1995 - 23 June 1995
15 oil paintings

Representations in Mixed Exhibitions (excluding Ruralist Exhibitions)

1970

Alice, Waddington Galleries II and III
1 Deceber 1970 to 23 December 1970
Paintings, drawing and screen prints by Graham Ovenden and Peter Blake on the theme of Lewis Carroll's Alice.  Exhibition also included works by several other artists.

1971

Critic's Choice (Robert Melville), Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
2 March 1971 - 26 March 1971

1981

Photographs 1957-1981, Plymouth Arts Centre (touring exhibition)
[with David Inshaw and Martin Axon]

1987

Charles Causley: A Tribute from the Artists, New Library, Exeter University
27 October 1987 to 18 December 1987
Featured Destroyed Old Red Sandstone Woodlands, near Exeter, 1987, Oil on panel, 12" x 18½".

1989

Other Worlds, Bearnes Rainbow, Torquay

1989

Images of Paradise, Christies at Harewood House

1990

Summer Exhibition, Bruton Gallery

1992

Painters and Poets, Sterts Centre, Liskeard, Cornwall

1992

Cabinet of Dark Secrets, Portfolio Gallery
24 June 1992 - 18 July 1992 (Private View: 23 June 1992)
6 photographs

1993

Over the Rainbow, Bearnes Rainbow, Torquay

1994

Back to the Drawing Board (The Nude), White Lane Gallery, Plymouth
3 October 1994 to 8 November 1994
Also featured work by Graham Arnold and David Inshaw

1998

Surrealist Realist Ruralist, Byram Gallery, Somerset College of Arts and Technology, Taunton
7 November to 20 November 1998
Private View: 8 November 1998

2000

Open Exhibition, South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, Exeter
15 July 2000 - 31 August 2000

2000

Stuckist Exhibition - The Real Turner Prize, The Pure Gallery, London
24 October 2000 - 28 November 2000

2000

Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
24 November 2000 - 3 December 2000

2001

Pre-Raphaelite, Symbolist, Visionary, The International Fine Art Fair
7th Regiment Armoury, New York
11-16 May 2001
1 painting: Ophelia

2001

May Magic, Barley Splatt Gallery, Cornwall
26 May 2001 - 8 June 2001

2001

Summer Exhibition 2001, Royal Academy, London
5 June 2001 - 13 August 2001

2001

Pre-Raphaelite, Symbolist, Visionary, Leicester Galleries, 5 Ryder Street
London
12 June to 17 July
1 painting: Ophelia

2001

Open Exhibition, South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, Exeter
16 July 2001 - 1 September 2001

Contributions to Fund-Raising Exhibitions and Sales

1988

Mother and Child
Lefevre Gallery, London
Exhibition in aid of Birthright

1990

Twin Images, The Fine Arts Society, June 1990, for the Multiple Birth Foundation
Item 47: 'I don't think they play at all fairly', said Alice, Pencil on paper, 9½" x 7", 1976
Reproduced in the catalogue, page 53.

1997

Modern British Painting, Royal Clarence Hotel, Exeter, for Exeter & Devon Arts Centre's Building Development Scheme
Lot 40: Landscape, Oil on board, 47cm x 61cm, 1996
Reproduced in the catalogue

Curatorships and Collaborations

1991

Great Recording Angels, Museum of Modern Art, Wales
Works of art by Graham Arnold with gramophone records, photographs and related material, curated by Graham Ovenden

1992

Great Recording Angels, Sterts Centre, Liskeard, Cornwall
Works of art by Graham Arnold with gramophone records, photographs and related material, curated by Graham Ovenden
Included work by Graham Arnold

1993

Recording Angels, The Work of Lewis Wickes Hine, Touring Exhibition
Photographic Exhibition in collaboration with Philip Stokes
24 July 1993 - 21 August 1993: University of Nottingham
17 September 1993 - 7 October 1993: Stansell Gallery, Taunton
11 October 1993 - 30 October 1993: The Tabernacle, Machynlleth
3 December 1993 - 20 January 1994: University of Exeter
27 January 1994 - 5 March 1994: Akehurst Gallery, London

 

Updated: 1 July 2005

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