Artist in Profile (Oct ’14): Bill Viola
Bill Viola has received numerous awards and honorary degrees such is the impact of his work. Through the realm of multimedia his work is available to all.
Artist in Profile (Sep ’14): Augustus John
Augustus Edwin John was an important Welsh painter, etcher and draughtsman renowned for his Post Impressionistic works.
Artist in Profile (Aug ’14): Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker is a sculptor and installation artist based in London. Her work is highly regarded internationally for its dark, humorous, complex, ironic style.
Artist in Profile (June ’14): Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago always chooses to create thought provoking art often stirring up controversy with some of her images.
Artist in Profile (May ’14): Paula Rego
Born in Portugal in 1935, Paula Rego first started painting as a young child in Lisbon. Rego was part of “The London Group” with contemporaries Frank Auerbach and David Hockney.
Artist in Profile (April ’14): Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman to earn her living from art, the first to produce large scale religious and historical paintings, the first to adopt Caravaggism, and the first to be accepted into the Accademia dell’ Arte del Disegno in Florence.
Artist in Profile (March ’14): Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin was born in a poor part of Paris in the Rue de l’Arbalete in 1840 and is revered as one of the most significant sculptors of the times.
Artist in Profile (Feb ’14): Andy Warhol
Warhol is responsible for breaking through from the art gallery to the art of the everyday objects like his “non-art” Campbell’s soup cans and depictions of Marilyn Monroe.
Artist in Profile (Jan ’14): Rafael Bueno Moron
Rafael Bueno Moron is a self taught artist from Cadiz in Andalucia, Spain whose artwork focuses on the economic crisis and the poor state of world.
Artist in Profile (Dec ’13): J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner was a multi-faceted artist renowned for his English romantic landscape paintings, water colours and prints.
Artist in Profile (Nov ’13): Gonkar Gyatso
Gonkar Gyatso is a Tibetan artist resident in the United Kingdom. Born in Lhasa he moved to London having been awarded a scholarship to the Chelsea School of Art and Design.
Artist in Profile (Oct ’13): Caravaggio
In common with many of his compatriots, Caravaggio born as Michelangelo Merisi was only recognised as a founding father of modern painting after his death.