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Rego was born on 26 January 1935 in Lisbon, Portugal. [4] [5] Her father was an electrical engineer who worked for the Marconi Company and was ardently anti-fascist.[6] [7] Her mother was a competent artist but, as a conventional Portuguese woman from the early 20th century, gave her daughter no encouragement towards a career, even though she began drawing at age 4. [8]
Yinka Ilori MBE (born April 1987) is a British artist and designer known for his bold use of bright colours and playful designs for furniture and public spaces. [1] [2] [3] His work includes architecture, interior design, graphic design, textiles, sculpture, and furniture. [4]
Established by Rod Taylor in 1984, the scheme placed an artist, with their own studio space, into every school in Wigan. From there they would work on their own art, exhibit and teach. [ 9 ] The studio space Murphy used from 1986 to 1987 at the Tyldesley County Primary (TCP) School subsequently became the ‘Murphy Room’ - a permanent gallery ...
From 1976 to 1979 Jones studied at the Camberwell School of Art and then at the Royal College of Arts from 1979 until 1982. [4] In 1982 she won the Prix de Rome prize which allowed her to study at the British School in Rome for two years. [ 3 ]
Christopher Marley (born 1969) is an artist, photographer, naturalist, and author who uses natural artifacts as his artistic medium.He is best known initially for his book Biophilia, and then for the traveling exhibit Exquisite Creatures that features his art.
Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin, but spent most of his childhood in Washington, D.C. [6] [1] For eight years, he attended a Roman Catholic primary school, which was operated by religious sisters, followed by the English Benedictine Priory School (now St. Anselm's Abbey School), where pupils were encouraged to look at religious imagery in illuminated glass panels and stained-glass ...
1898 (in a review of the West End Review) "Oscar Wilson's Balloon Man is a good example of the lighter side of art." [39] 1898 (in a review of St. Paul's) " . . . a clever drawing by Mr Oscar Wilson" [53] 1898 (in a review of The English Illustrated Magazine) ". . . the up to date artists, Oscar Wilson and Hal Hurst" [54]
Lisa Milroy (born 16 January 1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia) [1] is an Anglo-Canadian artist known for her still life paintings of everyday objects. In the 1980s, Milroy’s paintings featured ordinary objects depicted against an off-white background.