David Carr

David Carr - full biographical information

Education

1955-62 Sir William Turner's Grammar School, Coatham, Yorkshire

1962-66 Slade School of Fine Art , University College , London

1965 President - Young Contemporaries Exhibition

Awards and Prizes

1963 Walter Neurath Award - Commended

1964 Nettleship Prize for Figure Painting - 3rd Prize

1964 Figure Drawing - Commended

1964 The Slade School of Fine Art Prize (Painting)

1964 Steer Prize for Landscape - 1st Prize

1965 Figure Drawing - Commended

1965 1st Prize for Landscape Drawing

1965 1st Prize for Summer Composition

1966 1st Prize for Landscape Drawing

1966 Slade Diploma in Fine Art (Highly Commended in

Painting and Print]

1966 David Murray Landscape Scholarship awarded by the

Royal Academy

1966 Boise Travelling Scholarship awarded by

University College, London

1975 Cleveland Drawing Biennale (Prizewinner)

1986 South Bank Picture Show, South Bank, London SE1

(Prizewinner)

 

Solo Exhibitions

Oct 1972 Stanhope Institute Gallery, London NW1

Mar 1973 Camden Arts Centre, London NW3

May 1974 Birmingham University , Senior Common Room

Nov 1974 Amwell Gallery, London (joint with Sargy Mann)

Nov 1979 Holborn Library, London WC1

Mar 1982 Crescent Art Gallery Workshop, Scarborough, Yorkshire

Mar 1983 Tricycle Theatre Gallery, London NW6

Nov 1984 Tricycle Theatre Gallery, London NW6

Mar 1986 Tricycle Theatre Gallery, London NW6

Feb 1987 Camden Arts Centre, London NW3 (Landscapes of Israel )

Sept 1989 Cadogan Contemporary, London SW3

Oct 1991 Morley Gallery, London SE1

Apr 1993 Barbican Centre, London EC2

Mar 1994 Burgh House, Hampstead, London NW3

Dec 1994 Adam Butler Fine Art, London W1

Sept 1995 Archbishop's Mansion, San Francisco

(curated by Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco )

Mar 1996 Adam Butler Fine Art, London W1

Apr 1997 Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco

Oct 1997 The Walk Gallery, London SE1

Aug 1998 Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco

Mar 2000 Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco

May 2000 Retrospective and commissioned work, Wesley's

Chapel, London

Nov 2000 Adam Butler Fine Art, London W1

May 2001 "The Church in the City" at St. Dominics

Church San Francisco

in association with Thomas Reynolds Gallery

Nov 2001 The Walk Gallery, London SE1

Apr 2003 Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco

Apr 2004 Major Commission - Ford Motor Company

 

Group Exhibitions

1963 St. Pancras Festival, London

Mar 1964 London Group, FBA Galleries, 6 Suffolk St. London WC1

Mar 1965 London Group, FBA Galleries, 6 Suffolk St. London WC1

June 1967 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London W1

June 1968 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London W1

Oct 1968 Four Young Artists - South London Art Gallery

Nov 1968 London Group (3 works) RWS Galleries, Piccadilly WC1

June 1969 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

1972 Slade School Centenary Exhibition, RA Diploma Galleries

1972 St. Ives

1972 Lichfield

Oct 1973 'Etching 1973', Guildhall Picture Gallery, Winchester Hants

Dec 1973 London Group (2 works), Whitechapel Art Gallery

1975 Cleveland Drawing Biennale (Prizewinner)

July 1975 London Group (2 works)

Feb 1976 'Score' - 20 artists teaching at Camden Arts Centre

Mar 1977 'Response' Artists from Cleveland - Billingham Art Gallery

June 1977 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London W1

Mar 1978 London Group (2 works) Royal College of Art

May 1978 'Signatures' - Artists at Camden Arts Centre

Mar 1982 London Group - Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art

Mar 1984 Chalcot Gallery, London NW1

Dec 1984 Chalcot Gallery, London NW1

Sept 1985 Athena Art Awards (Mall Galleries)

May 1986 Hampstead Artists Council 40th Anniversary Exhibition,

Camden Arts Centre, London NW3

Dec 1986 South Bank Picture Show (Prizewinner)

Festival Hall, London SE1

June 1987 'Jerusalem Revisited' - Hurlingham Gallery, London SW5

Aug 1988 London Group 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Gulbenkian Galleries

Aug 1989 London Group - Gulbenkian Galleries, RCA

Oct 1990 London Group - Gulbenkian Galleries, RCA

July 1991 Cadogan Contemporary, London SW3

Sept 1991 Singer Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition,

Mall Galleries, London SW1

Oct 1991 London Group - Economist Building, London WC1

Feb 1992 London Group at Morley Gallery, London SE1

July 1993 Cadogan Contemporary, London SW3

Dec 1993 London Group 80th Exhibition, Barbican Centre, EC2

July 1994 Cadogan Contemporary, London SW3

Dec 1994 Waterman Fine Art, Jermyn Street, London SW1

July 1995 Waterman Fine Art, Jermyn Street, London SW1

Dec 1995 Waterman Fine Art, Jermyn Street, London SW1

Dec 1995 Oriel Contemporary Art, London NW1

Dec 1995 London Group, Barbican Centre, London EC2

Jan 1996 Art '96 Business Design Centre (Waterman Fine Art)

July 1996 Waterman Fine Art, Jermyn Street, London SW1

Sept 1996 Offer Waterman, Park Walk, London SW10

Dec 1996 Offer Waterman at 27 Cork Street, London WC1

Jan 1997 Art '97 Islington with Offer Waterman

Feb 1997 Hunting Group RCA Galleries

June 1997 Offer Waterman at 27 Cork Street, London WC1

July 1997 Cadogan Contemporary London SW3

Oct 1997 London Group at Alan Baxter and Associates

Nov 1997 Waterman Fine Art, Jermyn Street, London SW1

Dec 1997 Offer Waterman at 27 Cork Street, London WC1

Dec 1997 Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco

Feb 1998 Burgh House, Hampstead, London NW3

Feb 1998 Adam Butler Fine Art London W1

June 1998 The Walk Gallery London SE1

June 1998 Waterman Fine Art, Jermyn Street , London SW1

Oct 1998 'Artspan' San Francisco Open Studios

Dec 1998 Waterman Fine Art, Jermyn St , London SW1

Feb 1999 Adam Butler Fine Art London W1

Mar 1999 8 images published in Limited Editions by

'Visualize', San Francisco

June 1999 Waterman Fine Art, Jermyn St , London SW1

June 1999 The Walk Gallery, London SE1

Oct 1999 'Artspan' San Francisco Open Studios

Dec 1999 Waterman Fine Art, Jermyn St , London SW1

June 2000 The Walk Gallery, London SE1

July 2000 Millennium Exhibition, Centro d'Arte Verrocchio, Casole d'Elsa, Italy

July 2000 London Group 2000 Lethaby Gallery London WC1

Oct 2000 'Artspan' San Francisco Open Studios

Dec 2000 "Small Treasures" Thomas Reynolds San Francisco

Oct 2001 'Artspan' San Francisco Open Studios

April 2002 London Group at The Walk Gallery

Aug 2002 'The SF Show' Thomas Reynolds Gallery

Oct 2002 ‘Artspan' Open Studios San Francisco

Mar 2003 The London Group, Woodlands Art Gallery, Greenwich

June 2003 London Group 90th Anniv. Show, Cork St., London WC1

Oct 2003 ‘Artspan' San Francisco Open Studios

Nov 2003 Four Painters [John Arnold, David Carr,
Mike Knowles, Peter
Prendergast] The Walk Gallery, London

April 2004 London Group at the Mernier Gallery

Aug & Dec 2004 Thomas Reynolds Gallery San Francisco

 

His works are in collections of London Heritage, University College London, Northern Arts, Burgh House Hampstead, Local Authorities, Wesley's Chapel, London , Hinde St. Methodist Church, Royal Free Hospital Trust, The collection of Baroness Heyman, Harold Pinter, and numerous private collections in England and Europe, the USA and the Far East .

 

Reference:

Who's Who in Art, 30th ed & later. Art Trade Press.

ISBN 0-900083-19-0

The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945. David Buckman. Pub. 1998. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0953260909


WEBSITE:

www.davidcarr.me.uk

 

David Carr's paintings can also be seen
in the following galleries' websites:-


Thomas Reynolds Fine Art, San Francisco

The London Group

The Walk Gallery, London

Adam Butler Fine Art, London

 

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