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Basil Beattie RA
BIOGRAPHY
. .. 1935 Born, West Hartlepool 1957-61 Studied at the Royal Academy Schools Taught at Goldsmith's College, London, until 1998 2006 Elected Member of the Royal Academy of Arts Lives and works in London
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS SINCE 1980
1982 Goldsmith's Gallery, London 1984 Bede Gallery, Jarrow 1986 Gray's Art Gallery, Hartlepool 1987 Curwen Gallery, London 1990 Curwen Gallery, London 1991 'Drawing on the Interior', Installation at the Eagle Gallery, London 1993 Castlefield Gallery, Manchester Maak Gallery, London Todd Gallery, London 1994 IKON Gallery, Birmingham Newtown Gallery, Johannesburg 1995 Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham Todd Gallery, London 1996 Path Galerie, Aalst, Belgium Todd Gallery, London 1997 Reg Vardy Arts Foundation Gallery, Sunderland Galerie Renate Bender, Munich 1998 Todd Gallery, London 1999 Open Studio, Brooklyn New York 2000 'Recent Works', Storey Gallery, Lancaster 2001 'Works on Paper 1980-1990', Curwen Gallery, London 'That Irresistible Climb', Advanced Graphics London 2002 'Above and Below', Sadlers Wells, London 2004 Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School, Somerset 2005 'Marking a Year', Open Studio in association with Emma Hill Fine Art, London 2006 Emma Hill Fine Art/Eagle Gallery, London 2007 Tate Britain, London 2008 New Paintings, Jenny Todd, New Zealand 2009 'Paintings from the Janus Series', Purdy Hicks Gallery, London 'Drawn In Drawn Out', Eagle Gallery EMH Arts, London 2010 'Basil Beattie: Paintings from the Janus Series II', Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria 2011 'Basil Beattie: Onwards and Upwards Twenty-Five Years of Work 1986-2011', James Hyman, London 2013 'Promises, Promises', Jerwood Gallery, Hastings 'Basil Beattie, Paintings', Hilton Fine Art, Bath 2014 'Above and Below: Step Paintings 1190-2013', Hales Gallery, London 2016 'When Now Becomes Then: Three Decades', Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough 2018 ‘Basil Beattie RA: A Passage of Time’, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2020 'Cause & Effect', Hales Gallery, London 'Basil Beattie : Pathfinder', Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SINCE 1985)
1985 'The Joy of Paint', Bede Gallery, Jarrow; Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London 1986 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (invited artist), London; 'Impressions of a Town', Bede Gallery, Jarrow 1987 'John Moores Exhibition 15', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; 'Eight by Eight', Curwen Gallery, London 1988 'Presentation 1988', Curwen Gallery, London; 'Presence of Painting', Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield- touring; 'Three British Painters' (with Hoyland and Irvin), Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland 1989 'John Moores Exhibition 16', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 1991 'John Moores Exhibition 17', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; 'Small is Beautiful', Flowers East, London; 'The Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries; Goldsmiths College Centenary Exhibition (selected by Albert Irvin), Goldsmiths College, London 1992 'Gillian Ayres, Basil Beattie, Brian Fielding and John Hoyland', Pomeroy Purdey Gallery, London; Painting and Sculpture, Maak Gallery, London 1994 'Paintmarks', Kettles Yard, Cambridge - touring; 'Lead and Follow', Robert Loder Collection, Atlantis Gallery, London; 'Credo', Purdy Hicks Gallery, London 1995 'Monoprints', Artspace Gallery, London; Green on Red Gallery, Dublin 1996 'Ace!', Arts Council Collection- touring, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Oldham Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London; IKON Gallery, Birmingham; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Harlech Biennale 1997 'Yellow', Todd Gallery, London; Path Galerie, Aalst, Belgium 1998 Frankfurt Art Fair and Cologne Art Fair, represented by Galerie Renate Bender 'Jerwood Painting Prize 1998', Jerwood Gallery, London 1999 'Four Artists', Eagle Gallery, London; 'Thinking Aloud', curated by Richard Wentworth, Camden Arts Centre, London (touring); 'Starting a Collection- Part 2', Art First, London; Stephen Lacey Gallery, London; 'Power of Drawing', Westbeth, New York; 'Small is Beautiful', Flowers West, Santa Monica, California; 'Re-Grouping', The Nunnery, London 1999-2010 Various Art Fairs and Exhibitions represented by Advanced Graphics London including: London Art Fair, Islington, London Contemporary Print Show, Barbican Centre, London London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London Art on Paper, Royal College of Art, London Glasgow Art Fair, George Square, Glasgow 20/21 British Art Fair, The Royal College of Art and the Commonwealth Institute The Print Fair, IFPDA Members, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2000 'Short Series: British Contemporaries', Trinity Art Centre, Tunbridge Wells, Kent 'Contemporary Prints from Advanced Graphics London', Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow '5 British Abstract Painters', Flowers West, Santa Monica, California 'Leading British Artists from Advanced Graphics', The Original Print Gallery, Dublin 2001 'Retroperspective I', Eagle Gallery, London; 'A Master Class-British Painting: Basil Beattie, John Hoyland, John Walker, John Edwards', Stephen Lacey Gallery, London; Tradition and Innovation, City Art Gallery, York; 'Process and Image: Basil Beattie, Nigel Massey, Roy Oxlade', Art Space, London; 'Jerwood Painting Prize 2001', Jerwood Gallery, London and Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; 'Made in Hartlepool', The Hartlepool Art Gallery; '3 Big Paintings: Basil Beattie, Maurice Cockrill, John Hoyland', Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London; 'Basil Beattie and Frances Aviva Blane - Drawing', ecArt, London; 'Square Route', Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London 2002 'Sense and Form', Consument Art 2002, Nuremberg, Germany - curated by Mark Hampson 2003 'London Calling: Screenprints from Advanced Graphics London', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow 'Advanced Graphics Print Exhibition', West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen 2004 'Paintings and Work on Paper', Emma Hill Fine Art, Eagle Gallery, London Annual Exhibition, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London (selected by Bob Saich Hon RE) 'Basil Beattie, Stewart Geddes, Clyde Hopkins and Trevor Jones' (paintings & prints) Advanced Graphics 2006 'Prints from Advanced Graphics London', Friend’s Room, Royal Academy of Arts, London
