Lemon Street Gallery,
13 Lemon Street,
Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2LS
+44 (0) 1872 275757 info@lemonstreetgallery.co.uk
13 Lemon Street,
Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2LS
+44 (0) 1872 275757 info@lemonstreetgallery.co.uk
JOHN HOYLAND
12 june - 3 July 2010
JOHN HOYLAND RA
| 1934 | Born Sheffield, October 12 |
| 1946–51 | Attends Sheffield School of Art & Crafts (Junior Art Department) instead of following grammar school education |
| 951–56 | Studies fine art at Sheffield College of Art, where emphasis is on figurative painting – no awareness of abstract art. Taught academic draughtsmanship but given no sense of possibilities of drawing; teachers uninspired with exception of the excellent Eric Jones. Reads Auden, Eliot, etc. Affected by Turner watercolours in Graves Art Gallery and Paul Nash’s monochromatic ‘Winter Sea’ with its abstract horizontal planes |
| c.1953 | Visits St Cyr in South of France, near de Staël’s Cassis. Makes many topographical paintings |
| 956–60 | (January ’56) Influenced by Rothko’s painting in Modern Art in the United States at Tate Gallery, London. Studies at Royal Academy Schools, London; begins to draw seriously from the model and to paint figures. Interest in early Matisse, ‘brown and white’ pictures. Friendship with Paul Huxley, Basil Beattie, Keith Arnatt and Oliver Bradbury (who later becomes a poet) |
| 1957 | Paints land- and townscapes of Sheffield area, influenced by de Staël. Also painting still lifes that suggest growing interest in abstraction. Attends annual Summer School at Scarborough where Victor Pasmore, Harry Thubron and Tom Hudson teach colour, structure and form; here he experiments with colour. Visits south of France, painting landscapes between Marseilles and Toulon; also Italy – the Adriatic Coast, Milan, Arezzo, Florence and Assisi. Greatly affected by quality of life and light in Italy and France after greyness of Sheffield |
| 1958 | Joins William Turnbull’s evening classes at Central School of Art, London; working mainly from still life but with expanded references, he explores the possibilities of abstracting from actual objects. Marries Airi Karkkainen; birth of son Jeremy |
| 1960 | Entire Diploma show of abstract paintings taken down by order of President of Royal Academy, Sir Charles Wheeler, but Diploma awarded on strength of earlier figurative work. Begins teaching parttime on basic design course at Hornsey College of Art under Maurice de Sausmarez; colleagues include Alan Green, Bridget Riley and Brian Fielding. Also at Oxford School of Art. First of several visits to wife’s native Finland |
| 1960–61 | Exhibits large-scale paintings in the two ‘Situation’ exhibitions at RBA Gallery, London, and Marlborough New London Gallery |
| 1961–62 | Teaching at Luton College of Art and Hornsey College of Art |
| 1961–65 | Studio at Primrose Hill |
| 1962 | Begins teaching at Croydon School of Art and Chelsea School of Art. Meets William Tucker, and sees Paul Huxley regularly (who introduces him to Bryan Robertson) |
| 1963 | Deeply impressed by Caro exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery. Meets Helen Frankenthaler |
| 1964 | Selected by Robertson for ‘New Generation’ exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery. Travels to New York for first time on a Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Bursary; visits various artists’ studios (Motherwell’s, Newman’s and Rothko’s) and sees unexhibited canvases by Morris Louis. Meets Noland, Feeley and Olitski; also Clement Greenberg, who introduces him to Hans Hofmann via two small canvases at New York’s Kootz Gallery. Builds studio in Kingston-upon-Thames |
| 1965 | Included by Robertson in Private View, book surveying British contemporary art scene; also selected for ‘The English Eye’, Robertson’s personal anthology of modern British art for Marlborough-Gerson Gallery in New York. Principal Lecturer at Chelsea School of Art until 1969; occasional teaching visits to Royal Academy Schools. Contact with Philip King, Tim Scott,William Tucker and other New Generation sculptors |
| 1967 | One-man show, Paintings 1960–67, at Whitechapel Art Gallery. Makes first works in New York, in Peter Stroud’s studio, and has first exhibition there at Robert Elkon Gallery. (Summer 1968) Works in studio of John Griefen. Spends time with Larry Poons and Ronnie Langfeldt |
| 1968 | Separates from wife, and subsequently divorces. Begins working for part of each week at a new studio (a disused chapel) in Market Lavington,Wiltshire |
| 1969 | Joins Waddington Galleries, London, and has first of several annual exhibitions at Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York. Travels to Brazil and the Caribbean with Anthony Caro; represents Great Britain, with Caro, at the São Paulo Biennale. In Trinidad meets American jazz singer, Eloise Laws, and shares apartment with her during regular working trips to New York (until 1973). Friendship with Hubert Laws, jazz flautist and composer, and Ronnie Laws, saxophonist and composer. Meets Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz and many leading jazz musicians of Motown (to whom Eloise was signed for a time); spends time in Detroit |
| 1971 | Frequent trips to New York. Continues to see Noland, Frankenthaler, Motherwell and Greenberg.Working in New York |
| 1972 | Charles A. Dana Professor of Fine Art at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York |
| 1973 | Travels to Provincetown with Robert Motherwell. Returns to live and work more or less permanently in London and Wiltshire |
| 1974 | Makes three lithographs with Ian Lawson and another series in Verona |
| 1974–77 | Visiting lecturer at St Martin’s School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools |
| 1974–89 | Visiting lecturer at the Slade School of Art |
| 1977 | Selector and exhibitor, Royal Academy Silver Jubilee Exhibition, London |
| 1978 | Artist in Residence, Studio School, New York (summer); paints many small works on paper |
| 979–80 | Full-scale retrospective at Serpentine Gallery, London. Artist in Residence, Melbourne University. Visits Bombay, Hong Kong and Thailand en route with Patrick Caulfield. Rome Scholarship Committee (printmaking) until 1989 |
| 1980 | Selector and curator for the Hayward Annual. Moves to new studio in Charterhouse Square, London |
| 1982 | Working in Los Angeles |
| 1983 | Elected ARA (Associate of the Royal Academy). Makes prints and monotypes with Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut, France; screenprints monotypes with Advanced Graphics, London, and etched monotypes with Jack Shirreff at 107 Workshop,Wiltshire |
| 1984–85 | Makes ceramics in Todi, Umbria, Italy, invited by Piero Dorazio |
| 1986 | Set and costume designs for Zanza at Sadler’s Wells and The Alhambra Theatre with Rambert Dance Company; choreography by Richard Alston, music by Nigel Osborne, lighting by Peter Mumford |
| 1987 | Travels to Trinidad, Antigua and Jamaica |
| 1988 | Travels in United States. Selects and curates Hans Hofmann exhibition at Tate Gallery. Sailing trip in eastern Mediterranean with Patrick Caulfield, Janet Nathan and Beverley Heath |
| 1989 | Visits Ken Draper and Jean Macalpine in Minorca with Beverley Heath; and Jamaica and Italy with Heath. Makes etchings in Milan with Giorgio Upiglio at Grafica Uno |
| 1991 | Elected Royal Academician |
| 1992 | Invited guest at Thupelo workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa; makes drawings of plants and roots. Visits Motherwell in Greenwich and New York |
| 1993 | Travels to the Caribbean, and to Sydney, Australia, visiting Bali, Indonesia, on return journey |
| 1994 | First visit to Murano, Venice; makes glass sculptures |
| 1995 | Joins Theo Waddington Gallery and shows Bali paintings |
| 1997 | Travels to Ocho Rios, Jamaica; Grand Cayman Island; Cozumel, Mexico; and Key West, Florida. Third visit to Bali |
| 1998 | Visits San Juan, Puerto Rico; Barbados, Antigua, St Martin, Martinique and Virgin Islands |
| 1999 | Appointed Professor of Painting at Royal Academy Schools. Retrospective at Royal Academy of Arts, London. Makes a second visit to Murano, Venice, to make glass sculptures. Visits Florence and Cuba |
| 2001 | Mural Design for Metro in Rome, Italy. Joins Beaux Arts, London |
| 2003 | Work included in ‘Formal Situations: Abstractions in Britain, 1960–70’ at Tate Liverpool (April to November) |
| 2004 | Art in the 1960s, This was Tomorrow’ at Tate Britain (then touring to Birmingham, Australia and New Zealand) |
| 2006 | The Trajectory of a Fallen Angel’, one-man exhibition at Tate St Ives |
| 2008 | Marries Beverley Heath |
| Selected one-man exhibitions | |
| 1964 | Marlborough New London Gallery, London |
| 1965 | Chelsea School of Art, London |
| 1967 | Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich Robert Elkon Gallery, New York Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles Waddington Galleries, London Waddington Fine Art, Montreal |
| 1968 | Robert Elkon Gallery, New York Waddington Fine Art, Montreal |
| 1969 | Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Waddington Galleries, London Leslie Waddington Prints, London |
| 1970 | Waddington Galleries, London Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Galleria dell’ Ariete, Milan |
| 1971 | Waddington Galleries, London Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Waddington Fine Art, Montreal |
| 1972 | Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Harcas Krakow Gallery, Boston Picker Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York |
| 1973 | Waddington Galleries, London Galleria l’Approdo, Turin |
| 1974 | Studio la Città, Verona Waddington Galleries, London Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1975 | Kingspitcher Contemporary Art Gallery, Pittsburgh Galleria E. Bolzano, Italy Rubiner Gallery, Detroit, Michigan Waddington Galleries, London Waddington Fine Art, Montreal |
| 1976 | Waddington Galleries, London (paintings 1966–68) Galleria La Bertesca, Milan, Genoa and Turin Studio la Città, Verona |
| 1976–77 | Galeria Modulo, Lisbon |
| 1978 | Waddington Galleries, Montreal Waddington and Tooth Galleries, New York |
| 1979 | Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Waddington Fine Art, Toronto Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York (works on paper) Art Contact, Coconut Grove, Florida |
| 1979–80 | Serpentine Gallery, London (Retrospective; touring to Birmingham and Sheffield) |
| 1980 | University Gallery, University of Melbourne (touring to Adelaide and |
| 1981 | Gump’s Gallery, San Francisco Waddington Galleries, London |
| 1982 | Jacobson/Hochman Gallery, New York Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles Compass Gallery, Glasgow |
| 1983 | Waddington Galleries, London Waddington Graphics, London |
| 1983–84 | Hokin/Kaufman Gallery, Chicago |
| 1984 | Castlefield Gallery, Manchester |
| 1985 | Waddington Galleries, London |
| 1986 | Waddington & Shiell Galleries, Toronto (ceramics and paintings) |
| 1987 | Waddington Galleries, London Oxford Gallery, Oxford Lever/Meyerson Gallery, New York |
| 1988 | Erika Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco Edward Thorden Gallery, Gothenburg |
| 1990 | Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (prints) Waddington Galleries, London |
| 1991 | Eva Cohon Gallery, Chicago |
| 1992 | Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam (drawings) Graham Modern Gallery, New York |
| 1994 | Annendale Gallery, Sydney, Australia CCA Gallery London, ‘New Ceramics’ |
| 1995 | Theo Waddington, London |
| 1996 | Carlow Arts Festival, Ireland |
| 1999 | Galerie Fine, London Royal Academy of Arts, London (Retrospective) |
| 2000 | Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam University of Leathbridge, Alberta, Canada |
| 2001 | Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (Retrospective) Galleri Christian Dam, Oslo, Norway Nevill Keating Pictures, London Beaux Arts, London |
| 2003 | Beaux Arts, London |
| 2005 | Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall |
| 2006 | Beaux Arts, London Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall Tate St Ives Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 2007 | Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland Gallery Aalders, La Garde Freinet, France |
| 2008 | Beaux Arts, London Lemon Street Gallery, Truro Nevill Keating Pictures, London Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London |
| 2009 | Galerie White8, Vienna Alan Wheatley Art, London Beaux Arts, London |
| Selected joint exhibitions | |
| 1969 | with Anthony Caro, X São Paulo Biennale, Brazil |
| 1972 | with Jules Olitski, Leslie Waddington Prints, London |
| 1979 | with Gordon House,Waddington Graphics, London |
| 1980 | with John Walker, Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago |
| 1981 | with Joe Tilson, Hokin Gallery, Miami |
| 2007 | with Andy Stewart, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London |
| Selected group exhibitions | |
| 1959–60 | ‘Young Contemporaries’, RBA Gallery, London |
| 1960–61 | ‘Situation’ exhibitions, RBA Gallery, London, and Marlborough New London Gallery |
| 1961 | ‘Nine Painters from England’, Galleria Trastevere, Rome |
| 1962–63 | ‘British Art Today’, San Francisco Museum of Art (touring to Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art) |
| 1963 | 7th Tokyo Biennial |
| 1964 | ‘The New Generation: 1964’,Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 1965 | ‘The English Eye’, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York |
| 1966–67 | ‘Aspects of New British Art’, Arts Council exhibition (touring to New Zealand, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania) |
| 1970–71 | British Painting and Sculpture 1960–1970’, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
| 1974 | ‘Some Significant British Artists 1950–70’, Rutland Gallery, London |
| 1982 | ‘Aspects of British Art Today’, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (touring to Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo) |
| 1983 | ‘Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Part 1’, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh |
| 1991 | ‘Affinities in Paint’, Crane Gallery, London |
| 1992 | Galerie zur alten Deutschen Schule, Switzerland Peter Stuyvesant Foundation: Kunst Werkt Artworks (touring Holland, Spain and France) Arts Council Collection, Royal Festival Hall (paintings from the 1960s; touring UK) Redfern Gallery, London (with Robyn Denny and Guy Irvin) |
| 1993 | ‘New Realities: Art from Post-war Europe 1945–1968’ (The National Collection of Modern Art in the North of England), Tate Liverpool ‘The Sixties Art Scene in London’, Royal Academy of Arts; Barbican Gallery, London |
| 1994 | ‘John Hoyland and Anthony Caro, from the 60s to the 90s’, Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam, Holland ‘Here and Now, British Painters at the Serpentine Gallery from 1970 to the Present’, Serpentine Gallery, London |
| 1999 | ‘A Line in Painting’, Gallery Fine, London |
| 2003 | ‘Formal Situations: Abstractions in Britain, 1960–70’, Tate Liverpool |
| 2004–06 | Art in the 1960s, This was Tomorrow’ at Tate Britain (touring to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand) |
| 2006 & 7 | Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris |
| Selected television and radio | |
| 1976 | ‘British Art in Milan’, BBC TV ‘The London Programme’, London Weekend Television |
| 1977 | ‘British Art 1952–77’ (Royal Academy), BBC TV ‘Painting in the 50s and 60s’, Open University (BBC Radio interview with Bryan Robertson) |
| 1979 | ‘6 Days in September’, Arena, BBC TV |
| 1989 | ‘Signals’, Channel 4 |
| 2003 | ‘John Hoyland – le chaos naturel’, directed by Erik Levesque, produced by Univerne BEKA, Paris |
| 2009 | ‘The Culture Show’, BBC2, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition |
Public collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Arts Council of Great Britain
Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
Birmingham City Art Gallery, UK
British Council, London
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Contemporary Art Society, London
Courtauld Art Society, London
Courtauld Institute, London
Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Los Angeles, USA
Government Art Collection, London
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Leicestershire Education Authority
Maclaurin Collection, Rozelle, Ayr
Manchester City Art Gallery
Melbourne University Art Gallery
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I., USA
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
National Museum, Finland
Neuberger Collection, University of Purchase, New York, USA
Perth Art Gallery, Australia
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, London
Phoenix Museum, Arizona, USA
Picker Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, Australia
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Royal College of Physicians, London
Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
Tate, London
Tehran Museum of Modern Art, Tehran, Iran
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Warwick University
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Awards & honours
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Purchase Award (1963)
International Young Artist Award, Tokyo (1964)
Prize winner at John Moores Liverpool Exhibition (1965)
Prize winner at Open Paintings Exhibition, Belfast (1966)
First Prize (with Robyn Denny), Edinburgh Open 100 Exhibition (1969)
First Prize, Chichester National Art Exhibition (1975)
Arts Council of Great Britain Purchase Award (1979)
First Prize at John Moores Liverpool Exhibition (with Broken Bride; 1982)
Joint First Prize, Korn Ferry International Award Exhibition (with William Scott; 1986)
First Prize, Athena Art Award (1987)
Elected Royal Academician (1991)
Wollaston Award, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (1998)
Elected Foreign Painter Academician, Accademia Nationale di San Luca, Rome,
Italy (2000)
Honorary Doctorate, Sheffield Hallam University (2003)
Honorary Member, Royal West of England Academy (2008)