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Artist Exhibitions:
1973 OXFORD PLAYHOUSE GALLERY
[Nov 3rd-22nd]
One
Man Show
1976 BLACKHEATH GALLERY
Tranquil Vale, Blackheath
Mixed show
1977 BLACKHEATH GALLERY
Tranquil Vale, Blackheath
[Feb 4th-March 12th] Mixed
Show
1977 BLACKHEATH GALLERY
[July 28th-Sept 4th] Tranquil
Vale, Blackheath
Mixed Show
1977 GRAFFITTI GALLERY
-78 Gt. Marlborough Street, W
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Commissions:
1980 'BUTTERFLY No. 2' Acrylic
on Canvas 30"x40"
For Mr & Mrs B.
Denton, Merileys,Longfield,
Kent
1981 'HANGLIDERS' Acrylic on
Canvas 108"x102"
For Mr M. Nightingale,
Park St., Woodstock, Oxford
1982 'INTO THE GARDEN'
Acrylic on Canvas 72"x30"
For Mr & Mrs A.
Guillam,Islington,London
1983 'BODRUM ...
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Artist Statement for Austen Pinkerton
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I believe it was the great british artist Turner who said, in his eccentric manner,that Art is 'A rum do'...meaning that it is a funny business...hard to explain, if not inexplicable. He was absolutely right... as soon as you make a rule, you break it. 'Art has no rules...there is only good art, and bad Art'.
For myself...I like to learn..to read, to study, to watch documentaries...to think. I am fortunate in also having an artistic ability, therefore I can express my ideas, which I want to communicate to others...to 'get them out of my system', by expressing them in a work of Art. Having said that, I am also a deep feeling person, and therefore also sometimes I simply want just to express my feelings, about something or other in my life, or in the world around me. Finally I may take the centre path, and combine a work about an idea, with one about a feeling, or feelings; again about something, some person, some event, in my life, to produce a hybrid, which is about an idea, and about a feeling.
Biography, Austen Pinkerton:
Austen Pinkerton was born in 1951 in Harrow, North-West London, and
educated locally at Pinner County Grammar School.
On leaving school he went to Oxford, to the Oxford School of Architecture,where he spent two years in full-time study, before it being
suggested that he should transfer to Art School, as he was 'Doing too much painting'.
He then went to Goldsmiths College, London University, School of
Art, for three years, graduating in 1976 with a Batchelor of Arts: Fine Art (Painting).
He has subsequently worked part-time in a variety of Architectural-Related
fields, whilst continuing to Paint, Draw, and Sculpt. For a while he was designing
pubs in this country and abroad, notably Italy, France and Spain, and has also
worked on refurbishments of the Law Society, and the Royal College Of Surgeons.
Meanwhile he has exhibited his work widely, at numerous galleries,…
in particular Krane arts, the contemporary arts wing of Krane Kalman, also
The Talent Store, Graffitti Gallery, the Horniman Museum, and most recently
and repeatedly, at The Gloucester Gallery, Kensington, run by Joan Catlin, former Registrar of The Royal College Of Art, and to one of which exhibitions Sir Eduardo Paolozzi visited by invitation.
Between 1990 and 1996 he opened and ran his own gallery in East Dulwich,
south London, ..'The Austen Pinkerton Gallery' , devoted entirely to his own work.
He has had numerous private commissions, most notably three very large
installed paintings at No 36 Wharton Street, Islington, which began initially with
a picture for Major Hamish Forbes, Director of the Museum of the Order of
St. John, St. John's Gate, and former resident of Colditz. When this picture was
moved to a new house another was commissioned by the new owner of No36,
and the same again when that moved with it's owner.
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