Gillian Ayres
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Gillian Ayres |
| Gender: |
Female |
| Place of Birth: |
London, England |
| Nationality: |
British |
| Birth: |
1930 |
| Death: |
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Quick Facts
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Oil, Pastel, watercolor, collage |
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| Style: |
Expressionism |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painting
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Biography
Ayres trained at CamberweU School of Art from 1946 to 1950, where she found some stimulation in the classes of Victor Pasmore and in French painting, particularly that of Sonia Delaunay.
During the 1960s Ayres painted with the new acrylics, before returning to oil paint. In the 1970s, the succulent, strong-colored and heavily worked impasto for which she is now known began to appear. She has also varied the titles she uses, from the perfunctory Red, Green, Blue, White or Painting of the early group show at the Redfern Gallery, to more evocative literary titles. Green fuse, of 1982, is taken from a poem by Dylan Thomas, while The bee loud glade, from 1987, is from a verse by W.B. Yeats. Along with Bridget Riley and Tess Jaray Ajres was one of only three women out of twenty-five artists to be included in the exhibition Ready Steady Go: Paintings of the Sixties from the Arts Council Collection, at the South Bank Centre in 1992. Her contribution to contemporary British art has not always been acknowledged, which Ayres attributes to the fact that 'Our particular culture is happier with serious subjects and brown paintings, When people talk of pure decoration they talk about it as if it were something like an embroidered cushion. Ayres was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1989. Among her solo exhibitions have been shows at the Museum of Modem Art, Oxford (and touring) in 1981, the Serpentine Gallery, London (and touring) in 1983-4, and the Royal Academy in 1997.
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