DAVID ATKINSON

DRAWING


Exhibitions/Publications

1972 The Image Magazine
Baroque Press


1974 Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
David Atkinson Drawings

1974 Ilminster Art Centre
Dillington House, Somerset
Drawings


1975 2nd Cleveland International Drawing Biennale


1975 Ambit Magazine
Drawings


1976 Satie's Faction
A loose collective of artists working on
themes inspired by Erik Satie.


1977 3rd Cleveland International Drawing Biennale


1978/79 Galerie Lucien Durand, 19 Rue Mazarin, Paris 75006


1982 Festival Gallery, Bath
David Atkinson 'Actual Drawings'


1990 'Upturned Ark' Exhibition, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
One of nine artists invited to make a temporary addition to the ethnographic collection


1999 'The Love and Worry Show'
Coningsby Gallery, London

'What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big'

2004 Singer & Friedlander / Sunday Times
Watercolour Exhibition
Mall Gallery, London and touring


2010 Bath Society of Artists Summer Exhibition
Guest Artist
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath


2017 The British Library
Temporary Exhibition in connection with
'Drawing the Line : Maps in the 21st Century

2023 Artpreneur Online Architectural Art Exhibition
First Prize
'All that is Solid Melts into Air'

2023 National Portrait Gallery . London
Life-size sitting portrait of Agatha Christie
Part of 'Work in Progress' ; an all-woman
version of the Beatles Sgt Pepper cover artwork
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2023 London Art Biennale
Prizewinner
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2024 Works on Paper
Green & Stone Gallery, Fulham Rd, London

2024 Annual Exhibition
Royal Society of British Artists
The Mall Galleries
Prizewinner : The Anthony J Lester Critics Award
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2024 Annual Exhibition
Society of Graphic Fine Art
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2024 Drawing of the Year Awards
Archisource . Oxo Tower London
shortlisted for Hand Drawn Award


2024 Biennale Chianciano
VIII Edition
Chianciano Terme, Italy
2nd Prize . Works on Paper Category
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2024 Wells Art Contemporary
Wells Cathedral
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2024 The Almenara Art Prize . Spain
Shortlisted : 'John Stuart Mill and Helen Taylor'


2025 The John Ruskin Prize
Trinity Buoy Wharf, London


2025 Green and Stone Gallery
Fulham Rd, London
Works on Paper


2025 World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
Life-Size stencilled portrait of Misty Copeland,
Principal Dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.
Front row figure for 'Work in Progress' Mural,
celebrating the empowerement and achievements of women.
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2025 Golder-Thompson Gift . Drawing Collection
- purchase of 'Portrait of a Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man' 2020


2025 'Beyond the Prize'
Mall Galleries, London
Prizewinners for the last 2 years invited to
submit new work.


2025 Liverpool Biennale 2025
Drawing (Paper) Show
Bridewell Gallery


2025 Archisource Drawing of the Year 2025
Commendation : Hand-Drawn Category
London Creates Exhibition
The Truman Brewery
Brick Lane, London


'Pride/Fall Syndrome' 2022

2025 'Art on a Postcard'
Auction to raise funds for Hepatitis C Research
'There's a World going on Down Below'
sepia ink and alkyd oils. (SOLD)





Biography

b. 1949

1960 - 1967 Maghull Grammar School, Liverpool

1967 - 1968 Manchester College of Art and Design
Foundation Course

1969 - 1972 Birmingham College of Art and Design
DipAD Graphic Design

1972 - 1974 University of Lancaster
Visual Arts Centre

1974 - 1978 Part Time Lecturer . Bath Academy of Art
BA(Hons) Visual Communication
and Foundation Course

1978 - 1980 Living and working in Paris
exhibiting at Galerie Lucien Durand,
19 Rue Mazarin, Paris, 75006

1980 - 1988 Course Leader . Foundation Studies
Bath Academy of Art, Sydney Place, Bath

1984 Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to China, Japan and Hong Kong

1989 - 1993 Moderator for South West Regional Diploma
in Foundation Studies

1989 - 2003 Part Time Lecturer . University of West of England
BA(Hons) Illustration . Final Year Tutor

1990 - 1999 Part Time Lecturer
Illustration Kurs
Hochschüle, Luzern, Switzerland

1997 - 99 Course Leader HfG Post-Graduate Illustration
Hochschüle, Luzern, Switzerland
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2001 - 2004 External Assessor . University of East London


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