ANTHONY CURTIS RWA
Date of Birth: 7 July, 1928
Place: Wakefield, Yorks.
Profession: Painter, Sculptor, Retired Teacher
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Anthony Curtis has spent twenty five years in secondary art education during which time he founded and headed the visual art department at Cressex School., High Wycombe for eighteen years.
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Working from home Anthony Curtis specialises in watercolours and gouache and has extended his abilities to ceramic sculptures during his long career. He studied at the Bath Academy of Art at Corsham working under Peter Potworski, William Scott, Kenneth Armitage, Peter Lanyon and Bryan Wynter.
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He sees his work as …'an embodiment of ambiguity and simultaneity. Ambiguities of scale and image allow room for the viewers' own life experience to come to bear. Simultaneity of events and image within my pieces involve a time aspect.'
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He has shown extensively in England over twenty-six years and has works in private and public collections in this country and abroad. Key exhibitions have included one man shows at the Scopas Gallery, Henley on Thames, the Bloomsbury Gallery, London and a retrospective at the Wooburn Festival in 1992.
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Prestigious group shows include the Redfern Gallery, London in 1952 and an Arts Council Touring Exhibition of stained glass in 1961. He has shown at the Royal Watercolour Society, London and regularly exhibits at the RWA. In 1995 works executed in Australia were selected for the RWA Seven Academicians Exhibition.