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BIOGRAPHY

1929 Born, London

Educated, Charterhouse; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Trinity College, Dublin

1955-61 Trained, St. Martin’s, Chelsea and the Royal College of Art

1961-78 Taught at various art schools, in particular at the Central, also Camberwell

1983 Chairman of selectors, Tolly Cobbold/Eastern Arts 4

1987-88 Senior tutor at the College of Art

1992 Elected R.A.

1994 Honorary fellow, The Royal College of Art

1997 Artist in Residence, Darlington Hall, International Summer Music School

SELECTED ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS

1964, 67, 69, 72 & 75 Arthur & Sons, London

1973 Galleria Vaccarino, Florence

1976 Galerie Burg Diesdonk, Düsseldorf

1978 Waddington & Tooth Galleries, London

Yehudi Menuhin School, Surrey

1979 Waddington Galleries, Montreal and Toronto

Hokin Gallery Inc., Chicago

1980 Rochdale Art Gallery, `Paintings 1955-80`

1981 & `83 Waddington Galleries, London

1984 South Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, London (water-colours)

1985, `88, `89, `91, `93, `99 & `02, The Piccadilly Gallery, London

1986 Arts Council Exhibition, Serpentine Gallery, London and travelled to the Walker Art Gallery,

Liverpool and the Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

1992 Brighton Festival, The Gardner Centre, (Gallery & Studio), the University of Sussex

1993 Adrian Berg “A Sense of Place”, Concourse Gallery, Barbican.

Toured to: Victoria Gallery, Bath;

City Art Gallery, Plymouth; Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield;

Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Royal Botanic Gallery, Edinburgh

1994 “Adrian Berg R.A.”, Rya Art Gallery

1999 “Days of `92, `93, `94 watercolours by Adrian Berg R.A.”, Royal Academy,

“Adrian Berg R.A.”, Darlington Hall Gallery

2002 “Paintings and watercolours 1962-1997”, Hintlesham Hall, Ipswich,

May 5 – May 31

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1955 Summer exhibition, Redfern Gallery, London

1955 & `60 “Young Contemporaries”, RBA Galleries, London

1961 “ The British School at Rome”, Commonwealth Institute, London

1962, `63 & `64 “St. Pancras Artists”

1963 London Group

1965 “British Painters” Arthur & Tooth & Sons, London

“Pop and Op”, Modern British Painting, Geneva

1966 “New Graphics”, Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge

“Colour, Form and Texture”, Arthur & Tooth & Sons, London

1967 “How They Started”, Oxford University Press

1968 “25 Camden Artists”, Swiss Cottage Library, London

1969-70 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 7

1970, `71 & `72 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (initially by invitation) and nearly every year since 1984

“Selection from Royal Academy” toured by Art Exhibitions Bureau

1973 “Landscape”, Serpentine Gallery, London (with Norman Adams, John Hubbard and Edward Middletich)

“Critic`s choice”, selected by William Varley, Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Florence Biennale; awarded Gold Medal

1974 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 9

“British Painting” Hayward Gallery, London

1975 “The English Landscape”, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

Chichester National Art Exhibition

1976 “The Human Clay” Hayward Gallery, London ( Arts Council touring Exhibition picked by R.B. Kitaj)

1977 1st Tolly Cobbold, Eastern Arts National Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (touring)

1978 “English realism” Waddington Galleries, Montreal

1979 “The Camden Scene” (Paintings, Drawings and Prints from the 18th Century to the present day),

Camden Arts Centre, London

2nd Tolly Cobbold, Eastern Arts National Exhibition,

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (touring)

1970-80 “The British Art show” (Arts Council touring Exhibition selected by William Packer)

1980 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 12

1980-81 “Israel Observed”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (chosen by Hele

1980-81 “Israel Observed”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (chosen by Helen Marks-touring)

“The Spirit of London”, Royal Festival Hall and the Stock Exchange, London

1981 3rd Tolly Cobbold, Eastern Arts National Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

“Contemporary Artists in Camden”, Camden Arts Centre, London

“The Spirit of London”, Royal Festival Hall and the Stock Exchange, London

1982 “Aspects of British Art today” British Council Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (touring Japan)

“British Drawing”, The Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London

(and a selection touring to Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh)

“Presences of Nature – Words and Images of the Lake District”, Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery (touring exhibition, chosen by Neil Hanson)

1982 “Enter the Garden”, Ellingham Mill Art Society Gallery, Suffolk (touring)

“Small works”, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic Art Gallery

1982-83 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 13

1983 “The Granada collection: Recent British Paintings and Drawings”,

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

Group VI, Waddington Galleries, London

“New Landscape Paintings”, Bury Art Gallery, chosen by Andy Ashton

`53-`83, Three Decades of Artists from Inner London Art Schools, Royal Academy of Arts, London

“The Artist`s London”, Gillian Jason Gallery, London

1984 “The Hard-Won Image”, The Tate Gallery, London

“A View from my Window” Angela Flowers Gallery, London

1985 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 14

“Summer in the city” Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, chosen by Antonia Payne

“British Artists in Italy, 1920-1980”, The Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury College of Art

“Printmaking Department, R.C.A., London”, Rijksakademie, Stadhouderskad, Amsterdam

1986 “Art in the Home”, Arts Council in Association with Liberty, Ideal Home Exhibition, Earls Court, London

“Finest Prospects, Three Historic Houses; a study in London Topography”, English Heritage,

The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, London

“Contemporary British and Malaysian Art 1986”, jointly sponsored by the Pertubuhan Malaysia-British and The British Malaysian Society with the co-operation of the British Council, National Art Gallery,

Kuala Lumpur (touring; National Gallery, Bangkok; Hong Kong Arts Centre; and the National Museum, Singapore)

1987 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 15

Athena Art Awards 1987, Barbican Concourse Gallery

“Knowing your Place” An Exhibition of Artists`Parish Maps, The London Ecology Centre (touring)

“Landscapes”, Castefield Gallery, Manchester

“Introducing with Pleasure”, picture chosen by Pat Nevin for Star

Choices from the Arts Council Collection, Gardner Art Centre, University of Sussex (touring)

“Small is Beautiful”, Angela Flowers Gallery

“Land: Sea: Air”, (Contemporary British Landscape), The Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury College of Art & Design (touring)

“The Long Perspective”, The National Trust`s Foundation for Art, Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London

1988 “Exhibition Road, Painters at the Royal College of Art”, 150th Anniversary of the R.C.A., London

“Kew-the British Garden”, C.C.A. Galleries, London

“Mother and Child”, Birthright, The Lefevre Gallery, London

Singer and Friedlander Ltd., Sunday Times watercolour competition, The Mall Galleries, London and also 1994, `95, `96, `98, `01 and touring

“Artists in National Parks”, Victoria and Albert Museum (touring)

“Stormstruck”, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of the Great Storm of 1987, arranged by The National Trust`s Foundation of Art, Petworth House

1989 “The Tree of Life”, A South Bank Exhibition, organised in association with Common Ground,

Cornerhouse, Manchester (touring)

“Within These Shores”, a selection of works from the Chantrey Bequest 1883-1985, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield

1989“The Royal College Week-end”, Galerie zur Alten Deutschen Schule, Thun, Switzerland

“Images of Paradise”, Harewood House, Yorkshire & Christie`s, London

1990 “London`s Pride”, The Museum of London

“Royal College of Art”, (Painting School), Galerie zur Alten Deutschen Schule, Thun, Switzerland

“3 Ways”, Contemporary British Painting, (The Royal College of Art and The British Council), Budapest touring to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Roumania, Bulgaria and Africa

“Nine Contemporary Painters”, - a personal choice- selected by Andrew

Lambirth, Bristol Art Gallery

Nicholas and Andrei Tooth Memorial Exhibition, Albermarle Gallery, London

“Tribute to Peter Fuller”, Beaux Arts, Bath

“The Forces of Nature”, Manchester City Art Galleries and Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston

“The Tree”, Chris Beetles Gallery, London

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Fine Arts, Hastings and Bonhams, London

1991 The Green Contemporary Art Sale, Phillips Fine Art, London

“Hortus Cambrensis”, Erddig, Clwyd, organised by the National Trust’s Foundation for Art and Oriel 31 (touring)

“Cabinet Paintings”, Gillian Jason Gallery, London (touring)

1992 “Contemporary Colourists”, Gallery 10, London, and Flying Colours Gallery, Edinburgh

“The Celebrated City”, Treasures from the collections of the Corporation of London, Barbican Art Gallery

“The Discerning Eye”, The Mall Galleries, London (by invitation)

1993 “Moving into View”, Arts Council Collection, The South Bank Centre, London

“Innovation and Tradition: Recent Painting in Britain”, The Tate Gallery, London

“The Sussex Scene: Artists in Sussex in the Twentieth Century”, Hove and Eastbourne Art Galleries

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 18

The Royal West of England Academy (by invitation)

“Small is Beautiful”, Flowers East, London and in 1994, ’95 and ’97

1994 “Here and Now”, Serpentine Gallery, London

“The Garden Party”, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford

1995 “Centenary”, The National Trust’s Foundation for Art, Christie’s, London

“Works on paper by Royal Academicians”, Coram Gallery, London and the New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey

“Alive! Brighton since the 60s”, University of Brighton Gallery

1996 “From Place to Place”, Concourse Gallery, Barbican (touring) “Woven Images”, Contemporary British Tapestry, Concourse Gallery, Barbican (touring)

British Airways, Heathrow Airport VIP Lounge

1997/8 “The Subjects of Art”, Lothbury Gallery, Natwest Group, City of London

1998 “Eye Contact”, The Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne

“Landscapes of England”, Royal Academy, London

“Portraits of Places”, Lothbury Gallery, Natwest Group, City of London

1998 “Painters Progress; Drawn from the Royal College of Art Collection”, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

“Gardens”, A.T. Kearney, Berkeley Square, London

1998/9 “Brighton Up!”, Brewery Arts, Cirencester, 7th November-2nd January and Black Swan Guild, Frome

1999 “Nature in Art”, Wallsworth Hall, Gloucester

“Contemporary British Landscape”, Flowers East

“The Discerning Eye”, The Mall Galleries, London (by invitation)

1999-2000 Guildhall Art Gallery Collection, Guildhall Art Gallery

2000 “Pastel, Painting and Drawing 1898-2000, The Mall Galleries, London

“Order and Event-Landscape Now”, Art Space Gallery, London

2001 “Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibition 2001, Bankside Gallery

Real Encounters, South Eastern Arts, Hastings Pier Gallery

2003 “The View” Group Exhibition about Richmond Hill at Waterstones, Piccadilly

2004 “Art of the Garden” Group Exhibition at Tate Britain

2004 Stourhead showed Turner, Constable, Piper and Berg reproductions placed in the locations where the artists stood when they painted them

2005 “Paintings in Hospitals” at the Friends’ room at the Royal Academy

2005 “Visual Wit”, at the Friends’ room at the Royal Academy

He annually exhibits at the Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts

Awards And Prizes

1942 Prize for drawing at Prep School

1946 Leech Prize for Drawing at Charterhouse

Second Prize, R.C.A Sketch Club

Abbey Minor Scholarship

French Government Scholarship

1973 Gold Medal, Florence Biennale

1979-80 Lorne Scholarship

1980 Minor Prize, John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 12

1980-81 Minor Prize, “The Spirit of London”, GLC Exhibition

1981 Major Prize, 3rd Tolly Cobbold, Eastern Arts National Exhibition

1982-83 3rd Prize, John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 13

1987 The National Trust’s Foundation for Art award

2001 First Prize, Royal Watercolour Society’s Open Exhibition 2001, Bankside Gallery

Commissions

1980 Painting for Allied Lyons

1980-81 Images for “Israel Observed” Exhibition

1981 Painting and Poster for the British Museum

1982 Water-colours for Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery (“Presences of Nature” Exhibition)

1987 Artist’s Parish Map for Common Ground

1989 Painting and Print for Glyndebourne

1989, ’92 & ’93 Tapestries with West Dean Tapestry Studio, Sussex

1995 Water-colours for the National Trust of their properties in the Isle of Wight

1997 Artist in residence Darlington Hall, International Summer Music School

2000 Barclays Bank

2008 The Richmond Hill Gallery solo show