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
2008
The Richmond Hill Gallery
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 24th April - 18th May