John Bellany CBE RA HRSA (1942-2013)

Literature

John Bellany b. 1942-2013

Education

1967 Official cultural visit to East Germany with Alan Bold and

Alexander Moffat: visited Dresden, Halle, Weimar, East Berlin, and the concentration camp of Buchenwald

1965-1968 Royal College of Art, London, UK

1960-1965 BB Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 John Bellany, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London

2015 The Richmond Hill Gallery solo show

2012 The Richmond Hill Gallery solo show

2006 Beaux Arts, London

2005 East Lothian exhibitions to celebrate John Bellany’s Freeman Award National Gallery of China , Bejing

The John Bellany Odyssey Mitchell Library, Glasgow

2004 Solomon Gallery, Dublin Beaux Arts, London Open Eye Gallery,

Edinburgh (Edinburgh Festival Exhibition)

2003 Beaux Arts, Bath Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

2002 John Bellany, Flowers West, London

John Bellany at 60 Beaux Arts, London 60 Birthday Exhibition,

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

1996 Monoprints, Flowers East, London

1995 John Bellany - New Paintings, John Bellany - Print-Maker, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

1994 Recent Paintings, Flowers East, London

1993 Prints, Drawings and Watercolours 1970 – 1993, Berkeley Square Gallery, London

1992 A Long Night's Journey into Day: A 50th Birthday Tribute, Art Gallery and Museum

Kelvingrove 50th Birthday - A Celebration, Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath

1991 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Fischer Fine Art, London

1990 Raab Gallery, Berlin Ruth Seigel Gallery, New York Compass Gallery, Glasgow

1989 The Renaissance of John Bellany: watercolours painted in

Addenbrookes' Hospital, Cambridge

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Fischer Fine Art, London

John Bellany-A Renaissance, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Aberdeen Art Gallery Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath

1988 Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York

Workshop Gallery, Edinburgh; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath

1987 The Peacock Gallery, Aberdeen

Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London

The Old Man and the Sea: Painting and Prints, Compass Gallery,

Glasgow Greenhill Galleries, Perth

Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney

Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland Hendricks Gallery, Dublin MacLaurin Gallery, Ayr

Bellany as Printmaker 1965 - 1985, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow;

Printmakers' Workshop, Edinburgh; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Beaux Arts, Bath

1986 National Portrait Gallery, London

Fischer Fine Art, London Galerie Krikhaar, Amsterdam Inaugural

Exhibition for opening of Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art,

London Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh (toured Scotland)

1985 Clare Henry, Glasgow Herald, Glasgow

British Art of the 20th Century from the collection of Southampton Art Gallery

1984 Scottish Expressionism, Warwick Arts Trust, London

The Hard-Won Image, Tate Gallery, London

The British Art Show (touring exhibition)

1983 Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin

Self Portraits, Scottish Arts Council touring exhibition

1982 The Subjective Eye, touring exhibition John Moores Exhibition 13,

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Contemporary Choice, Serpentine Gallery, London Inner Worlds,

Arts Council touring exhibition Drawing Towards Prints,

Printmakers' Workshop, Edinburgh

1981 National Portrait Gallery, London

The Triptych, Ian Birksted Gallery

Peter Moores Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Goldsmiths' College, London

The Nude, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

13 British Artists, British Council exhibition touring Germany Art and the Sea, touring exhibition

1980 John Moores Exhibition 12, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Prize Winner)

British Art 1940-1980: The Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London

1979 Scottish Artists, Amos Anderson Gallery, Helsinki Tate '79, Tate Gallery, London

Independent Irish Artists Exhibition, Municipal Gallery of Modern

Art, Dublin (including Bacon, Crozier and Freud representing

Britain) British Painting, Oxford University

1977 25 Years of British Painting, Royal Academy, London

Expressionism And Scottish Painting, Scottish Arts Council (touring exhibition)

London Group, Royal College of Art Galleries, London

Scottish Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

British Painting, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham

1976 John Moores Exhibition 10, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

1975 4 Scottish Realists, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (with Neil Dallas

Brown, Bill Gillon and Alexander Moffat)

English and Scottish Painting '75, Fieldborne Galleries, London

1974 A Choice Selection, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh

British Painting '74, Hayward Gallery, London

British Art '74, Germany, (British Council Touring Exhibition) John

Moores Exhibition 9, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool1973 Fanfare for Europe, Drian Gallery

Figures in the Landscape, Arts Council Touring Exhibition

London Group, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1972 British Figurative Art, Nova London Gallery, Copenhagen

Scottish Artists, (Touring Exhibition by New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh)

15 Scottish Printmakers, (Touring Exhibition Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, London)

1971 Arcadia Fine Art, Edinburgh (with William Crozier; Rodick Carmichael and Peter Stitt)

Scottish Realism, Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition

Twenty By Fifty-Seven, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh 10 Scottish Printmakers, Sussex University

1970 The Nude, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

1968 Twenty By Fifty-Seven, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh

1967 Young Contemporaries, London

London Artists, Shrewsbury John Moores Exhibition 6, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

1965 Young Contemporaries, London

Edinburgh Festival Exhibition on Mound steps (with Alexander Moffat)

1963 Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, hung on railings, Castle Terrace (with Alexander Moffat)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London

2010 40 Years On, Flowers East, London

Scottish Arts, Flowers Central, London

2009 Spring Selection, Flowers Upper Gallery, London The London Arts Fair, London

2008 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Small is Beautiful XXVI ‘Love’, Flowers Gallery, London

2007 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2005 35th Anniversary Celebration, Flowers East, London

2004 Flowers Graphics, London Birds, Flowers Graphics, London

2003 Modern Masters from the Archives, Flowers Graphics, London

Figure in Print, Flowers Graphics Flowers Central Summer Group

Show, Flowers Central, London

2000 Prints from Chicago, Flowers West, London

Small is Beautiful Part XVII ‘Millennium’, Flowers West, London

Scotland's Art, City Art Centre, Edinburgh

1997 Heads, Flowers Graphics, Flowers East, London

Angela Flowers Gallery 1997, Flowers East at London Fields, London

British Figurative Art, Part I: Painting, Flowers East, London

Print, Riverside Studios, London

Small is Beautiful, Part XV: Death, Flowers East at London Fields, London

British Figurative Art – Part I: Painting, Flowers East

Small is Beautiful Part XVI ‘Music’, Flowers West, London

1996 The Power of Images, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

Naked, Flowers East at London Fields, London

Rye Art Gallery, Virgin Airways Upper Class Lounge Realism,

Kunstlersondebud of Deutscheland, Berlin

Angela Flowers, Ireland, Cork, Ireland

Small is Beautiful, Part XIV: Sex, Flowers East at London Fields, London

1995 The 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East at London Fields,

London Contemporary British Art in Print - The Publications of The

Paragon Press 1986-95, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

1994 The Bigger Picture, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow

After Redoute: Recent flower paintings, drawings and photographs, Flowers East, London

Small is Beautiful, Part 12: Night and Day, Flowers East at London Fields, London

1993 Scottish Painting, Flowers East, London

Small is Beautiful Part XI: Homages, Flowers East Contemporary

Trends in British Art, Hayward Gallery, London

The Line of Tradition, Scotland

John Moores Exhibition 18, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

1992 New British Art, Denmark (British Council Exhibition)

Modern Masters: Prints, Berkeley Square Gallery, London

1990 Glasgow's Great British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow

The Compass Contribution, Tramway, Glasgow

8 Scottish Printmakers, British Council touring exhibition,

Singapore, Glasgow Turning the Century, The New Scottish

Painting (touring show), The Raab Gallery, London, Milan, Berlin, USA, Bellany/Howson/ McFadyen

Scotland Creates, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow

1989 El Greco Exhibition, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (guest

artist) Eros in Albion, (House of Massaccio) Italy, British Council

Exhibition British Figurative Painting, selected by Norbert Lynton

Every Picture Tells a Story, British Council Touring Exhibition, Hong Kong, Singapore, Africa

1988 British Romantic Painting, touring exhibition opened Madrid

The Royal College of Art Print Portfolio Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

1987 Scottish Painting 1954-87, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh; Warwick Arts Trust, London

Awarded George Walliston Prize for best work in Royal Academy,

London Represented Britain in Ljubljana Print Biennale, Yugoslavia;

2nd Triennale of European Engraving, Grada, Italy

The Self Portrait, selected by Edward Lucie-Smith and Sean Kelly,

Artsite Gallery, Bath, Fischer Fine Art, London

The Scottish Bestiary (portfolio of prints touring exhibition), The Banqueting House, London

1986 Man and Animals, Arts Council exhibition, Nottingham Castle Celtic

Vision, (touring exhibition opened Madrid)

1985 Athena International Awards, Mall Galleries London (Joint First Prize)

British Painting, Manchester City Art Gallery, Fine Art Society, Edinburgh

1984 Scottish Expressionism, Warwick Arts Trust, London

The Hard-Won Image, Tate Gallery, London

The British Art Show (touring exhibition)

1983 Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin Self Portraits, Scottish Arts Council touring exhibition

1982 The Subjective Eye, touring exhibition John Moores Exhibition 13,

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Contemporary Choice, Serpentine

Gallery, London Inner Worlds, Arts Council touring exhibition

Drawing Towards Prints, Printmakers' Workshop, Edinburgh

1981 National Portrait Gallery, London

The Triptych, Ian Birksted Gallery

Peter Moores Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Fruitmarket

Gallery, Edinburgh; Goldsmiths' College, London

The Nude, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

13 British Artists, British Council exhibition touring Germany Art

and the Sea, touring exhibition

1980 John Moores Exhibition 12, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Prize Winner)

British Art 1940-1980: The Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London

1979 Scottish Artists, Amos Anderson Gallery, Helsinki Tate '79, Tate Gallery, London

Independent Irish Artists Exhibition, Municipal Gallery of Modern

Art, Dublin (with Bacon, Crozier and Freud representing Britain)

British Painting, Oxford University

The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, and touring

1977 25 Years of British Painting, Royal Academy, London

Expressionism And Scottish Painting, Scottish Arts Council (touring exhibition)

London Group, Royal College of Art Galleries, London Scottish

Painting, Edinburgh College of Art

British Painting, Nottingham Castle

1976 John Moores Exhibition 10, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

1975 4 Scottish Realists, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (with Neil Dallas

Brown, Bill Gillon and Alexander Moffat) English and Scottish

Painting '75, Fieldborne Galleries, London

1974 A Choice Selection, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh British

Painting '74, Hayward Gallery, London

British Art '74, Germany, (British Council Touring Exhibition)

John Moores Exhibition 9, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

1973 Fanfare for Europe, Drian Gallery Figures in the Landscape, Arts

Council Touring Exhibition

London Group, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1972 British Figurative Art, Nova London Gallery, Copenhagen Scottish

Artists, (Touring Exhibition by New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh)

15 Scottish Printmakers, (Touring Exhibition Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, London)

1971 Arcadia Fine Art, Edinburgh (with William Crozier; Rodick

Carmichael and Peter Stitt)

Scottish Realism, Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition

Twenty By Fifty-Seven, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh 10 Scottish

Printmakers, Sussex University

1970 The Nude, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

1968 London Group, London

Twenty By Fifty-Seven, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh

1967 Young Contemporaries, London

John Moores Exhibition 6, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

1966 Young Contemporaries, London

1965 Young Contemporaries, London

Edinburgh Festival Exhibition on Mound steps

1963 Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, hung on railings, Castle Terrace

Retrospective Exhibitions

1986 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Serpentine Gallery, London

1988-1989 Hamburger Kunsthalle and Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund

Awards, Honours & Commissions

1995 Glasgow Herald Award for Excellence

1993 Korn/Ferry Picture of the Year, Royal Academy

1992 British Council visit to Central Europe, Prague, Vienna, Budapest

1991 Commissioned to paint Lord Renfrew and Sir Roy Calne by the

National Portrait Gallery, London

1987 Wollaston Award, Royal Academy

1985 Athena International Art Award (joint first prize winner)

1981 Major Arts Council Award

1980 John Moores Prize Winner

1965 Postgraduate Travelling Scholarship; travelled to Holland and Belgium

Commissioned by Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to paint

murals for Chesser House, Edinburgh

Burston Award at Royal College of Art

1962 Andrew Grant Scholarship; travelled to Paris

Public Collections

Aberdeen Art Gallery

Arts Council of Great Britain

Belfast Polytechnic

British Council

British Museum, London

Chesser House, Edinburgh

Contemporary Art Society

Dundee Central Museum and Art Gallery

Dublin Museum of Modern Art

Edinburgh Corporation

Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums

Government Art Collection

Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

Isle of Man Arts Council Collection

J.F Kennedy Library, Boston

Kassa Kasser Museum, New York

Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery

Leeds City Art Gallery

Leicester Museum and Art Gallery

MacLaurin Art Gallery, Ayr

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Middlesbrough Art Gallery

Museum of Boca Raton, Florida

Museum of London

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Gallery of Art, Gdansk

National Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin

National Gallery of Poland, Warsaw

Royal College of Art, London

Scottish Arts Council

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Sheffield City Art Gallery

Southampton City Art Gallery

Swindon Museum and Art Gallery

Tate Gallery, London

Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh

University of Western Australia, Perth

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

Wolverhampton Municipal Art Gallery and Museum

Yale Centre of British Art

National Library of Congress, Washington

National Portrait Gallery, London

New York Public Gallery

Perth Museum and Art Gallery

Zuider Zee Museum, Holland

Film and Documentaries

1994 BBC2 The Bigger Picture

BBC2 The Late Show

1991 ITV Film 'John Bellany' with Vivien Hamilton, 30 minutes

1989 BBC 'Heart of the Matter: "Is Life worth Living? It Depends on the Liver"

1986 BBC Television 'A Portrait' John Bellany, (15 minutes)

BBC Television 'John Bellany, A Retrospective' directed by Keith Alexander, 30 minutes

BBC 'Heart of the Matter - John Bellany' with Joan Bakewell, 30 minutes

1975 BBC Television Scotland John Bellany'

(30-minute film directed by W. Gorden Smith} Lecturing

1999 Senior Fellow, Royal College of Art, London

1998 Honorary D Lit, Heriot Watt, University of Edinburgh

1996 Awarded Honorary Doctorate, University of Edinburgh

1994 Awarded CBE by Her Majesty the Queen

1988 Elected Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge

1983 Artist in Residence, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia

1978-84 Lecturer in Painting, Goldsmiths' College of Art

1969-73 Lecturer in Painting, Winchester College of Art. Visiting Lecturer at

Royal College of Art, and Goldsmiths' College of Art

1968 Lecturer in Painting, Brighton College of Art Selected Bibliography

1999 Catalogue of Scotland's Art, Edinburgh City Art Centre

Clare Henry, The master waxes lyrical, The Herald, 24 August

1997 William Packer, Sculptural Graces...., The Financial Times, 3

January Tamasin Doe, Portrait artists, The London Evening Standard 17 January

Dintenfass listing, The New Yorker, 30 January

Scotland Reviews, Arts Review, February

Lila Rawlings, The Right Impressions, The List, 24 February-9

March Galleries, The Scotsman, 4 March paragon of print, Scotland on Sunday,12 March

William Packer, Battery of beasts and symbols, Financial Times, 22 August

1994 Sea shore beasts and graffiti, William Packer, Financial Times, 26 November

Simon Corbin, What's On, 30 November Duncan Macmillan, 'A haunted life... The Scotsman, 5 December

W Gordon Smith, Art & Part, Scotland on Sunday, 11 December

David Ekserdjian, book review, The Spectator,17 December

1993 Scottish Painters, Sue Hubbard, Time Out, September John Bellany, Art Review, October

My Country Childhood, John Bellany, Country Living, October

Pulse, John Keenan, The Big Issue, 19 October

John Bellany, Simon Corbin, What's On, 20 October

Revisiting the Trauma of Surgery, James Bustard, The Scotsman, 27 October

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 18, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool exhibition catalogue

Painting the Town, W. Gordon Smith, Scotland on Sunday, 7 November

Bellany's Talent Recognised, Audrey Gillan, The Scotsman, 31

Contemporary Painting in Scotland, edited by Bill Hare, The

Concise Catalogue of Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art compiled by Patrick Elliott

1992 The Art of Creation, Ajay Close, Scotland on Sunday, 5 July An

Artist with Vibrant Good Hope, Allen Wright, The Scotsman, 10

July 1992 John Bellany, Bill Hare, Galleries Magazine, July 1992

Portrait of an Artist now Bursting with Life, Robert Dawson Scott, Sunday Times Scotland, 12 July

To the End of the Night, Miranda France, The List 3-16 July Vision

of the Artist in Three Acts, Clare Henry, The Glasgow Herald, 13

July Bellany's Day, The Ticket, July Feature, The Preview, July/August/September

A Long Night's Journey into Day: The Art of John Bellany, The

Scotsman, 18 July A Portrait of My Love, Anne Simpson, The Herald, 28 July

Metaphorically Speaking, Tom Lubbock, The Independent on Sunday, 2 August

Back from his Brush with Death, Andrew Gibbons Williams, The Times, 4 August

Life, near-death, sin and wickedness, Mary Rose Beaumont, The Financial Times, 25 August

A Long Night's Journey into Day: The Art of John Bellany,

catalogue essay, Alexander Moffat, Art Gallery and Museum,

Kelvingrove A Long Night's Journey into Day, Keith Patrick, Contemporary Art Magazine, Autumn

1991 John Bellany in Cambridge, Jane Munro, catalogue introduction, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Susan Pirnie, catalogue introduction, Highland Regional Council touring exhibition

British Contemporary Art 1910-1990 - Eighty Years collecting by the Contemporary Art Society

1990 Turning Point, William Packer, Royal Academy magazine, No 26, Spring

Scottish Painting,1837 to the Present, William Hardie

Scottish Art 1460-1990, Duncan McMillan

Peter Fuller, catalogue introduction, Compass Gallery, Glasgow

Edward Lucie-Smith, catalogue introduction, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York

Peter Fuller, catalogue introduction, Raab Gallery, Berlin Son of

the Sea, John McEwen, Telegraph Magazine, photograph by Lord Snowdon, 19 May

1989 Prometheus Restored, Sarah Jane Checkland, The Times

Portrait of the Artist as a Patient at Death's Door, Clare Henry, Glasgow Herald, 24 March

View from a Visionary, Alan Bold, Observer Scotland, 26 March

Survivors and Debtors, Alistair Hicks, The Times, 4 April New

Liver, New Life, Peter Fuller, The Sunday Telegraph, 9 April John

Bellany Painting on the Edge, Alan Bold, Modern Painters, Spring

A to B and Back Again, Mike von Joel, Artline, Vol 4 No5,

Back from the Brink, Clare Flowers, Scotland on Sunday, 19 March

1988 John Bellany, Ellen Lee Klein, Arts Magazine, April

Alistair Hicks, catalogue introduction, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York

Thomas Schnurmacher, The Gazette, Montreal, 6 April

A Voyage to Hell and Back, Edward Gage, The Scotsman, 12 August

Exhibition Road - painters at the Royal College of Art, edited by Paul Huxley

, published by Phaidon Press

1987 Catalogue- Trienniale Europea Dell' Incisione, Grado, Italy

William Feaver, The Observer, 7 June Rare Thrills

Among the Royal Academy's Conformity, Waldemar Januszczak, The Guardian, 8 June

The Whitechapel Auction, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London,

Sotheby's catalogue, 1 July

Bellany at Kilkenny Castle, Dorothy Walker, The Irish Independent, 29 August

1986 Catalogue essays by William Packer and Robin Gibson Gibson

John Bellany: New Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London

Bellany's Voyage, catalogue essay by Richard Cork, Fischer Fine Art, London

Personal view of Botham the folk hero, Clare Henry, Glasgow Herald, 28 January

Catalogue for Christies Auction, London, and New York,

Tate Gallery, Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, 1982-84, Fifty

Twentieth Century Artists in the Scottish National Gallery,

Illustrated catalogue John Bellany (retrospective exhibition) -

Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours 1964-86, Scottish National

Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and The Serpentine Gallery, London

John Bellany: A Portrait of the Artist, an essay by Alan Bold The Voyage of John Bellany

John Bellany Retrospective Exhibition, Scottish National Gallery of

Modern Art, Edinburgh Festival, The Times Review, 12 August

Profile on John Bellany, John Fowler, The Glasgow Herald, 14 August

Hot Scots, Marina Vaizey, The Sunday Times, 17 August

Face to Face with Bellany, Edward Gage, The Scotsman, September 8

Bellany's Glowing Summer, Peter Jones, The Scotsman, 28 October

New Scottish Colourists, Alistair Hicks, Vogue, October

John Bellany Retrospective Exhibition, Scottish National Gallery

The Serpentine Gallery, Studio International, Winter Issue

1984 Catalogue essay by Alexander Moffat, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Art Monthly, no. 79

John Bellany in Australia: a conversation with Jeff Makin, Studio

International, vol. 197, no.1005 Catalogue

The British Council Collection 1934-1984 reproduced L'Horlage

page 29, Introduction by Julian Andrews, Director, Fine Arts

Department Max Wykes-Joyce, Edinburgh, Art and Artists, vol. 215, August The Times, 21 August

1983 John Bellany, Paintings 1972-1982 exhibition catalogue Ikon

Gallery, Birmingham (and subsequent tour)

Essays by Victor Musgrave and Phillip Rawson, and poem, The

Voyage of John Bellany; A Triptych, by Alan Bold Robert Ayres,

Studio International, vol.196, no.1001 Vision from the outer edge,

Irene McManus, The Guardian, 8 March Marina Vaizey, The Times, 20 March

Peter Fuller, Art Monthly, no.65, April John Bellany at the Ikon, Rasaad Jamie, Artscribe, no.40, April

James Burr, Apollo, no.117, May 1983

Bellany goes to extremes to reflect the hard life, John Fowler,

Glasgow Herald, 7 June William Packer, Artline, no.6, Glasgow

Herald, 9 June Mary Rose Beaumont, Art Review, October

1982 John Bellany, Paintings 1972-1982 exhibition catalogue Ikon

Gallery, Birmingham (and subsequent tour)

Essays by Victor Musgrave and Phillip Rawson, and poem, The

Voyage of John Bellany; A Triptych, by Alan Bold Robert Ayres,

Studio International, vol.196, no.1001

Vision from the outer edge, Irene McManus, The Guardian, 8

March Marina Vaizey, The Times, 20 March Peter Fuller, Art Monthly, no.65, April

John Bellany at the Ikon, Rasaad Jamie, Artscribe, no.40, April

James Burr, Apollo, no.117, May 1983

Bellany goes to extremes to reflect the hard life, John Fowler,

Glasgow Herald, 7 June William Packer, Artline, no.6, Glasgow Herald, 9 June

Mary Rose Beaumont, Art Review, October

1981 Profile on John Bellany, Mike Von Joel, Artline Edward LucieSmith,

Artscribe, no.27, February Mary Rose Beaumont, Art Review, 5 June

The Language of Allegory, Mary Rose Beaumont, Art and Artists,

no.181, October Peter Moores Liverpool Project 6, Edward LucieSmith,

Mary Rose Beaumont, Art and Artist, no.183, December1981

1980 Catalogue essay by William Packer, Acme Gallery, London Stuart Morgan, Art Forum, April

The Painter's Inheritance, Heather Waddell, Glasgow Herald, 14

June Lucy Ellman, Art Review, no.12, 20 June Marina Vaizey, The Times, 22 June

John Roberts, Artscribe, no.24, August

1978 Marina Vaizey, The Times, 8 January Simon Vaughan Winter,

Artscribe, no. 10, January John Bellany: Paintings, Martin Green,

Art Monthly, no.14, February Felix McCullough, Art Review, no.5, 17 March

1973 Catalogue essay by Alan Bold, Triad Regional Arts Centre,

Bishops Stortford Catalogue essay by William Crozier and

Eddie Wolfram, Drian Gallery, London Eddie Wolfram, Art Review, no.4, 24 February

Eddie Wolfram, Art and Artists, vol.8, September Barbara Wright, Art Review, no.20, 8 October

1971 Catalogue essay by Alan Bold, Drian Gallery, London Scottish

Realism, catalogue essay by Alan Bold, Scottish Arts Council

touring exhibition Interview in Scottish Realism catalogue Scottish

Realism, Cordelia Oliver, The Guardian, 14 May Catalogue essay,

group exhibition with William Crozier, Rodick Carmichael and

Peter Stitt, Arcadia Fine Art Eddie Wolfram, Art Review, vol. 23 no.

1970 Oswell Blakeston, Art Review, vol.22, no.9 William Packer, Art and Artists, vol.5, May

1969 Positive evidence of new Edinburgh School, Edward Gage, The Scotsman 4, September