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Terry Frost was born in 1915 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, where he was educated until 1929. He served in the British Army from 1939-45 and was a prisoner of war in Salonika, Poland and Germany Stalag 383. He first began to paint as a prisoner of war, encouraged by the painter Adrian Heath.
Returning to England, he received an ex-serviceman’s grant and attended Camberwell School of Art, London from 1947-50, where he was taught by Victor Pasmore, William Coldstream and Lawrence Gowing.
He went on to teach at the Bath Academy of Art 1952, and was the Gregory Fellow at Leeds University 1954-56, teaching at Leeds School of Art from 1956-57. He was made Artist in Residence at the Fine Art Department of Newcastle University in 1964, and became a full time lecturer at the Department of Fine Art, Reading University in 1965. He went on to become Professor of Painting at the University of Reading from 1977-81.
Frost produced his first abstract paintings in 1947. His first abstract show in 1951, was at the Riverside Museum, New York which was a show of Danish, British and American Abstract Art. At this time Frost was also assistant to Barbara Hepworth. Frost’s first one-man show was held at the Leicester Galleries in 1952.
He continued to exhibit regularly in London and his first international one-man show was held in 1961 at the Bertha Schaeffer Gallery, New York. Further solo exhibitions include the ICA, London (1971) and the Serpentine Gallery, London (1976) organised by the Arts Council and South West Arts, touring to Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds, Chester, Birmingham and Plymouth. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Mayor Gallery, London in 1990 and in 2000 a major retrospective, Terry Frost: Six Decades, was held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Frost has also participated in many group shows since 1953, and his work is held in many corporate and private collections throughout the world.
Terry Frost was elected Royal Academician 1992 and received a knighthood in 1998. He died 1st of September 2003. |
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