Artist Information

Brian Bishop

ARCA Royal College of Art, London

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 One Wall Gallery, Poundbury, Dorset
2014 Acanthus Gallery, Wareham, Dorset
2013 Acanthus Gallery, Wareham, Dorset
2012 Acanthus Gallery, Wareham, Dorset
2005 Alchemy of Colour, Highcliffe Castle, Dorset
1997 On Line Gallery, Southampton. Hampshire
1996 Galerie Ellison-Marshall, Bordeaux, France
1986 Anatol Orient, London
1980 “Rituals”, Galerie Le Duplex, Le Havre. France
1979 Oxford Gallery, Oxford

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Slade Centre with Group 7, Gillingham, Dorset
2023 Sou' Sou' West Gallery with Group 7, Bridport, Dorset
2022 RWA 169th Open Exhibition, Bristol
2022 Black Swan Arts Centre with Group 7, Frome, Somerset
2022 North Wall Arts Centre with Group 7, Oxford
2022 Lighthouse Gallery with Group 7, Poole Centre of the Arts, Poole, Dorset
2021 Small Sculptures at The Slade Centre, Gillingham, Dorset
2021 The Slade Centre with Group 7, Gillingham, Dorset
2021 Dorchester Hospital with Group 7, Dorchester, Dorset
2020 RCA at the First Gallery, Southampton, Hampshire
2019 Drawn at the Young Gallery, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2019 Young Gallery with Group 7, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2019 Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School with Group 7, Street, Somerset
2019 Swindon Museum & Art Gallery with Group 7, Wiltshire
2019 ACEarts Gallery, Somerton, Somerset
2019 Print at Walford Mill, Wimborne, Dorset
2018 The Slade Centre with Group 7, Gillingham, Dorset
2018 Sculpture at The Walled Garden, Moreton, Dorset
2018 Lighthouse, Poole Centre for the Arts with Group 7
2018 "Vibrant" with Art Number 23 Gallery, The Old Biscuit Factory, London
2017 Sketch Open at Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, Wiltshire
2017 Allsop Gallery with Group 7, Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport, Dorset
2017 Young Gallery Collection, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2016 Russell-Cotes Gallery with Group 7, Bournemouth, Dorset
2016 Burton Gallery with Group 7, Bideford, Devon
2016 The Slade Centre with Group 7, Gillingham, Dorset
2016 Studio 53 with Group 7, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2015 DVA Interrogating the Landscape, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset
2015 The Young Gallery with Group 7, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2014 The Slade Centre with Group 7, Gillingham, Dorset
2014 Plough Drawing Open, Great Torrington, Devon
2013 The Young Gallery with Group 7, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2012 RWA 160TH Open, Bristol
2011 Edinburgh Art Fair
2010 Affordable Art Fair, Paris, France
2009 St-Art Gallery, London
2008 “Colour Rush” Salisbury Arts Centre
2007 “Head to Head” – Brian Bishop & John Holden at Queen Street Gallery, Emsworth, Hampshire
2007 RWA 155 Open, Bristol
2002 “Dorset Colourists”, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth
1997 “British Contemporary Art”, Kunstcentrum Haaqweq, Leiden, Holland
1997 Galerie Im Studentwerk, Universitat Osnabruck, Germany
1997 “In-Transit, Some Contemporary British Art”, University of Derby
1995 Galerie Ellison-Marshall, Bordeaux, France
1995 “Artistes Vos Papiers”, Parc des Expositions, Toulouse, France
1992 Anderson O’Day Fine Art, London
1991 “Under the Eye of Saturn”, Oriel Mostyn Art Gallery, Gwynedd, Wales
1988 London Group 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Royal College of Art. London
1987 Norsk/British Keramikk, Khristianssands Kunstforening, Kristiansands, Norway
1987 Galerie Der Kunsthandwerker, Hamburg, Germany
1986 Norsk/British Keramikk, Gallery F.15 Moss, Norway
1986 Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway
1984 “Art? Artisanat?”, Centre d’Art Contemporian, Rouen, France
1984 Keramiek 6 X Engels”, Studio 40 Den Haag, Holland
1984 “The Spirit of London”, Royal Festival Hall, London
1981 “Professeurs Plasticiens”, Musee des Beaux Arts, Andre Malraux Gallery, France

AWARDS/PRIZES
1995 Prix de la Chambre de Metiers de la Haute-Garonne, France
1986 The British Council. Travel Grant to Norway
1976-1978-1981 Southern Arts Bursaries
1973 Blackburn Sculpture Competition
1965 Mme Andre Susse Fondeur, S.A. France. Sainsbury’s Work Aid. RCA Travel Scholarship

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustimuseum, Norway. Royal College of Art, London. University of London. Mishcon de Reya, London. Rank Xerox plc. BAA. Chambre de Metiers de la Haute-Garonne, France. Michel Sadirac “Arc en Reve”, Bordeaux, France, Accenture plc. Walk Interior Design. Young Gallery Collection. Creasey & Young Gallery Collection

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 "Connections" Catalogue Group 7 Atkinson Gallery. 2019 "Colour Values" Catalogue Group 7. 2018 - "Vibrant" - Art Number 23 Gallery Catalogue. 2017 - "Sketch 2017" - Rabley Drawing Centre. 2010 - Art UK. 2008 - Marjorie Parr by Peter Davies. 2006 - Fifty Wessex Artists, Evolver Books. 2004, 2006 - Bournemouth University Loan Collection. 1997 – “Transit”, University of Derby. 1986 - Norsk-British Ceramik Gallery F15. 1982 - And Printmaking. 1968 - British Sculpture & Painting, Whitechapel Gallery. 1966 - Structure, Welsh Arts Council. 1965 - Towards Art II, RCA. Arts Council