Richard Pinkney: No Red Tram 1958-2024

About

Richard Pinkney was born in Ipswich in 1938, studied at Ipswich School of Art and the West of England College of Art in the ‘50s and has lived and worked in Suffolk all his life.

This is a retrospective exhibition of his graphic, pictorial, serial, digital and mixed media work

His narrative style and uncompromising methods grew out of an early interest in modernism and cybernetics.  In the 1960’s he concentrated on ephemera; things that were nearly out of sight and thoughts lost between more important considerations, He found and continues to find ways to have fun using incongruity and avoiding the autographic mark.

He founded Trivia Press in 1965 as a portmanteau for his graphic ideas and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015.

Exhibiting widely in London, Edinburgh, Bath, Sudbury, Ipswich, Leicester, Peterborough and abroad etc, his work appears in many private and public collections including The Tate, The Government Art Collection, The Yale Collection of British Art, The British Library and The Bury Museum Archive of British Word Art etc.

Richard found that his interaction with students and colleagues when teaching at Ipswich, Colchester, St. Martins, Kingsway and other Schools of Art was intellectually stimulating and expanded his technical awareness. The resulting printmaking diversity is a firm thread throughout this show. Similarly, the progression of ideas revealed by his compulsive drawing in notebooks is thematic and full of delight.