Exhibition
The Mind's Eye: Clive Hicks-Jenkins & Sarah Raphael-Balme
12 May 2017 – 17 Jun 2017
Event times
Monday: 10am-5pm
Wednesday - Saturday: 10am-5.30pm
Other times by appointment
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 10 Bootham
- York
North Yorkshire - YO30 7BL
- United Kingdom
Featuring the weird and wonderful, the imagined and the exaggerated, with prints and original paintings by artist, illustrator and designer Clive Hicks-Jenkins and York based painter Sarah Raphael-Balme.
About
Born in Newport in 1951, Clive Hicks-Jenkins worked for 25 years as a choreographer and theatre director before concentrating full-time on painting. His work has now been acquired by all the principal public collections in Wales and his artist’s books (including the first illustrated edition of Peter Shaffer’s Equus) are in libraries worldwide. He shows regularly with Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff and Anglesy and has had solo exhibitions at Newport Museum & Art Gallery, Brecknock Museum, the Museum of Modern Art Wales and Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford. A major retrospective of his work was held at the National Library of Wales in 2011. The book Clive Hicks-Jenkins was published by Lund Humphries in 2011.
Clive has won the Gulbenkian Welsh Art Prize and a Creative Wales Award and is a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy, the Welsh Group and 56 Group Wales. He became an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University in 2004. He has been praised by critics in The Independent, Modern Painters and Art Review. Simon Callow has called him ‘one of the most individual and complete artists of our time'.
Sarah Raphael Balme makes dream-like landscapes usually involving figures, plants and dogs (often her own companion Woody.) Her recent work also includes bold still lives featuring quirky, surprise objects in Moroccan influenced settings. Sometimes funny, sometimes bleak, the motifs in her work are drawn from folk art and colour is all-important. Sarah studied at Chelsea College of Art, London and divides her time between York and London. In her other life she is a cartoonist.