Anthony Eyton

15 May - 7 June 2013
1923 Born
1941 Department of Fine Art, Reading University
1947 Attended Camberwell School of Art
1951-52 Abbey Major Scholarship to work in Italy
1972 John Moores Competition prize winner
1973 Grocers’ Company Fellowship to work in Italy
1975 2nd British International Drawing Biennale, Middlesborough, 1st Prize
1976 Elected Royal Academician
1989 Charles Wollaston Award, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1999-2010 Resident Artist, Eden Project, Cornwall
2011 Awarded Honorary Fellowship from the University of The Arts, London
 
Selected Exhibitions
1959, 61, 68 New Art Centre, London
1973 New Grafton Gallery, London
1975 William Darby Gallery, London
1978, 81, 85, 87,
90, 93, 2000,
05, 09, 13 Browse & Darby, London
1980 Retrospective, South London Art Gallery, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
and Plymouth Art Gallery
1983 Hong Kong and the New Territories, Imperial War Museum, London
1997 A. T. Kearney, London
2006 Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal,
2006 Kunst Galerie, Zell Am See, Austria
2007 The Discerning Eye, Prizewinner, Mall Galleries, London
2009-10 Evolutions of a Cornish clay pit, Eden Project, Cornwall
2011 Spitalfields Paintings:1968-1984. Revisited 2011, Eleven Spitalfields, London
2012 Built, Mall Galleries, London
 
Public Collections
Arts Council of Great Britain Land Securities
Bristol, Royal West of England Academy Leicester Royal Infirmary
British Museum Middlesborough Art Gallery
Carlisle Art Gallery National Westmister Bank
Contemporary Arts Society Plymouth Art Gallery
Government Picture Collection Reuters
Guildhall Art Gallery Tate Gallery
Imperial War Museum Unilever
 
Publications
Jenny Pery, Eyton’s Eye, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2005
Indian Memories, Two Generations, The Journal of Phyllis Eyton, illustrations by Anthony Eyton, Royal Academy of Arts,
London, 1996