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Kenneth Draper RA

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1944	Born in Killamarsh, near Sheffield, Yorkshire
1959-62	Chesterfield School of Art
1962-65	Kingston School of Art, London
1965-68	The Royal College of Art, London
1980	Elected to the Faculty of The British School in Rome
1991	Elected member of The Royal Academy of Arts, London

Curriculum Vitae

2007	Castlegate House Gallery, Cumbria
2006	Royal Academy of Arts, London
2004	Studio 3, London
2003	Hart Gallery, London
2002	Hart Gallery, London
2000	Hart Gallery, London
1998	New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham Hart Gallery, London
1996	Hart Gallery, London Hart Gallery, Nottingham
1995	Peter Bartlow Gallery, Chicago, USA Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport, Dorset Hart Gallery, London
1994	Hart Gallery, London Studio 3, London
1993	Adelson Gallery, New York, USA Hart Gallery, Nottingham Royal Academy of Arts, London
1991	Glenn Green Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Austin Desmond Gallery, London Grape Lane Gallery, York
1990	Hampstead Theatre Gallery, London
1984	Gallerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, Holland
1982	The Minories, Colchester Chapter Art Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
1981	Alpirsbach Gallerie, Alpirsbach, Germany EGK Galleries, Stuttgart, Germany Warwick Arts Trust, London
1978	Redfern Gallery, London Cartwright Hall, Museum and Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire
1969	Redfern Gallery, London

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

2007	“Homage to Menorca”, Sa Nostra Foundation, Menorca. Two person exhibition with Jean Macalpine Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London “Circa 1976” Milton Keynes Gallery, Works from the Arts Council Collection Castlegate House Gallery, Cumbria
2006	Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2005	Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Castlegate House Gallery, Summer Exhibiton, Cumbria
2004	Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2003	Contemporary Sculpture, Palm Beach, Florida EUROP’ART, Geneva Contemporary Art Fair, Chelsea, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London ‘Sterling Stuff’ Royal Academy, London
2002	Contemporary Art Fair, Chelsea, London Twentieth Century Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London Gallery in Cork Street, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2001	Contemporary Art Fair, Geneva, Switzerland International Art Exposition, Chicago, USA Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Twentieth Century Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London Contemporary Art Fair, Chelsea, London
2000	‘Art Miami 2000’ Florida, USA Contemporary Art Fair, Chelsea, London Twentieth Century Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London ‘Fusion’ Riverhouse Gallery, Walton-on-Thames
1999	‘Art Miami 99’ Florida, USA ‘Art 99’ Islington, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Triennial Sculpture Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol ‘Contemporary British Landscape’ Flowers East, London
1998	‘Art Miami 98’ Florida, USA ‘Art 98’ Islington, London ‘The Poetry of Place’ Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
1997	‘Art Miami 97’ Florida, USA ‘Art 97’ Islington, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
1996	‘Art Miami 96’ Florida, USA ‘Art 96’ Islington, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Twentieth Century British Art Fair, London
1995	‘Art 95’ Islington, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Geneva Art Fair, Geneva, Switzerland Manchester Fine Arts Fair, Manchester Twentieth Century Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London Group Exhibition, Adelson Galleries, New York, USA
1994	Contemporary Art Society Market, London Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Works on Paper, Adelson Galleries, New York, USA Chesil Gallery, Portland, Dorset Twentieth Century Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London ‘Space Redefined’ Shad Thames Galleries, Butlers Wharf, London ‘Small is Beautiful’ Flowers East, London ‘Landscape’ New Academy Gallery, London
1993	Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London ‘Art 93’ Islington, London Chicago International Art Expostion, USA ‘Painting the Earth’ John Jones Gallery, London Contemporary Art Society Market, London ‘Small is Beautiful’ Flowers East, London
1992	‘Aspects of British Abstraction, The Poetic Trace’ Adelson Galleries, New York, USA ‘British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century’ Millfield, Somerset ‘Landscape’ On Line Gallery, Southampton ‘Sense of Place’ Cleveland Bridge Gallery, Bath ‘Art 92’ Islington, London Contemporary Art Society Market, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
1991	Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, USA ‘Art 91’ Islington, London ICAF Olympia, London ‘Stonewall’ ICA Galleries, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Contemporary Art Society Market, London Wessex Artists, Parnham House, Dorset Group Exhibition, On Line Gallery, Southampton
1990	International Gallery Invitational Art Fair, Chicago, USA Contemporary International Art Exposition, Chicago, USA ‘Art 90’ Islington, London ICAF Olympia, London Group Exhibition, Glenn Green Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Bath Art Fair, Bath Group Exhibition, Louise Hallett Gallery, London Contemporary Art Fair, Sydney, Australia Contemporary Art Society Market, London
1989	Contemporary International Art Exposition, Chicago, USA Contemporary Art Society Market, London Artist in Residence, Chesil Gallery, Portland, Dorset
1988	Contemporary International Art Exposition, Chicago, USA Group Exhibition, Louise Hallett Gallery, London Warwick Arts Trust Collection, Warwick Arts Trust, London Art in the Market Place, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Contemporary Art Society Market, London ‘Landscape’ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
1987	Contemporary International Art Exposition, Chicago, USA ‘Art for the City’ Lloyds of London Contemporary Art Society Market, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London ‘Hunter Collection of Twentieth Century Modern Masters’ Courtauld Gallery, London
1986	‘Hidden Landscape’ Juda Rowan Gallery, London Contemporary Art Society Market, London
1985	Contemporary Art Society Market, London
1984	‘Questions About Sculpture’ Arts Council touring Exhibition Group Exhibition, Friedus Ordover Gallery, New York, USA
1983	The Sculpture Show, Hayward Gallery, London Group Exhibition, Studio Odd, Hiroshima, Japan ‘Small is Beautiful’ Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1982	‘Coloured Constructions’ Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1981	‘British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century’ Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1980	‘The Human Factor’ Arts Council Touring Exhibition ‘The British Art Show’ Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (and tour)
1979	Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (and tour) British Sculptor’s Drawings, The Minories, Colchester Contemporary Works on Paper, Gainsborough House, Sudbury
1978	‘Fragile Stones Make Art’ National Museum of Wales, Cardiff Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Works on Paper, Artist’s Market, London
1977	Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (and tour) Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture, Battersea Park, London ‘Yorkshire Sculptors’ Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall, Yorkshire
1976	Arts Council, Recent Purchases, Hayward Gallery, London
1972	‘British Sculptors ‘72’, Royal Academy, London ‘British Sculptors ‘72’ Related Works, Redfern Gallery, London
1971	Seven Redfern Artists, Redfern Gallery, London British Sculptors Drawings, Bonino Gallery, Buenos Aires (and touring South America) Eight Individuals, Gravers Gallery, Sheffield (and Arts Council tour) Jacobs Ladder Inc., Washington DC, USA
1968	Summer Exhibition, Redfern Gallery, London
1965	Young Contemporaries Summer Exhibition, Redfern Gallery, London
1964	London Group, London

Commissions and Awards

2002	Designed commemorative Poster and Banner for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1981	Sculpture for Bradford University, Arts Council Project
1976	Arts Council of Great Britain Bursary
1974	Outdoor Sculpture for John Dalton Building, University of Manchester
1971	Mark Rothko Memorial Award, travel bursary to USA
1965	Young Contemporaries prize for Sculpture

Public and Corporate Collections

Arts Council of Great Britain

Arts Council of Wales

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Arthur Anderson, London

Contemporary Art Society, London

Cartwright Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Bradford

Courtauld Institute, London

De Beer’s Collection, London

Fitzwilliam Museum and Art Gallery, Cambridge

Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire

ICI, London

International Bank of Japan, London

Leicestershire Education Authority

Lloyds of London

M.A. Braganza & Co, London

Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield,

Mischon de Reya, London

McCrory Corporation, New York, USA

National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

National Westminster Bank, London

Pearl Assurance, London

Royal Life Group

TSB Bank, London

Unilever PLC, London

Usher Gallery, Lincoln

Recent Acquisitions

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London

Hammersmith Hospital, London

St. George’s Hospital, London