Terry Frost, RA (British 1915-2003)
Terry Frost ranks among Britain's best known 20th Century Artists. Frost was introduced to abstraction in the late 1940's by Victor Pasmore, his teacher at Camberwell School of Art.
Frost began abstract painting in 1949, shortly before returning to St. Ives where he worked as an assistant to Barbara Hepworth. He moved to Newlyn in 1974 and influenced by Cornish marine life, he ultimately derives from an interpretation of the water-front, the reflections on the water, the movement of the waves and the masts of the boats.
He exhibited widely, notably in London at the Redfern Gallery, New Art Centre and Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Leicester Galleries, the Waddington Gallery and the Mayor Gallery.
His work appeared at various major international exhibitions: in New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Santa Barbara, Paris, Leningrad and Moscow and was a John Moores prize winner in 1967, 1969 and 1972.
Elected RA in 1992 and was knighted in 1998.
In his eighties, having discovered glass as a medium to express himself, he became Britain's most famous glass sculptor, designing sculptures such as Millennium disc and the Aphrodite's Moon Dream at the Murano glasswork in Venice and made under his personal supervision by the Venetian master glass-blower Mario Badioli, who assisted Frost in realising this new dimension in his work.
Public collections include
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand
Gulbenkian Foundation, London
Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
National Museum of Canada, Ottawa
Tate Collection, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2001, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick
2000, Royal Academy of Arts, Sackler Galleries Beaux Arts, London
1997, Belgrave Gallery, London
1995, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin McGeary Gallery, Brussels
1994, Mayor Gallery, London
1992, Adelson Gallery, New York
Bibliography
Lawrence ALLOWAY, Nine Abstract Artists: their Works and Theory, London, 1954
Elizabeth KNOWLES, David LEWIS, Terry Frost, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994
Chris STEPHENS, Terry Frost - St. Ives Artists S., Tate Publishing, 2000
Mel GOODING, Isabel CARLISLE, Terry Frost, Royal Academy of Arts, 2000
Mel GOODING, Terry Frost, Tate Publishing, 2003
Terry FROST, Warm Frost - Inspirations, Alison Hodge, 2003
Dominic KEMP, Terry Frost Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2010
Solo Exhibitions
1944, Leamington Spa Library, Leamington
1952, Leicester Galleries (also 1956, 1958), Leicester
1960, Bertha Schaeffer Gallery, New York
1961, Waddington Galleries (also 1963, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1978), London
1964, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zürich; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1969, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1970, Plymouth City Art Gallery (also 1986), Plymouth
1971, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1976, Arts Council and South West Arts Retrospective Tour Serpentine Gallery, London
1980, New Art Centre, Wiltshire
1982, Gloria Gallery, Nicosia
1986, University of Reading and Newlyn Art Gallery, and tour to Plymouth
1989, Mayor Gallery, London; Belgrave Gallery, London
1993, Austin Desmond Fine Art, London; Tate Gallery St Ives, St Ives
1994, Adelson Gallery New York
1995, McGeary Gallery, Brussels; Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn
1997, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives
1998, British Council, New York
1999, Arts Council Spotlight, touring exhibition
2000, Terry Frost: Six Decades, Royal Academy, London; Beaux Arts, London
2001, Mead Gallery, Warwick University Galleria Multigraphic, Venice; Maison des Arts, Colle sur Loup, France
2002, Belgrave Gallery, London, Strand Gallery, Aldeburgh Badcocks Gallery, Newlyn
Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth
2003, Beaux Arts, London
2007, Beaux Arts, London
2008, Beaux Arts, London; The Paintings of Sir Terry Frost, Reading Museum, Reading
2009, Five Decades of Terry Frost (Prints), Stoneman Graphics Gallery, Penzance; Works on Paper from the Artist's Studio, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives
2010, Terry Frost: A Lover of Life, Beaux Arts, London