Peter Sedgley (British b. 1930)
Peter Sedgley is an acknowledged Op-artist, on occasion using light and kinetics to animate his optical compositions.
Sedgley studied architecture at Brixton Technical School during 1944-46, but pursued a career as an artist. He came to maturity in the mid-1960s with several exhibitions at McRoberts and Tunnard Gallery and at Howard Wise Gallery, in New York. In 1966 he was a prize-winner at the Tokyo Biennale. During 1970s Sedgley exhibited widely in Germany, where he was commissioned an audio-visual display for the Donaueschingen Music Festival, in 1972. The following year he had a retrospective at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Sedgley also exhibited with the Redfern Gallery and was included in The Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1993.
Public collections include
Arts Council Collection, London
Art Museum of Atheneum
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Birmingham City Art Gallery, Birmingham
Bristol City Art Gallery, Bristol
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Leicester Education Authority, Leicester
L.O.Schulen Helsinger, Denmark
Museum of Drawings, Lund
Nagasaki Museum, Japan
Neuberger Museum of Art, New York
Northern Ireland Arts Council
Peter Stuyvesant Collection
Power Bequest Museum, Sydney
Schwedische Nationalsammlung, Stockholm
Stadtiches Museum, Gelsenkirchen
St. Louis Museum, USA
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Center, USA
Winnipeg Art Gallery, USA
Solo Exhibitions
1965, McRoberts and Tunnard Gallery, London; Howard Wise Gallery, New York
1966, McRoberts and Tunnard Gallery, London; Howard Wise Gallery, New York; Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago
1968, Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg; Kunstmarkt, K; Redfern Gallery, London; Galerie Reckermann, Kassel
1970, Trinity College, Dublin
1971, St Paul's School, London; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
1972, Forum Kunst, Rottweil; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; DLI Museum, Durham; Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1978, Akademie der Küste, Berlin; Galerie Tilly Haderek, Stuttgart
1979, Overbeckgesellschaft, Lübeck
1980, Redfern Gallery, London; Roundhouse, London
1981, Hendricks Gallery, Dublin; Project Gallery, Dublin; Galerie im Zentrum, Berlin
1982, Galerie Ferm, Malm, Sweden
1983, Redfern Gallery, London
1984, Galerie SeestraRapperswil, CH
1985, Bede Gallery, Jarrow; Galerie Ferm, Malm, Sweden
1986, Galerie Ferm, Malm, Sweden; Galerie Blanche, Stockholm
1987, Stadsmuseum, Norrk, Sweden; Gr, Copenhagen
1988, Museum in Gelsenkirchen; Kunstverein, Siegen
1989, Galerie Führ, Munich; Worthing Museum & Art Gallery, Sussex
1990, Galerie Ann Westin, Stockholm
1991, New York Hall of Science, New York City
1994, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, New York
2000, Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague
2004, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
2008, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
2009, Redfern Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
1964, Seven 64, McRoberts and Tunnard Gallery, London, UK
1965, Salon Realités Nouvelles, Paris, F; The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Art Today , Albright Knox Gallery , USA
1966, Ten 66, McRoberts and Tunnard Gallery, London, UK; Kinetic Art, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, UK; Aspects of New British Art , touring exhibition of NZ and AUS; The 9 th Mainichi International Biennale, Tokyo; Prize winner of the Education Ministers Award
1967, Jeunes Peintres Anglais , Basel; Pittsburg International , USA; North West Ireland Arts Festival, Derry
1968, British Drawing Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York (& touring USA); Klub Konkretistu, CSSR; Milano Print Shop, Milan; Power Bequest Exhibition, Sydney; Macys Festival of Great Britain , New York; Nuevas Tendencias, Mexico Museum of Modern Art; Public Eye , Kunsthaus Hamburg
1969, Galerie Onnasch , Berlin; Nantgenshi Gallery, Tokyo
1970, Human Presence, Camden Arts Centre, London; Contemporary British Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1971, SPACE Art Exhibition: London Now in Berlin, Berlin Festival
1972, Group New Music, Akademie der Künste , Berlin; Berlin Scene , Gallery Haus, London; AIR Exhibition, Glasgow and Edinburgh
1973, Kinetic Art Exhibition, Swansea and Edinburgh; 30 internationale Künstler in Berlin, Beethovenhalle, Bonn
1975, Britanniasta 75, Helsinki Taidenhalli, Alvar Aalto-Museo, Tampere
1976, Bild-Raum-Klang, Bonn, Stuttgart, Berlin; Künstlerbund Exhibition, Nationalgalerie , Berlin
1977, Berlin Now, New York; Group Systhema , Helsinki , SU (& touring Finland); British Painting 1952-77 , The Royal Academy of Arts , London; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; A Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Painting , Tate Gallery, London; 11 internationale Künstler , Forum Kulturaustausch, Bonn
1978, Konstruktive Tendenzen , Galerie Christl, Stockholm; Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus Berliner Privatbesitz , Akademie der Künste, Berlin
1979, New Extensions Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London
1980, Kelpra Studios Graphics, Tate Gallery, London
1982, Spielraum-Raumspiel , Alte Oper, Frankfurt
1986, 42 nd Venice Biennale, Art & Science
1987, GrGroup, Annual Exhibition, Copenhagen, DK (and 1988, 1990, 1993)
1992, Arts Council of Great Britain 1960s Collection, Festival Hall, London, (& touring); Berlin Konkret, House of Art, Brno. CFR, National Gallery, Bratislava; Ready, Steady, Go, Royal Festival Hall, London
1993, Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Arts Centre, London; Celebrating Sculpture, Chelsea Arts Club, London
1998, Charged Light, Royal Academy, Stockholm
1999, Light and Visual Text, Erfurt & Weimar
2002, Farbe, Struktur-System, Raum, Kunstverein Wiligrad und Forum Kunst, Erfurt
2003, Abstraction in Britain 1960-1970, Formal Situations, Tate Liverpool; Editions Alceto: A Fury for Prints 1960-1981 , The Whitworth Gallery Manchester , Bankside Gallery, London , and City Art Centre, Edinburgh
2004, Prof. Manton Collection, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
2008, Traces du sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris