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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk

Display artist/maker:

Kenneth George Chapman

Born: 1908, UK, London, East Ham Died: 1993, Aberaeron

Painter, printmaker and commercial artist. Studied at Gravesend School of Art, 1924, after which he became a successful graphic designer, a career he gave up to study painting at both the Slade and the Royal College of Art in 1937. He lived in Essex, where he worked with Micheal Rothenstein (1908-1993), but found his subject matter in the mining communities of the South Wales valleys which he visited from 1953 onwards. He and his wife, Kate Chapman, eventually settled at Aberaeron in Cardiganshire in 1964. He won the Gold Medal at the 1957 National Eisteddfod. He produced dark townscapes which moodily describe Welsh working class life in the 1950s and 60s

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

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A Back Lane PR1430 Prints

[A colliery with winding gear, an industrial chimney and an engine house] PR1725 Prints

A Miner and his Wife PR1883 Prints

Aberdare PR1518 Prints

Aberfan [or Manmade Mountain] PR1439 Prints

Across the Valley PR775 Prints

Across the Valley PR1416 Prints

Bryanston School PR2922 Prints

Bus Stop PR1733 Prints

Central Line extension to Epping PR1528 Prints

Correct Address PR1529 Prints

Dowlais PR1424 Prints

Essex Farm, Great Bardfield PR1727 Prints

First Building PR1415 Prints

Ghosts PR1526 Prints

Girl with hoop PR1438 Prints

Going Home PR1425 Prints

Grave Yard and Monkey Tree PR1420 Prints

Graveyard with Graffitti / Lovers Walk PR1999 Prints

Graveyard PR1732 Prints

House on Rocks PR1436 Prints

[House, road and mine buildings] PR1977 Prints

[Industrial landscape with colliery buildings with pit head ] PR1947 Prints

Introduction PR1413 Prints

Kissing Tree, Gors Farm, Pennant PR1731 Prints

Landscape, Cardigan, near Pennant PR1517 Prints

Maerdie [Meardy] PR1432 Prints

Mine and Cottages PR1437 Prints

Miner PR1726 Prints

Motorway, M4 PR1734 Prints

Near Swansea PR1426 Prints

Near Wattstown PR1736 Prints

Old Men at Gossip PR1417 Prints

Pennant PR1729 Prints

[Photograph of a detail of a four panel mural] PR1512 Prints

[Photograph of a four panel mural] PR1513 Prints

Pigeon Houses [or Pigeon Huts] PR1414 Prints

Pithead winding gear PR1730 Prints

Pontypridd PR1880 Prints

[Poster advertising a competition run by London Transport] PR1525 Prints

Pregnant Woman I PR1434 Prints

Pregnant Woman I PR1878 Prints

Pregnant Woman II PR1435 Prints

Pregnant Woman II PR1879 Prints

Pregnant Woman III PR1519 Prints

Pregnant Woman III PR1520 Prints

Rhondda People PR1429 Prints

River Thames PR1527 Prints

Rugby School PR1728 Prints

Speakers Corner, Hyde Park PR1882 Prints

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