School of Art

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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:

Bartolomeu dos Santos

Born: 1931, Portugal, Lisbon   Died: 2008, London

Printmaker and illustrator. Studied at Lisbon Art School and became a co-founder of the Portugese artists' group 'Gravura', 1956. He then studied under Anthony Gross (1905-1984) at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1956-58, where he later taught as Professor of Printmaking, 1961-96. He has also worked in Macau, Sweden, America and at Tavira, Portugal. He produced semi-abstract lithographs and etchings, sometimes combining those processes, which explore notions of time, space and memory. He also illustrated books including several for the Portugese writer Jose Saramago

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker




 
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