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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:

Derrick Greaves

Born: 1927, UK, England, Sheffield   Died: 2022

Painter and printmaker. First worked as a signwriter. Studied at the Royal College of Art, 1948-52. He won both an Abbey Major Scholarship to Italy, enabling him to study at the British School at Rome between 1952 and 1954, and the Gold Medal for Painting at the Moscow Youth Festival in 1953. As a prominent member of the 'kitchen sink' group, he was chosen to represent Britain in the 1956 Venice Biennale. He taught part-time at St Martin's School of Art, 1954-64, Maidstone College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, 1960s, and was Head of Printmaking at Norwich School of Art, 1983-91. Despite his reputation as a painter he has created numerous suites of screenprints, monoprints and etchings

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

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The Five Temperaments IV PR2738 Prints

The Five Temperaments V PR2739 Prints

The Primaries PR2714 Prints

The Psychiatrist's Cat PR3068 Prints

The Red Wedge PR3070 Prints

The Snow Melting PR2725 Prints

Three Greys PR2719 Prints

Torso PR3067 Prints

Two Figures by the Sea (Donald McGill) PR2722 Prints

Two Figures by the Sea 1 PR2720 Prints

Two Figures by the Sea 2 PR2721 Prints

Two Greys 1 PR2718 Prints

Two People by the sea PR2367 Prints

Two Roses PR2734 Prints

War (Block) PR3064 Prints

War (Soldier Smiles) PR3066 Prints

War (Victim) PR3065 Prints

[Woman - black hair] PR2361 Prints

[Woman in scarf and floral dress] PR2360 Prints

[Woman's face and hand] PR2357 Prints

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