Terry Atkinson
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Terry Atkinson (born 1939) is an English artist.
Career
Atkinson was born in Thurnscoe, near Barnsley, Yorkshire. He lives in Leamington Spa, England with his wife, artist Sue Atkinson, with whom he has frequently collaborated. In 1967, he began to teach art at the Coventry School of Art while producing conceptual works, sometimes in collaboration with Michael Baldwin. In 1968 they, together with Harold Hurrell and David Bainbridge who also taught at Coventry, formed Art & Language, a group whose influence on other artists both in the UK and in the United States is widely acknowledged.{{Cite news|url=https://www.flashartonline.com/article/art-language/|title=Art & Language|date=4 December 2015|work=Flash Art|access-date=18 January 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/culture/stories/2003/04/art-and-language.shtml|title=BBC – Coventry and Warwickshire Culture – Art and Language|publisher=BBC|access-date=18 January 2018}}{{Cite news|url=https://news.artnet.com/market/art-language-philippe-meaille-french-chateau-310458|title=Largest Art & Language Collection Finds Home|date=23 June 2015|work=artnet News|access-date=18 January 2018}} Atkinson was founder-member (with colleagues John Bowstead, Roger Jeffs and Bernard Jennings) of the group Fine-Artz (1963), and (with David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin and Harold Hurrell) of the group Art & Language (1968–74), two of the most influential collectives in contemporary Western art.{{Cite journal|last=Crow|first=Thomas|date=30 November 2017|title=Art by the Many: London Style Cults of the 1960s|url=http://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-7/london-style|journal=British Art Studies|issue=7|doi=10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-07/conversation|issn=2058-5462|doi-access=free}}{{Cite web|url=http://lanchestergalleryprojects.org.uk/artist/terry-atkinson/|title=Lanchester Gallery Projects {{!}} Artists {{!}} Terry Atkinson|website=lanchestergalleryprojects.org.uk|access-date=18 January 2018}}
Atkinson stopped teaching at Coventry in 1973 and the following year left Art & Language.{{Cite web|url=https://frieze.com/article/terry-atkinson|title=Terry Atkinson|website=frieze|access-date=18 January 2018}} He has since exhibited under his own name, including at the 1984 Venice Biennale.
Recognition and representation in collections
In 1985 he was nominated for the Turner Prize{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/pictures/0,8542,1062817,00.html|title=20 years of Turner prize-winners index|website=The Guardian|access-date=18 January 2018}} and exhibited a series of paintings, including The Stone Touchers I.
Atkinson's work is held in many collections, including the Tate Gallery.{{Cite web|title=Search results|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/search?q=terry%20atkinson|website=Tate|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-26}}
References
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External links
- Information from [http://www.chateau-montsoreau.com/wordpress/fr/accueil/ Château de Montsoreau-Museum of contemporary]
- [http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-1985/turner-prize-1985-artists-terry-atkinson information from Tate Britain website]
- [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/25936/lang/1 Terry Atkinson in Artfacts.Net]
- [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/5548/lang/1 Art & Language in Artfacts.Net]
- [http://yaleunion.org/atkinson/]
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Category:British conceptual artists
Category:People from Thurnscoe