Paul Emsley

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<br>Paul Emsley at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 20 June 2007 © Stuart Sewell, UPPA

Paul Emsley at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 20 June 2007 © Stuart Sewell, UPPA
 
<br>Paul Emsley with Bianca Jagger, BP Portrait Award Prizegiving Ceremony, <br> National Portrait Gallery, London, 20 June 2007 © Stuart Sewell, UPPA

Paul Emsley with Bianca Jagger, BP Portrait Award Prizegiving Ceremony,
National Portrait Gallery, London, 20 June 2007 © Stuart Sewell, UPPA
 

Biography
Parents emigrated to South Africa when still young.
Represented in most public collections in South Africa and various public and private collections in Europe, United States and Middle East. Taught drawing and painting at the University of Stellenbosch, Department of Creative Arts from 1983 to 1995
1947 Born in Glasgow
1969 Cape Technical College
1970-1976 Worked as designer in advertising
1976 Finally as Creative Director of BBDO International, Cape Town Began drawing and painting (self-taught as a painter)
1976-77 Lived in England
1977 Taught design, Cape Technicon
1978-79 Taught design and drawing, Ruth Prowse School of Art
1983-95 Taught drawing at the Department of Creative Arts, University of Stellenbosch
1996 Moved to England
2007 Winner of the BP Portrait Award 2007

Solo Exhibitions
1981 University of Stellenbosch
1982 South African Association of Arts, Cape Town
1994 Paul Emsley, Drawings, Redfern Gallery, London
2004 Balatro Gallery, Palm Beach

Group Exhibitions
1978-79 SA touring USA and São Paulo
1979 Cape Town Biennial
1982 Cape Town Triennial
1985 Cape Town Triennial
1987 Standard Bank National Drawing Competition
Drawing exhibition: University of the Orange Free State
1991 Drawing competition: South African Association of Arts, Cape Town
2001 1st Painting Open, RWA, Bristol
Art Palm Beach
Geneva Art Fair
2002 Jerwood Drawing Prize
Art London
Art Palm Beach
Hunting Art Prizes
2003 Singer & Friedlander Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
Art Palm Beach, The Redfern Gallery
Art London, The Redfern Gallery
20/21 British Art Fair, The Redfern Gallery
London Art Fair
Tooth and Claw, RWA, Bristol
Art London
20/21 London
Art Palm Beach
2004 Naked, RWA, Bristol
Singer & Friedlander Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
Art Palm Beach, The Redfern Gallery
Art London, The Redfern Gallery
20/21 British Art Fair, The Redfern Gallery
London Art Fair, The Redfern Gallery
London Art Fair, The Redfern Gallery
2005 Jerwood Drawing Prize
20/21London
Art London
Art Palm Beach
Jill George Gallery
2006 London Art Fair
20/21 London
Art Palm Beach
Art London
2007 Art Palm Beach
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
BP Portrait Awards
Art London
London Art Fair
2008 London Art Fair
Art Palm Beach
Art London
Victoria Gallery, Bath, Exhibition of BP Award Winning Portrait
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2009 London Art Fair
Johannesburg Art Fair
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Awards
1987 Merit Award: Standard Bank National Drawing Competition
1991 Merit Award: Drawing Competition, South African Association of Arts
2000 Bovis-Architects Journal Special Award, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2001 Commended, RWA 1st Painting Open
3rd Prize, Singer & Friedlander, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
2002 1st Prize, Singer & Friedlander, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
2003 3rd Prize, Singer & Friedlander, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
2004 UWE Drawing Prize. RWA Autumn Exhibtion
2005 Silver Award for Works on Paper. British Interior Design Association. Art London
2007 BP Portrait Award. First Prize
2008 UWE. Drawing Prize. RWA Autumn Exhibition

Collections
Johannesburg Art Gallery
National Portrait Gallery, London
Northwestern University, Chicago
Sanlam Collection
Sasol Collection
Singer and Friedlander Collection
University of the Orange Free State
The British Museum, London
University of Stellenbosch
University of the Witwatersrand
South African National Gallery
William Humphrey's Art Gallery, Kimberley


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