David Tindle RA'The images I paint are of things that I know or can remember best. I try to place them in an order that expresses the feelings I have about them. It is not a question of painting them as realistically as I can, but to get the right tonality, so that memory and presence are very close.'
(1985)
'I find myself covered from head to toe with today's dust but find no modernism in my conception. These pictures with only few exceptions, are subjected by obsessions, ghosts and the artist and model. The principal comments are on what I find beautiful and, to a large extent, transitional'
(1996)
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The House of Textures, 2002
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The studio window at night, 2002
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In the studio, 2002
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The wall, from the studio, 2002
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David, 2002
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The studio, evening, 2002
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Studio in the mirror, 2002
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| Biography | | 1932 | Born Huddersfield | | 1945-47 | Studied at Coventry School of Art | | 1959-74 | Taught at Hornsey College of Art and Byam School of Painting | | 1972 | Appointed visiting tutor Royal College of Art | | 1973 | Elected A.R.A. | | 1979 | Elected R.A. | | 1981 | Elected Fellow of The Royal College of Art | | 1983 | Retired as visiting tutor Royal College of Art | | One of the four artists featured in the BBC-TV film A Feeling for Paint | | 1985-87 | Ruskin Master of Drawing at Oxford University | | 1986 | Commissioned by National Portrait Gallery to paint portrait of Sir Dirk Bogarde | | 1988 | Designed Tchaikovsky's opera Yolanta for the Aldeburgh Festival | | 1990 | Commissioned to paint portrait of Lord Sainsbury |
| Solo Exhibitions | | 1954 | Piccadilly Gallery, London | | 1957 | 57 Gallery, Edinburgh | | Coventry City Art Gallery (Retrospective) | | 1958 | The Stone Gallery, Newcastle (also 1959) | | 1961 | Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford | | 1963 | Metropole Gallery, Folkestone | | 1964 | Galerie du Tours, San Francisco and Los Angeles | | 1965 | Metropole Gallery, Folkestone | | 1968 | Galleria Carbonesi, Bologna | | Galleria Vinciana, Milan | | 1970 | 27 Gallery, Northampton | | 1972 | Northampton Art Gallery (Retrospective) | | 1974 | Galerie XX, Hamburg (also 1977, 1980, 1985) | | 1985 | Fischer Fine Art, London | | 1986 | Cunningham Knowler Gallery, Winchester | | 1988 | The Garden, Aldeburgh Festival | | 1989 | Fischer Fine Art, London | | 1992 | Fischer Fine Art, London | | Alresford Gallery, Alresford | | 1994 | Redfern Gallery, London | | 1996 | Redfern Gallery, London | | 1998 | Redfern Gallery, London | | 2000 | New Work from Lucca, Redfern Gallery, London | | 2001 | Redfern Gallery, London | | 2003 | Redfern Gallery, London | | 2005 | 'My Cinderella' Redfern Gallery, London | | 2007 | Redfern Gallery, London |
| Group Exhibitions | | 1953 | A.I.A. Gallery, London (also 1957) | | 1953-83 | Piccadilly Gallery, London | | 1954 | Royal Academy of Arts, London (also 1968, 1970-89 - 1983 Winner Johnson Wax Award) | | 1958 | International Biennale of Realistic Art, Bruges | | 1959 | John Moores' Liverpool Exhibition (also 1961) | | 1962 | British Self-Portraits, Arts Council of Great Britian | | 1965 | Painters in East Anglia, Arts Council of Great Britain | | 1967 | The Thames in Art, Arts Council of Great Britain | | Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Paris | | International Biennale of Realistic Art, Bologna | | Mostra Mercato d'Arte Contemporanea, Florence | | 1969 | Fine Art for Industry, Royal College of Art Galleries, London | | 1974 | Critic's Choice, Arthur Tooth & Son, London British Painting '74, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London | | 1975 | Painters of Reality, Mystery and Illusion, Rochdale Art Gallery | | Chichester National Art Exhibition (Prizewinner) | | 1977 | 25 Years of British Painting, Royal Academy of Arts, London | | 1978 | English Realism, Waddington Galleries Montreal | | 1979 | Tolly- Cobbold, Eastern Arts & National Exhibiton (also 1981 and 1983) | | 1979-80 | The British Art Show, Arts Council of Great Britain | | 1980 | The Minories, Colchester | | 1981 | The Real British, Fischer Fine Art, London | | 1982 | Royal Academy Diploma Works 1921 - 1981 Leicester Museum and Art Gallery | | 1983 | The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition (also 1988) | | 1987 | New Acquisitions, National Portrait Gallery London | | 1988 | Exhibition Road, Royal College of Art, London | | 1989 | Portrait of the Artist , Tate Gallery, London | | Eros in Albion: Six English Painters | | Casa di Masaccio, San Giovanni Valderno, Arezzo | | 1991 | The Absent Presence, Graves Art Gallery | | Sheffield and Geffrye Museum, London | | 1992 | Fischer Fine Art, London | | Paintings including the Madame le Goaler Series | | 1997 | The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London: Collectorís Choice. |
| Collections | | The Arts Council of Great Britain | | The Arts Council of Northern Ireland | | The Tate Gallery, London | | The National Portrait Gallery, London | | Chantrey Bequest | | Contemporary Art Society | | Government Art Collection | | Museum of London | | Bradford City Art Gallery | | Coventry City Art Gallery | | Dudley City Art Gallery | | Eastbourne Art Gallery | | Huddersfield Art Gallery | | University of Hull | | Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal | | Leicestershire and Yorkshire County Collections | | University of Leicester (Goddard Trust) | | Leicester City Art Gallery | | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool | | Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester | | Manchester City Art Gallery | | Open University, Milton Keynes | | New College, Oxford | | Royal Holloway College | | Wakefield City Art Gallery | | The Royal Library, Windsor Castle |
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