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Antony Williams NEAC RP PS Biography
Antony Williams trained at Farnham College of Art and Portsmouth University. He works almost exclusively in egg tempera - a painstaking, exacting medium in which egg is used instead of linseed oil as the binding medium. While oil allows for a degree of flexibility and manipulation of the painted surface before it dries, many days after initial application, this technique does not easily allow for alteration. All his work is based on intense observation, particularly of human flesh, creating as a result a heightened sense of realism. His is an art concerned with fragile surfaces, perfectly echoed by this most fragile and brittle of media. His portrait of HM The Queen in 1996 caused much controversy given his frank depiction of the ageing process.
Antony William’s first solo show with Messum’s was in 2000.
Solo Exhibitions:
Messum Gallery 2009
Petley Fine Art, London 2004
Galeria Leandro Navarro, Madrid 2001
Messum Gallery, London 2000
Sala Pares, Barcelona 1999
Albemarle Gallery, London 1997
Group Exhibitions:
Threadneedle Figurative Prize, Mall Galleries, London 2008
Pastels Today, Southampton City Art Gallery 2008
Artonomy, Drawing Exhibition, Truro 2007
Lynn Painter – Stainers Prize, London 2007
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition,
Mall galleries, London 1991, 1992, 1995-2007
Pastel Society, Mall Galleries,
London 1996, 2000,2008
BP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery,
London 1995, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2010
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Self – Portraits Exhibition,
2 Temple Place, London 2007
Great Britons, Treasures from the National Gallery,
London at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Inst.,
Washington, DC, 2007
The School of London and Their Friends
(The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians)
Yale Centre for British Art: New Haven, Connecticut 2000
Hunting Art Prize Exhibition,
Royal College of Art 1998
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries,
London 1996, 1998, 2002
Royal Academy of Arts, London:
Summer Exhibition 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010
Laing Art Competition Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 1995
Waterman Fine Art, London 1995, 1996
Mercury Gallery, London 1994
New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London 1992, 2007-2010
Royal Society of British Artists 1991
Ondaatje Prize and Royal Portrait Society gold medal 2012, winner
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2012, Winner
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2007, Runner-Up Prize
Arts Club Prize 2004, 2008
Discerning Eye Award for Still Life1998
Ondaatje Award 1995
Carroll Foundation Award 1991, 1995
Changing Faces Prize 2010
HRH The Queen
Amartya Kumar Sen
Sir Alan Budd
National Portrait Gallery
Royal Society of Portrait Painters 1995- 2011
Queen’s College Oxford
Private Collections in England, Rep. of Ireland and USA
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Famous faces at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
The Independent
4th May 2011
Paintings Past and Present from the New English Art Club
Studio Publications 2010
Spring Catalogue
Studio Publications 2010
New Pictures, 2009
Studio Publications 2009
An Exhibition and Sale, 2000
Studio Publications 2000
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