Euan uglow biography of nancy kerrigan

His father was an accountant, and Uglow went to the local grammar school in Tulse Hill, Strand School. Afterwards he studied at Camberwell School of Art from to This was a time when Camberwell students studied under some of its most distinguished artists of the time, including Victor Pasmore, Lawrence Gowing, John Minton, Kenneth Martin and William Coldstream.

It is debatable whether Uglow fell most under the influence of Coldstream whilst at Camberwell, and this is certainly the dominant view, although Uglow himself believed it was another tutor there, the painter Claude Rogers, was more significant in his development.

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Nonetheless when Coldstream left Camberwell to teach at the Slade School of Art in Uglow followed him, and remained a student at the Slade until Refusing compulsory military service, Uglow was classified as a conscientious objector in , and spent two years undertaking compulsory community work, assisting in the restoration of a war damaged church by Christopher Wren in the City of London, redecorating the house of the artist Patrick George and helping on a farm in Surrey.

Success in art was not immediate, and he did not sell a painting until eight years after leaving art school. During this time he took on a variety of part time teaching jobs, most notably at the Slade from , an institution with which he was to be associated for the rest of his life. In he was at the centre of a storm at the municipal art gallery in Bradford, Yorkshire, when a local councillor, Horace Hird, had one of Uglow's paintings, German Girl, removed from an Arts Council exhibition at the gallery.

Hird claimed the painting 'offended decency'. Despite this Uglow was generally a shy artist who shunned publicity as well as honours, including an offer to become a member of the Royal Academy in However he did become a trustee of the National Gallery in London, in , although in his own words he was generally ignored by the other trustees. Uglow's first solo show was in at the Beaux Arts Gallery, but his slow and methodical working method did not lead to a large number of solo shows.

He did take part in numerous group shows, however, including exhibitions of the London Group and the annual John Moores Prize exhibitions in Liverpool. In a posthumous retrospective was organised by the Arts Council for England, entitled Spotlight on Euan Uglow, which toured around Britain. In Uglow was invited by the artist Stass Paraskos to become the first artist-in-residence at the new Cyprus College of Art arts centre in village of Lempa on the island of Cyprus.

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