Curriculum Vitae
Qualifications
1976-79
Chelsea School of Art: 2:1 BA Hons. Fine Art Painting
1979-82
Royal Academy Schools: Post Graduate Diploma, Painting.
1995-96
Morley College Etching Course.
2004-05
City & Guilds Adult Education Teacher Training Cert. Level 4.
Michael Sangster is a featured artist with Michael Harding Oil Colours
Prizes
1982
Royal Academy Schools Prize for Landscape Drawing
1982
Royal Academy Schools Prize for Anatomical Drawing
1984
Shortlisted for John Player Portrait Award
2014
Shortlisted for Curwen Gallery Prize for Figurative Painting
Exhibitions
2023
‘Awe & Wonder’ Chaiya Art Awards 2023 Exhibition, Oxo & Bargehouse Galleries, London • 6 April – 16 April 2023
2016
Art Workers Guild Auction Exhibition, 17th September to 31st October, Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1.
2016
Canvas for Youth Group Exhibition, 12th to 16th July, Mid-Cheshire College, Hartford. Curated by Rowena Ferguson.
2016
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, 17 March to 2 April, Mall Galleries, London SW1.
2014
Curwen Gallery Prize for Figurative Painting Exhibition, 8-29 October, Curwen Gallery, Windmill Street, Fitzrovia, London.
2014
Open Eye Gallery Summer Exhibition, 19 July – 4 August, Open Eye Gallery, Abercromby Place, Edinburgh.
2013
‘In the Realm of Perception’, Solo Show, Gallery27, Cork Street, London W1, 22–27 April.
2012
Art Workers Guild, London Open House Drawing Exhibition, The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London.
2007
07JOZE SHOW, Group Exhibition Curated by Kapil Jariwala, Accolds Farm, Petworth, Sussex.
2006
Chappell Galleries, Essex, Group Show, ‘Roderick Barrett & his Students.’
2005
‘A Brush with Words’, Martins Gallery International Fine Art, Cheltenham, Collaborative Exhibition of Poets & Painters.
2004
‘20th Century Perspectives’, Burlington Fine Art, London W1.
2002
‘Serious Pleasure’, Selected RASA Artists, Centro Modigliani, Florence, Italy.
1998
Royal Academy Schools Alumni Exhibition, Royal Academyof Arts, London W1.
1997
Group Show, ‘The Wabe’, London NW3.
1997
New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London.
1996
‘Artists for Nuclear Disarmament’ 4th National Art Exhibition, Exhibition Hall, Swiss Cottage Library, London.
1996
‘On the Line’, Drawing Exhibition, Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston, Lincs.
1996
‘March 96’, Group Show, Newman House, Richmond.
1995
Group Show, Mark Balakjan’s Printmakers, Lauderdale House, Highgate, London.
1989
The Spectator and Adam & Company: ‘An Artist’s Life’, Spink & Son, London.
1987
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Royal Academy of Arts, London.
1987
Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts Exhibition, McClellan Galleries, Glasgow.
1987
Druce ‘Constable’ Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London.
1987
New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London.
1984
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
1984
John Player Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery. London.
1982
Christies Inaugural: ‘The Pick of New Graduate Art’, Christies, London.
1981
Cleveland 5th International Drawing Biennale, Touring Exhibition.
Portrait Commissions
Canon Reginald Askew, Dean of King’s College, London.
Miss Anna Mitchell.
Mr John Anderton, Director of BASC. OBE. VRD.
Mrs Christine Andrews.
The Hon. Justice A. Fatayi-Williams.
Mrs Phillippa Mitchell.
The Rev. Andrew Manson-Brailsford.
Lecturing
Subject:
Symbolism & Iconography in Renaissance Paintings.
Venues:
Royal Academy of Arts, 2000.
Centro D’Arte Modigliani, Florence 2002.
Clarendon Gallery, Holland Park, London, 2003.
Radlett Arts centre, 2008.
Positions Held
1999-2003
Chairman of Royal Academy Schools Alumni Association.
2002
Curator/Catalogue Designer, ‘Serious Pleasure’ RASA Exhibition, Centro d’Arte Modigliani, Florence, Italy.
2003-2005
Art History & Special needs Art Teacher, Hounslow Adult Ed.
2005
Curator/Catalogue Designer, ‘A Brush with Words’ RASA Exhibition, Martins Gallery International Fine Art, Cheltenham.
2012
Elected member of the Art Worker’s Guild.
Work in Public Collections
Jack Franklin Memorial Trust Collection, Wellholme Galleries, Grimsby.
Experience Abroad
1982-1983
One year’s residence in Italy, Anticolli Corrado, near Rome. Plein-air & studio painting, museum study.
2002
One month’s residence in Florence as exhibition curator for Royal Academy Schools Alumni Association.
