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1915 - 2003, Leamington Spa.
Terry Frost first began to paint as a prisoner of war. Returning to
England, he received an ex-serviceman's grant and attended Camberwell
School of Art, London from 1947 to 1950. He went on to teach art the Bath Academy of
Art at Corsham Court from 1952, and was the Gregory
Fellow at Leeds University 1954 to 1956, teaching at Leeds School of Art
from 1956 to 1957. He was made Artist in residence at the Fine Art
Department of Newcastle University in 1964, became a full time lecturer
at the Department of Fine Art, Reading University 1965, and went on to
become Professor of Painting at the University of Reading from 1977 to
1981. Frost's first one-man show was held at the Leicester
Galleries in 1952. He continued to exhibit regularly in London and
his fist international one-man show was held in 1961 at the Betha
Schaeffer Galley, New York. Further solo exhibitions include the
ICA, London (1971) and the Serpentine Galley, London (1976) organised
by the Arts Council and South West Arts, touring to Newcastle, Bristol,
Leeds, Chester, Birmingham and Plymouth. A retrospective exhibition of
his work was held at the Mayo Galley, London in 1990 and in 2000 a
major retrospective, ‘Terry Frost: Six Decades’, was held at the Royal
Academy of Arts, London. Frost also participated in many group
shows since 1953, and his work is held in many corporate and private
collections throughout the world. Terry Frost was elected Royal
Academician 1992 and received a knighthood in 1998. He lived and
worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. |