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William Wilkins C.B.E.
1938 Born Kersey, Suffolk.
1940 Moved to Wales and brought up in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.
1955-57 Swansea College of Art
1957-60 Royal College of Art
One Man Exhibitions
2008 Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff
2007 National Botanic Garden of Wales
2006 Piccadilly Gallery London.
2004 Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff
2000 Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff
1994 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
1991 Piccadilly Gallery, London
1989 Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea
1998 Albermarle Gallery, London
1987 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1986 Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1985 Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
1984 Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
1983 12 Duke Street Gallery, London
1981 Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
1979 Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
1977 Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
1975 University College, Swansea
1975 Langton Gallery, London
1973 British Institute, Warsaw
1973 Covent Garden Gallery, London
1972 Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff
1971 University College, Cardiff
Group Exhibitions
2004 ‘Artes Cambria’, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff
1996/02 Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff
1987/88 ‘The Self-Portrait: A Modern View’, Artsite, Bath and touring.
1987 Gruenebaum Gallery, New York
1986 Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania ‘Intimate and Intense – The New Genre of Painting’
1985 Andrew Knight Gallery, Cardiff, ‘Painting in Wales: 1850-1980’
1985 Leinster Gallery, London, ‘Critics’ Choice’
1976 Allan Stone Gallery, New York
1975 Elected member of 56 Group Wales – exhibitions in England, Scotland and Wales, Ireland, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia
1974 Roland, Browse & Delbanco
1974 Agnews, London
1973 Covent Garden Gallery, London.
Awards
2003 Chancellor’s Medal, University of Glamorgan
2003 Honorary Fellow, University of Wales Institute Cardiff
2002 Honorary Fellow, Swansea Institute of Higher Education
2001 Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Carmarthen
2001 Honorary Fellow, RIBA
2000 Awarded C.B.E.
1993 Honorary Research Associate, St David’s University College, Lampeter
1993 Royal Cambrian Academician
1980 Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
1980 First International Artist in Residence, Artists for the Environment Foundation, Delaware Water Gap National Park, New Jersey
1978 Welsh Arts Council Grant
1971 Welsh Arts Council Bursary
Selected Bibliography
Hilton Kramer, ‘New British Painter Dazzles’, The New York Times 28.10.77
Gerrit Henry, Art News, January 1978
Hilton Kramer, ‘The Work of William Wilkins – Miniaturist of Light’, The New York Times 19.10.79
Elizabeth Dipple, ’The Work of William Wilkins’, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery 1981
Hilton Kramer, The New York Times 9.10.81
John Russell Taylor, The Times 24.5.83
Eric Rowan, ‘Painting in Wales 1850-1980’, University of Wales Press
Rosalind Roberts, ‘Radiating the Otherness’, Status, April 1987
Charles Jencks, ‘Post Modernism’, Academy Editions, 1988
Marina Vaizey, Critics’ Choice, The Sunday Times 31.1.88
William Wilkins, ’The True Expression of the Subject’, Art and Design, June 1988
A.G.Rhys, ‘Tynnu a golau’, Barn, August 1996
Public Collections
National Museum Wales
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
University College, Swansea
Contemporary Art Society of Wales
Private collections worldwide