6 OF 20

Sarah Kent; Graham Paton

6 of 20 portraits by Heather Waddell

by Heather Waddell
bromide print from original negative, 1988
14 7/8 in. x 10 5/8 in. (377 mm x 270 mm) image size
Purchased, 2015
Photographs Collection
NPG x199318

Sittersback to top

Sarah Kent (1947-), Art critic. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Graham Paton (1935-), Contemporary art dealer. Sitter in 2 portraits.

Artistback to top

Heather Waddell, Photographer. Artist or producer of 20 portraits.

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Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (Geffyre Museum, London)

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Events of 1988back to top

Current affairs

A Pan Am jumbo jet is brought down by a bomb over Lockerbie in Scotland, killing 259 passengers and 11 people on the ground. The Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary launched Britain's largest criminal investigation before convicting a Libyan intelligence officer of planting the bomb.

Art and science

Professor Stephen Hawking publishes his popular book on cosmology, A Brief History Of Time.
Damien Hirst and his fellow Goldsmiths students organise the exhibition Freeze in a disused block in the Docklands. The exhibition launched the careers of many of the young British artists (YBAs) associated with Brit Art including Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Sarah Lucas, Angus Fairhurst, and Anya Gallaccio.

International

Iraq drops poison gas on the Iraqi Kurdish city of Halabja, killing thousands of civilians. The city was held at the time by Iranian forces and Iraqi Kurdish rebels, although there was initially some debate over which side was responsible for the atrocity. It was the largest-scale chemical attack on civilians in modern times.

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Alan Pardoe

11 January 2016, 11:04

I knew Graham Paton through a mutual friend and went to shows at the Paton Gallery which then was in Covent Garden. He was I think a retired civil servant (Treasury?) who in retirement turned to his enthusiasm for painting and new work and had started a gallery showing new and of course young artists, mainly figurative. His gallery was active for a few years in the early 90's. He also showed at the London Art Fair in Islington. I bought 2 paintings from him in the early 90s which I still have and which have given me great pleasure: one by John Monks, oil on board (a study of an electric fan), and one by Chantal Joffe, oil on canvas, of a young woman from the rear, going up steps. He was a very nice man, single and slightly nervous and with an infectious enthusiasm for his artists' work. He retired I think to Ventnor in the isle of Wight. I have not seen him since those days.