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BP Portrait
Award
at the
National Portrait Gallery
First Prize winners showcase
A celebration of 10 years
of the
BP Portrait Award
Curriculum Vitae
Peter Edwards
Winner 1994
Born: 20 November 1955 North Wales
Education: Shrewsbury College of Art & Technology
Art Foundation 1974 - 1975
Gloucestershire College of Art & Design BA Hons Fine Art
1975 - 1978
Group Exhibitions
include:
1994 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery
1993-1994 The Portrait Now, National Portrait Gallery
2000 The Garrick/Milne Award, Christies
One Man exhibitions include:
1990-1992 Contemporary Pests, National Portrait Gallery and
tour
1996 The River Dee from Source to Estuary, touring exhibition.
Jointly funded by the National Library of Wales, Williamson Gallery,
Birkenhead & Clywd Fine Arts Trust
Awards include:
1994 First Prize, BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery,
London
1984 & 1992 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundations, Quebec
Collections include:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
National Portrait Gallery, London
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Ulster Museum, Belfast
National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside, Liverpool
Ferens Gallery, Hull
Williamson Gallery, Birkenhead
Birkbeck College, London
Downing College, Cambridge
Hereford College, Oxford
Jesus College, Cambridge
Sir Brinsley Ford, London
St Andrew's University
St John's College, Cambridge
Sitters
include:
Kazuo Ishiguro
Oliver Reed
Baroness Tessa Blackstone
Ben Kingsley
Sir Bobby Charlton
Sir Christopher Zeeman
Seamus Heaney
Tyrone O'Sullivan
Willy Russell
Carol Ann Duffy
Michael Longley
Charles Causely
Publications
include:
National Portrait Gallery Collection, 1988
The Portrait Now, National Portrait Gallery, 1998
Television includes:
The Slate BBC2 Wales, 1998 Portrait of Tyrone O'Sullivan
Website
Peter Edwards official
website
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