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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
Thomas Watson
Winner 1998
THOMAS WATSON
Born: 1971 Sussex
Trained: 1989 - 90 Huddersfield Technical College, Yorkshire
1990 - 94 Slade School of Fine Art, London
1993 - 94 Anatomy for Artists, University College, London
Exhibitions
1993 'Stoves', Group Show, The Orangery, Holland Park, London
1993The Pearson Building, University College, London (solo show)
1993'Three Artists from the Slade', Kirkgate Gallery, Kirkgate,
Huddersfield
1994 Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
1994'Art Forum', Group Show, 120 Broad Street, London
1995 'Prisoners from Abroad', Charity Group Show, Mall Galleries,
London
1997 'One Year in Nisyros', Zosimopoulio Building, Nisyros, Greece
(solo show)
1997 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
1997 'Painting in Nisyros', The Epavli, Rhodes, Greece (solo
show)
1997 'Paintings and Drawings', The Silogos, Astypalaia, Greece
(solo show)
1997 'AENAON', Group Show, celebrating 50 years of the Dodecanese
Islands being Greek, Rhodes, Kos, Patmos and Athens
1997 'The Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries, London
1998 'The Figure Show', Jill George Gallery, London
1998 BP National Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery,
London
1998 'Associations', Jill George Gallery, London
1998 20th Century Art Fair, London (Jill George Gallery)
1999 'The Figure Show', Jill George Gallery, London
1999 Art 99, Business Design Centre, London (Jill George Gallery)
1999 'Bathers', Jill George Gallery, London (solo show)
1999 Santa Fe Art Fair, Santa Fe, USA (Jill George Gallery)
1999 20th Century Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London (Jill
George Gallery)
2000 '2K, 2K', Jill George Gallery, London
2000 Art 2000, Business Design Centre, London (Jill George Gallery)
2000 20/21 British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London (Jill
George Gallery)
2000 Toronto International Art Fair, Canada (Jill George Gallery)
2001 Art 2001, London (Jill George Gallery)
2001 'The Figure Show', Jill George Gallery, London
2001 Jill George Gallery, London (solo show)
Awards
1991 3rd Prize in the
'Stoves' exhibition
1994 Robert Ross Scholarship
1994 -95 Scholarship from the Greek Government to paint in Greece
1995 - 96 Further Scholarship from the Greek Government
1997 BP National Portrait Competition
1997 Gavin Graham Gallery Award from Discerning Eye exhibition
1998 BP National Portrait Competition, London - First Prize
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