Lucy Raverat
Lucy Raverat (née Pryor, born 1948) is the professional name used by Lucy Ethne Rawlinson, a British painter.
Life
Born in Cambridge, Lucy Raverat is the daughter of Mark Pryor and Sophie Gurney (née Raverat), daughter of the artists Gwen Raverat (née Darwin) and Jacques Raverat.[1] Through her maternal grandmother, Lucy Raverat is a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin.[1] Her elder brother is William Pryor, a writer and entrepreneur. In 1968 she married Francis Rawlinson.
Raverat was interested in art through her youth, and in the 1960s she attended Hornsey College of Art, where she completed a pre-diploma course.[2][3] From there she travelled, spending time in India where she met her future husband, before moving to Lancaster. There she returned to painting, taking it up full-time after her children started attending school.[2] In the 1990s she moved to France, where she currently resides.[1][3]
Raverat often employs elements from her own life in her work, although they can be presented as "magically touched by fantasy",[3] and she has incorporated representations of herself through the series painted for the Francis Kyle Gallery's Roma exhibition, "present in each composition as a tiny, wraith-like figure in a polka-dot dress".[4]
Notable exhibitions
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- Francis Kyle Gallery, London, (solo show)[5]
- Francis Kyle Gallery, London, Russia (mixed show)
- Francis Kyle Gallery, London (solo show)
- Everyone Sang [mixed show], Francis Kyle Gallery, London
- Francis Kyle Gallery, London (solo show in September)
- Casa Guayasamin, Havana (solo show - part of the Biennale)
- The Lair of the Leopard (mixed show), Francis Kyle Gallery,London
- Miami Art Fair (with Francis Kyle Gallery, London)
- Roma (mixed show), Francis Kyle Gallery, London
- Francis Kyle Gallery, London (solo show)
- Artbank Gallery, London
- Art '99, London, with England & Co
- Waterman Fine Art, London
- Maison des Arts, Bédarieux, Hérault, France (solo show)
- Bartley Drey Gallery. London (solo show)
- Maison des Arts, Bages, Aude, France (solo show)
- The Gallery at Lots Road, Chelsea (solo show)
- Stephen Bartley Gallery, Chelsea (solo show)
- Galerie l'Etang d'Art, Bages, Aude, France
- Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
- Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge (solo show)
- Yorkshire Television Building, Leeds (solo show)
- Boundary Gallery, London
- Roy Miles Gallery, London
- The Art Company, Leeds (part of the Leeds Festival)
- Art '89, London
- The Art Company, Leeds
- Bowmoore Gallery, London (part of Women in Art exhibition, 10 paintings)[1]
- Grabowski Gallery, London (solo show)
- Boundary Gallery, London
- Beaux Arts, Bath (solo show)
- RONA exhibition touring southwest France
- Barbican Centre, London (RONA exhibition, 10 paintings)
- Richard de Marco Gallery, Edinburgh
- Barbican Centre, London (RONA exhibition)
- Royal Festival Hall (RONA exhibition)
- Portal Gallery, Bond Street
- Crane Arts, Chelsea
- City Museum, Lancaster (solo show)
- Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster (solo show)
References
- ^ a b c d "Artist Gallery". The Bowmoore Gallery. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ^ a b Raverat, Lucy (March 2009). "Artist Statement". Lucy Raverat. Archived from the original on 17 October 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ^ a b c Taylor, John Russell (19 July 2003). "JRT's best London shows - London". The Times. p. Play 25.
- ^ Gregory, Conal (9 April 2003). "An exhibition not built in a day - The Register". The Times. p. 33.
- ^ "Lucy Raverat". Francis Kyle Collection. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
External links
- Official website
- "Williamson park at dusk", Christie's