Upcoming Solo Exhibition
1 July – 22 August 2020
A catalogue and price list will be available on request
Essay written by Richard Cork
Award – winning art critic, historian, exhibition curator and broadcaster.
All day viewings at 48, Maddox Street:
Wednesday 1 July, Thursday 2 July & Friday 3 July, 11am – 6pm – Tim Pomeroy will be present
All day viewings for outdoor sculptures at 40, Kew Green, TW9 3AZ (facing the duck pond):
Anytime by appointment
Social distancing will be respected.
Upcoming Solo Exhibition: ‘Desmond Morris in the 21st Century’
“I did my first painting as the bombs were dropping in World War II”
9 September – 24 October 2020
A catalogue and and price list will be available on request.
“I did my first painting as the bombs were dropping in World War II”
Desmond Morris
Desmond Morris held his first solo art exhibition in 1948, now at the age of 92 he is still actively painting and writing. Today, most of his paintings are in private collections but he also has works in public galleries and art museums in England, Scotland, Holland, Italy, Israel and the United States.
He has held 60 solo exhibitions of his paintings and 11 books have been written about his art. He has produced over 3300 paintings over the past 70 years.
His scientific studies of animals saw him take a B.Sc degree from Birmingham University in 1951 and a D.Phil from Oxford University in 1954. He then went on to do post-doctoral research at Oxford until, in 1956, he left to take up the post of Head of the TV and Film Unit at London Zoo. There he began to make TV programmes about animals and, later on, about human behaviour. In 1967 his book The Naked Ape was published and became one of the top 100 best-sellers of all time.
When asked to check his archives recently, he was surprised by the figures. As an academic zoologist, he published 48 scientific papers. When he turned to popular writing, he produced 360 articles in magazines and newspapers. He has written a total of 78 books, and has been published in 40 different languages. He has presented over 700 television programmes and has given over 470 television interviews.
Desmond Morris at 92 remains terrifyingly lucid, with a fearsome, inquisitive intelligence and a wicked wit. He says it is because he has been using both sides of his brain all his life; the scientific and the artistic.
As a nocturnal animal he works late into the night and sleeps until noon.
1957 Born in Hamilton, Scotland
1976 -81 Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
1983 Lecturer of Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
AWARDS
1980 Elsie Byrne travelling scholarship
1983 Benno Schotz prize winner
1983 EIS Prize winner
1984 Young Artists Bursary SAC
2005 Crispin Oday Sculpture prize, Discerning Eye Exhibition
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Beaux Arts Gallery, London
2019 The Two Gentlemen of Arran.(with the late Craigie Aitchison) Merville Galleries, Holland, Park, London
2018 Marble Slate Wood , New Sculptures by Tim Pomeroy, The Fine Art Society , Edinburgh
2017 Ritual Geometries, New sculptures by Tim Pomeroy, The Fine Art Society London
2015 Tim Pomeroy. Contemporary Sacred, The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh.
2014 Tim Pomeroy recent stone carvings Fine Art Society, London
2011 Tim Pomeroy,The Natural Hewn: The Practical, Honed Agnews Gallery, London
2009 Tim Pomeroy, Agnews Gallery , London
2006 Drawings and sculptures for Operahouse project, Arran
2004 Tim Pomeroy, recent work, Glasgow Vennel Gallery, Irvine
2002 Tim Pomeroy, sculpture and drawings, McHardy Sculpture Co. London
1999 Tim Pomeroy, sculpture and drawings, McHardy Sculpture Co. London
1997 Working with Architects, James Cunning Young and Partners Glasgow
1996 Set and costume design, Macbeth, Lanark Memorial Hall
1991 Camouflage Reviewed Ordnance Surveyed, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
1990 Turkish and Sauna Baths, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
1987 Tim Pomeroy Paintings, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
1986 Strathaven Town Mill
1985 Edinburgh College of Art
1985 Aberdeen College of Art
1984 Metamorphoses
1983 Liberty on the Barricades touring exhibition
– Stirling Smith Art Gallery
– Peacock Gallery, Craigavon, Northern Ireland
– Edinburgh festival Fringe
– Wishaw Library Lanarkshire
1982 Themes and Variations Edinburgh Festival Fringe
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Hayward Annual
London Group
Aberdeen Artists
The Rock Drill and Beyond 1998, Inverness Museum
New York Art Fair 2007
Grosvenor House Art Fair 2009
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2009-2010
Discerning Eye 2010
Compass Gallery, Memory Show (touring) 2011/12
Fine Art Society 2012, (Contemporary Carving)
PUBLIC SCULPTURE COMMISSIONS
1985/6 Of Arms and the Man, Hamilton
1993 Fledgling, Blackwood Park
1995 Font, Provand’s Lordship, Glasgow
1996 Tree of People, Hamilton
1997 Plough Chapelhill, Hamilton
2006 Four sculptures for the National Trust for Scotland,
Merkland Wood , Isle of Arran ( installed May 06)
2006 Clashach Spiral, Harbour Arts Centre Irvine (installed
Sept.06)
2008 The Beatson Oncology unit Gartnavel Hospital
2010/11 Sculpted Facade Carnoustie Golf Club Pro Centre,
2010/11 Font, St Andrew’s Cathedral, Glasgow
2010/11 Tree of Life, Cawdor Castle gardens
PUBLIC PAINTING COMMISSIONS
1985-86 Mural, Balloch Castle, Dumbartonshire
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Gray’s School of Art
Leeds City Art Gallery
Educational Institute for Scotland
Leicestershire Education Authority
Clydesdale District Council
Glasgow City Council
Strathclyde University
Esme Fairbairn Foundation, London
North Ayrshire Council
National Trust for Scotland
The Beatson, Gartnavel Hospital
Duke of Devonshire (Chatsworth Ho.)
The Archdiocese of Glasgow
The Dowager Countess of Cawdor
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
National Museum of Scotland
