- Prunella Clough
Prunella Clough (
11 November 1919 -26 December 1999 ) was a prominent 20th century British artist. "Her subjects are closely observed details and scenes from the landscape. The images are combined and filtered through memory, and evolve through a slow process of layering and re-working." [ Sunday Telegraph, Issue #2396, 13 May 2007, Arts Section, Graham-Dixon, A., "Heart of Industry"]Background
Born on 11 November 1919 in
Chelsea, London to an affluent upper middle-class family, she was initially educated privately by her father, the poet Eric Taylor, [ "Who's Who", 1971, p. 611, ISBN 0 713 61140 5 ] before enrolling at the Chelsea School of Art (since 1986 known as theChelsea College of Art and Design ) in 1937.Career
Apart from wartime service, ["Debrett's People of Today", 1992, p. 390, ISBN 1 870 52009 2 ] she painted full-time until her death in 1999, supplementing her income with lecturing posts at the Chelsea and Wimbledon Schools of Art ["Prunella Clough", Tufnell, B. (Ed) (2007, London, Tate Publishing), ISBN 9 781 854 37699 2 ] . Clough painted the industrial landscapes of post-WWII Britain.
Her works were exhibited at, among other places, the Leger Gallery (1947), Roland, Browse and Delblanco (1949), Leicester Galleries (1953), Whitechapel Gallery (1960),
Grosvenor Gallery (1964, 1968)Sheffield (1972), Serpentine (1976),Perth, Western Australia (1974),Edinburgh (1976),Aberdeen (1981),Hiroshima (1988), and, retrospectively, at the Olympia (2004) [ [http://www.prunellaclough.com/ Artist WebSite] ] and theTate Gallery (2007) [ [http://www.tate.org.uk/bain/exhibitions/prunellaclough/default.shtm Tate Gallery exhibitions] ]In 1977 she won the
City of London Midsummer Prize, and in 1999, the year of her death, she was awarded the £30,000Jerwood Prize for painting [ [http://www.birchamgallery.co.uk/browse.php/artist/Prunella:Clough/biography/?category=modern-british-art Overview of Clough's achievements] ] . Significant collections of her work are housed at theArt Gallery of New South Wales and Clare College, Cambridge.Death
She died on 26 December 1999, aged 80, following a battle with
cancer .Favourite Quote
"Painting is like throwing oneself into the sea to learn to swim" (Édouard Manet) - often quoted in interviews by Clough
ources
*"Prunella Clough", Banks, R. (Ed.) (2003, London, Annely Juda Fine Art), ISBN 1 870 28099 7
References
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