Background
BELLANY, John was born on June 18, 1942 in Port Seton, Scotland. Son of Richard Weatherhead Bellany and Agnes Maltman Bellany.
BELLANY, John was born on June 18, 1942 in Port Seton, Scotland. Son of Richard Weatherhead Bellany and Agnes Maltman Bellany.
Cockenzie Public School, Preston Lodge, Prestonpans, Edinburgh College, of Art, R.C.A., London.
include: Arts Council Touring Show 1978, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York 1982, 1983, 1984, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, National Portrait Gallery, London 1986, Galerie Kirkhaar, Amsterdam 1986, Fischer Fine Art, London 1989, Retrospective, Scottish National Gallery of Modem Art Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Serpentine Gallery, London; Honorary R.S.A.; Arts Council Lecturer in Fine Art, Winchester School of Art 1969-1973. Head of Faculty of Painting, Croydon College, of Art 1973-1978. Visiting Lecturer in Painting, R.C.A. 1975-1985.
Lecturer in Fine Art, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London 1978-1984. Fellow Commoner, Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1988.
One man shows include Arts Council Touring Show, 1978, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, 1982, 83, 84, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Graves ARt Gallery, Sheffield, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1986, Galerie Kirkhaar, Amsterdam, 1986, Fischer Fine Art, London, 189, Retrospective, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Serpentine Gallery, London, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, 1990, Raab Gallery, Berlin, Ruth Siegel Gallery, 1990, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Fischer Fine Art, London, 1991, Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow Beaux Arts Gallery, 1992, Berkeley Square Gallery, London, 1993.
Member Royal Academy.
Opera, motoring.
Married Helen Margaret Percy, 1965 (divorced). 3 children; married Juliet Gray Lister, 1979 (deceased 1985).