Background
He was born in 1937 in Exeter, Devon, and studied art at Bromley College of Art and at the Slade School of Fine Artist
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Ray Atkins
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Slade School of Fine Artist
Career
After graduating from the Slade in 1964, Atkins initially worked in London before moving to Reading in 1970 to take up a teaching post. In 1974 he moved to Cornwall. Since 2009 he has been living in the Haute Garonne in the foothills of the French Pyrenees.
Ray Atkins is represented by Art Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art London since 1989.
Solo 1970: Piers Morris Gallery, London 1974: Whitechapel Art Gallery 1977: Newlyn Art Gallery: 1983: Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro 1985: Galerie Leisten und Thiesen, Munster, Germany 1988: Eurogallery, London 1989: New Paintings Art Space Gallery, London 1991: New Paintings Art Space Gallery, London 1993: New Paintings Art Space Gallery, London 1995: New Paintings Art Space Gallery, London 1996: Ray Atkins retrospective, Art Space Gallery, London 1996: Ray Atkins retrospective, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 1997: Kilkenny Arts Week, Kilkenny Castle Ireland, (invited artist) 1998: New Paintings, Art Space Gallery, London 1999: Ray Atkins and the Figure, Art Space Gallery, London 2001: Broken Ground, Wheal Jane mine, Truro (in collaboration with poet Peter Redgrove and composer Paul Hancock 2001: Rhythm of the Seasons, Art Space Gallery, London 2003: Paintings 2003, Art Space Gallery, London 2005: Paintings 2005, Art Space Gallery, London 2007: Paintings and Drawings 2007, Art Space Gallery, London 2009: Aspet s"Expose (invité d"honneur), Aspet, HautePaintingsGaronne, France 2011: Ray Atkins: The Long View: from Cornwall to the Pyrenees,, Art Space Gallery, London and touring: 2012: Ray Atkins: The Long View: from Cornwall to the Pyrenees, Dean Clough Art Gallery, Halifax, West Yorkshire 2014: Jean Marmignon Theatre Gallery, Street Gaudens, France 2015: At the Forest"s Edge Art Space Gallery, London.
