15-842: Sheila Robinson (1925–1988) was a British artist and illustrator, one of the Great Bardfield Artists and a member of staff at the Royal College of Art . After her death, the RCA created the Sheila Robinson Drawing Prize in her honour. Sheila Robinson was born in Nottingham in 1925. She studied at the Nottingham School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, where she was a student of Edward Bawden . One of her RCA projects
30-516: A community of artists who lived in Great Bardfield , a village in north west Essex , England, during the middle years of the 20th century. The principal artists who lived there between 1930 and 1970 were John Aldridge RA , Edward Bawden , George Chapman , Stanley Clifford-Smith , Audrey Cruddas , Walter Hoyle , Eric Ravilious , Sheila Robinson , Michael Rothenstein , Kenneth Rowntree and Marianne Straub . Other artists associated with
45-507: A key figure in the local artists' scene, is well represented in the Fry Art Gallery collection through linocuts, watercolours, posters, ceramics, books, scrapbooks and other printed material. The gallery holds watercolours by Ravilious, plus lithographs, books, fabric, ceramics and a collection of woodblocks, as well as two of his scrapbooks. In 2015 V&A Publishing, in association with the Fry Art Gallery, published Bawden, Ravilious and
60-596: A multi-city tour of England and Ireland during 1957 and 1958. The early 1960s saw the majority of the Great Bardfield artists leave the village. In 1985, the Fry Art Gallery was established in Saffron Walden with the expressed aim of highlighting the paintings, prints, wallpapers, books, fabrics and ceramics made by the Great Bardfield art community between 1930 and 1970. Many of the artists have had exhibitions at
75-503: A number of commercial commissions - advertising posters, including for BBC publications such as Time and Tune and the BBC Book of the Countryside . Robinson created several posters for London Transport in the early 1950s, including Literary London and Tattoo . She then taught at the Royal College of Art, and developed her work in printmaking and card-cut illustration. She was also one of
90-698: Is home to the North West Essex Collection, a set of more than 3,000 works by diverse, nationally important artists who have lived or worked in the area. The collection includes paintings, prints, books, artists' scrapbooks, ceramics, wallpapers and decorative designs. There is an emphasis on artists who worked in and around Great Bardfield in the middle of the twentieth century, including Edward Bawden , Eric Ravilious , Tirzah Garwood , John Aldridge , Sheila Robinson , Bernard Cheese , Chloe Cheese , Walter Hoyle , Michael Rothenstein , Kenneth Rowntree , George Chapman and Marianne Straub . Artists in
105-519: The Artists of Great Bardfield , illustrating a number of the pieces by Bawden, Ravilious, Rothenstein and other Bardfield artists in the collection. The Fry Art Gallery building was designed to house the art collection of Francis Gibson , a local Quaker businessman who died in 1859 and was inherited by his daughter, Elizabeth, who had married the Bristol MP Lewis Fry . The gallery passed through
120-552: The Fry Art Gallery and elsewhere. Fry Art Gallery The Fry Art Gallery is an art gallery in Saffron Walden , Essex. Recognised as an Accredited Museum by Arts Council England, it displays work by artists of national significance who lived or worked in North West Essex during the twentieth century and after. The gallery is known for its comprehensive collection of work by the Great Bardfield Artists , including Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious . The Fry Art Gallery
135-457: The Fry family, who maintained a tradition of public access and who displayed a mixture of the family collection of historic masters and paintings by family members, including Roger Fry , until its closure in the early 1970s. The Fry Art Gallery Society was formed as a charity in 1985 and the gallery re-opened in its present form 1987. Prior to its closure it had been named the "Gibson Gallery". In 2002
150-602: The Great Bardfield Artists organised a series of large 'open house' exhibitions which attracted national and international press attention. Positive reviews and the novelty of viewing modernist art works in the artists' own homes led to thousands visiting the remote village during the summer exhibitions of 1954, 1955 and 1958. As well as these large shows the Great Bardfield Artists held exhibitions of their work in Cambridge (1956) and Bristol (1959). The artists also organised
165-735: The Rhondda ; Michael Rothenstein – Sustained Invention ; and Connections . Items from the collection have been lent to exhibitions elsewhere, including Eric Ravilious at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2015 and Ravilious and Co at the Towner Gallery in 2017. New acquisitions to the collection have been supported by the Art Fund and the V&;A Purchase Fund. Edward Bawden , who with his friend Eric Ravilious discovered Great Bardfield and became
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#1732859014528180-506: The artists who contributed to The Oxford Illustrated Old Testament in the 1960s (along with Edward Ardizzone , Edward Bawden , Peter Blake , John Brathy , Edward Burra , David Hockney , Carel Weight and Brian Wildsmith . She died of a brain tumour in Saffron Walden in 1988. This prize was established in her honour at the Royal College of Art. Recipients include: Great Bardfield Artists The Great Bardfield Artists were
195-449: The collection with a connection to the wider area include Michael Ayrton , John Bellany , Robert Colquhoun , Robert MacBryde , Grayson Perry and Keith Vaughan . The gallery displays a revolving selection of works from the collection in themed exhibitions. In 2016/17 the exhibitions held were: Exploring – Inspirational Places for North West Essex Artists , and three sequential temporary exhibitions: George Chapman – From Bardfield to
210-449: The group include Duffy Ayers , John Bolam , Bernard Cheese , Tirzah Garwood , Joan Glass , David Low and Laurence Scarfe . Great Bardfield Artists were diverse in style but shared a love for figurative art , making the group distinct from the better known St Ives School of artists in St Ives, Cornwall , who, after the war, were chiefly dominated by abstractionists. During the 1950s
225-515: Was a complete, hand-drawn, lettered and bound book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses . She married Bernard Cheese and moved to Thaxted , Essex, to raise their two children, one of whom is illustrator and printmaker Chloe Cheese . The marriage broke down, and she and the children moved to Great Bardfield in Essex, where she worked as part of a team with Edward Bawden on the Festival of Britain . She worked on
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