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In 2006, Blackburn had a show at the Metropole Galleries in Folkestone; his work had not appeared in a commercial gallery since 1968. This led to a revival of interest in Blackburn's body of work as he approached eighty-years old. Blackburn died after a short illness on 22 October 2022, at the age of 90. He was survived by his wife and children.
John Blackburn (1932–2022) Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge. In 2006, by then aged 74, a group of Blackburn’s steadfast admirers assisted his return, supporting him in a major retrospective at the Metropole Galleries, Folkestone. He has subsequently held a number of successful shows in the UK and New Zealand, and in late 2013 ...
Sep 14, 2022 · So says John Blackburn, who is celebrating his ninetieth birthday with his seventh exhibition at Mayfair gallery Osborne Samuel (September 8 – 23). The first of these was in 2007, a year after Blackburn re-emerged from obscurity after a 28-year hiatus from the art world, during which the artist had followed another career path to support his family, after a successful early career in both ...
John Blackburn Biography. After studying at the Margate School of Art, and a stint in the RAF, English-born John Blackburn ventured to New Zealand in the 1950s. By the time he returned to his native England in 1961 he was arguably the most radical painter working in Auckland, where he had exhibited at Auckland’s short-lived Circle Gallery ...
OK. John Blackburn Modern British Artist (1932-2022). The themes in his work remained constant down the years, the ways in which he revisited them continually open to experiment and reassessment, to new inventions of form and material as he strove for what he describes as an elusive truth.’.
12 – 28 September 2018. View exhibition catalogue. We are delighted to show John Blackburn for his sixth exhibition at Osborne Samuel. It seems a long time ago that I first saw John’s work on a cold and snowy January in 2005. John reached the age of 86 in June and this new body of work titled The Fire Paintings have been exceptionally ...
Profile. John Blackburn MBE. (1932-2022) ‘The themes in his work have remained constant down the years, the ways in which he revisits them continually open to experiment and reassessment, to new inventions of form and material as he strives for what he describes as an elusive truth.’. Ian Massey.
