Born 1946
1946 Born High Wycombe
1962-66 High Wycombe School of Art
1966-69 Camberwell School of Art
1969-71 Slade School of Fine Art
Lives and works in London
Teaching and Lecturing
1995-96 Tate Education: de Kooning, Cezanne, Pollock
1994-95 Slade School of Fine Art
1975-97 St Martin’s School of Art
1972-93 Camberwell School of Art
1971-88 Portsmouth Polytechnic
1971-96 Visiting Lecturer at Chelsea School of Art,
Slade School of Fine Art, Bath Academy of Art,
Newcastle University & Manchester School of Art
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 Constant Within the Change, Clifford Chance
2012 Spontaneity of Movements, Alan Wheatley Art
2008 Gary Wragg Paintings, Flowers East, London
2003 Gary Wragg, Flowers Central
2000 Gary Wragg, The Quiet Paintings, Flowers East
1999 Recent Work by Gary Wragg, King St Gallery
1997 Gary Wragg, Flowers East
1996 Works on Paper, Gallery M, Flowers East
1991 Gary Wragg, Gallery 10, London
1990 Gary Wragg, Goldsmiths Art Gallery, London
1989 Studio Show, Hackney, London
1986 Gary Wragg, Paintings, Nicola Jacobs Gallery
1984 New Paintings, Gary Wragg, Castleford Gallery
1983 Gary Wragg, Recent Paintings, Herbert Art Gallery
1982 Gary Wragg, Paintings & Drawings, Nicola Jacobs
1979 Gary Wragg, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1978 Gary Wragg, Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery
1976,79 Gary Wragg, Acme Gallery, London
Public Collections
Arts Council England
Barclays de Zoete Wedd, London
Contemporary Arts Society
De Beers Consolidated Mines
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
National Gallery of South Africa
Pompidou Centre, Paris
Royal Holloway University, Egham
The Saatchi Collection
Slade School of Fine Art Collection, London
St Pancras Library, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Warwick University Art Collection, Warwickshire
Private Collections
Throughout England and Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States of America.
signed, dated 1982 and titled verso
Notes from the artist:
Patches and blocks formed a mixture of entangled movements vying for direction that resolved around a feeling of elastic moving apart, and moving together.