Artists

Carl Plackman

1943 - 2004

Lived and worked in London



Education


1970

MA: Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London

1967

BA: Art and Design, West of England College of Art, Bristol


 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

 

2007                

"Beyond Appearances" Huddersfield Art Gallery

"Beyond Appearances" Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston-on-Thames

 

2003                   

"Crooked Light" Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

 

2001                

Woodlands Art Gallery, London

 

1987-88        

Huddersfield City Art Gallery, Yorkshire

 

1987                

Chisenhale Gallery, London

 

1980                

Felicity Samuel Gallery at the Seven Dials Gallery, London

 

1979    

Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

 

1978                

Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

 

1977                

Felicity Samuel Gallery, London

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2009                

London Art Fair, Delaye Saltoun Gallery

"Open Studios" Chisenhale Studio

 

2008                

"Anxious Object" Store Gallery, London

"Prospects and Interiors: Sculptors' drawings of inner space, Leeds Art Gallery

"7 Types of Ambiguity" Store Gallery, London

 

2006                

"Important Mischief" Leeds Art Gallery

 

2004                

"Summer Show" Royal Academy

"Open Studios" Chisenhale Studio, London

 

2003                      

"Open Sculpture"  Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

"Summer Show" Royal Academy

 

2002    

"Summer Show"  Royal Academy

 

2001-02

"Out of Line"  Drawings from the Arts Council Collection - Touring Exhibition

 

2001                

Arts Festival  Hamburg, Germany

"Summer Show"  Royal Academy

 

2000                

"Live in Your Head  (Concept & Experiment in Britain 1965-75) Whitechapel Art Gallery

"Summer Show"  Royal Academy

"Heart & Soul" (British Art)  Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice, California, U.S.A.

 

1999                

"Paperworks"  Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

"Heart & Soul"  Long Lane, London

 

1997 - 1998          

"Drawings for domestic spaces" Derbyshire Arts Festival

 

1996 - 1997             

"Sculptors' Choice" (12 sculptors' drawings)  Royal Academy

 

1996              

"Life Drawing"  The Space, Isle of Dogs

Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition 1996

Whitechapel Open Exhibition

Open Studios in conjunction with Whitechapel Open (installation)

 

1993             

"Flesh and Blood" (Installation) Proteus Artists Network, International Exhibition, Lancaster

"Morgen Gemaakt"  International Photographic Exhibition - Maatschappi Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

 

1992              

"A Marked Difference"  (International Drawing Exhibition) - Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

 

1991 - 1992             

10th Cleveland (U.K.) International Drawing Exhibition

 

1991              

"Art for Amnesty : 30th Anniversary"  Bonhams,  London

"Bodylines"  3 Artists - 3 Installations  Chisenhale Gallery, London

"The Green Contemporary Art Exhibition" Phillips Fine Art, London

Leicestershire Art Education Exhibition

 

1990              

"It's a Still Life"  Arts Council Touring Exhibition

 

1989                

"A Spiritual Dimension"  Arts Council Touring Exhibition

"Sculpture in a Rose Garden"  Royal National Rose Society

 

1988             

Whitechapel Open Exhibition         

"Fire and Metal"  Goldsmith's Gallery, London

"House Works" 8 Installations  Bristol

 

1987             

"Recent Acquisitions of Leeds City Art Gallery"  Mayor Gallery

Athena Art Exhibition  Barbican Centre

 

1985            

"Sculptors' Drawings"  Chelsea School of Art Gallery

Cleveland (U.K.) 7th International Drawing Biennale

"Artists against Apartheid" Royal Festival Hall, London

 

1984 - 1985            

"Sculptors' Drawings"  Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition

 

1983    

"Drawing in Air" (Sculptors' Drawings)  Sunderland Arts Centre

"The Sculpture Show : 50 sculptors at the Serpentine & Hayward Gallery"

"Sculptors' Drawings"  Air Gallery, London

 

1982                

Whitechapel Open Exhibition

Plackman/Kardia recent sculpture and drawings  A.A. Gallery, London

"Not the Tate Show"  Graham Paton Gallery, London

"Working Drawings"  Midland Group, Nottingham

"British Drawing"  Hayward Annual 1982  Hayward Gallery

 

1981                

"British Sculpture of 20th Century Part 2 'Symbol & Imagination'" (1951-1980)  Whitechapel Art Gallery

 

1980 - 1981                  

"The Human Factor"  Arts Council Touring Exhibition

 

1980                

Whitechapel Open Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery

 

1979                

2nd Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts National Exhibition

"Sculptors' Drawings"  The Minories, Colchester

 

1978                

"Drawings and Prints" Artists' Market, London

Mixed Show, Felicity Samuel Gallery, London

"Scale for Sculpture"  Serpentine Gallery

"20th Century Drawings"  Chelsea College of Art

 

1977                

"Works on Paper"  C.A.S. Royal Academy

 

1976 - 1978                  

"Recent British Art"  British Council touring exhibition (Europe)

 

1976                

"Arte Inglese Oggi 1960-1976"  Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

"1st Sydney Sculpture Biennale" Australia

 

1974                

"Critic's Choice"  Tooth's Gallery, London

"British Sculpture - Attitudes to Drawing" Sunderland Art Gallery

 

1973                

"Magic and Strong Medicine" Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

"8th Paris Biennale" Musee d'art Moderne, Paris

 

1972                

"British Sculpture 1972" Royal Academy

"British Sculpture '72 Drawings" Redfern Gallery

Sculpture in the Open Air" Holland Park, London

"3 Sculptors" Serpentine Gallery

"Drawing Exhibition" Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

 

1970                

"Three Sculptors" Royal College of Art

"New Sculpture '70" Arts Council Travelling Exhibition

 

1969    

"Young Contemporaries"

 

 

Collections

 

Tate                                         

Arts Council                                                     

British Council                                                  

Henry Moore Institute                                        

Huddersfield Art Gallery

Victoria and Albert Museum

National Museum of Wales

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia

British Medal Society

The Courtauld Institute

Leicestershire Education Authofity

Eastern Arts Association

 

 

Awards

 

1968

Walter Neurath Drawing Prize (R.C.A.)

 

1970       

Sculpture Drawing Prize (R.C.A.)