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 Biography:  30.1.1920 Born in Headingley, Leeds, Yorkshire, Engl. (UK) 1925 - 1929 Lived near Newlyn, and in Lelant, Zennor and St Ives, Cornwall, before moving to Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, September 1929 1934 Designed first silk square for Cresta Silks, London 1937 - 1939 Part-time student at Slade School of Fine Art, London 1940 - 1944 Agricultural labourer, Cambridge and Welwyn Garden City 1944 - 1945 Assistant at Bernard Leach’s pottery, St Ives 1945 Moves to Holland Park, London 1945 - 1947 Art Critic for The New English Weekly Annual visits to St Ives, until 1954 1945 - 1958 Critic for New English Weekly, New Statesman and Nation and Arts (New York) 1947 First solo exhibition Series of talks on contemporary art commissioned by BBC Third Programme, London Art critic for The New Statesman and Nation (until 1950; further contributions to 1955) 1950 First exhibition with the Penwith Society of Arts in Cornwall, St Ives. Continued to exhibit with the Penwith Society at regular intervals until the late 1970s 1950 - 1954 Occasional reviews in Art News & Review 1953 - 1956 Taught at Central School of Arts and Crafts, London 1955 London correspondent for Arts Digest (later Arts), New York 1956 Moves to Eagles Nest, Zennor, Cornwall 1958 Moves into Nicholson’s studio at Porthmeor, St Ives 1958 Resigned from Arts Took over Ben Nicholson’s studio at Porthmeor, St Ives Mural panel commissioned for London Offices of Percy Lund Humphries 1967 Visited Australia, lecturing in Perth and Sydney 1973 ‘The Shape of Colour’, Power Lecture in Contemporary Art; delivered in Sydney; Brisbane; Canberra; Melbourne; Adelaide; Perth Represented Great Britain at the first Sydney Biennale, in the Opera House 1978 ‘The Colour of Colour’, E. William Doty Lectures in Fine Arts, delivered at University of Texas at Austin Patrick and Delia Heron made honorary citizens of Texas by order of the Secretary of State for Texas ‘The Shapes of Colour: 1943–1978’, book of screenprints, Kelpra Editions, Waddington and Tooth Graphics 1979 Delia dies 3 May, Zennor, Cornwall 1980 - 1987 Trustee of the Tate Gallery, London 1981 Commissioned to design tapestry for University of Galway, Eire 1982 Hon. D. Litt., University of Exeter 1983 Appeared in Patrick Heron, BBC Omnibus, directed by Colin Nears, 13 March 1985 Appeared in Painting the Warmth of the Sun, a TSW production for Channel Four, directed by Kevin Crooks, 7, 8 & 9 April 1986 Hon. D. Litt., University of Kent Appeared in South Bank Show: Patrick Heron, an LWT production, directed by John Read, 9 February 1987 Hon. Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London 1988 Visited Moscow and Leningrad on behalf of the Tate Gallery, London 1989 Hon. Ph.D. CNAA, Winchester School of Art Visited Japan to lecture at the opening of ‘St Ives’ exhibition, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo Made second visit to Moscow and Leningrad on behalf of the Tate Gallery, London 1989 - 1990 Artist-in-Residence, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1990 - 1993 Two tapestries made from Sydney gouaches by Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne 1991 Visiting Artist, International Art Workshop, North Otago, New Zealand Honorary FRIBA Designed nine silk banners for Tate Gallery bookshop, London 1992 Designed coloured glass window for Tate Gallery, St Ives (official opening June 1993) Designed three silk banners for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London Designed kneeler to encircle Henry Moore altar at St Stephen Walbrook, London 1996 Honorary Fellow of Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds 1996 - 1998 ‘Big Painting Sculpture’, Stag Place, Victoria, commissioned by Land Securities in collaboration with Feary & Heron Architects 1998 Commissioned to make a series of etchings with Hugh Stoneman for Paragon Press entitled ‘Brushworks’ Awards 1959 Awarded Grand Prize (International Jury) in John Moores Liverpool Exhibition II, Walker Art Gallery 1965 Awarded Silver medal in the VIII Sao Paulo Bienal 1977 Awarded C.B.E. Public Collections (British) Aberdeen Art Gallery Basildon Arts Trust Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford C.E.M.A., Belfast National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland, Belfast Birmingham City Art Gallery Bristol City Art Gallery Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury National Museum of Wales, Cardiff Bishop Otter College, Chichester Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Exeter Art Gallery Cornwall House, Exeter University Harrogate Fine Art Collection Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal Leeds City Art Gallery Leicestershire Education Committee, Leicester Arts Council of Great Britain, London Barclays Bank Collection, London British Broadcasting Corporation, London British Council, London British Museum, London BP Chemicals, London Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London Chancery Securities plc, London Contemporary Art Society, London Deutsche Bank, London Government Art Collection, London National Portrait Gallery, London Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., London RIBA, London Shell-Mex Limited, London Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, London Tate Gallery, London Victoria and Albert Museum, London Granada Television, Manchester Manchester City Art Gallery (Rutherston Collection) Royal Bank of Scotland, Manchester Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle University Norwich Castle Museum Oldham Art Gallery St John’s College, Oxford Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Merton College, Oxford Methodist Church Collection, Oxford New College, Oxford Nuffield College, Oxford Pembroke College, Oxford Plymouth City Art Gallery Southampton Art Gallery University of Stirling Cornwall Education Committee, Truro Wakefield City Art Gallery Bretton Hall, University of Leeds, Wakefield National Education Archive, Bretton Hall, Wakefield Arts Council of Wales University of Warwick Public Collections (International) Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney University The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta London Art Gallery, Ontario Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Vancouver Art Gallery University of Galway, Ireland Marubeni (UK) plc, Japan Ohnishi Museum, Kogawa Prefecture Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York First National Bank of Chicago, Illinois Summit Capital Group LLC, Houston, Texas Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut Brooklyn Museum, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts The University of Oklahoma Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio 20.3.1999 Died in Zennor, Cornwall, England (UK) | Public exhibitions 31 Solo shows 42008
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