CHRONOLOGY

1926  Born in Portsmouth
1942-1944   Southern College of Art, Portsmouth
1947-1949   Southern College of Art, Portsmouth
1949-1952   The Slade School, London

SOLO EXHIBITITIONS

1963  Lane Gallery, Bradford
1964  Edinburgh University
           Monks Hall, Manchester
           Four Yorkshire Galleries (touring)
1969  Midland Institute, Birmingham
1977  University of Wisconsin, Stout, USA
1983  Mercury Gallery, London
1985  Mercury Gallery, London
1987  Mercury Gallery, London
1989  Mercury Gallery, London
1990  Swiss Cottage Library, London
           Mercury Gallery, London
1992  Mercury Gallery, London
1993  Vortex Gallery, London
           Culture Centre, Skopje
           Ecosreda Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
1994  Mercury Gallery, London
1995  Leigh Underhill Gallery, London
1996  Mercury Gallery, London
1998  Mercury Gallery, London
1999  Mercury Gallery, London
2000  Mercury Gallery, London
2001  Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
2003  Millinery Works Gallery, London Drawing a Line North
2003  Scolar Fine Art, London
2004  Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
2005  Millinery Works Gallery, London Painted Sea
2006  Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames

Selected group exhibitions

1950  RBA Galleries Young Contemporaries
1960  Bradford City Art Gallery Four Yorkshire Artists
1961  Liverpool John Moores
1962  Wakefield City Art Gallery Four Painters
1964  Skopje, Yugoslavia British Artists
           Edinburgh University Four Artists
1969  Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1971  Frankfurt, Germany Midland Artists
1972  Wolverhampton Polytechnic Eric Rimmington and Patrick Hughes
1974  Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
           Wolverhampton Polytechnic
1976  University of Wisconsin, Stout, USA
1983-1989   Angela Flowers, London Small is Beautiful
1984  Royal Festival Hall, London Spirit of London
1985  Arts Council of Great Britain (touring) Still Life, New Life
1987  Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal (and touring) The World's Waste
1992  Maureen Michaelson, London
1999 Bury St.Edmunds Art Gallery Intimate Interiors
1983-2000   Mercury Gallery, London (annual)
1992-2004   Flowers East, London Small Is Beautiful (annual)
1999-2005   The Millinery Works Gallery, London Contemporary British
                       Art (annual)
2001-2005   Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames Artists of Fame and
                       Promise
2001  Maureen Michaelson, London
           Browse and Darby, London
           Albemarle Gallery, London Still Life
2004  Scolar Fine Art, London Contemporary British Masters
           Portsmouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Owen Bicentenary Festival
           Imperial War Museum Open Secret
2006  Millais Gallery, Southampton A Beautiful South
           Mall Galleries, London The Discerning Eye

Works in public collections

Bradford City Art Gallery
Gulbenkian Foundation
Hertfordshire County Council
Imperial War Museum
Leeds University
Museum of London
Scarborough Art Gallery
University of Wisconsin, USA

Public murals

Beddow Hall, Portsmouth
2000 Trafalgar Institute, Portsmouth

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Publications

Guy Brett, 'Eric Rimmington: Paintings 1989-91', catalogue essay, Mercury Gallery, January 1992

Laura Gascoigne, 'Eric Rimmington: New Work', catalogue essay, Mercury Gallery, 2000

Laura Gascoigne, 'Drawing a Line North: Painting and Drawings 1985-2000' catalogue essay, Millinery Works Gallery, 2003

Mary Michaels, 'Eric Rimmington: New Paintings', catalogue essay, Scolar Fine Art, 2003

Mary Michaels, 'Eric Rimmington: Painted Sea', catalogue essay, The Millinery Works Gallery, 2005

David Lee, 'Eric Rimmington: Recent Paintings', catalogue essay, Bohun Gallery, 2006

Articles and selected reviews

John Russell, Sunday Times, 5 May 1957
Anthony Tucker, Guardian, 15 October 1962
W T Oliver, Yorkshire Post, 1 April 1963
Anthony Everitt, Birmingham Post, 28 January 1972
Anthony Everitt, 'Midland Art Now', Birmingham Post, January 1977
Terence Mullaly, Daily Telegraph, 5 July 1983
Guy Brett, City Limits, 15 July 1983
Brian Sewell, Evening Standard, 20 December 1984
Nigel Pollit, City Limits, 11 October 1985
William Packer, Financial Times, 17 October 1985
Lois Miles, Hampstead and Highgate Express, 26 October 1990
M G, Daily Telegraph, 19 January 1992
Laura Gascoigne, 'Eric Rimmington: living things, the object as subject', Artists and Illustrators, October 1998
Laura Gascoigne, 'The Tubist School', The Oldie, June 1999
Andrew Martin, 'Tube Talk', Evening Standard Magazine, July 1999
Laura Gascoigne, 'Close Encounters of the Underground Kind', Artists and Illustrators, July 1999
William Packer, 'Old-fashioned Modernism', Financial Times, 13 June 2000
Helen Smithson, 'Drawn to city life', Hampstead and Highgate Express, Art,
May 9, 2003
Laura Gascoigne, 'Delighting in Flotsam', The Spectator, 1 November 2003
William Packer, Financial Times Magazine, Issue 29, 8 November 2003
'Easel Words', The Jackdaw, No.43, November 2004

Dissertation

Christopher Meek, 'Eric Rimmington in context', BA dissertation, University College, Scarborough,  May 1998

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