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| Title | Flat Pack Rothman´s | |
| Collection | fineart.ac.uk | |
| Artist | Stephen Farthing | |
| Nationality | British | |
| Description | Farthing's work owes a debt to Pop Art through his appropriation of images of everyday objects, such as this one of a cigarette packet. | |
| Cultural Context | English | |
| Location Current Site | Royal College of Art | |
| Measurements Dimensions | 2140 x 1100 mm | |
| Material | oil and mixed media on canvas | |
| Biography | 1950: Born. 1978-85: Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art. 1985-90: Head of Painting, West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham 1989: Artisit in Residence at the Hayward Gallery, London 1990-2000: Ruskin Master of Drawing, Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford and Professional Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. 1998: Elected Royal Academician 2000: Made an Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. 2000: Present Executive Director of the New York Academy of Art, Manhattan. |
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| Biographic Notes | Details from: Exhibition Road: Painters at the Royal College of Art, ed Paul Huxley, Phaidon, 1988 and the Royal Academy web site at www.royalacademy.org.uk | |
| Education | 1976-77: Studied at British School at Rome. 1973-76: Studied at Royal College of Art. 1968-73: Studied at St. Martin's School of Art. |
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| Awards | 1976: Awarded Abbey Major Scholarship, taking him to the British School at Rome 1976: Prize Winner at John Moores Liverpool Exhibitions |
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| Other Activities | Commissions 1999: Portrait of the past and present historians Eric Hobsbawm, Rodney Hilton, Sir Keith Thomas, Sir John Elliot, Lawrence Stone and Jean Thirsk (commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, London) 1998: Topographical painting of Dorest (commissioned by the Dorchester Hospital Trust) 1997: Printed digital scan of oil painting for the façade of the Embassy during Spring 1997 (commissioned by the British Embassy, Paris) 1997: Carpet design (commissioned by the Grosvenor Estate) 1996: The Knowledge: Bloomsbury (painting commissioned by BUPA, London ) 1993: Painting of the buildings of the Oxford University Press (commissioned by Oxford University Press, Oxford) |
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| Institution | Royal College of Art | |
| Rights Owner | Royal College of Art | |
| Rights Status | UK HE use only | |
| Technique | Collage including acrylic, acrylic gesso, gloss paint, paper, resin, spray paint, screenprint | |
| Work Type | painting | |