Natalie d'Arbeloff

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Natalie d'Arbeloff born 1929 in Paris of a French mother and Russian father [1] [2] is a British American artist, known for her work as painter, printmaker, book artist, cartoonist, and writer.

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Biography

She lived in France, Paraguay, Brazil, Italy and the United States. From 1948 to 1949 d'Arbeloff studied at the Art Students League of New York, followed by art study in Mexico at Instituto Allende from 1956 to 1957 and Central School of Art (printmaking) in London from 1964 to 1966. [3] She resides in London since 1963.

Painter by profession, d'Arbeloff is also a printmaker, cartoonist and maker of artist's books. Her paintings, constructions, comics and artist's books have been exhibited internationally, and are in private and public collections including the Museum Meermanno, The Hague, the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, [4] Library of Congress, the British Library and many other rare book collections in universities and public institutions. A retrospective exhibition of d'Arbeloff's book-art and graphic work was held in 1992 in The Hague at the Museum Meermanno. Her limited edition livres d' artiste [5] were mainly produced by her own NdA Press from 1973 onwards but several more were printed and published in collaboration with the Old Stile Press. NdA Press also produced various small press publications including a series of mini-comic books Small Packages from 1984-1988 featuring d'Arbeloff's fictional alter-ego character Augustine. Developed through internet forms - the webcomic and blogosphere—in 2007 d'Arbeloff published one of her series of web-based strip cartoons The God Interviews as a full color paperback comic book.

Teaching

From the 1960s to the 1990s d'Arbeloff taught printmaking, drawing, painting and mixed-media at various adult education institutions in London, including Camden Arts Centre, City Lit and Stanhope Institutes. She was visiting artist/professor at Colorado College in Colorado Springs in 1997 and 1994. She has given workshops and written articles on creativity for various publications and her three art and design teaching books (see Further reading) were published in the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands.

Awards

When living in Paraguay (1958-1962) d'Arbeloff was the winner of a government competition to design and execute a mural for a new modern building, the Hotel Guarani. Her abstract mural was inaugurated in 1962. She was joint recipient of The Guardian's 2007 inaugural Mary Stott competition prize which included editing the newspaper's women's pages for one week in June 2008. [6] [7]

d'Arbeloff won the 2019 Laydeez Do Comics Rosalind D. Penfold award. This award was for a graphic novel-in-progress (not a finished graphic novel) and was given to Double Entendre as the best entry from comics artists over 50 years old.

Publications

This is a partial list of some of d'Arbeloff's limited edition artist's books

Further reading

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References

  1. ↑ "'There are no rules in age': confession of an almost 90-year-old". The Guardian. 2019-01-03. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-09-13.
  2. ↑ "Special Collections and Archives: The Revelation of Saint John the Divine". Southern Methodist University (SMU). Retrieved 2019-09-13.
  3. ↑ "Natalie d'Arbeloff, artist and printmaker : papers - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. V&A Museum. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  4. ↑ 'Mozart, Matisse, Blanche et moi', Artists' Books in the Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, retrieved 2012-05-16.
  5. ↑ Palacios, Mar Gonzalez. "Yale University Library Research Guides: Book Art Resources: The Term Artists' Books". guides.library.yale.edu.
  6. ↑ "Natalie d'Arbeloff is wondering why there are so few older women in the cybervillage". The Guardian. 2008-06-13. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  7. ↑ Saner, Emine (2008-06-17). "Emine Saner on successful women artists over 60". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-09-12. Natalie d'Arbeloff is joint winner of our first Mary Stott prize.
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