Philippa Beale

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Philippa Beale
Born1946
Winchester, England
NationalityBritish
Known forPainting, sculpture, curator
Movement Conceptual Art, Arborealist
Website http://philippabeale.com/

Philippa Beale (born 1946) is a British visual artist, sculptor and curator. [1] [2]

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Biography

Philippa Beale was born in Winchester in Hampshire. She attended Winchester School of Art from 1961, and then Goldsmiths, University of London from 1965 to 1969 and the University of Reading during 1969 and 1970. [3] She had her first solo exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre in 1972. [4] Beale taught at the Hornsey College of Art and was the artist-in-residence at the City Art Gallery in Southampton during 1983. [3] Beale returned to study at Goldsmith's from 1983 to 1985, and then the University of the Arts London from 2000 to 2004.

In 1978 Beale exhibited Collected from Here, a series of sculptures and photographs about her mother's orchard at the Angela Flowers Gallery in London. Soon after, she exhibited thousands of real apples at the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh. Since the 1970s Philippa has exhibited work at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Arnolfini in Bristol, the Fruit Market in Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Arts and many major galleries. In 2009, Beale moved to France and made a permanent installation at the Church of the Virgin in Vaux, Valence en Poitou. [5] [6] [7] In 2009, Beale started painting trees as part of her new polemic concerning the environment, resulting in an invitation to exhibit in 2013 in Under the Greenwood, Picturing the British Tree, at St Barbe Museum in the New Forest. [8] [9] In 2014 she was a founder member of the Arborealists Movement. [10] [11]

Beale was a senior lecturer, then principal lecturer, and director of studies at the London College of Communication, Central Saint Martins, and finally as a Ph.D. supervisor at City, University of London. Beale joined The London Group of artists in 1977 and served as its president from 1994 to 1998. [3]

Works

Selected group exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

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