RICHARD SLATER CV
Born in London 1927. Married Mavis, 3 daughters.
Lives at Landrake near Saltash Cornwall
Education and Training
1938-43 Educated at Tottenham Grammar School
1943-45 Hornsey School of Art
1945-48 National Service
1950 National Diploma in Design (Illustration)
1951 Art Teacher’s Diploma
1954 National Diploma in Design (Painting & Lithography).
Teaching Career
1951 -- 1960 Secondary Schools in London area
1957 – 1960 Head of Dept. Shoreditch School
1958 – 1959 Lecturer in Printmaking – London
1964 Senior Lecturer
1970 Principal Lecturer Head of Department
1973 Moved to Plymouth with the College of St Mark & St John
Settled in Landrake
1970 – 1980 Art Examiner for the Bachelor of Education Degree with London & Exeter Universities
Exhibitions
London - Park Lane, Royal Academy, Savage Gallery, London Hilton Gallery, John Whibley Gallery, Touring Show with Arts Council England
Plymouth Plymouth Arts Centre, The Barbican Gallery, Arlesford Gallery
Commissions
1960’s Ceramic Mural for London primary school
Illustrations for Cambridge University Press
Six Lithographic Editions for Consolidated Fine Art, New York working at the Curwen Gallery London
1980 – 1999 Exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour & at the Royal Society of Marine Artists at the Mall Galleries London
Participated in group shows at Arlesford gallery, galleries in Devon & Cornwall, Mayflower Gallery Tavistock, Turner Gallery Exeter
Listed in ‘Who’s Who in Art and the ‘Dictionary of British Art since 1945’
Awards & Elections
1980 1st Prize Drake 400, Plymouth
1982 1st Prize Becton – Dickinson, Watercolour Open, Plymouth
1991 1st Prize South West Open Painting Competition, Plymouth
1992 Awarded RI Medal for ‘Most Outstanding painting by non member’
Solo Exhibition Sterts Art Centre Cornwall
1998 2nd Prize South West Open Painting Competition
1999 Elected to Membership of Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour
1999 Elected to Associate Membership of St Ives Society of Artists
2003 Kingsmead/Rowland Hilder Award at The RI Annual Exhibition
2004 Elected to Full Member St Ives Society of Artists
2004 Exhibited in Singer / Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition