Richard Pinkney: no red tram at the CUT 1958 - 2024

20 Apr-25 May 2024

Overview

A retrospective exhibition of graphic, pictorial, serial, digital and mixed media work by Suffolk born and bred artist Richard Pinkney.

Richard Pinkney was born in Ipswich in 1938, studied at Ipswich School of Art and the West of England College of Art in the ‘50s and has lived and worked in Suffolk all his life.   

This is a retrospective exhibition of his graphic, pictorial, serial, digital and mixed media work  

His narrative style and uncompromising methods grew out of an early interest in modernism and cybernetics.  In the 1960’s he concentrated on ephemera; things that were nearly out of sight and thoughts lost between more important considerations, He found and continues to find ways to have fun using incongruity and avoiding the autographic mark,

He founded Trivia Press in 1965 as a portmanteau for his graphic ideas and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015.

Exhibiting widely in London, Edinburgh, Bath, Sudbury, Ipswich, Leicester, Peterborough and abroad etc, his work appears in many private and public collections including The Tate, The Government Art Collection, The Yale Collection of British Art, The British Library and The Bury Museum Archive of British Word Art etc.

Richard found that his interaction with students and colleagues when teaching at Ipswich, Colchester, 
St. Martins, Kingsway and other Schools of Art was intellectually stimulating and expanded his technical awareness. The resulting printmaking diversity is a firm thread throughout this show. Similarly, the progression of ideas revealed by his compulsive drawing in notebooks is thematic and full of delight.

His challenging oeuvre is comprehensively represented in this show of which Richard says, “I try to get up to mischief from time to time and avoid becoming too earnest. Make of it what you will, I shall be delighted if you find here and there, something memorable to enjoy.”.