Graham Crowley

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'''Graham Crowley''' (born 1950)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Graham Crowley in conversation with William Feaver |url=https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/lectures-events/graham-crowley-conversation-william-feaver/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=The Royal Drawing School |language=en}}</ref> is an artist based in [[Suffolk]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |title=Graham Crowley: Nifty shades of grey and wild colour |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/graham-crowley-nifty-shades-of-grey-and-wild-colour-1.4032336 |access-date=2024-12-09 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref> He studied at [[Saint Martin's School of Art|Saint Martin’s School of Art]] and the [[Royal College of Art]],<ref name=":0" /> later becoming Professor of Painting at the RCA.<ref name=":1" />

'''Graham Crowley''' (born 1950)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Graham Crowley in conversation with William Feaver |url=https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/lectures-events/graham-crowley-conversation-william-feaver/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=[[Royal Drawing School|The Royal Drawing School]] |language=en}}</ref> is an artist based in [[Suffolk]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |title=Graham Crowley: Nifty shades of grey and wild colour |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/graham-crowley-nifty-shades-of-grey-and-wild-colour-1.4032336 |access-date=2024-12-09 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |language=en}}</ref> He studied at [[Saint Martin's School of Art|Saint Martin’s School of Art]] and the [[Royal College of Art]],<ref name=":0" /> later becoming Professor of Painting at the RCA.<ref name=":1" />

== Life and career ==

== Life and career ==

Graham Crowley was born on 3 May 1950 in [[Romford]], London.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Livingstone |first=Marco |date=2000-12-10 |title=Crowley, Graham |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T097176 |access-date=2025-07-05 |website=[[Grove Art Online]] |language=en |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t097176}}</ref> He studied at [[Saint Martin's School of Art|Saint Martin’s School of Art]] from 1968 to 1972, and the [[Royal College of Art]] from 1972 to 1975.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2011-10-31 |title=Crowley, Graham |url=https://www-oxfordartonline-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00300020?p=emailAcjBJzWjfUA6s&d=/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00300020 |access-date=2025-07-05 |website=[[Benezit Dictionary of Artists]] |language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00300020}}</ref>

Graham Crowley was born on 3 May 1950 in [[Romford]], London.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Livingstone |first=Marco |date=2000-12-10 |title=Crowley, Graham |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T097176 |access-date=2025-07-05 |website=[[Grove Art Online]] |language=en |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t097176}}</ref> He studied at [[Saint Martin's School of Art|Saint Martin’s School of Art]] from 1968 to 1972, and the [[Royal College of Art]] from 1972 to 1975.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2011-10-31 |title=Crowley, Graham |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00300020 |access-date=2025-07-05 |website=[[Benezit Dictionary of Artists]] |language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00300020}}</ref>

Crowley's 1970s abstract paintings were characterised by bold colours, flat forms and what Marco Livingstone calls "a playful post-Cubist idiom".<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> Crowley has described these as "reworks" of paintings by [[Fernand Léger|Fernand Leger]]. In the mid-2020s he explained that during this period he believed that "notions of originality had become unsustainable" and that these works would now be described as appropriationist or post-modern.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Graham Crowley: The Moores and me |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/graham-crowley-moores-and-me |access-date=2025-07-05 |website=National Museums Liverpool}}</ref> One such work, ''Tug'' (1975), was Crowley's first entry in the [[John Moores Painting Prize]] in 1976 for the prize's tenth edition. It is a chalk on a canvas collage, hung on its point, and is held in the [[Arts Council Collection]].<ref name=":4" />

Crowley's 1970s abstract paintings were characterised by bold colours, flat forms and what Marco Livingstone calls "a playful post-Cubist idiom".<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> Crowley has described these as "reworks" of paintings by [[Fernand Léger|Fernand Leger]]. In the mid-2020s he explained that during this period he believed that "notions of originality had become unsustainable" and that these works would now be described as appropriationist or post-modern.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Graham Crowley: The Moores and me |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/graham-crowley-moores-and-me |access-date=2025-07-05 |website=[[National Museums Liverpool]]}}</ref> One such work, ''Tug'' (1975), was Crowley's first entry in the [[John Moores Painting Prize]] in 1976 for the prize's tenth edition. It is a chalk on a canvas collage, hung on its point, and is held in the [[Arts Council Collection]].<ref name=":4" />

In the early 1980s Crowley began to paint more figurative subjects, often focused on domestic settings which addressed themes of [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite Britain]].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" /> Livingstone describes ''So and Sew'' (1980) as have a "manic" and "comically charged" atmosphere in which a sewing actions of a seamstress have exploded the figure into "strongly modelled, volumetric forms".<ref name=":2" /> This painting was entered in the 1980 John Moores Painting Prize.<ref name=":4" />

In the early 1980s Crowley began to paint more figurative subjects, often focused on domestic settings which addressed themes of [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite Britain]].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" /> Livingstone describes ''So and Sew'' (1980) as have a "manic" and "comically charged" atmosphere in which a sewing actions of a seamstress have exploded the figure into "strongly modelled, volumetric forms".<ref name=":2" /> This painting was entered in the 1980 John Moores Painting Prize.<ref name=":4" />

In 2002, Crowley was shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize in Painting.<ref name=":3" />

In 2002, Crowley was shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize in Painting.<ref name=":3" />

Crowley won the [[John Moores Painting Prize]] in 2023, having entered ten times previously since 1976.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-09-14 |title=Graham Crowley wins John Moores Painting Prize with 10th entry |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-66808963 |access-date=2024-12-09 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Crowley won the [[John Moores Painting Prize]] in 2023, having entered ten times previously since 1976.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-09-14 |title=Graham Crowley wins John Moores Painting Prize with 10th entry |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-66808963 |access-date=2024-12-09 |work=[[BBC News]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>

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