Dolan Maxwell - Norman Ackroyd

NORMAN ACKROYD -

Born in 1938, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, he studied at Leeds College of Art (1957-61) and The Royal College of Art, London (1961-64). In 1988 he was elected a member of The Royal Academy, London.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS INCLUDE:

Also many municipal art collections in Great Britain including, among others, Aberdeen, Bradford, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Manchester Newcastle, Norwich, Preston, and Sheffield.

Norman Ackroyd has exhibited internationally throughout his career.

Since 1994 Norman Ackroyd’s work has appeared yearly in one-man exhibitions mounted by Dolan/Maxwell at each London Original Print Fair at The Royal Academy of Arts, London

In 1995 Ackroyd’s work appeared in Impressions of Nature at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Interprint at the Bermuda National Gallery. In 1997 the major exhibition of Ackroyd’s paintings and etchings, Tender is the North, was held at Harewood House, Yorkshire at which time a catalogue of the same title was published.

His exhibition Etchings from the Edge of the British Isles was shown at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1997 and has been followed by continuous series of exhibitions throughout Britain.

Norman Ackroyd has just completed a commission for the British Government of a twenty foot mural for the Main Hall of the new British Embassy in Moscow.