Research by:
Douglas Westbury
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Cliff Holden FCSD (Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers)
1919 | Born - Manchester |
1944 | Met David Bomberg |
1946 | Founding President of the Borough Group |
1946-1951 | Seven exhibitions of the Borough Group |
1951 | Exhibition at Parsons Gallery - work by Holden, Creffield, Mead, and Richmond |
1952 | Exhibition at Gummesons Gallery, Stockholm - work by Holden, Creffield, Mead and Richmond (at the invitation of Torsten Renquist) |
1953 | Lived and worked in Spain with Dorothy Mead |
1955 | Exhibitions at Manchester Library - silk screen prints and paintings (also in 1959) |
1956 | Exhibitions in Stockholm and Gothenburg |
Met Lisa Grönwall and Maj Nilsson and conceived the idea of a design studio | |
Guest teacher at Valand School of Art, Gothenburg | |
1962 | Design of the Year - awarded by the Design Centre (presented by Prince Philip) |
Marstrand Designers' murals and wallpaper designs can be found throughout the world (in hotels, offices, embassies, ships, hospitals etc.) | |
1973 | Guest teacher at Mount Mary College, Milwaukee and Goldsmiths College, University of London |
1996 | Hässlås Målarskola received Northampton Journal Award for quality and service |
1999 | Composed manuscript "Work in Progress" (deposited with the Tate Archive) |
2000 | Exhibition in Falkenberg, Sweden - Celebration of Holden's 80th birthday |
Special foyer display of one work at Tate Britain in honour of Holden's 80th birthday | |
2004 | Bomberg and the Borough - exhibition at Tate Britain |
Special display of one work at Tate Britain in honour of Holden's 85th birthday | |
Bomberg and Pupils, The Borough Group 1946-1951 - exhibition at the Boundary Gallery, London | |
Included in exhibition at Modern British Artists, London | |
Launch of web site (http://www.cliffholden.co.uk) | |
2005 | Face to Face: British Self-Portraits in the Twentieth Century - inaugural exhibition at the Northumbria University Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. To read about Cliff's self-portrait which is in the exhibition see Chapter from 'Face to Face...' (Cliff Holden). |
2006 | Awarded degree of Honorary Doctor of Letters by London South Bank University |
2020 | Died - Sweden |
Work by Cliff Holden is held in the following public collections:-
Arts Council of Great Britain |
Victoria & Albert Museum Textile Archives |
Whitworth Gallery, Manchester - houses many examples of wallpaper designs |
MMU, Manchester College of Art (Graphic Section) |
Tate Britain, London |
Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh (Graphic Section) |
Manchester City Art Gallery (Rutherston Collection) |
Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm |
National Museum, Stockholm (Graphic Section) |
Laholm's Museum of Drawings |
Museums of Gothenburg, Luleå, Eskilstuna, Borås and Karlstad |
Information and caption text below courtesy of Tate Online.
Title: | Yellow Seated Figure |
Medium: | Oil on board |
Dimensions: | 730mm x 572mm |
Purchased: | 1962 |
Tate Work Number: | T00504 |
Tate Online Web Page: | Yellow Seated Figure |
From the exhibition display caption July 2004:
This work was exhibited at the third Borough Group exhibition, in 1949. The subject matter, the muted, earthy colours, vigorous paint work and strong sense of structure are all typical of the group. Holden said that ‘What a painter has to do is not to recognise either the object or the image but to recognise the kind of sensation that has produced the image’.
U.S.A., Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland & U.K.
Cliff was a member of the following organisations:-
The London Group |
Fellow of the Free Painters and Sculptors |
Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers |
Design Associate, American Institute of Interior Designers |
Artists Club, Gothenburg |
KRO – The Swedish National Union of Artists |
The Swedish National Handicraft and Industrial Design Organization |
Cliff drawing on the Virgen de la Cabeza, Ronda, Spain, 3rd October 2004:-
Cliff drawing on the Virgen de la Cabeza, Ronda, Spain, 3rd October 2004:-
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