Terry Setch RA
Born: 1 March 1936, Lewisham, London
Elected: 28 May 2009
Category of Membership: Painter
Terry Setch RA, Polar Melt, 2009. Encaustic wax and beach detritus on Styrofoam, 244 x 122cm Courtesy of the Artist Terry Setch studied at Sutton and Cheam School of Art, 1950-54 and Slade School of Fine Art 1956-60.
He lives in Penarth, Wales and draws inspiration from his surroundings. Employing diverse materials, he explores the tensions between society and the natural world. The painted surfaces of his large scale works are often amplified with found matter, which articulates an atmosphere of elemental and emotional turmoil.
Although Setch's small scale paintings, prints and drawings are more literal, they are rooted in the same Romantic tradition.
Solo exhibitions:
2009 Terry Setch In His Own Time, Art Space Gallery, London
2008 Terry Setch Paintings 1980 - 2008, Art Space Gallery, London
2006 Terry Setch, in celebration of his 70th Birthday, Tate Britain, London
2006 Towards Lavernock in celebration of Alfred Sisley’s paintings of south Wales, Glynn Viivian Art Gallery, Swansea
2004 Skateboarders: New paintings by Terry Setch, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
2001 Terry Setch Retrospective, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
2001 Terry Setch Retrospective, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2001 Terry Setch Retrospective, Howard Gardens Gallery, University of Wales Cardiff
2001 Terry Setch Retrospective, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
2000 Oil, Water, Centre for the Visual Arts, Cardiff
1997 Washington Gallery, Penarth
1995 Paintings 193-95, Raw Gallery, London
1995 Terry Setch, West Wales Art Centre, Fishguard
1993 New Work, Talbot Rice Arts Centre, Edinburgh
1992 New Work, Camden Arts Centre, London
1992 New Work, Oriel, Cardiff, Turner House, Penarth
1990 Sailing in the Bay, Conservation Management, London
1989 The Bay, Andrew Knight Gallery, Cardiff
1987 Rehearsal, Henley Arts Festival
1987 Rehearsal, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1985 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1982 Arnolfini, Bristol
Group exhibitions
2009 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2006 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2006 Terry Setch, James Boswell, Square 1 Gallery, London
2005 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2005 Site-Actions International Europe, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff
2004 Naked, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2003 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
2003 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2003 Broken Ground, Tate Gallery, London
2001 Welsh Artists Talking, National Museums and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff
2001 RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
2001 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
2000 The Rugby Collection Comes Home, Rugby Art Gallery, Rugby
2000 Painting the Dragon, National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff
2000 Absolut Secret, Royal College of Art, London
1999 Paperworks, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1999 Contemporary British Landscape, Flowers East, London
1999 Absolut Secret, Royal College of Art, London
1999 Node 5 x 5, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
1999 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
1998 Absolut Secret, Royal College of Art, London and McKee Gallery, New York, USA
1998 Landmarks, Art in Wales Gallery inaugural exhibition, National Museums and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff
1997 Contemporary Art for sixtieth anniversary ex, National Museums and Galleries of Wales
1995 Disclosure(s), National Museum and Galleries of Wales
1994 Disclosures, Oriel Mostyn
1993 Innovation and Tradition, Tate Gallery, London
1992 The Man, the Form and the Spirit, Connaught Brown, London
1991 Shared Earth, Peterborough Museum
1990 Artists In National Parks, VSA Tour
1989 20th Century Welsh Art, National Museum Wales and Japan
1989 Images Of Paradise, Harewood House, Yorkshire
1989 Tree of Life, South Bank Centre, London
1988 Artists In National Parks, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1987 Art History, Hayward Gallery, London
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