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
2012 Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
2010 Art Space Gallery, London
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
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
Terry Setch Retrospective, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Terry Setch Retrospective, Howard Gardens Gallery, University of Wales Cardiff
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
Terry Setch, West Wales Art Centre, Fishguard
1993 New Work, Talbot Rice Arts Centre, Edinburgh
1992 New Work, Camden Arts Centre, London
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
Rehearsal, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1985 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1982 Arnolfini, Bristol

Group exhibitions
2010 Sea Fever, Southampton City Art Gallery
2009 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2006 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Terry Setch, James Boswell, Square 1 Gallery, London
2005 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Site-Actions International Europe, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff
2004 Naked, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2003 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Broken Ground, Tate Gallery, London
2001 Welsh Artists Talking, National Museums and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
2000 The Rugby Collection Comes Home, Rugby Art Gallery, Rugby
Painting the Dragon, National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff
Absolut Secret, Royal College of Art, London
1999 Paperworks, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Contemporary British Landscape, Flowers East, London
Absolut Secret, Royal College of Art, London
Node 5 x 5, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
Absolut Secret, Royal College of Art, London and McKee Gallery, New York, USA
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
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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