Jennifer Durrant RA (b. 1942)
Jennifer Durrant studied at Brighton College of Art from 1959 to 1963 and at the Slade School of Art, London from 1963 to 1966.
Durrant’s work has been praised for its “symbolic resonance”. The abstract forms which distinguish her work often suggest natural processes but resist definition. Her work is often discussed in terms of its spirituality. Durrant exhibited in The Journey: A Search for the Role of Contemporary Art in Religious and Spiritual Life (1990), during which one of her paintings, Arrival, was displayed in Lincoln Cathedral. She herself has said: “I do think that a painting may be rather like a mandala, in that its use may be meditative or contemplative.”
Profile
Born: 1942 in Brighton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Nationality: British
Elected RA: 8 November 1994
Elected Senior RA: 1 October 2017
Gender: Female
Preferred media: Painting
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Jennifer Durrant - Selected CV
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Recent Solo Exhibitions
2011 Richmond Hill Gallery, London
2008 Art First, London
1996 Francis Graham Dixon Gallery, London
Friends Room, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1993 Salander-O‘Reilly Galleries, New York
1992 Concourse Gallery, The Barbican, London
Francis Graham Dixon Gallery, London
1989 Lynne Sterne Associates
1988 Newlyn-Orion Gallery, Penzance
1987 Serptentine Gallery, London
1986 Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland -
Selected Collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
British Council
Contemporary Art Society
Leicester Education Authority
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany
Tate Gallery, London
The Government Art Collection
Arthur Anderson
ICI Millbank
Melrose Film Production
National Westminster Bank, New York
Union Bank of Switzerland, London -
Selected Commissions
Newham Hospital Commission (in association with the Greater London Arts Association and King Edward’s Hospital Fund)
R P Scherer 50th Anniversary Commission, Swindon
Thomas Neal Commission (floor mosaics), London
Glaxo Uk, Stevenage, Herts
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Jennifer Durrant Continua Apron
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Jennifer Durrant Notecards
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Jennifer Durrant Tea Towel
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