Bill Jacklin RA: The Graphic Work 1961 – 2016
Curator’s Collection Talk
Tuesday 5 July 2016 3 - 3.30pm
Meet in the Tennant Gallery, Burlington House, The Royal Academy of Arts
Free with exhibition entry, no booking required.
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Bill Jacklin RA: The Graphic Work 1961 – 2016
Senior Curator of Collections Helen Valentine introduces the first ever retrospective survey exhibition celebrating the graphic work of Bill Jacklin RA.
Bill Jacklin initially trained as a graphic artist at Walthamstow School of Art before studying painting at the Royal College of Art. Although concentrating on painting from the mid-1970s, Jacklin is regularly drawn back to printmaking, often challenging himself with new techniques such as aquatint, as well as pushing the boundaries of the expressive potential of his monotypes. In 1985 Jacklin moved to New York and found not just a city but a subject, capturing the rhythm of life in and around New York.
Bill Jacklin RA: The Graphic Work 1961 – 2016 spans over 50 years of Jacklin’s work in which the dynamic tension between abstraction and representation is always present. The display includes his seminal 1977 Anemones suite of etchings which encompass his interest in both figurative and abstraction. In contrast his masterly and exuberant monotypes are a free-wheeling roller-coaster ride of painterly expression.
The exhibition coincides with the publication of a monograph, Bill Jacklin: Graphics published by RA Publications in May 2016.