1. Clive Hicks-Jenkins was born on 11 June 1951 and is a Welsh artist known especially for narrative paintings and artist's books.
13 Facts About Clive Hicks-Jenkins
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins's paintings are represented in all the main public collections in Wales, as well as others in the United Kingdom, and his artist's books are found in libraries internationally.
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins was born in Newport, south Wales, in 1951.
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins's father worked for the Central Electricity Generating Board and his mother was a hairdresser.
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins attended Hartridge Comprehensive School in Newport but was unhappy there and at the age of twelve he moved to the Italia Conti School in London, where he studied theatre, worked as an actor in films and television and took classes at the Rambert Ballet School.
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins contributed a short autobiographical essay to a substantial monograph about his work, Clive Hicks-Jenkins by Simon Callow et al.
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins has had solo exhibitions at the Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art in Bath, the Kilvert Gallery, Cardiff New Theatre, Oriel Theatr Clwyd, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery, MOMA Wales, Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, the National Library of Wales and Jersey Arts Centre.
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins's work has been included in over 80 group exhibitions.
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins is an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University School of Art and a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art.
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins is a member of The Welsh Group and 56 Group Wales.
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins has lived in London, Newport and Cardiff and currently lives near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion.
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins has become known for thematic series of works that explore the meanings of stories from various sources.
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins has had a working relationship since the mid 1990s with Nicolas and Frances McDowall of the Old Stile Press, a private press in Monmouthshire specialising in collaborations with artists.