1. David Remfry served as the Eranda Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy Schools from 2016 to 2018 and as a competition judge for the Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award in 2021.
11 Facts About David Remfry
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David Remfry moved to Hull aged five and attended Hull College of Art from 1959 to 1964 before moving to London.
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David Remfry has exhibited since then at galleries in London, Holland, New York, Los Angeles and Florida.
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David Remfry was elected a member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1987.
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David Remfry was awarded the Hugh Casson Drawing Prize at the 2010 Summer Exhibition and was Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy Schools from 2016 to 2018.
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In 1994 David Remfry was offered an exhibition at the Tatistcheff Gallery on 57th Street.
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David Remfry moved to the Hotel Chelsea on 23rd Street in 1995 and took a studio in the recently converted 526 West 26th Street building in Chelsea.
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David Remfry was working almost exclusively on paper, but not in the conventional way of small, polite landscapes.
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David Remfry's watercolors are large; some single-figure pieces are practically life-size, and his subjects are decidedly urban.
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In 2002 Stella McCartney commissioned David Remfry to produce a series of drawings of fashion model Tetyana Brazhnyk to be used in the advertising campaign to launch the first collection of her own fashion house in association with Absolut Vodka.
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McCartney was prompted to commission David Remfry after seeing one of his drawings on the cover of the second edition of "The Image" magazine from 1972.