1. Tess Jaray was born on 1937 and is a British painter and printmaker.
13 Facts About Tess Jaray
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Tess Jaray taught at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL from 1968 until 1999.
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Tess Jaray was made an Honorary Fellow of RIBA in 1995 and a Royal Academician in 2010.
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Tess Jaray's father Franz Ferdinand Tess Jaray was a chemical engineer and industrial inventor.
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Tess Jaray studied at the Saint Martins School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art.
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In Paris Tess Jaray made several formative relationships including with fellow hotel guest Valli Myers and the Slovenian painter Zoran Music.
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The impact of Renaissance architectural spaces Tess Jaray encountered on her travels in Italy were formative for the development of her distinctive technique.
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Tess Jaray's paintings suggest some underlying mystery through the suggestion of architectural perspective.
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In 1999 Tess Jaray became Reader Emeritus in Fine Art at the Slade.
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Between 1985 and 2000 Tess Jaray devoted much of her time to working on public commissions, applying her understanding of architectural space and pattern to large-scale projects in public spaces.
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Tess Jaray's significant work of the eighties was a terrazzo pattern design for London Victoria train station.
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Tess Jaray's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.
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In 1995 Tess Jaray was made Honorary Fellow of the RIBA for her contribution to urban design.