Lot 504 - Jack Milroy - 17-1524

ARTIST INFO

About 

Jack Milroy is a Scotchman, born on 21st September, 1938, in Glasgow, where his parents, Robert and Anna Milroy, had a pawn-broking and jewellery business. He has two much younger brothers. Glasgow, as the backdrop to his early childhood, remains a powerfully influential memory. He is a city boy. In the late 1940s, when he was about nine or ten – he can’t remember exactly when – the family moved to Scarborough. There, at the age of eleven, he entered the local Grammar School. Is Jack a Yorkshireman too, if it is possible to be so by adoption? He is certainly a Northerner, by loyalty, prejudice and temperament. 

Education 

University of London  
Scarborough Art School  
Scarborough Boys Grammar School 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

SELECT EXHIBITIONS 

2023  
London Art Fair, ART FIRST, London, UK 

2022 
Chelsea Art Club, Solo Exhibition, London, UK 
London Art Fair, ART FIRST, London, UK 

2019 
Rear View Mirror, Bermondsey Project Space, Hosted by Art First, London, UK 

2017 
JACK MILROY CUT OUT, published by BLACK DOG Publishing & Art First, London, UK 

2015  
A Natural World, Art First, London, UK 

2013 
InterVEnTIOnS, Art First, London, UK 

2011 
A garden of Earthly Delights, Art First, London, UK 

2008 
New Works, Art First Projects, London, UK 

2007 
Cut, Art First, London, UK 

2005 
Doodling with Intent, Art First, London, UK 

2003 
Falling and Flying, Art First, London, UK 

2002 
Cutting the Edge, Six Chapel Row Gallery, Bath, UK 

2001 
Hive, Art First, London, UK 

1999 
Ex Libris, Six Chapel Row Gallery, Bath, UK 
Surgery as a Pastime, Art First, London, UK 
Portals: Graphite Traces of a House in the Cévennes, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London, UK 

1996 
Cuttings from the Library, Art First, London, UK 

1992 
The Pike Gallery, London, UK 

1987 
Scarborough Art Gallery, Yorkshire, UK 

1986 
Pictures from France, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham College of Art, Surrey, UK 

1985 
Bright Beams from the Blackboard, Bracknell Arts Centre, Berkshire, UK 

1981 
Madge Whip, Lucy Blush and Others, Anne Berthoud Gallery, London, UK 

1980 
The Queen, a Countess and a Waterfall, Thumb Gallery, London, UK 

1979 
Portraits of the Queen, Delahunty Gallery, Houston, Texas, US 

1978 
Jack Milroy: New Works, Glen Hanson Gallery, Minneapolis, US  

1977 
Anagraphs, Hester van Royen Gallery, London, UK 

1967 
Rotherham City Art Gallery, Yorkshire, UK 

Gallery Representation 

Art First, London, UK 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 

I played with the names paint manufacturers and colour cataloguers give to colours. Interestingly, 2 of the colours I used, although I have only included one, were withdrawn in the next Pantone postcard boxset I bought. Rainy Day and Moon Rock, perhaps because they were not suggestive of pleasurable experiences - a decision by the marketing department? for what is purportedly a formal catalogue of colours. 

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