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Anthony Whishaw RA is an English artist and member of the Royal Academy. Whishaw claims no association with any particular art movement, stating instead that "each painting and work on paper makes its own separate demands". He is also a member of The London Group.
1930 Anthony Popham Law Whishaw is born on 22 May in St Mary’s, Paddington, in London. The family later moves to Brazil, where Whishaw’s father works.
1939 Returns from Brazil with his mother and attends Brunswick School in Sussex. The school is later evacuated to Cornwall during the Second World War.
1944–48 Attends Tonbridge School in Kent.
1948 Awarded Judd Scholarship from Tonbridge School.
1948–52 Studies at Chelsea School of Art, London.
1951 Makes his first visit to Spain, spending a fortnight in Ibiza.
1952–55 Studies at the Royal College of Art, London.
1955–56 Royal College of Art Drawing Prize.
1955–56 Receives an Abbey Minor Scholarship, an RCA Travelling Scholarship and a Spanish Government Scholarship, which he uses to travel to Spain with Jean Gibson. Here he visits the Prado and sees Goya’s ‘Black Paintings’ for the first time. He lives in Spain for some of the next two years.
1956 His first solo exhibition is held in Spain, at Madrid’s Librería Abril.
1957 Marries Jean Gibson and buys his studio-house in Kensington.
1960 Featured in the episode ‘Private View’ of BBC TV show Monitor, following four emerging artists.
1963 Whishaw’s first daughter, Phoebe, is born.
1965 Whishaw’s second daughter, Zoë, is born.
1973 Perth International Drawing Biennial Prize.
1973 Bayer International Painting Prize.
1975 South East Arts Association Painting Prize.
1977 Greater London Arts Association Grant.
1978 Arts Council of Great Britain Award.
1979 Elected to the London Group. His work is included in their exhibitions each year.
1980 Elected a Royal Academician. He exhibits annually at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.
1981 Begins working in an Acme studio in Bethnal Green. His routine involves driving to Bethnal Green and working there from 6 am until midday, before returning to Kensington, where he paints in the afternoon.
1981 Greater London Council Painting Prize. 1982 John Moores Minor Painting Prize.
1981–82 Lorne Scholarship.
1986 Joint winner Hunting Group National Art Competition.
1987–88 ‘Reflections After Las Meninas’ at the Royal Academy Diploma Galleries, London, touring to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Space, Exeter.
1989 Galerie in Faust, Hamburg, and Galerie in Faust, Shanghai, China.
1991 Whishaw’s wife dies after a long illness.
1992 Elected to the Royal West of England Academy.
1994 Featured on Channel 4 News, in a feature about his 1989 Galerie in Faust exhibition.
1996 Korn Ferry Carre Oban International Picture of the Year.
1999 Featured Artist at Eigse Carlow Arts Festival.
2003 Elected Honorary RWA.
2006 Interview with Brian Sewell on ‘Divine Art’, BBC Radio 4.
2007 ‘Downstream’, exhibition at Osborne Samuel, London.
2010 A series of solo and group exhibitions are held to mark Whishaw’s 80th birthday, including at Kings Place Gallery; the Fine Art Society; and Acme Studios, Bethnal Green.
Solo and small-group exhibitions
2016 ‘Woodland Encounters’, Art Space Gallery, London
2016 ‘Anthony Whishaw RA: Paintings from the Mid-1960s – 2015’, Browse & Darby, London
2011 ‘Eight Large Paintings’ (two-person show with Peter Brook), The Gallery in Cork Street, London, and The Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond
2010 ‘Anthony Whishaw RA at 80’, Acme Studios, London
2010 ‘Images on the Edge of Perception’, Kings Place Gallery, London
2010 ‘Dancers: Paintings From The Early 1960s’, The Fine Art Society, London
2009 ‘New Large Works’, Victor Pasmore Gallery, Harrow School
2007 ‘Downstream’, Osborne Samuel, London
2007 ‘Arts Unwrapped’, Acme Studios, London
2006 The Dover Arts Club Show, London
2005 Open Studio, ACME Studios, Bethnal Green, London
2005 ‘Works on Paper’, The Walk Gallery, London (with Peter Clossick)
2002 ‘Maverick Images: Shaped, Triptych and Rectangular’, Art First, London
2000 ‘Pueblo Landscapes’, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2000 ‘Trees’, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
1999 ‘Some Small Works: Maverick Shaped and Chaotic’, Art First, London
1997 ‘Images of Ideas, with Memory in Mind’, Art First, London
1994–95 ‘On Memory and Reflection’, The Barbican Centre, London, touring to Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; The Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr; Huddersfield Art Gallery; R.H.A Gallagher Gallery, Dublin; Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Newport and Bolton Museums
1994 ‘Pueblo Landscapes’, Art Space Gallery, London
1993 ‘Works on Paper’, Art Space Gallery, London
1993 ‘Painting and Works on Paper 1986-1993’, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
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