Mary Mabbutt (b.1951)

Born: Luton

Studied: Royal Academy Schools, Loughborough College of Art & Design

Teaching:

1979-2011
Part-time teaching on the BA (Hons) Fine Art Course at University College Falmouth (Formerly Falmouth School of Art)
2000-2011
Colour Workshops to BA (Hons) Illustration and Textiles Programme (UCF)
1979 onwards
Part Time and Visiting Tutor to BA Fine Art Departments to numerous colleges in England and Wales
1978-1979
Junior Fellowship South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education

Prizes and Awards:West Arts, Major Award (Visual arts) 2002
Prizewinner John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 19, Walker Art Gallery 1995
Prizewinner TSWA National Open Art Exhibition, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery 1984
Ellingham Mill/Sealink Open Exhibition 1980



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Selected solo exhibitions:

2007
Russell Gallery, London
2006
Artist of the Day, Flowers East, London
2003
Newlyn Gallery, Penzance
1997
Inaugural Show, Hall For Cornwall, Truro
1984
Plymouth Arts Centre
1985
Paton Gallery, London (also 1989, 1992 & 1995)
1982
Oriel Gallery, Cardiff, King Street Gallery, Bristol
1980
New Grafton Gallery, London

Selected recent group exhibitions:

2011
The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Exhibition, Kings Place Gallery, London
2011/05/02/00
The Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2011/10/08/06
Belgrave Gallery, St Ives
2003/00/96
The Hunting Art Prizes, National Art Competition
1997
In the Looking Glass, Contemporary Self Portraits by Women ArtistsUsher Gallery, Lincoln
1989
The New British Painting, organised by The Contemporary Art Centre, Cincinatti, then touring to Chicago Public Library Cultural Centre; Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; South Eastern Centre for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan.
1984
John Player Portrait Award. National Portrait Gallery TSWA The National Open Art Exhbition. A national exhibition of work selected from an open submission (Prizewinner)
1981
Fragments Against Ruin. An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition
1981/77
Royal Academy Summer Show

Collections:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Arts Council, London
Coopers and Lybrand
Unilever
Usher Gallery, Lincoln
Bankers' Trust
Pentland Industries
Slaughter and May
Robert and Susan Summer, New York
and various private collections in the U.K., Europe and U.S.A
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Artist's Statement:
My paintings are derived from particular moments of recognition and awareness, emerging from events and experiences in my life. These moments of recognition are often revealed by qualities of light and relationships of colour, my attention is initially captured and then slowly released and transformed through the processes and materials of painting.