Mary Cozens-Walker
Mary Cozens-Walker | |
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| Born | Mary Louise Cozens-Walker 11 August 1938 Harrow, England |
| Died | July 4, 2020 (aged 81) Cambridgeshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Other names | Mary Green |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Years active | 1959–2018 |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
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Mary Cozens-Walker (married name Mary Green, 11 August 1938 – 4 July 2020) was an English textile artist and painter best known for her 3-dimensional works pertaining to her own domestic life. She exhibited in the UK, Japan, and the United States.
Personal Life
Mary Cozens-Walker was born on 11 August 1938 in Harrow, Middlesex, and educated at North London Collegiate School, London (where she was taught by Peggy Angus) and the Slade School of Art (where her contemporaries included Mario Dubsky, Dorothy Mead and Dennis Creffield and future RAs Ben Levene, Patrick Procktor and Anthony Green). Her tutors at the Slade included William Coldstream, Cecil Beaton, Lucien Freud, Sam Carter, L.S. Lowry and David Bomberg.
In 1961 she married Anthony Green, with whom she had two daughters, Kate and Lucy. In 1967 she traveled to America when Green received a Harkness Fellowship and spent two years living in Leonia, New Jersey and Altadena, California.[1]
Professional Life
Cozens-Walker's early artistic influences included Stanley Spencer, Piero della Francesca and the Euston Road School. As she developed her style other influences, such as fairground art, ship's figureheads and stumpwork began to also have an impact.
In the 1960s and 1970s Cozens-Walker continued to paint, but found it more and more constrictive. She had begun to experiment with stitching in America, and embroidery via individual projects, and this led to her seeking professional advice from the Royal School of Needlework. This finally led to Cozens-Walker returning to education in 1981 to complete a postgraduate Diploma in Embroidery and Textiles at Goldsmiths[2].
It was as an artist combining paint, textiles and papier mache that Cozens-Walker made her name, and led to solo exhibitions in the UK, Japan and North America.
In addition to being an artist in her own right, Cozens-Walker also acted as muse to Green, with their relationship portrayed in many of his pictures from the 1960s to her death in 2020[3]. They appeared together in programmes such as The South Bank Show[4] with Melvyn Bragg and Arena with Nigel Williams.
Public collections
Exhibitions
- Young Contemporaries: Painting 'Women at their toilet' (reproduced in The Daily Telegraph).
- Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1982, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2008.
- Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan: Objects of Obsession solo exhibition 1992.
- Staempfli Gallery, NYC, US, 1992.
- Fishguard Music Festival: Artist in residence 1993.
- Bankfield Museum: 'From Painted Textures to Stitched Objects' 2001.
- Boundary Gallery, London, 2001.
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2004.
- Fiberart Gallery, solo exhibition 2004.[5]
- Boundary Gallery 'Painting with Thread' exhibition, 2007.
- Ruthin Craft Centre 2013.
A List of Works
- Women at their toilet Oil on board (1959)
- The Cottage Calico, cotton, acrylic paint, ... (1980/1982)
Books
- Objects of Obsession 1955-2011, Healeys Print Group
External links
References
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Green_(painter)
- ^ http://www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk/downloads/Goldsmiths_information_pack.pdf
- ^ https://www.newenglishartclub.co.uk/artists/anthony-green-neac-lg-ra-hon-rba-hon-roi
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1737003/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1
- ^ https://www.fiberartgallery.com/pages2004/JuneJuly2004.html