Title: Summer Blues

Media:  Media Print—Etching and Aquatint

Size: 29.7 x 42 cm

About The work: à la poupée method used for applying ink to etching plates

Bio: David Remfry RA studied at Hull College of Art from 1959 to 1964. His first solo show was held in London in 1973 and he has since had more than 50 international solo exhibitions. His first show in the United States was at the Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles in 1980. He has exhibited regularly since then at galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Florida and in 2002 had a solo exhibition at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, Museum of Modern Art affiliate, which was curated by Alanna Heiss and Daniel Marzona. Solo museum shows in England include the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, (1975 and 2005) Middlesbrough Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His next exhibition will be a retrospective at the Beverley Art Gallery, opening in March 2025.

Remfry was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2006. He was awarded the Hugh Casson Drawing Prize at the 2010 Summer Exhibition and in 2016 he was appointed the Eranda Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy Schools.