Biography
1959 Born Vancouver, Canada
1978/79 St Martin's School of Art, London
1979/82 Goldsmiths, University of London
2006 Elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, London
1995-present Guest Advisor, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2009-present Professor of Fine Art, tutor in Graduate Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
2013 - 2017 Artist Trustee, Tate
2015- 2017 Artst Trustee, The National Gallery
2015 Initiated Hands On Art Workshops, an interactive visual art worhshop programme between London and Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, supported by Vodafone Foundation, UNHCR, Colart, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and Windle International Kenya
Lives and works in London
Solo Exhibitions
2020
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013 |
Ensemble/Together, FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, Montpellier, France Same & Different, One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya Subjective Objective, m2 Gallery, London, UK
Here & There: Paintings by Lisa Milroy, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, UK (catalogue: Foreword by Ziba Ardalan; Texts by Hanneke Grootenboer and Briony Fer)
Stephenie Bergman & Lisa Milroy:Tango, Sassoon Gallery Folkestone, UK
Cloth, The Retreat/Mansur Farm, Ahmedabad, India Out of Hand, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK Hands On, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Hands On, Drawing Room, London, UK Social Fabric, Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Wrexham, UK Fashion Range Launch, Brick Lane Art Car Boot Fair, London, UK
Hands On, Drawing Commission for the John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, Presentation at Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire, UK Grosse Geister, Artist Room: Lisa Milroy, Kunstmusem Bonn, Germany
Party of One, Crate, Margate, UK |
2012 |
Act One, Seen Too, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, UK Heartbeat, 99 Art Center, Shanghai, China Ivory Lamp Mars Vine Bone, Gallery North, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
2011 |
House Guest, The Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland Improvisations, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK Act One, Seen Too, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, in collaboration with Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK |
2010 |
Time and Time Again, artsdepot, London, UK Shouting from a Rock, Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus In the Black, Summerfield Gallery, University of Gloucesershire, UK |
2009 |
Life on the Line, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK Head and Neck, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK |
2008 |
Noisy, Galerie Jones & Trübenbach, Cologne, Germany Pictures within Pictures, Galerie Maximillian, Aspen, USA Painted Worlds, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland |
2007 |
Black and White, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France Making Sense, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK |
2006 | New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK |
2005 |
Painting Fast Painting Slow, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland Galerie Xippas, Paris, France |
2003 |
Geishas, Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany Geishas, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK |
2001 | Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
2000 |
Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, UK Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK |
1999 |
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Innsbruck, Austria |
1998 |
Waddington Galleries, London, UK African Safari, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK Seven Views of Marunouchi, Marunouchi Cafe, Tokyo, Japan |
1997 | Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany |
1996 |
Galerie Patrick de Brock, Knokke, Belgium Being There, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France |
1995/6 |
Travel Painting, Chisenhale Gallery, London; touring to Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK and Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
1995 |
The British School at Rome, Italy Hotel Huger Cercle d'Art, La Fleche, France Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
1994 |
Tokyo Story, Gallery Shoko Nagai, Tokyo, Japan Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan |
1993 |
Waddington Galleries, London and Museum Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert, Germany Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France |
1992 |
Janner Gallery, Vienna, Austria John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
1991 |
Galerie Luis Campana, Frankfurt, Germany Modulo, Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon/Oporto |
1990 | Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland |
1989 |
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; touring to Southampton City Art Gallery; Plymouth Art Gallery, UK and Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA |
1988 | Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK |
1986 |
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK Khiva Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
1984 |
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK Cartier Art Foundation, Paris, France
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Group Exhibitions
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013 |
In the Moment, Beningbrough hall, Gallery and Gardens, York, UK
RA Summer Exhibtion 2019, Royal Academy of Arts, London UK The Best of the Fukuoka Art Museum - This is Our Collection, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Drawing Biennial 2019, Drawing Room, London, UK
Modern Art Revisited, Tottori Prefectural Museum, touring to Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Yokosuka Museum of Art; the Japan Association of Art Museums, Japan
Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money, works selected by Lubaina Himid from the Arts Council Collection, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK At Home, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK Royal Academy Summer Exhibtion 2016, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Drawing Room Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK Memoires croisees/Derives archivisitiques, Institut national d'art, Galerie Colbert, Paris, France Present Tense, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Swindon, UK Painting in TIme, The Tetley, Leeds, UK Royal Academy Summer Exhibtion 2015, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Ceramics, Iceland
Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Gifted: From the Royal Academy to The Queen, Royal Collection Trust, Buckingham Palace, London, UK Hydra, Unit 53, University of Bolton, UK Show-Off, Battersea Space, London, UK Drawn Together: The Artist as Selector, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK I Cheer a Dead Man's Sweetheart, De La Warr Pvaillion, Bexhill, UK Tortoise, WW Gallery, London, UK
Colour as Material, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, FInland I Am The Magic Hand, curated by Josephine Halvorson, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, USA RA Summer Exhibition 2013, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Paul Bush Compilation, ICA, London, UK Ideas City Streetfest, New Museum, New York, USA Encounter: The Royal Academy in the Middle East, Katara Art Foundation, Doha, Qatar Cabaret Duchamp: Hayley Newman, (costume design), Barbican, London, UK Black and White Flower Painting, 2010, St Mary's Hospital, London. A group painting by staff and students from Graduate Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL,London, UK |
2012 |
Jerwood Collection, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings (publication), UK The Studio - Workhop and Myth, Staatgalerie, Stuttgart (catalogue), Germany Making Space, Woburn Research Centre, UCL, London, UK Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2012, London, UK Artists of the Gallery, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK Art Plus Opera, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Pandemonium, Hyde Park, London, UK Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia, ICA at Lasalle College of Arts, Singapore |
2011 |
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2011, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Artists for Kettle’s Yard, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge Jurahokusai, Paysages-oeuvres de la Collection du Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Franche-Comte, Saint Claude, France Royal Academicians, Seongnam Art Centre, Seongnam, South Korea Group Exhibition (curated by Edward Allington), Ushher Gallery, Lincoln A Picture of Health, Bonham’s, London Gallery Artists, Truebenbach Projects, Cologne Paintings and Sculpture, Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York |
2010 |
Secrets of the Museum Collection, Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan Layers: John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize Show, Seongnam Arts Centre, Seongnam, South Korea Voyage, Galerie Xippas, Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Carousel de Louvre, France The Rise of Women Artists, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2010, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Double Interview, Artspace Hue, Seoul, South Korea Art: Curated by Michael Craig-Martin, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany Global Contemporary Artists for Artists, Rijksakedemie Artists Endowment Fund, Sotheby’s Amsterdam, Netherlands Eleven, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK Black and White Flower Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital, London |
2009 |
The Artist’s Studio, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK Visual Deceptions, Nagoya City Art Museum; The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo and Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan Mahlzeit (Essen in der Kunst), Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2009, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
2008 |
8 Visions, One Dream, The Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Votes for Women, Kunst Meran, Meran, Italy Everywhere you Come From, Pala Fuksas, Turin, Italy September 08, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2008, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
2007 |
Momentary Momentum: Animated Drawings, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London (DVD) Still life, still, T1+2 artspace, London, UK |
2006 |
Fiction@Love, MoCa, Shanghai, China Programme Video a Georges Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Animamix, 2nd International Cartoon + Animation Festival, Hangzhou, China Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2006, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Drawing Two Hundred, The Drawing Room, London, UK Arrêts sur Images, FRAC, Montpelleier, France |
2005 |
Drawing Two Hundred, The Drawing Room, London, UK The Hermit The Shoe and The Stone, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford, UK Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Bodies and Space, Tapei Artists Village, Taiwan |
2004 |
Geisha Grooming film for Anifest International Animation Festival, Trebon, Czech Republic; World festival of Animated Films, Zagreb, Croatia; Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrech; 10th International Film Festival, Hiroshima, Japan; NFB CineRobotheque, Montreal; NFB Mediatheque, Toronto, Canada; Gene Siskel Film Center, Art Institute of Chicago, USA Metropolis, FRAC Franche-comté, Autrey-les-grey, France Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2004, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere: Contemporary Art From the collection of FRAC, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland Still Mapping the Moon, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK 152 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, UK Raised Awareness, Tate Modern, London, UK Domestic (f)utility, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK |
2003/2004 |
Focus London, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland Artists of the gallery, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland Alan Cristea Gallery Publications, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK |
2003 |
The Classical World, Hood Museum, New Hampshire, UK The Bigger Splash – British Art of the Tate, of 1960 up to 2003, Ibirapuera Park, Sao Paulo Favorites, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna, Austria Imago: 10 ans d’acquisition du FRAC Franche-Comte, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lons-le-Saunier- Musee des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France |
2002 |
Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Space London, touring to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK Taste the Fine Art of Food and Drink, Museum of Reading, UK John Moores 22, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK Favorites, Galerie und Edition Artelier, Graz, Austria Hier ist Dort II, Secession, Vienna, Austria Words from the Arts Council Collection, touring UK |
2001 |
The Way I See It, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France Up in smoke, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK Tradition and Innovation, York City Art Gallery, York, UK |
2001 |
Hier ist Dort, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik, Germany Odense Denmark, touring to Pori Art Museum, Finland Shoes or No Shoes, Craemersklooster- Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst & Cultuur, Ghent, Belgium Variations on a Theme, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK My Generation- 40 years of contemporary collecting, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK |
2000 |
Brave New World, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France ART works, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK |
1999/2000 |
Flower Show, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Signature Pieces, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK |
1999 |
Un art incertain du réel: la collection du Frac Franche-Comte, Frac Bretagne, Chateaugiron, France go away, artists and travel, Royal College of Art, London, UK Balade au sol mineur, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Alès, France Taking a Picture, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK |
1998 |
portrait - human figure, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Swizerland Voyage, de l'exotisme aux non-lieux, Le Musee de Valence in association with FRAC Rhone-Alpes, France Paved with Gold, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK Urban, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK Modern British Art, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK Up to 2000, Southampton City Art Gallery, UK Every Day, Biennale of Sydney, Australia Thinking Aloud, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester and Camden Arts Centre, London, UK collection nomade, les oeuvres du frac franche-comte au maroc, Institut Francais, Bab el Kebir; touring to Galerie Allal El Fassi, Rabat and Institut Francais, Kenitra; Casablanca; Institut Francais; Meknes et Fes |
1997 |
Treasure Island, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal Tokyo International Forum Artwork Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Forum, Tokyo, Japan |
1996/98 | About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; touring to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich; Laing Art Gallery and Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
1996/97 |
Classifications, Galerie Art & Essai, Universite de Rennes, France; touring to Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Something to Say..., Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum, Wolverhampton, UK |
1996 |
The Thinking Eye: An Exhibition by the Painting Faculty: The Royal College of Art, Gallery 7, Hong Kong Craig-Martin, Davey, Fulton, McKeever, Milroy, Woodrow, Alan Cristea Gallery and The Paragon Press, London, UK Theories of the Decorative, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington DC, USA Nouvelles acquisitions du FRAC Franche-Comte, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France Pittura, Castello di Rivara, Italy Home and Away, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
1995 |
Loup y es tu?, Galerie du Frac, Montpelier, France Desenho Contemporaneo, Modulo, Centro Difusor de Arte, Oporto, Portugal Life Patterns, Tate Gallery, London, UK Ljubljana 21st International Biennale of Graphic Art, Ljubliana, Slovenia Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; touring to Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Les Images du Plaisir, FRAC des pays de la Loire, Hugers La Flèche Laval, France |
1994 |
Cityscape, Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy Original Painting, Galerie Matisse, Institut Francais, London, UK |
1993 |
Lisa Milroy, John Murphy: Paintings from the Saatchi Collection, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Der zerbrochene Spiegel/The Broken Mirror, Museumsquartier Messepalast and Kunsthalle Wien; touring to Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany |
1992 |
The Saatchi Gift, Tate Gallery, London, UK Work from the British Collection, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal Recent Acquisitions, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan |
1991 |
Out of Limbo, Fundacion Luis Cernada, Seville, Spain Carnegie International 1991, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Drawings, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA La Couleur d' Argent, Musee de la Poste, Paris, France Goldsmiths' College Centenary Exhibition, Goldsmiths' Gallery, London, UK |
1990 |
The British Art Show 1990, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; touring to Leeds City Art Gallery and Hayward Gallery, London, UK British Art Now: A Subjective View, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; touring to Fukuoka; Nagoya; Utsunomiya; Kobe; Hiroshima and Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan |
1989 |
Art of the '80s: from the Collection of the Chemical Bank, The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, USA The Saatchi Collection at the Pierides Museum: Tony Cragg, Lisa Milroy and John Murphy, Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece Subject: Object, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 16, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
1988 |
Cries and Whispers: Paintings of the 1980s from the British Council Collection, touring Australia and New Zealand. Winter '88, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK The New British Painting The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; touring to Chicago Public Library and Cultural Center; Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA |
1987/88 |
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, USA Three Artists from Britain, Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington DC and New York, USA |
1987 |
Winter '87, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 15, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK Current Affairs: British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; touring to Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary; Nemzeti Galeria, Prague, Czech Republic and Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland ART. Brittiskt 1980-tal, Liljevalchs Art Museum, Stockholm; touring to Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland as Britannia: Paintings and sculptures from the 1980s |
1986 |
6th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia Aperto, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Japonisme: Japanese Reflections in Western Art, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK Au Coeur du Maelstrom, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium Objects As Art, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK No Place like Home, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK |
1985 | John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 14, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
1984 | Problems of Picturing, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK |
1983 |
Charterhouse Gallery, London, UK Young Blood, Riverside Studios, London, UK
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Prizes, Juries, Residencies and Commissions
2015
2014
2013 |
Co-selector (with Richard Deacon) - Creekside Open 2015 Jury Member - RA Summer Exhibtion 2015: On-line A-LevelExhibition
Jury Member - John Moores Painting Prize China 2014 Jury Member - Solo Art Award
Katara Foundation, Qatar - Residency Jury advisor, Woon Art Prize |
2012 |
Jury Member, Art Fund Prize for Museums and Collections Jury Member, Jerwood Drawing Prize Shanghai University - Residency University of Dhaka - Residency London Review of Books, cover illustration: Vol. 34 No.4 23 Feb, 2012 |
2011 |
SteamCream – commission of new packaging design Jury Member, Threadneedle Art Prize |
2010 |
Jury Member, Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2010 – 2012 Selection panel, Westminster Arts Open Competition |
2006 | Guest Advisor, Pintura Além da Pintura, Painting Conference, Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
2005 |
Red Mansion Foundation, Beijing - Residency Skowhegan, Maine - Visiting Artist Royal Mail Year Book - Drawing Commission for the chapter The Magic Circle |
2004 |
Hugh Casson Drawing Prize Taipei Artist’s Village, Taiwan - Residency |
2001 | Album sleeve for The Beautiful South Solid Bronze - Great Hits and single sleeve for The Root of All Evil (2 versions) |
2000 |
D + AD Silver Award (Royal Mail Millennium Stamp) Guest Advisor, TRAMA Painting Workshop, Buenos Aires and Rosario, Argentina |
1999 |
Artist's Tale – Royal Mail commission to design one of four Millennium Stamps Still Life - World Health Organisation commission for anti-smoking campaign, Marunouchi Project, Tokyo |
1994 | Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan - Residency |
1988 | John Moores Liverpool - First Prize for Painting |
1984 |
Canada Council for the Arts – Grant
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Media contribution
2001 | Interview with Sascha Hastings for ‘The Arts Today’ programme on CBC Radio One Lisa Milroy – Canadian Artist in London |
2003 |
The Eye, 30 minute programme by Illuminations Staffordshire Arts + Museum Service, Just Looking - Painting Commission
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Public Collections
AUS
CH |
Charles Darwin University Art Collection
Daros Collection, Zurich |
DE |
Deutsche Bank Collection Kunstmuseum Bonn |
FR |
Fonds Nationals d' Art Contemporain Occitanie Montpellier Fonds Regional d' Art Contemporain de Franche-Comte, Dole Fonds Regional d' Art Contemporain Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur Fonds Regional d' Art Contemporain Rhone-Alpes |
JA |
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts Tokyo Metropolitan Art Collection Fukuoka Art Museum Nagoya City Art Museum |
KE |
East African Visual Arts Trust |
NL | Nederlandsche Bank |
PT | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon |
UK |
Arts Council Collection British Council British Museum, Collection of Prints and Drawings Contemporary Art Society Fidelity Government Art Collection Imperial College Healthcare Charity Art Collection Jerwood Foundation Marsh Collection, London Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery Portsmouth City Museum Red Mansion Foundation Royal Academy of Arts Royal Bank of Scotland Group Art Collection Royal Collection Trust Southampton City Art Gallery Swindon Museum and Art Gallery Tate |