C l i v e C r o f t
Biography
Clive Croft had an extremely successful early career in Western Australia, winning the Jackson’s Prize for Drawing and the Mellville Prize for Painting. He was selected for 6 Young Contemporaries at the University of Western Australia and chosen as the Western Australian Artist at the Festival of Perth in 1981. This was followed by an International Scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art in London to undertake an MA in Printmaking in 1982. He was selected for Pick of the Post Graduates at Christies in the same year.
Academic Record
International Scholarship, MA Printmaking, Slade School of Fine Art, London, 1981-82
Diploma in Printmaking and Photography, Perth Technical College, 1978-80
BA Fine Art, Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth, 1973
Awards
Mellville Prize, 1980
Jackson’s Prize for Drawing, Perth, 1972
Selected Exhibitions
The Art of Regeneration
Menier Gallery april 2016
The Maverick Expo
The Bargehouse London South Bank
December 2015
Anthony Hancock Retrospective. The London Institute of Pataphysics, The Foundry, London 2002
Solo Exhibition, Quentin Gallery, Perth, 1985
Solo Exhibition, Quentin Gallery, Perth, 1983
Curwen Gallery Group Exhibition, London, 1982
Pick of Post Graduates, Christies, London, 1982
Slade Printmakers’ Exhibition, Minsky’s Gallery, London, 1982
Solo Exhibition, Quentin Gallery, Perth, 1981
West Australian Artist, Festival of Perth, University of Western Australia, 1981
Touring Exhibition Australian Printmakers, 1980
Solo Exhibition, Freemantle Art Centre, 1979
Solo Exhibition, Cottesloe Gallery, Perth, 1977
Six Young Contemporaries, University of Western Australia, 1976
Staff Exhibition at Western Australian Institute of Technology, 1974
Australian Volunteers Abroad, helping to establish textile industry in New
Guinea, 1974
Press
Read my interview with Focus LDN here.