Studio notes & field studies by Alan Rankle

Biografia dell’artista/Artist’s biography

1952 Born in Oldham, Lancashire

Education

1968-70 Rochdale College of Art 1970-73 Goldsmiths’ College School of Art, BA (Hons) London

Selected Solo exhibitions

1973 The Pardonner’s Tale, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1976 Landskip Reflections, University of Manchester 1982 Endless River Landscapes, Paintings Drawings Prints, Oldham Art Gallery & Museum Landscape & Romance, Hastings Art Gallery & Museum 1993 Riverfall & Other Works, City Art Gallery Southampton 1995 Paintings, Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art, Eastleigh 1996 Landscapes for the North, Maidstone Art Gallery & Museum; Radicev Museum, Saratov, Russia 1998 Terre Verte, Danielle Arnaud/Clink Wharf Gallery, London 2002 Further Tales, Charles Everritt Fine Art/ The Air Gallery, London 2003 Gates to the Garden, Galleri Sult, Stavanger, Norway 2004 For the Cave of the Sea, Rock-a-Nore Art Gallery, Hastings 2006 Light + Meaning, Galleria Seriola, Tampere Strange Territory, Galleri Nordlys, Copenhagen 2007 Formal Concerns, Galleri København, Copenhagen Landscapes for the Turning Earth, Gallery Oldham 2009 Running from the House, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen 2010 Selected works, Fondazione Stelline, Milan On the Edge of Wrong, collaboration with Kirsten Reynolds, Fondazione Stelline, Milan 2011 Alan Rankle Kirsten Reynolds: Recent Works, Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea, Milan Wilderness Approaching, Gallery B15, Copenhagen 2014 Rankle & Reynolds: On the Edge of Wrong, The Underdog Gallery, London 2015 To a Hidden Place, The House of St. Barnabas, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

1975 SPACE Open Studios, Charlton House, London 1982 Andy Goldsworthy/Michael Jepson/Alan Rankle, LYC Gallery, Cumbria 1985 New Figurative Works, Patrick BoydCarpenter, London 1988 Order out of Chaos, Artists Unlimited, Bieldefeld, Germany 1990 Travel: Real & Imagined Journeys, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne 1991 Earthscape, Hastings Pier 1995 Driven to Abstraction, Rye Art Gallery Arcade, Brighton University Gallery Inspirit, Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery 1996 A Different Pursuit, Danielle Arnaud, London; Endangered Spaces, Christies, London 1997 The Best of British, Musée de Prieure, Honfleur, France 1998 Downs & Marsh, Folkestone Art Gallery & Museums Sublimate Sublime Subliminal, Clink Wharf Gallery, London 2000 Serena Banham, Per Fronth, Alan Rankle, Anderson Stewart Fine Art, London Art in Romley Marsh, St Mary in the Marsh 2006/7 Landscapes for the Turning Earth, Gallery Oldham, Greater Manchester 2006/7 On the Edge of Arcadia , Installation with Tom Burke, Tim Nathan, Colin Gibson, Kent Barker, Gallery Oldham, Greater Manchester 2009 Klimakunst på Bestilling, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen 2011 Rankle & Reynolds, Enrico Savi: Empathy and Abstraction, Mya Lurgo Gallery, Lugano “Iconoclasts”, curated by Katie Heller, The Lloyds Club, London Layers of Landscape, Touchstones Rochdale 2012 Wild Bleibt Wild, Haftentor 7, Hamburg Paddaggi Animati, Castello di Mornico, Mornico Losana 2013 32 Paintings, Phoenix Art Centre, Brighton Axis: Copenhagen – London, 24/8, London Looking at Landscape: Pastoral to Present, Gallery Oldham Multiplied 2013, Christie’s, London 2014 RELATIONS(s), Art Stays 2014, Ptuj, Slovenia “How the Light Gets In”, Galleri Aveny, Gothenburg Federico Rui Arte Contemporania at Arte Padova 2015 “The Collective”, House of St Barnabas, London

Museum collections

Southampton City Art Gallery Hastings Art Galley & Museum Oldham Art Galley & Museum Bankfield Museum, Halifax Calderdale Museums Fondazione Stelline, Milan Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery

Corporate collections

Stellar International Art Foundation Hammerson plc Baker McKenzie plc PriceWaterhouseCoopers plc Sun Alliance plc Bain Capital London Thames Water plc Hastings Borough Council Tonbridge School Southampton Hospital Trust

Untitled (Herne Study Calder Valley) 2013 Oil on canvas, diptych 120x100cm & 120x150cm

new image to come

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