Roy Oxlade (13 January 1929 – 15 February 2014) was an English painter, writer on art, and an art educator. Review of the 2013 exhibition at the Art Space Gallery, London, with photographs of seven paintings.
Life and education
Roy Oxlade was born on 13 January 1929 in Tottenham, England to Emily and William Oxlade.
Oxlade went to the Bromley School of Art and Goldsmiths, London, and was a student of David Bomberg for two years at the Borough Polytechnic.
While studying at Goldsmiths, Oxlade met the painter, Rose Wylie, a fellow student, and they married in 1957. They had three children together: Luke-John, Elizabeth, and Henrietta.
Oxlade received his PhD from the Royal College of Art. His PhD thesis was on David Bomberg and titled, Bomberg and the Borough: An Approach to Drawing.
Career In 1961 to 1962 Mr Oxlade was an art teacher at Argyle Secondary High School in North Vancouver.In 1968, Oxlade was appointed as Head of Art at Sittingbourne College of Education. Accordingly, him and Wylie moved to Newnham, Kent.
Posthumous exhibitions Roy Oxlade: Work from the 80s & 90s (2018), the first solo exhibition of Oxlade's work since his death, received critical acclaim and coverage in numerous publications including Frieze, ArtLyst and Mousse.
In 2019, it was announced that Oxlade would be the subject of the inaugural exhibition at Hastings Contemporary.
Work
Oxlade usually painted using oil on canvas. Believing pure abstraction to be limited,Marcus Reichert, 2003 his paintings feature a mix of abstract forms and other representational elements including " some characters, some actors – tables, pots, colours, easels, lamps, scribbles, figures and faces to interact with each other".
Oxlade also wrote several essays.
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Essays
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