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| - | '''Graham Ovenden''' (born 1943) is an [[England|English]] [[Painting|painter]], [[Fine art photography|fine art photographer]], [[writer]] and [[architect]]. He is married to artist [[Annie Ovenden]]. Their daughter Emily is a writer, and a singer with the [[Mediaeval Baebes]]. | ||
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| - | ==Life== | ||
| - | Born in [[New Alresford]] into a [[Fabian Society|Fabian]] household, Ovenden attended Itchen Grammar School (1954-59) and was taught music privately by [[Albert Ketelbey]]. Ovenden was a student at the [[Royal College of Music]], before taking up painting around 1962. | ||
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| - | He was tutored by [[Lord David Cecil]] and Sir [[John Betjeman]]. He attended the [[Southampton]] School of Art, and graduated from the [[Royal College of Art]] in 1968. One of his most important teachers was [[James Sellars]], an expert on [[Samuel Palmer]]. | ||
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| - | He moved to [[Cornwall]] in 1973 with painter Annie Ovenden and their family. Since then he has been constructing a neo-[[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] building, "Barley Splatt" near Bodmin in Cornwall. | ||
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| - | Ovenden was a founder of the [[Brotherhood of Ruralists]] in 1975, along with [[Graham Arnold (artist)|Graham Arnold]], [[Ann Arnold]], Sir [[Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake]], [[David Inshaw]], [[Annie Ovenden]] and [[Jann Haworth]]. The Brotherhood is still extant, although three members have left; in 2005 it had a major London exhibition at the Leicester Galleries. They were given the name "Ruralists" by writer [[Laurie Lee]]. | ||
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| - | ==Work== | ||
| - | Ovenden's 1950s street photographs of [[London]]'s [[children's street culture]] have been published as ''Childhood Streets'' (1998). | ||
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| - | Among his books on Victorian photography are: ''Pre Raphaelite Photography'' (1972); ''Victorian Children'' (1972); ''Victorian Erotic Photography'' (1973); ''A Victorian Album - [[Julia Margaret Cameron]] and Her Circle'' (1975); ''[[Alphonse Mucha]] Photographs'' (1974); ''Clementina Lady Hawarden'' (1974); ''Hill & Adamson, Photographers'' (1973); ''[[Lewis Carroll]]'' (1984). He also curated the 1993/4 exhibition ''Recording Angels, The Work of [[Lewis Hine|Lewis Wickes Hine]]''. | ||
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| - | Ovenden is a photographer and a writer; he has also undertaken stage design and book illustrations. His work is in collections, including the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], [[Tate Gallery|The Tate]], and the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], New York. | ||
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| - | Ovenden's photographic work is controversial for its depiction of [[prepubescent]] girls. In 1993, some of his photographs were confiscated by the [[Obscene Publications Act 1959|Obscene Publications Squad]] from [[Scotland Yard]] but returned after a campaign by fellow artists [[Hugh Casson|Sir Hugh Casson]], [[Jeremy Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington|Lord Hutchinson]] and [[David Hockney]]. His work ''Five Girls'' is exhibited in the [[Tate|Tate Gallery]]. | ||
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| - | In 1980 he was found not guilty of fraud, pertaining to his involvement in the production of hoax [[calotype]]s, purportedly images of [[Victorian era|Victorian]] street children by a photographer "Francis Hetling". Some had been shown at the [[National Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery]]. | ||
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| - | ==References== | ||
| - | * Victor Arwas, [[Laurie Lee]], Robert Melville. ''Graham Ovenden''. (Academy Editions, 1987). | ||
| - | * ''The Brotherhood of Ruralists - A Celebration'' (2003). | ||
| - | * Christopher Martin (Ed). ''Art & Design No.23 - The Ruralists'' (Academy Editions, 1991). | ||
| - | * Hugh Cumming. "Post-Modern Landscape: The Art of Graham Ovenden" in: ''Art and Design: The Post-Avant-Garde Painting in the Eighties'' (1987). | ||
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| + | The '''National Portrait Gallery''' is an [[art gallery]] in [[London]], [[England]], housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous [[British people]]. | ||
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The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in London, England, housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.
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