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Selected Biography
AGATHE SOREL RE RWS
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Agathe Sorel in the
studio, Forest Hill, 2003
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1935 |
Born Budapest, Hungary |
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1949-55 |
Studied stage design, murals, frescoes
and mosaic techniques at the Academy of Applied Art, moving in 1955 to the
Institute of Fine Arts to paint. |
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1956 |
Fled to England after the Hungarian
Revolution. |
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1957 |
Studied printmaking at Camberwell
School of Art, London. |
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1958-60 |
Wins Gulbenkian Scholarship and moves
to Paris to study at the Ecoles des Beaux Arts, the Sorbonne and etching under
S W Hayter at Atelier 17. |
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1960-61 |
Sets up print workshop in Fulham with
her husband, the painter and designer Gabor Sitkey. Begins teaching at
Camberwell and Maidstone Colleges |
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1963 |
Britische Graphische
Scene, Orell Fussli Buchhandlung, Zurich selected
and organised by The Print Centre, London (Editions Alecto). |
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1965 |
Solo show at Curwen Gallery, London.
Founder member of Printmakers' Council, and later editor of the PMC
Magazine. |
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1966-67 |
Churchill Fellowship to travel and work
in USA and Mexico. Begins to teach at Goldsmith's College of
Art. |
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1967 |
Exhibition at the Ben Uri Gallery,
London |
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1968 |
Solo show at Philadelphia Print
Club. |
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1974 |
Line in Space by Agathe Sorel, Camden
Arts Centre. |
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1975 |
Solo show at Oxford University
Press. |
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1978 |
Solo show at Robertson Galleries,
Ottawa |
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1980 |
Solo show at the Comsky Gallery, Los
Angeles |
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1981-83 |
Chairman of the Printmakers'
Council |
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1989 |
Space Engravings & other works by
Agathe Sorel, Herbert Read Gallery, Kent Institute of Art & Design; touring
to the Intaglio Printmaker Gallery, London and Paul Kövesdy Gallery, New
York, 1990; Trumpington Gallery, Cambridge, 1991; Malargalleriet, Stockholm,
1992; Galerie Geiger Kornwestheim, 1993; Stadtische Galerie, Filderstadt,
Stuttgart, 1995 |
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2000/02 |
Solo shows at Galerie La Hune,
Paris |
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2002 |
Catalana Blanca, Bankside Gallery,
London |
2003 |
The Book of Sand, Bankside Gallery,
London |
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2004 |
Retrospective Bradford Museum Cartwright Hall |
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2005 |
Livres d'artiste at The Bradford Museum Cartwright Hall |
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2006 |
Solo Exhibition at Lawrence Graham LLP London |
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2009 |
Solo Exhibition at the Nehru Centre, London |
| 2010-2011 |
A Year in the life of the Royal Albert Hall |
| 2012 |
Solo Exhibition at the Bradford Museum, Cartwright Hall |
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Museums and Public Collections Great Britain The Tate
Gallery; Victoria and Albert Museum; Arts Council of England; British Museum;
Royal College of Art; British Council; South London Gallery; Government Art
Collection; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Taylorian
Institute, Oxford; The London Institute; British Library.
U.S.A. New York Public Library;
Museum of Fine Art, Philadelphia; Alverthorp Gallery, Jenkintown; Smithstonian
Institute, Washington; Library of Congress, Washington; Boston Museum of Fine
Arts; Fogg Museum, Cambridge; Chicago Art Institute; Los Angeles Museum of Fine
Art; Rockhurst College, Kansas City;The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College,
Detroit; National Gallery, Washington.
Miscellaneous Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdsam; Coppenhagen Museum; Town Hall, Hong Kong; Town Hall, Tias,
Lanzarote; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Museum of Art, Skopje, Yugoslavia;
Israel Museum, Jersusalem.
Awards The Gulbenkian Scholarship , The Winston Churchill Fellowship to
the U.S.A. and Mexico, British Council Awards for Artists for traveling
exhibitions to Sweden and Germany. |
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