Anthony Frost
The son of the Royal Academician, Terry Frost, Anthony Frost, working out of his studio in Penzance, has become renound for his abstract works and collages, which have featured often in exhibitons both within Cornwall and further afield.
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Biographical Information
1951 Born in St. Ives
1970-1973 Cardiff College of Art
1980-1982 Part-time Lecturer, Falmouth School of Art
1982 Visiting Lecturer, Canterbury School of Art
1989- County Art Advisory Team, Suffolk County Council
1990 Prize-winner, South West Open Exhibition, Plymouth
1992 Judge and Organiser, Seven Celtic Artists, Finnistere, France
1993 Artist in Residence, Monmiral School of Painting, Tarn, France
1994-2003 Visiting artist, Torquay Foundation Department; Visiting artist, Schools in Suffolk
1995 Artist in Residence, Cyprus School of Art, Paphos
1995-2003 Part-time Lecturer, Anglia University
1999 Judge, J.J.Fox competition, Jersey
2001 MA Course lecturer, S.A.P.U. Ipswich
2003 Elected ARE, Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London
SELECTED RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1987 'Whiff of Magic', Wolf at the Door Gallery, Penzance
1989 'New Paintings', Salthouse Gallery, St. Ives
1991 'Monotypes and Related Paintings', Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Exeter
'Paintings and Monotypes', Royal Cornwall Museum Galleries, Truro
1993 Rainyday Gallery, Penzance
1994 Bodilly Gallery, Cambridge
1995 Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Exeter; Jersey Arts Centre, Jersey
1996 'Viva Blues', Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance and Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
'Viva Blues', Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington Arts Centre
'Viva Blues', Kings University Arts Centre Gallery, Cambridge
'Viva Blues - The Remix', Belgrave Gallery, London
'Viva Blues - First Touch of Frost', Forefront Gallery, University of Suffolk, Ipswich
'Viva Blues - The Unofficial Tour', Abbey Life House, Bournemouth
1998 'Viva Blues', Mid Pennine Arts Gallery, Burnley; Maymie White Contemporary Art, London;
The Arts Centre, Kings College, Cambridge
1999 The Porthminster Beach Café, St Ives; Corporate Connoisseurs, London
Berni Gallery, Jersey Art Centre; Art Drink, London
2000 The Porthminster Beach Café, St Ives; The Arts Centre, Kings College, Cambridge;
'Music, Space, Sound', Bridgwater Arts Centre, Somerset
2001 Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin; 'The Space I'm In', Corporate Connoisseurs, London;
'Walking into Red', Advanced Graphics London
2002 'Paintings and Works on Paper', The Porthminster Beach Café, St Ives
The Original Print Gallery, Dublin; The Arts Centre, Kings College, Cambridge
2003 'Paintings and Works on Paper', The Porthminster Beach Café, St Ives
'Walking into Space', Space, Penzance (in association with Advanced Graphics London)
2004 'Zig Zag Wanderer', The Somerville Gallery, Plymouth, Devon
Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art and Design, Devon
2005 'Lunar Notes - Neon Dreams', Advanced Graphics London
2006 Porthminster Beach Café, Porthminster Beach, St Ives
2007 'Surface Noise', Beaux Arts, London; 'Surface Noise - The Prints', Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (in association with Advanced Graphics London); 'New Monoprints and Recent Editions', Advanced Graphics London; Porthminster Beach Café, Porthminster Beach, St Ives
2008 'The Colour of Sound', Beaux Arts, London; Porthminster Beach Café, Porthminster Beach, St Ives
SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1990 'Abstract 90', Cleveland Bridge Gallery, Bath
1990-1991 Christmas Exhibition, Austin/Desmond Gallery, Exeter
1991 'Colour Senses - three abstract painters', Spacex, Exeter; 'Young St. Ives Painters', Hall Gallery, Liskeard
1991-1992 'Small is Beautiful', Part 9 - Abstract, Flowers East, London
1992 'Cornish Artists', Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Exeter; 'Artists from Cornwall', Summer Show, Curwen Gallery, London;
'Anthony Frost, Andrew Lanyon and Alfred Wallis', (three man show), Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Exeter
1993 'Small is Beautiful', Homages, Flowers East, London
1994 'Beyond the Edge - contemporary paintings and sculpture from Cornwall', Unit 10, Exeter (touring)
'Curwen Chilford Prints', Bircham Gallery, Norfolk; 'Contemporary Printworks', Spacex Gallery, Exeter
'Small is Beautiful' XII, Flowers East, London; 'The Little Picture Show', Rainyday Gallery, Penzance;
'6" x 6" Small Artworks', Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (touring)
1995 'Beyond the Edge - Painting and Sculpture from Cornwall', Usher Gallery, Lincoln
'The Edge of Beyond - Contemporary Painting and Sculpture', Belgrave Gallery, London
'Bourne/Frost', two man exhibition, Rainyday Gallery, Penzance
1999 'London Printmakers' Maymie White Contemporary Art, London
1999-2009 Various Art Fairs and Exhibitions represented by Advanced Graphics London including:
London Art Fair, Islington, London
Contemporary Print Show, Barbican Centre, London
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Art on Paper, Royal College of Art, London
Glasgow Art Fair, George Square, Glasgow
20/21 British Art Fair, The Royal College of Art and the Commonwealth Institute
The Print Fair, IFPDA Members, The Armory Center, New York
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2000 'New Publications' Advanced Graphics London
'Contemporary Prints from Advanced Graphics London', Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
'Anthony Frost - Recent Paintings/Giles Penny - Sculptures', Broomhill Art Hotel, Barnstaple
'St Ives Artists', Colliyer Bristow, London
'Leading British Artists form Advanced Graphics', The Original Print Gallery, Dublin
2002 'St. Ives Colourists' Wine Street Gallery, Devizes, Wiltshire
'Summertime', Seven Worcester Terrace, Bath
2003 'London Calling: Screenprints from Advanced Graphics London', Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
'Advanced Graphics Print Exhibition', West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen
2004 'Buon Natale', Advanced Graphics London
2005 'New Publications 2005', Advanced Graphics London
'Summer '05', Beaux Arts, London
2006 'Made in England', Prints from Advanced Graphics London, Original Print Gallery, Dublin
'Monoprints', with Albert Irvin and Neil Canning, Advanced Graphics London
The Fall, Album Covers Tour, Berlin and Manchester
'Summer '06', Beaux Arts, London
'Prints from Advanced Graphics London', Friend’s Room, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2008 'Painter-Printmakers from Advanced Graphics London', Eton Drawing Schools, Windsor
2009 'Collectors Prints', Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames (in collaboration with Advanced Graphics)
'Frost and Irvin', two person show with Albert Irvin, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle upon Tyne
COMMISSIONS
1990 'The Fall' Extricate album and singles covers, T-shirt and stage backdrop
1999 Stage backdrop for 'The Fall' for Reading and Leeds Festival
2000-02 'Eden Project', St Austell, Cornwall. One of the selected artists to work on this major project, currently developing a painting that will be translated into a spectacular planting design
2006 Monoprint for the Birthing Centre, St George’s Hospital NHS Trust, London
COLLECTIONS
Anglo American plc, London; Contemporary Arts Society; Cornwall County Council; Devon County Council; E-People, Milton Keynes; Eton College; John Moores; Kasser Foundation, New York; Nuffield Trust; Rotary Watches Ltd; Standard Life; Truro Museums and Art Galleries; QBE International Insurance; Williams Energy, London






