£400
Paintings & Works on Paper | 647
Auction: 10 March 2021 at 10:00 GMT
Signed and dated '02, inscribed with title verso, oil on canvas
Note: Neville Weston was a Welsh-born painter, academic, and writer, and was based in Australia for many years.
Weston studied at Stourbridge School of Art 1952-1956, before attending the Slade School, University College, London, where he was awarded a University Diploma of Fine Art. At Slade, he was a student of William Coldstream, Claude Rogers, as well as Lucian Freud and Ernst Gombrich. Following on from his time at Slade, he studied under Anthony Blunt and Douglas Cooper at the Courtauld Institute of Art History. From 1961- 1965, he was principal Lecturer at Liverpool College of Art and a part of the W.E.B.A. Design group. From 1965-75, he lectured at Padgate College of Education, University of Manchester.
His first association with Australia came about through a visiting Fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra. In 1977, he relocated to Australia to teach Art History and Theory at the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia. He later moved to Perth and became Dean of the School of Visual Arts at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, 1991-2001, at the Edith Cowan University, Perth.
Weston has written extensively on Australian Art and is the biographer of Leading Australian Artist Lawrence Dawes. He continued to exhibit actively, with his works included in the Royal Academy Summer Show, 2006, and The Adam Street Club, 2007, London. His last major exhibition was for the Threadneedle Prize, at the Mall Galleries, London in 2010.