updated 04/06/10

SONIA LAWSON R.A. M.A.(RCA) R.W.S .

Bibliography

Selected Mixed & Solo Exhibitions

Biography               Graduate and postgraduate studies at Royal College of Art. Travelling scholarship to France. One of four young artists selected for John Schlesinger’s BBC TV Monitor documentary “Private View”. Elected Royal Academician.   Elected to Royal Watercolour Society. Eastern Arts Drawing Prize. Rowney Drawing Prize. Commission— Imperial War Museum to record British Army of the Rhine  exercise “Operation Lionheart” Wesphalia.Germany.     Lorne Scholarship. London University. Commissioned by Archbishop of Canterbury. Painting  for Pope in celebration of ecumenical accord. Eastern Arts Drawing Prize.   Commission— Book illustrations to accompany Poems by James Kirkup, ‘Look at it this way’.  Rockingham Press. Commission—Two related works for University Centre, Birmingham Commission—Drawings published in conjunction with Fay Weldon short story, ‘New Years Eve’. Clarion Publishing. Cover illustration. Women’s Lives into Print. Theory, Practise and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography. Macmillan Press. Edited by Pauline Polkey           Cover illustration. Ways of Returning. poems by Linda Saunders 2004 Arrowhead Honorary Royal West of England Academician Open University Lecture. 2008. Points of Departure

1955-60 1960 1982 1984 1986-7 1989 1990 1993 1994 1995 1999 2004 2005 2008

Three Seated Women Charcoal & Watercolour 82x110cm (1993)

Solo Exhibitions 2008  Wakefield City Art Gallery, West Yorkshire. Solo Exhibition 2006  Aylesbury Museum & Gallery. Points of Departure Retrospective 2005  Boundary Gallery. London 2004  University of Birmingham 2003  Boundary Gallery. London 2002  Vertigo Gallery. London 2001  Solo Exhibition .Carlow Arts Festival. Eire 2000  Boundary Gallery. London 2000  Royal West of England Academy. Bristol 1999  Shire Hall .Stafford. 1998  Boundary Gallery, London. NW8 1996   Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax Retrospective (30 years) 1995  Boundary Gallery, London 1994  University of Birmingham 1989  Cartwright Hall, Bradford  Boundary Gallery, London 1988  Chandler Gallery, Leyburn  Eastern Arts, Leighton Buzzard Library  Linton Court Gallery, Settle  City Art Gallery, Wakefield 1987  “Midnight Muse”, Manchester City Art Gallery 1984  West Yorkshire Arts Association, Kirklees 1982-83 “Shrines of Life” — retrospective  touring to Central Art Gallery, Milton Keynes organiser, Edna Read)   Mappin Gallery, Sheffield  Leicester Polytechnic  Cartwright Hall, Bradford   Ferens Art Gallery, Hull 1980  Northern Artists’ Gallery, Harrogate 1979  Open University, Milton Keynes     Darlington Art Gallery     Harrogate Art Gallery 1977  Central Library, Bradford 1973  “Homage to my Friends” (from Giotto to Janis Joplin),  Billingham and Middlesbrough 1967   Trafford Gallery, London 1964   Queens Square Gallery, Leeds 1963   New Arts Centre, London 1960  Zwemmer Gallery, London

Figure at the Prow Oil on paper 58x42cm (1993)

Selected Mixed Exhibitions Annually:- -   2010 Royal Academy London: Summer Exhibition   Royal Watercolour Society: Spring & Summer exhibitions  London Art Fairs:-     2004/5  Visual Wit. RA London 2001   Featured artist RWS London:Bankside 1997  Nottingham University “ Representing Lives” 1997  Discerning Eye.Mall Galleries, London. 1995 -98  Royal Watercolour Society, London. 1993     Mercury Gallery, London. W1 1993-99  Lamont Gallery, London. E2 1993-95  Connaught Brown, London.W1 1993-99  Boundary Gallery, London. NW8 1992  Gallerie Zur Alten Deutschen Schule,Thun, Switzerland 1991-92  John Moores, Liverpool 1988  Edinburgh, Kingfisher Gallery 1988  London Sw7. Royal College of Art.‘Exhibition Road’  Over 80 eminent painters who studied at the college  Celebrating the RCA’s 150th anniversary 1987  Leeds Polytechnic: “New Art in Yorkshire” 1986  Leicestershire Invited Artists        Gainsborough House. “Drawing For All’         Eastern Arts Touring 1985    Bradford Central Library: “Collectors Choice”,          London Group, R.C.A. Gallery          Sheffield, Graves. “Frail Peace” Personal Visions on War  London: Arthur Young Industrial Sponsors Exhibition 1984  First Prize “Drawing for All”   Gainsborough House, Eastern Arts Touring 1983     New York, Britain Salutes New York.“8 in the 80s” Moira Kelly Fine Art.  Green St. SoHo 1982-83  (Eastern Arts/Tolly Cobbold 55-86  Touring Exhibition) 1982  London and Edinburgh, Fruit Market          Hayward Annual. British Drawing 1981-83  London, Moira Kelly Fine Art 1978  Milton Keynes, Cranfield College. 1977  London, Royal Academy Jubilee: 25 Years of British Art 1970    London, Trafford Gallery 1964    Stratford-upon-Avon,  Shakespeare Festival          Leeds City Art Gallery: “Round About London Galleries” 1963    Liverpool, John Moores 1962  Cheltenham Art Gallery: Six Young Painters 1960  London Group. 1960    Royal Academy of Arts, London. Royal Watercolour Society Selected Touring Exhibitions 1989  “British Art 1949-1989 Faces of Britain”           British Council Touring exhibition to China 1988  “Contemporary Spirit of Cumbria”           touring to Manchester City Art Gallery and London Bankside 1985  “Critics Choice”, Leeds City Art Gallery 1981-82 “Fragments Against Ruin”, Arts Council         “The Subjective Eye”, Midland Group Arts Council