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Douglas Portway |
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Douglas Portway was born in Johannesburg and began
painting and exhibiting in his native South Africa. After his first solo
exhibition in 1945 his reputation grew to such an extent that he became the
first South African to be awarded a travel grant from the Institute of International
Education, which took him to the USA in 1952. In 1956 he was chosen to take
part in the Venice Biennale and the following year he left South Africa for
good and travelled to Europe, finally settling in Ibiza in 1959 and worked
there for 7 years. During this period he had solo exhibitions at the Drian
Gallery in London, as well as in Paris, Ibiza and South Africa. In 1967 Portway moves to St.
Ives in Cornwall and begins an association with the Marjorie Parr Gallery
there and in London. From 1972 he also is able to buy a property in the
Dordogne and spends part of the year there and the rest in St. Ives before
selling up in Cornwall during the 1980s. His work is to be found in the
collections of the Tate Gallery, V&A Museum and the Scottish Gallery of
Modern Art along with many other galleries in this country, Europe and South
Africa. Five items of Portways work will be included in
the Harlequin Gallery Art in Britain 1945 to 1985 exhibition that begins on
Sunday 8 May 2005, including the ones below: - |
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