Lucy Raverat

Lucy Raverat (née Pryor; born 1948) is the professional name used by Lucy Ethne Rawlinson, a British painter.

Life

Born in Cambridge, Lucy Raverat is the daughter of Mark Pryor and Sophie Gurney (née Raverat), daughter of the artists Gwen Raverat (née Darwin) and Jacques Raverat.[1] Through her maternal grandmother, Lucy Raverat is a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin.[1] Her elder brother is William Pryor, a writer and entrepreneur. In 1968 she married Francis Rawlinson.

Raverat was interested in art through her youth, and in the 1960s she attended Hornsey College of Art, where she completed a pre-diploma course.[2][3] From there she travelled, spending time in India where she met her future husband, before moving to Lancaster. There she returned to painting, taking it up full-time after her children started attending school.[2] In the 1990s she moved to France, where she currently resides.[1][3]

Raverat often employs elements from her own life in her work, although they can be presented as "magically touched by fantasy",[3] and she has incorporated representations of herself through the series painted for the Francis Kyle Gallery's Roma exhibition, "present in each composition as a tiny, wraith-like figure in a polka-dot dress".[4]

Notable exhibitions
  • Francis Kyle Gallery, London, (solo show)[5]
  • Francis Kyle Gallery, London, Russia (mixed show)
  • Francis Kyle Gallery, London (solo show)
  • Everyone Sang [mixed show], Francis Kyle Gallery, London
  • Francis Kyle Gallery, London (solo show in September)
  • Casa Guayasamin, Havana (solo show - part of the Biennale)
  • The Lair of the Leopard (mixed show), Francis Kyle Gallery,London
  • Miami Art Fair (with Francis Kyle Gallery, London)
  • Roma (mixed show), Francis Kyle Gallery, London
  • Francis Kyle Gallery, London (solo show)
  • Artbank Gallery, London
  • Art '99, London, with England & Co
  • Waterman Fine Art, London
  • Maison des Arts, Bédarieux, Hérault, France (solo show)
  • Bartley Drey Gallery. London (solo show)
  • Maison des Arts, Bages, Aude, France (solo show)
  • The Gallery at Lots Road, Chelsea (solo show)
  • Stephen Bartley Gallery, Chelsea (solo show)
  • Galerie l'Etang d'Art, Bages, Aude, France
  • Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
  • Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge (solo show)
  • Yorkshire Television Building, Leeds (solo show)
  • Boundary Gallery, London
  • Roy Miles Gallery, London
  • The Art Company, Leeds (part of the Leeds Festival)
  • Art '89, London
  • The Art Company, Leeds
  • Bowmoore Gallery, London (part of Women in Art exhibition, 10 paintings)[1]
  • Grabowski Gallery, London (solo show)
  • Boundary Gallery, London
  • Beaux Arts, Bath (solo show)
  • RONA exhibition touring southwest France
  • Barbican Centre, London (RONA exhibition, 10 paintings)
  • Richard de Marco Gallery, Edinburgh
  • Barbican Centre, London (RONA exhibition)
  • Royal Festival Hall (RONA exhibition)
  • Portal Gallery, Bond Street
  • Crane Arts, Chelsea
  • City Museum, Lancaster (solo show)
  • Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster (solo show)

References
  1. "Artist Gallery". The Bowmoore Gallery. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
  2. Raverat, Lucy (March 2009). "Artist Statement". Lucy Raverat. Archived from the original on 17 October 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
  3. Taylor, John Russell (19 July 2003). "JRT's best London shows - London". The Times. p. Play 25.
  4. Gregory, Conal (9 April 2003). "An exhibition not built in a day - The Register". The Times. p. 33.
  5. "Lucy Raverat". Francis Kyle Collection. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
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