Dinah Prentice

Dinah Prentice
Born1935 Edit this on Wikidata
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OccupationPainter, collagist Edit this on Wikidata

Dinah Prentice (born 1935) is a British artist. She paints, and works in textile and in paper collage.[1]

Prentice was born in 1935.[2] She attended Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in London, and the Wyggeston Girls School in Leicester.[3] She then attended Birmingham College of Art and Crafts to study painting,[3] and the Royal Academy Schools in London.[4]

She met her husband, the painter David Prentice,[1] at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts.[4] They married in 1958 and had four daughters.[4] Together, she and David were founders of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham in 1964.[3] They lived in Northamptonshire[4] and, from 1990,[4] Malvern Wells, and generally avoided exhibiting together.[5]

Her work is in public collections, including those of the Victoria & Albert Museum[6] and the Shipley Art Gallery.[3]

An exhibition of Prentice's work is scheduled to be held from 8 June to 24 August 2018[1] at the University of Birmingham, where her work Laced Threads is permanently installed.[3] The University has referred to her "lifelong commitment to a radical feminist enquiry as an alternative approach to the avant-garde art historical canon".[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Dinah Prentice, Piecing". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  2. ^ Watkins, Jonathan; Stevenson, Diana, eds. (2004). Some of the best things in life happen accidentally: the beginning of Ikon. Birmingham, UK: Ikon Gallery. pp. 125–126. ISBN 1904864023.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Artist/Maker: Dinah Prentice". Aberystwyth University School of Art Museums and Galleries. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d e Dempsey, Andrew (2 June 2014). "David Prentice obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  5. ^ Post, Birmingham (18 November 2008). "David and Dinah Prentice join the exhibitionists". Birmingham Post. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Perspective Drawing | Prentice, Dinah". V&A. 1982. Retrieved 27 May 2018.

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