Chris Orr

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Chris Orr is an English artist and printmaker who has exhibited world wide and published over 400 limited edition prints in lithography, etching and silkscreen.

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[edit] Biography

Born in Islington, London on the 8th April 1943. After studying at Ravensbourne and Hornsey Schools of Art he graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1967 with an MA in Printmaking. He was made a fellow of the Royal College of Art in 1985, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers in 1988, elected Royal Academician in 1995 and appointed Professor of Printmaking at The Royal College of Art 1998. Combining his work as a full-time artist with teaching, he has also taught at Cardiff College of Art, Central St Martins, London and at the Royal College of Art, London.

His work is best described in his own words "During my thirty nine years as an artist I have been put in various pigeon-holes, such as 'quintessential English' or a 'latter-day Hogarth'. But are these epithets reasonable? My pictures are composed of well-mixed metaphors, references, allusions jokes and descriptions. Does 'Chris Orr-like' refer to a typically English muddle? The tradition of graphic eccentricity (Heath Robinson, Donald McGill, Steve Bell et al.) is fair enough, I am happy to acknowledge many influences in this area."

Chris Orr has had many one-man shows internationally, including Britain, France, America, Australia, Japan and China. He is represented by the Jill George Gallery, where he has been regularly exhibited since 1978.

[edit] Selected Exhibitions

1971 Serpentine Gallery, London
1976 Whitechapel Gallery and Museum of Modern Art Oxford
1980 Galleria Grafica, Tokyo, Japan
1983 Jay Street Gallery, New York, USA
1987 Print Guild, Melbourne, Australia
1990 Royal Festival Hall London
1994 Jill George Gallery
1996 Jill George Gallery
1998 Royal College of Art
1999 Royal Academy of Arts (Friends Room)
2001 Lewis Elton Gallery, University of Surrey, Guildford
2003 Jill George Gallery
2004 Ruskin Library, Lancaster
2005 Six Royal Academicians, Beijing and Shanghai

[edit] Public collections

Arts Council of Great Britain
Welsh Arts Council
British Council
Royal Academy of Arts
Museum of London
Victoria & Albert Museum
Science Museum
The British Museum
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
National Railway Museum, York
Government Art Collection
Tate Gallery
The Ruskin Library Lancaster University

[edit] Publications

Many Mansions, Chris Orr and Michael Palin, 1990
The Small Titanic, Chris Orr and Kevin Whately
Pinko Productions, 1994
Happy Days, Chris Orr, 1999
Semi-Antics, Chris Orr and Jill George, 2001

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