Dinah Prentice (born 1935) is a British artist. She paints, and works in textile and in paper collage.
Prentice was born in 1935.
She attended
Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
Haberdashers' Girls' School is a Private schools in the United Kingdom, private day school in Elstree, Hertfordshire. It is often referred to as "Habs" (or "Habs Girls" to distinguish it from the neighbouring Haberdashers' Boys' School). The sch ...
in London, and the
Wyggeston Girls School in Leicester.
She then attended
Birmingham College of Art and Crafts to study painting,
and the
Royal Academy Schools
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly London, England. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its ...
in London.
She met her husband, the painter
David Prentice
David Prentice (4 July 1936 – 7 May 2014) was an English artist and former art teacher. In 1964 he was one of the four founder members of Birmingham's Ikon Gallery.
Prentice's work features in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Mu ...
,
at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts.
They married in 1958 and had four daughters.
Together, she and David were founders of the
Ikon Gallery
The Ikon Gallery () is an England, English art gallery, gallery of contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. It is housed in the Listed building, Grade II listed, neo-Gothic former Oozells Street Board School, designed by John Henr ...
in Birmingham in 1964.
They lived in
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire ( ; abbreviated Northants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshi ...
and, from 1990,
Malvern Wells
Malvern Wells is a village and civil parish south of Great Malvern in the Malvern Hills district of Worcestershire, England. The parish, once known as South Malvern, was formed in 1894 from parts of the civil parishes of Hanley Castle, Welland ...
, and generally avoided exhibiting together.
Her work is in public collections, including those of the
Victoria & Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen ...
and the
Shipley Art Gallery
The Shipley Art Gallery is an art gallery in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, located at the south end of Prince Consort Road. It has a Designated Collection of national importance.
Origins
The Shipley Art Gallery opened to the public in 1 ...
.
An exhibition of Prentice's work is scheduled to be held from 8 June to 24 August 2018
at the
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...
, where her work ''Laced Threads'' is permanently installed.
The University has referred to her "lifelong commitment to a radical feminist enquiry as an alternative approach to the avant-garde art historical canon".
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Living people
1935 births
British feminist artists
People educated at Haberdashers' Girls' School
20th-century British artists
20th-century British women artists
21st-century British artists
People from Malvern, Worcestershire