Terry Atkinson (born 1939) is an English artist.

Career

Atkinson was born in Thurnscoe, near

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, Yorkshire. He lives in Leamington Spa, England with his wife, artist Sue Atkinson, with whom he has frequently collaborated. In 1967, he began to teach art at the Coventry School of Art while producing conceptual works, sometimes in collaboration with Michael Baldwin. In 1968 they, together with

Harold Hurrell Harold Hurrell (born 1940 in Barnsley, Yorkshire; lives in Hull, England) is a British conceptual artist and former member of the Art & Language artist group. Life Harold Hurrell studied at Sheffield College of Art from 1961 to 1964 and at ...

and David Bainbridge who also taught at

Coventry Coventry ( or rarely ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centurie ...

, formed

Art & Language Art & Language is an English conceptual artists' collaboration that has undergone many changes since it was created around 1967. The group was founded by artists who shared a common desire to combine intellectual ideas and concerns with the cre ...

, a group whose influence on other artists both in the UK and in the United States is widely acknowledged. Atkinson was founder-member (with colleagues John Bowstead, Roger Jeffs and Bernard Jennings) of the group Fine-Artz (1963), and (with David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin and Harold Hurrell) of the group Art & Language (1968–74), two of the most influential collectives in contemporary Western art. Atkinson stopped teaching at

in 1973 and the following year left

. He has since exhibited under his own name, including at the 1984

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Recognition and representation in collections

In 1985 he was nominated for the

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and exhibited a series of paintings, including The Stone Touchers I. Atkinson's work is held in many collections, including the

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References

External links

*Information fro
Château de Montsoreau-Museum of contemporary

information from Tate Britain website

Terry Atkinson in Artfacts.Net

Art & Language in Artfacts.Net
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