Xavier Pick is an art teacher and a former

war artist A war artist is an artist either commissioned by a government or publication, or self-motivated, to document first-hand experience of war in any form of illustrative or depictive record.Imperial War Museum (IWM)header phrase, "war shapes lives" ...

in Iraq. Pick currently lives in Hong Kong and works as an educator throughout Asia. In 2008 and 2009, he joined the British Army's 20th Armoured Brigade (The Iron Fist) in southern Iraq to record the final weeks of

Operation Telic Operation Telic (Op TELIC) was the codename under which all of the United Kingdom's military operations in Iraq were conducted between the start of the invasion of Iraq on 19 March 2003 and the withdrawal of the last remaining British forces on ...

, producing sketches, photographs and film footage."York artist Xavier Pick to feature in BBC documentary"
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'', 8 November 2010, retrieved on 27 May 2011. Pick has a B.A. from the

Glasgow School of Art The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; ) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and design. These are all awa ...

and a M.A. from the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public university, public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City, London, White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design uni ...

Credentials

* Produced a series of coins commemorating the First World War, commissioned by The Royal Mint, 2013 * Managed ACAVA Parkham Street Studios for recent art and design graduates, 2012–13 * Conducted drawing courses for young people in Baghdad, 2011 * Official war artist, Ministry of Defence in Iraq, 2008 to present * Conducted drawing courses for British troops in Iraq, 2008–09 * Visiting lecturer, Royal College of Art, 2005 to present * Course leader and visiting lecturer, The Royal College of Art, 2003–05

References

External links

Xavier Pick Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pick, Xavier Living people British war artists Year of birth missing (living people)