Paul Emsley Visit Paul Emsley's Website Paul Emsley at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 20 June 2007 © Stuart Sewell, UPPA   Paul Emsley with Bianca Jagger, BP Portrait Award Prizegiving Ceremony, National Portrait Gallery, London, 20 June 2007 © Stuart Sewell, UPPA   Biography Parents emigrated to South Africa when still young. 1947  Born in Scotland 1969  Cape Technical College 1970-1976  Worked as designer in advertising 1976  Finally as Creative Director of BBDO International, Cape Town Began drawing and painting (self-taught as a painter) 1976-77  Lived in England 1977  Taught design, Cape Technicon 1978-79  Taught design and drawing, Ruth Prowse School of Art 1983-95  Taught drawing at the Department of Creative Arts, University of Stellenbosch 1996  Moved to England 2007  Winner of the BP Portrait Award 2007 Solo Exhibitions 1981  University of Stellenbosch 1982  South African Association of Arts, Cape Town 1994  Paul Emsley, Drawings, Redfern Gallery, London 2004  Balatro Gallery, Palm Beach Group Exhibitions 1978-79  SA touring USA and São Paulo 1979  Cape Town Biennial 1982  Cape Town Triennial 1985  Cape Town Triennial 1987  Standard Bank National Drawing Competition Drawing exhibition: University of the Orange Free State 1991  Drawing competition: South African Association of Arts, Cape Town 2003  Singer & Friedlander Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Art Palm Beach, The Redfern Gallery Art London, The Redfern Gallery 20/21 British Art Fair, The Redfern Gallery 2004  Naked, RWA, Bristol Singer & Friedlander Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Art Palm Beach, The Redfern Gallery Art London, The Redfern Gallery 20/21 British Art Fair, The Redfern Gallery London Art Fair, The Redfern Gallery London Art Fair, The Redfern Gallery Awards 1987  Merit Award: Standard Bank National Drawing Competition 1991  Merit Award: Drawing Competition, South African Association of Arts Collections South African National Gallery Johannesburg Art Gallery University of the Witwatersrand University of the Orange Free State University of Stellenbosch William Humphrey's Art Gallery, Kimberley The British Museum, London
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