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Clive Hicks-Jenkins (born 1951) is a British artist known especially for narrative paintings and artist’s books. His paintings are represented in all the main public collections in Wales, as well as others in the United Kingdom, and his artist’s books are found in libraries internationally. A retrospective exhibition comprising some 200 works from across the artist's career loaned from public and private collections was held by the National Library of Wales in 2011 to coincide with his sixtieth birthday.〔Anne Price-Owen, 'Clive Hicks-Jenkins', ''Planet'' 203, August 2011, pp.48-61〕 A substantial multi-author book devoted to his work was published by Lund Humphries in 2011, in which Simon Callow called him ‘one of the most individual and complete artists of our time'.〔Callow, Simon, Andrew Green, Rex Harley, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Kathe Koja, Anita Mills, Montserrat Prat, Jacqueline Thalmann, Damian Walford Davies and Marly Youmans, ''Clive Hicks-Jenkins'' (2011: Lund Humphries) ISBN 978-1-84822-082-9, p.17 〕 ==Biography== Clive Hicks-Jenkins was born in Newport, south Wales, in 1951. His father worked for the Central Electricity Generating Board and his mother was a hairdresser. He attended Hartridge Comprehensive School in Newport but was unhappy there and at the age of twelve he moved to the Italia Conti school in London, where he studied theatre, worked as an actor in films and television and took classes at the Rambert Ballet School. In the late 1960s he was a performer and puppeteer with Cardiff’s Caricature Theatre. During the 1970s and 1980s he worked as a choreographer, director and stage designer, creating productions with among others the Vienna Festival, the Almeida Theatre, Theatr Clwyd and Cardiff New Theatre, where he was Associate Director. Since the 1990s he has concentrated on his work as a visual artist.〔'Clive Hicks-Jenkins' in David Buckman, ''The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945'' (Bristol: Art Dictionaries, 1998) p.578〕 He contributed a short autobiographical essay to a substantial monograph about his work, ''Clive Hicks-Jenkins'' by Simon Callow ''et al'' (Lund Humphries, 2011).〔Callow, Simon, Andrew Green, Rex Harley, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Kathe Koja, Anita Mills, Montserrat Prat, Jacqueline Thalmann, Damian Walford Davies and Marly Youmans, ''Clive Hicks-Jenkins'' (2011: Lund Humphries) ISBN 978-1-84822-082-9 , pp.191-214〕 He has had solo exhibitions at the Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art in Bath, the Kilvert Gallery, Cardiff New Theatre, Oriel Theatr Clwyd, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery, MOMA Wales, Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, the National Library of Wales and Jersey Arts Centre. His work has been included in over 80 group exhibitions.〔Roderic Dunnett, 'Clive Hicks-Jenkins: Prospects of Wales', ''The Independent'', 21 September 2004〕〔Callow, Simon, Andrew Green, Rex Harley, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Kathe Koja, Anita Mills, Montserrat Prat, Jacqueline Thalmann, Damian Walford Davies and Marly Youmans, ''Clive Hicks-Jenkins'' (2011: Lund Humphries) ISBN 978-1-84822-082-9, pp.231-3〕 He is an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University School of Art and a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art. He is a member of The Welsh Group〔http://www.thewelshgroup-art.com/#!clive-hicks-jenkins/c3g5〕 and 56 Group Wales. He has lived in London, Newport and Cardiff and currently lives near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion.〔Callow, Simon, Andrew Green, Rex Harley, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Kathe Koja, Anita Mills, Montserrat Prat, Jacqueline Thalmann, Damian Walford Davies and Marly Youmans, ''Clive Hicks-Jenkins'' (2011: Lund Humphries) ISBN 978-1-84822-082-9〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clive Hicks-Jenkins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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