Ray Malone
| 1939 | born in Malta |
| 1943 | moved to London |
| 1954 | started to draw portraits |
| 1955 – 1957 | studied fine arts with Bill Bland, paintings of portraits and landscapes |
| 1957 – 1989 | continued drawing and painting |
| 1989 | travelling to France and Italy, beginning to get away from representational art |
| since 1990 | abstract work |
| 2007 | moved to Berlin |
List of exhibitions
| 1991 | The Working Men's College, Camden, London. (G) |
| 1992 | Five Dryden Street, Covent Garden, London (S) The Square Gallery, Highgate, London (S) |
| 1993 | The Devon Centre, Dartington, Devon (S) |
| 1994 | Hales Gallery, Deptford, London (S) |
| 1995 | White Lane Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Plymouth, Devon (G) White Lane Gallery, Drawing Exhibition, Plymouth (G) |
| 1996 | Open Studio, Exeter, Devon (S) ‘Landscape’, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath, Avon (G) The Henley Festival, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon (G) ‘Line & Space’, The Plough Gallery, Torrington, Devon (S) Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Exeter, Devon (G) |
| 1997 | Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Exeter, Devon (G) ‘Two Far Apart’, Contact Gallery, Norwich (2) Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Exeter, Devon (G) Third National Art Competition, Logos Gallery, London (G) |
| 1998 | The Cobden Club, Holland Park, London (2) Wahle Contemporary Art, Exeter, Devon, (G) The University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon (S) Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Exeter, Devon (G) The Eagle Gallery, Clerkenwell, London (G) |
| 1999 | ‘The Geography of Inner Space’, Hanging Space Gallery, London (G) Wahle Contemporary Art, Exeter, Devon (S) ‘The Philosophy of Inner Space’, StART Gallery, Fulham, London (G) ‘Two Views’, Art Haven, Exeter, Devon (G) Wahle Contemporary Art, Exeter, Devon (G) |
| 2000 | Royal West of England Academy, Autumn Exhbition Selection, Bristol (G) ‘British Abstract Art’, Artmonsky Arts, London (G) Bond Pearce Gallery, Plymouth (S) ‘Extraordinary Drawing’, Art Haven, Exeter, Devon (G) Wahle Contemporary Art, Exeter, Devon (2) |
| 2001 | Contemporary Art at Stourhead, First-View, Wiltshire (G) ‘Abstract Works’, Artmonsky Arts, London (G) |
| 2002 | ‘Devon Exhibition’, Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh, Hants
(G) twist art&design, Christmas Show, London (G) |
| 2003 | twist art&design, Christmas Show, London (G) |
| 2004 | ‘Breath of Fresh Air’, Byard Art, Cambridge (G) twist art&design, Christmas Show, London (G) |
| 2005 | ‘Exeter Abstract’, Galerie Artlantis, Bad Homburg, Germany (G) Print Show, Curwen & New Academy Gallery, London (G) Nine Days of Art, Exeter (OS) Middle East Exhibition, Love Ketchup, Dubai (G) |
| 2006 | Evolver Exhibition, Sherborne House, Sherborne, Dorset (G) ‘Science in the Dock: Art in the Stocks’, Art Terracina, Exeter (G) Malpass Gallery, Honiton, Devon (S) ‘Full Spectrum’, Sherborne House, Sherborne, Dorset (G) Exeter Open Studios, Exeter (OS) |
Art fairs
| 1992 | East London Open Studios, Deptford, London |
| 1993 | Fine Art Fair, Bath, Avon Childers Street Open Studios, Deptford, London |
| 1994 | Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London East London Open Studios, Deptford, London East London Open Studios, Deptford, London |
| 1995 | Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London '6 x 6', University of Northumberland Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Taunton Open Drawing 95, Taunton, Somerset Whiteley's Christmas Open, The Atrium Gallery, Queensway, London |
| 1996 | Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Olympia,
London Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London Glasgow Art Fair, Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland Artspace 96, Barn Galleries, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon The 20th Century British Art Fair, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London |
| 1997 | ART 97 The London Contemporary Art Fair, Anthony Hepworth
Fine Art, Islington, London Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Olympia, London Schoolhouse Gallery, Open Art Competition, Bath Beatrice Royal Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Eastleigh, Hants Midsummer Art Fair, Teddington, Middx ‘Abstract: the Language of Painting’, Beatrice Royal gallery, Eastleigh, Hants ‘A Celebration of Colour’, Maymie White Contemporary Art, Kensington, London Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London History: Image-based Work in Britain in the Late 20th Century (The Mag Collection), Ferens Gallery, Hull, Humberside |
| 1998 | The Mag Collection, The Fruitmarket Gallery. Edinburgh, Scotland Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London Ludwig Beck, The Art Supermarket Ltd, Munich, Germany Midsummer Art Fair, Teddington, Middx Beatrice Royal Gallery, Summer Exhibition. Eastleigh, Hants ‘Painting is not dead’, The Studio, Chiswick, London |
| 1999 | Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London Midsummer Art Fair, Teddington, Middx Beatrice Royal Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Eastleigh, Hants The Affordable Art Fair, Wahle Contemporary Art, London Royal West of England Academy, Autumn Exhibition, Bristol |
| 2000 | Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London Bath Art Fair, Artmonsky Arts, Bath The 20th Centuary Art & Design Fair, Wahle Contemporary Art, Olympia, London Midsummer Art Fair, Teddington, Middx ‘Abstract Works’, Artmonsky Arts, London The Affordable Art Fair, Wahle Contemporary Art, London |
| 2001 | The Art on Paper Fair, Artmonsky Arts, Royal College of Art, London Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London Midsummer Art Fair, Teddington, Middx Art London, Artmonsky Arts, London The Affordable Art Fair West, Bath The Affordable Art Fair, Wahle Contemporary Art, London Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London |
| 2002 | Paperleaf Arts Fair, Battersea, London First-View, Stourhead. Wiltshire The Affordable Art Fair West, PH Fine Art, Bristol The Affordable Art Fair, Wahle Contemporary Art, London The Gallery at the National Trust, First-View, Stourhead, Wiltshire |
| 2003 | The Affordable Art Fair West, PH Fine Art, Bristol The Affordable Art Fair, Wahle Contemporary Art, London The Affordable Art Fair, PH Fine Art, New York, USA Trebah Gardens, First-View, Falmouth, Cornwall Northcote Gallery, London |
| 2004 | The Affordable Art Fair, Wahle Contemporary Art, London The Affordable Art Fair, PH Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2005 | Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge The Affordable Art Fair, Wahle Contemporary Art, London |
| 2006 | The Art on Paper Fair, Royal College of Art, London Loveketchup, London Evolver Exhibition, Bournemouth University Atrium Gallery, Hants Fifty Wessex Artists, The Brewhouse, Taunton, Somerset The Affordable Art Fair, London |
| 2007 | Newcastle/Gatehead Art Fair, Gateshead Wahle Contemporary Art, Exeter The Affordable Art Fair, London |
Work held by the following
- Artizan Editions, Hove
- Byard Art, Cambridge
- Contemporary Art Holdings, Cirencester
- Eyestorm Gallery, London
- 3D Gallery, Bristol
- Wahle Contemporary Art, Berlin
Publications
- Blackheath & Greenwich Gazette, London, April/May 1992
- ‘Gwen John Talking’, Brian Pearce, Stride Publications 1996
- ‘History: Image-based Work in Britain in the Late 20th Century’, 1997
- ‘Dr Glockenspiel's Invention’, Robert Lax, Apparitions Press 1998
- ‘An Undestroyable Hush’, Rupert M. Loydell, Apparitions Press 1999
- North West, London, March 2000
- The List, Exeter, October 2000
- Art Review, London, November 2000
- AAF Catalogue, London, October 2002
- Explorer, Cambridge, March 2004
- ‘The b-a-c-h drawings’, Wahle Contemporary Art, Exeter, WCA 2004
- A Disturbing Simplicity’, Christopher Ellis, Exeter, WCA 2004
- ‘Ray Malone: Paintings’, Michael Whetman, Exeter, WCA 2004
- Artkaleidoscope, May-August, Frankfurt 2005
- Bad Homburger Woche, Issue 20, May, Bad Homburg, 2005
- [Evolver], July-August, Sherborne 2006
- Full Spectrum, August, Sherborne 2006
- ‘50 Wessex Artists’, Sherborne 2006
Public collections
- Grosvenor House Hotel, London
- Reuter's, Kildare House, London
- South Bank Employers' Group, London
- Strings Hotel, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
- The Mag Collection, Ferens Gallery, Hull
- The University of Exeter, Devon
Private collections
Work in numerous collections in the U.K., and in Australia, the Bahamas, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, and the U.S.A.
More information you wil find at the artist's web site.
