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Julia Sorrell RI, RBA Curriculum Vitae
Personal: Date of Birth: 4/8/55; Place of birth: Southend-on-Sea; Nationality: British Marital Status: Married;
Education: Southend College of Art & Design (1971-3) (Foundation). Goldsmith’s College, Dept. of Textiles-Fashion (Embroidery) (1973-76). BA (2:1) Royal Academy Schools Post-graduate Diploma in Drawing and Painting (1978-81),
Exhibitions: RA Summer Show: 1975,76,77,82,85,86,89,90,97. RWS Open Show, Bankside Gallery: 1983,85,88,89, 04, 07. New English Art Club, Mall Galleries 1998, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03,04. RBA, Mall Galleries, 2004, 08, 09,10, 11, 12, 13, 14.15, 16, 17, 18, 19. RI, Mall Galleries 2008,09,10, 11, 12, 13, 14.15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Mall Galleries 2018. Imperial Tobacco Portrait Award - National Portrait Gallery 1980.. “Recent Acquisitions", National Portrait Gallery 1982. "Portrait 80’s” Arts Council Touring Exhibition 1985-6. “Family Likeness” Cleary Gallery, Canterbury Festival 1990. Singer & Friedlander - Sunday Times Water-colour Competition 1990. Maas Gallery, London (one-woman show) 1994. Cheltenham Open Drawing 1996. Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Philip Reiff Collection, 1996. John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold 1997. Ben Nicolson Gallery, Holt 1997. Norfolk & Norwich Hospital Arts Project 1998.. Haus No 3 Gallery, Frickenhausen, Germany 2001. New Grafton Gallery, 2003, 04, 05,06. Waterhouse & Dodd, Cork Street, London, 2006,07 “Art In Action”, Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire 2006. 07,10 ‘From Nature into Abstraction, John Innes Centre 2007 New Hall College, Cambridge 2008. “Art In Nature” Chappel Galleries, Colchester, 2008 The Russell Gallery, London, 2014.. ‘Sorrell Family Reunion’, Wymondham Arts Centre, 2014, St Edmundsbury Gallery, 2015 ‘The Sorrell Family’, Chelmsford Museum 2015 ‘Wild and Ancient Orkney’ Abbott & Holder, London 2016 McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research 2016 Stapleford Granary, Cambridge 2016 ‘Nature & Form’, one woman show at Clare Hall College, Cambridge 2020.
Prizes and awards: Imperial Tobacco Portrait Award, second prize 1980. Elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colour 2008. Elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists 2009. ACE TravelArt Award 2015
Work In the Collection of: Goldsmirth’s Textile Collection and Constance Howard Gallery Chelmsford Museum & Art Gallery (Purchased by Annie Hugill Fund). Reading Museum Schools Service (Embroidery panel) National Portrait Gallery, portrait of Baron Ramsey of Canterbury. Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend. Professor Philip Rieff, Benjamin Franklin Lecturer, University of Pennsylvannia. New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge. McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, Cambridge ACE Foundation, Cambridge Private collections in the UK, Europe and the USA.
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