History: 1970 - 1989

1970

Produces Striker and Saint K

1971

Moves to Stepney Green studio in East London

Produces QuestVoyage and Travelling Alone

1972

50th birthday

Changes from oils to acrylic

Produces BluesIllumination and Celebration

1974

Produces Across

1975

Begins short-lived foray into lithography.

Produces Jubilee, named after a local London street, a concept he continued

From Britain 75, Helsinki, Finland & Tour.

1977

Produces Albion

1978

Produces Trafalgar and Flodden

1979

Produces Plimsoll and Boadicea

Striker, 1970

Striker, 1970

 

1980

Begins partnership with printmakers Advanced Graphics and release Tooley - their first screenprint together

Hayward Annual

ACME Gallery, London

Bade Gallery, Jarrow.

1981

Produces Kestrel and Rivoli

1982

Hayward Annual

John Moores, Liverpool, Prizewinner

First Show at Gimpel Fils Gallery, London.

Goldsmith's College Gallery

Produces Battlebridge and Empress

First painting bought by Tate - Empress

1983

Wins the Gulbenkian Award for Printmaking

Third Eye Centre, Glasgow

IKON Gallery, Birmingham

Aberdeen Art Gallery

Contemporary British Painters, Madrid

Besides regular teaching at Goldsmith's Bert continued as visiting Tutor and/or External Examiner at various art colleges, including  the RCA, RA Schools, Chelsea, Central St Martin's, Camberwell, Byam Shaw, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Hull, Winchester, Exeter, Norwich, Bristol, Cheltenham, Portsmouth, Falmouth, Canterbury, Farnham, Worthing, Southampton, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee

1984

Produces Druid IDruid II and Monmouth

ROSC 84, Dublin, Ireland

Gimpel Fils, London

Demarcation, Edinburgh Festival

1985

Produces Sauchiehall

Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland

Coventry Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Home & Abroad, Serpentine Gallery, London

1986

Produces screenprint, Magdalen, with Advanced Graphics’ in their new studio at Shand Street.

1987

Produces CelebrationHolyrood and Holyrood II

Celebration was installed in the Maternity Wing at Homerton Hospital at the time of its opening by Princess Anne. 

1988

Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York.

1989

Included in group exhibition UK tour, The Experience of Painting.

Advanced Graphics moves to Deptford, London.

Produces Nicolson

Short UK tour opens at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.

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Empress, 1982

Empress, 1982

 
 
Bert meeting Princess Anne at the opening of Homerton Hospital, London

Bert meeting Princess Anne at the opening of Homerton Hospital, London