NICK GRAY
Nick Gray trained at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in the sixties when the only teachers were practising artists. He worked under Mervyn Peake, Cecil Collins, Alan Davie, and David
Haughton. Subsequently he studied with William Hayter in Paris on a French government scholarship. As a result of this he became one of Editions Alecto’s stable of artists, and through them sold prints to prestigious galleries and museums in America and Europe.
In 1965 he moved to the westcountry and started teaching part time at Exeter College of Art.
He was to stay with them for the next twenty five years. In 1966 he was a prize winner at Cracow Print Biennale.
In the late sixties Bridget Riley and Peter Sedgley set up the first communal artist studios in
St. Katherine’s Dock. Nick Gray was an early supporter of the scheme, later moving to Stepney Green. A number of shows and exhibitions in London were the result, plus more shows
In the westcountry where he was still teaching.
In 1977 he married and moved to Devon, and in 1981 became senior lecturer in painting at Exeter. Major one man shows at Spacex in 74 and 78 were reviewed in the Guardian. In 1985 he was appointed course leader for the combined honours language with fine art degree at University of Exeter.
In 1989 Nick Gray retired from full time teaching to concentrate more on his own work, but a few years later was lured back and is currently still teaching part time at Somerset College on the Fine Art BA course.
He continues to work in Exeter, and shows regularly in Devon and Somerset.