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Revision as of 15:53, 6 August 2021
Renée Doreen Bickerstaff ARUA (1904-1983) was a self-taught Ulster artist, a founding member and treasurer of the Ulster Society of Women Artists. She was also the honorary secretary of the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts for a number of years.
Biography
Bickerstaff debuted at the Belfast Art Society in 1928 with four works. She exhibited with the successor organisations, the Ulster Academy and subsequently with the Royal Ulster Academy frequently throughout her life.[1] In 1930 she showed one work at the Royal Hibernian Academy from an address of 17 Newington Street, Belfast.[2]
Bickerstaff showed an interior of St James' Church on the Antrim Road at the Ulster Academy of Art's Spring Exhibition of 1942,[3] a subject she had previously captured in 1934.[1] The church had been destroyed in the Belfast Blitz of the previous year. At the same exhibition Bickerstaff displayed The Baptistry, St Peters, Belfast which was shown at the Ulster Academy of Arts Annual Exhibition later that year.[3][1]
Bickerstaff became a member of the Young Ulster Society in 1938, where she served as honorary secretary from 1942 until 1945.[4][5] The Young Ulster Society were a literary group co-founded by Thomas Carnduff in 1936. An Óige and the Youth Hostel Association of Northern Ireland hosted a joint exhibition in Mountjoy Square, Dublin in 1945, which included a Bickerstaff landscape called Fading Light, where she showed alongside Olive Henry, also a founding member of the Ulster Society of Women Artists.[6]
She showed with Bangor Art Club in 1955 in which one critic writes
"Renee Bickerstaff, who is of course a well-known artist, in her Old Cloisters, Oxford gives a useful object lesson in handling to her less sure fellow club members,"
as he laments the lack of quality in the exhibition.[7] Renée Bickerstaff was appointed honorary treasurer of the Ulster Society Women Artists when they were formed by Gladys Maccabe, Deborah Brown, Alice Berger Hammerschlag and others in late 1957.[8] Bickerstaff remained treasurer for twenty-one years. She was to show with them for the rest of her life.[9]
In 1974 Bickerstaff was elected Associate of the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts alongside Carolyn Mulholland and Francis Neill.[10] In the same year Biggerstaff had a joint exhibition with Lee Stewart at the Centre Gallery, Stranmillis.[11]
She was a member of the Ulster Watercolour Society[12] and also a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.[9]
Death & legacy
Bickerstaff died on 22 December 1983.[13] The Malone Gallery, a commercial gallery in Belfast, hosted a retrospective of her works in 1984.[14] Both the Ulster Society of Women Artists and the Royal Ulster Academy displayed her work in their respective annual shows of 1984.[9] Her work is held in many private and public collections includng the Ulster Museum and the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts.
References
- ^ a b c Stewart, Ann M (1997). Irish art societies and sketching clubs: index of exhibitors, 1870-1980, Volume 1: A-L. Dublin: Four Courts Press. p. 51. ISBN 1-85182-327-1.
- ^ Stewart, Ann M. (1985–1987). Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts : index of exhibitors and their works, 1826-1979. Vol. 1. Catherine De Courcy. Dublin: Manton. p. 54. ISBN 0-9510610-1-1. OCLC 14164890.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ a b "Ulster Academy of Art Spring Show". Belfast Telegraph. 4 May 1942. p. 3. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "Young Ulster Society". Belfast Telegraph. 11 April 1945. p. 6. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ https://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/images/Lost/Bickerstaff/Bickerstaff 3_tn.jpg
- ^ "An Oige and Y.A.N.I. art exhibition". Irish Times. 16 November 1945. p. 3. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ MacArt (13 April 1955). "Standard varies widely in this exhibition". Belfast Telegraph. p. 3. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Club for women". Belfast Telegraph. 10 January 1958. p. 7. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ a b c "National Irish Visual Arts Library: Bickerstaff, Renee". www.nival.ie. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Academy exhibition opens with appeal for daylight". Irish Times. 7 June 1974. p. 10. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ Rosenfield, Ray (18 October 1974). "Art". Fortnight (91): 17. ISSN 0141-7762. Retrieved 5 August 2021 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Rosenfield, Ray (3 June 1983). "Water colours at Belfast Gallery". Irish Times. p. 10. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "Statutory Notice to Creditors and Others". Belfast Gazette. 10 August 1984. p. 9. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "What's on Today". Irish Times. 18 October 1984. p. 16. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
External links
Examples of Renée Bickerstaff work in private collections via Rosss.com