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''''Basil Beattie''' [[Royal Academy of Arts|RA]] (born 1935) is a British artist, whose work revolves around [[abstraction]] and is known for its emotive and gestural forms. Born in [[West Hartlepool]], [[County Durham]], Beattie attended the [[West Hartlepool College of Art]] from 1950 until 1955. He continued his education at the [[Royal Academy]] schools from 1957 until 1961. He then began a long teaching career: during the 1980s and 1990s, Beattie taught at [[Goldsmiths College]] in London. He retired from the role in 1998, spending a further year as assessor at the [[Chelsea School of Art]]. He was shortlisted for the [[Jerwood Painting Prize]] in both 1998 and 2001, in addition to the [[Charles Woolaston Prize]] in 2000. An exhibition of paintings produced from the 1990s was held at [[Tate Britain]] in 2007<ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/basilbeattie/default.shtm tate.org.uk]</ref> and his works are part of the [[Tate]] permanent collection.<ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=717&page=1 tate.org.uk]</ref> Beattie lived in the 1970s with [[Mavis Cheek]], later a successful novelist, and has a daughter by her.<ref>''Observer'' interview with Cheek, 3 March 2002: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/mar/03/fiction.features Retrieved 2 April 2012.]</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Young British Artists}} {{Authority control}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Beattie, Basil | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = British artist | DATE OF BIRTH = 1935 | PLACE OF BIRTH = [[West Hartlepool]], [[County Durham]] | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Beattie, Basil}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:English artists]] [[Category:Contemporary painters]] [[Category:People from West Hartlepool]] [[Category:Royal Academicians]] [[Category:English contemporary artists]] [[Category:British contemporary artists]] {{UK-painter-stub}}'