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''''Dennis Creffield''' (born 1931) is a British [[artist]] with work owned by major British art collections, including the [[Tate Gallery]], [[Arts Council of England]], the [[Government Art Collection]], [[Leeds City Art Gallery]], [[University of Leeds]] collection, [[University of Brighton]] collection, [[Swindon Art Gallery]] collection and others. ==Early life and education== Creffield was born in [[London]], and studied at the [[Borough Polytechnic]] under David Bomberg from 1948 to 1951,<ref name="connected">{{cite journal |url=https://alumni.lsbu.ac.uk/downloads/connected/connectedIssue6.pdf | title=A Lasting Legacy| journal=Connected |date=Spring 2009 | volume=6 | pages=11–13 | publisher=[[London South Bank University]]}}</ref> during which time he exhibited as a member of the [[Borough Group]], which included Bomberg and fellow students [[Cliff Holden]], [[Dorothy Mead]], [[Miles Peter Richmond]] and [[Leslie Marr]]. He later studied at the [[Slade School of Art]], part of the [[University of London]] from 1957 to 1961, where he won the Tonks Prize for Life Drawing and the Steer Medal for Landscape Painting.<ref>David Buckman, ''Artists in Britain Since 1945'' (London: Art Dictionaries Ltd., 1998) 350</ref> In 1961 he was first prizewinner in the John Moores Prize Exhibition, at the [[Walker Art Gallery]] in [[Liverpool]]. In the same year he showed work in an [[Arts Council of Great Britain]] national touring exhibition, Six Young Painters. Then, in 1964, he was recommended to the [[University of Leeds]] by the eminent art theorist [[Herbert Read]] to become the Gregory Fellow in Art, a post he held from 1964 to 1966.<ref>Hilary Diaper, 'The Gregory Fellowships', in [[Benedict Read]] (ed.), ''Herbert Read: A British Vision of World Art,'' (London: Lund Humphries 1993) 134</ref> It was whilst a Gregory Fellow that Creffield began teaching, both at the University of Leeds and [[Leeds College of Art]], and he was subsequently to teach at various art colleges in Britain and abroad, including the [[University of Brighton]], [[University for the Creative Arts]] and the [[Cyprus College of Art]]. ==Work and commissions== In 1985, Creffield was commissioned by the [[Arts Council]] to draw every cathedral in [[England]], a task undertaken by living in a camper van for two years. This resulted in the exhibition 'English Cathedrals' at the [[Hayward Gallery]], London, which subsequently toured Britain (1988–1990),<ref>R. Adam, 'Drawing lessons: English cathedrals drawn by Dennis Creffield', in ''The Architects' Journal,'' Vol. 12, 1988, 81</ref> and a related book written by Creffield.<ref>Dennis Creffield, ''English Cathedrals'' (London: South Bank Centre, 1987)</ref> Six of these drawings, including 'Peterborough: Approaching the West Front' and several views of [[Canterbury Cathedral]] were acquired by the [[Tate Gallery]] in 1990. A very positive review by the distinguished writer on art, Peter Fuller, of a touring exhibition of Creffield's drawings of English cathedrals appeared in the first issue of the journal, Modern Painters (then edited by Fuller, its founder), together with an essay by Roy Oxlade on their teacher, David Bomberg. After the cathedrals of England, further series of drawings were commissioned, including the cathedrals of northern France, shown at the Albemarle Gallery in London in 1991. Creffield's importance as a contemporary draughtsman was also recognised in 2008 when he was included in the exhibition 'Drawn from the Collection, 400 Years of British Drawing' at [[Tate Britain]]. He is represented by [[James Hyman Fine Art]] in London.{{citation needed|date=April 2011}} ==See also== * [[Borough Group]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/WorksList?searchid=25405&page=1 Tate Gallery Catalogue] {{Authority control}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Creffield, Dennis | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Painter | DATE OF BIRTH = 1931 | PLACE OF BIRTH = [[London]], [[England]] | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Creffield, Dennis}} [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Painters from London]] [[Category:Alumni of London South Bank University]] [[Category:20th-century English painters]] [[Category:21st-century English painters]] [[Category:Modern painters]] [[Category:Borough Group]] [[Category:Academics of the Leeds College of Art]] [[Category:English contemporary artists]] [[Category:British contemporary artists]]'