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dean clough galleries The Dean Clough Galleries (Halifax) has a fairly large collection of Tonys work. For further details please contact the gallery on 01422-250250. Website: Dean Clough Galleries.
To home page of Flowers Gallery Other temporary collections of Tonys work, please contact Flowers Gallery. Phone Number: +44 (0)20 7920 7777. Go directly toTonys work  Website: Flowers Gallery (Earnshaw).
ANTHONY EARNSHAW

Born Ilkley, W. Yorks, 1924, the year Lenin died and Breton published his first Manifesto. At the age of 20, through an interest in poetry and literature, he discovered Surrealism."It changed my life. Since then I have drawn drawings and a cartoon strip, painted pictures, written books of a sort, printed prints, made assemblages in boxes and all in all made a general nuisance of myself." He had a number of one-person exhibitions to his credit and has taken part in many group shows.

1961 'London Opportunity', Salford City Art Gallery.

1962 CEMA Open Exhibition, Belfast. (Prizewinner).

1963 Red White and Blue, Leeds University.

1966 Retrospective, The Leeds Institute. (85 paintings shown).

1967 Three Person Show, (with Patrick Hughes, Robin Page) Lane Gallery,
        Bradford.

1967 The Enchanted Domain, Surrealist Art in Exeter.

1969 Homage to Appollinaire, ICA Galleries, London.

1970 Comics, ICA Galleries, London.

1972 One Person Show, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

1972 Gradiva Surrealist Exhibition, Bruxelles and Copenhagen.

1972 Drawings, Angela Flowers Gallery, London.

1974 Two Person Show (with Patrick Hughes), Ferens Gallery, Hull and St Paul's
        Gallery, Leeds.

1976 Envelopes, JPL Gallery, London.

1978 'Transformaction Review', Angela Flowers Gallery, London.

1979 'A Cold Wind Brushing the Temple' (touring exhibition of work purchased by
        George Melly for the Arts Council)

1980 'Made in King Kong' (with Les Coleman and Tony Blundell), Greenwich
        Theatre Gallery, London.

1982 'Badges', Angela Flowers Gallery, London.

1982 Three Person Show (with Frank Jennings and Terry Hammill) St Paul's
        Gallery, Leeds.

1984 Exposicao \Intetrnacional Surrealismo e Pintura Fantastica, Lisborn.

1984 The Spirit of Surrealism, James Birch Gallery, London.

1985 Still Life, New Life. Touring Exhibition.

1985 Friends of Dunganon, Surrealism in Sweden (touring exhibition).

1985 The Irresistable Object, Leeds City Art Gallery.

1986 One Person Show of Prints, Dean Clough, Halifax.

1986 Modern Art, It's a Joke. Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbro'.

1986 Contrariwise: Surrealism and Britain, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea and tour.

1987 A View from Back O' Town, retrospective exhibition, Leeds City Art Gallery
        and Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbro'. (65 paintings, assemblages, prints etc.).

1987 'The Day Book'. Covent Garden and tour.

1988 'Works Ancient and Modern', one person show, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.

1988 'WOKKER', cartoon strips, Dean Clough, Halifax.

1988 Surrealism is Dead. Long Live Surrealism. Crawshaw Gallery, London.

1988 'Portraits', Flowers East, London.

1989 One Person show, Flowers East, London.

1989 Badge Art, Flowers East, London.

1989 'Tricks and Transformations', Stoke City Art Gallery.

1990 Les Micquets, Centre Culturel Courbeoie, Paris.

1990 Another G&T (with Gail Earnshaw) Dovecot Arts Centre, Stockton.

1991 'Drawn to Humour', Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbro'.

1991 'Funny Looking', Galerie Cirque Divers, Liege.

1991 'Boxes', Roupell Street Gallery, London.

1991 'Hourglass Group', Galerie Nurf, Paris

1991 'Art in boxes', England & Co., London.

1991 'On the Corridor', Alphabet Prints, Chelsea Arts Club, London.

1992 Another G&T ( with Gail Earnshaw ) University of York.

1992 'Art in Boxes', England & Co., London.

1992 'Super-Real', East West Gallery, London.

1992 'Come Out Boxing', one person show, Dean Clough, Halifax.

1992 One Person show, Fouts and Fowler Gallery, London.

1992 'Portrait of the artist's mother done from memory', Flowers East, London.

1992 'Small is Beautiful', Flowers East, London.

1993 'Self Portraits', Angela Flowers Gallery, London.

1993 'Art in Boxes', England & Co., London and Castle Museum, Nottingham.

1993 'Art for Sale', Whiteleys, Bayswater, London.

1993 'Homages', Flowers East, London.

1993 One Person show, Gallery M, Flowers East, London.

1994 Bill Gainham Memorial Exhibition, South Square Gallery, Bradford.

1994 Box Show, Peter Mcmillan Gallery, Cambridge.

1994 'Bought to Book',Angela Flowers Gallery, London.

1994 'Night and Day', Flowers East, London.

1994 'Boxed', Gallery M, Flowers East, London.

1994/5 'Worlds in a Box,' South Bank Centre touring exhibition.

1995 'Curiouser & Curiouser', Espace U.V.A., 18 Paris.

1995 'British Surrealism ' 1935-1995', England & Co., London.

1995 Cirques Divers: d'une certaine gaetie: Musee d'art Moderne et Art
        Contemporain, Liege.

1995 Rebound: Book Art, Site Gallery, Sheffield.

1995 'Discerning Eye', The Mall Galleries, London.

1995 'Food & Drink', Flowers East, London.

1996 'Diverse Memories: The Company of Things', Manchester Museum,
        Manchester.

1996 Another G&T, Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk.

1996 Julie Sparne Memorial Exhibition, Bradford College of Art.

1996 'Sex', Flowers East, London.

1997 'Lucifer contemplates the 21st Century & Other Boxes', Gallery M, Flowers
        East, London.

1997 'Boxing Clever', The American College in London.

1997 'I only want to help', One Person Show of boxes, Belloc-Lowndes Fine Art,
        Chicago, U.S.A.

1997 'All The World's A Globe', Gallery 27, Cork Street, London.

1997 'An Alphabet of Art', Leeds City Art Gallery.

1997 'The Middlesbrough Open Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbro'.

1997 One Person Show, Drawings, Dean Clough, Halifax.

1997 'Death', Flowers East, London.

1998 'Music', Flowers East, London.

1999 Angel of Mercy: Aspects of British Surrealism. Leeds City Art Gallery.

2000 'Milenium', Flowers East, London .

2000 'Things', Touring Exhibition, Norwich Gallery, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Graves Gallery, Sheffield.

2001 'Eveil Paradoxal' Biennale de Conches, France.

2001 Anthony Earnshaw and Friends, Dean Clough, Halifax.

2003 Retrospective, Dean Clough, Halifax Anthony Earnshaw and Works in his collection.

publications
· in collaboration with Eric Thacker, two novels, Musrum and Wintersol, published by Jonathan Cape, 1968 and 1971 respectively. (Musrum was also published in U.S.A. by Grove Press, N.Y.)

· Two Albums of drawings, Seven Secret Alphabets, Jonathan Cape, 1972

· 25 Poses, hors commerce, Bradford 1973.

· Flick Knives & Forks, Aphorisms and other writings, with illustrations, Transformaction, Harpford, 1982.

· Carping& Kicking, poems and aphorisms, with illustrations, Hourglass Press, Paris, 1987.

· Aspects des Bas-quartiers, 49 pen and ink drawings, Camouflage Press, Paris, 1987.

· An Eighth Secret Alphabet, Hanborough Press, Oxford, 1987.

· WOKKER, cartoon strip, featured in various publications.
tv programmes

· an eighteen minute film showing the artist and his work was screened as a Saturday Review Special, 'Two English Surrealists', on BBC 2, Saturday 10 October 1987.

· A ten minute film showing the artist and his work was included in the Tyne Tees Arts programme, ' On The Edge', screened December 7th, 1989.
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