Sandra Blow
20th October 2005
Prints & Collages

Sandra Blow was born in London in 1925. She attended St Martin’s School of Art (1942-46) and the Royal Academy Schools (1946-47). She lived in Italy for a while and also travelled extensively in Spain and France before settling in London in 1950.

She had her first solo exhibition in 1951 and in 1958 she won an International Guggenheim award. She was elected an Associate to the Royal Academy in 1971 and a Royal Academician in 1978.

In 1957 Sandra stayed near to her friends the artist Patrick Heron and his wife in Zennor, near St Ives. She rented a cottage nearby at Tregerthen, before returning to London in 1958. In 1994 she moved to St Ives where she lives and works today.

Sandra has work in numerous collections including the Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sandra has exhibited at the Tate Gallery, London in 1963, 1967 and 1985 and had a retrospective exhibition in the Sackler Galleries of the Royal Academy, London in 1994.

Currently featured at Tate Britain to celebrate her 80th birthday, this is a wonderful opportunity to see and aquire works from this landmark British artist.