Nick Garrett

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  • Why don’t we truly value poetry?

    Poetry and Play Book Reviews

    Yet again, a major literary prize has been won by a book of verse, and the genre has rarely been more popular. So why does it feel as if poetry is losing its way, asks Philip Hensher.

    Well versed: Jo Shapcott celebrates her triumph at the Costa Book Award in London on Tuesday. It was the second year running that the prize was won by a poet 

    Well versed: Jo Shapcott celebrates her triumph at the Costa Book Award in London on Tuesday. It was the second year running that the prize was won by a poet Photo: PA
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    For the second year running, the general Costa Book Award has been won by a poet. The awards choose individual winners from five categories – a novel, a first novel, a work of biography, a volume of poetry, and a children’s book. Subsequently, the winners are pitched against each other and an overall winner is awarded £35,000. Last year, the overall winner was the poet Christopher Reid; this year, Jo Shapcott’s volume of verse, Of Mutability, took the prize against hot competition from Edmund de Waal‘s memoir, The Hare With Amber Eyes.

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  • The wicked eye of Anthony Eyton RA

    Born: 17 May 1923, Teddington, Middlesex, UK

    Elected ARA: 30 April 1976
    Elected RA: 20 November 1986
    Category of Membership: Painter

    Anthony Eyton studied fine art at Reading University in 1941 before serving in the Army from 1942 to 1947. He went on to study at Camberwell School of Art from 1947 to 1950, and in 1951 received an Abbey Major Scholarship, taking him to work in Italy. Eyton was Head of Painting at St Lawrence College, Kingston, Ontario in 1969 and taught at the Royal Academy Schools from 1964 to 1999.

    Anthony Eyton RA, Cherry BlossomAuthorize connection with Twitter
    Anthony Eyton RA, Cherry BlossomEyton has had solo exhibitions at the New Art Centre, London from 1959, the New Grafton Gallery, London (1973), Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic Gallery (1978) and at the Imperial War Museum, London (1983). A retrospective of his work was held at the South London Art Gallery in 1980 and subsequently toured. He has exhibited regularly in solo exhibitions at Browse & Darby, London since 1980. Eyton’s work has also been included in many key group exhibitions, including ‘Drawings of People’ at the Serpentine Gallery (1976), ‘British Painting 1952 to 1977’ at the Royal Academy of Arts (1977), the Arts Council’s ‘British Art Show’ (1979), the ‘Hayward Annual’ (1982) and ‘The Hard Won Image’, at the Tate Gallery (1984).

    Eyton has travelled extensively, particularly to India, Israel and Sudan. In 1982 he was commissioned by the Artistic Records Committee to observe and paint the Gurkha regiment in Hong Kong and the New Territories, the paintings of which were exhibited at the Imperial War Museum. In 1985 he was Resident Artist at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, with subsequent exhibitions held at the hospital, Surrey University and the King’s Fund Centre. In 1996, the Government Art Collection commissioned him to record the centenary of the British Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He was also invited by the Tate Gallery to work in the Bankside Power Station prior to it becoming Tate Modern, and two pictures subsequently entered the Tate Collection. Since 1999 he has been Resident Artist at the Eden Project in Cornwall.

    Anthony Eyton RA, Varinas
    Anthony Eyton RA, VarinasAmong Eyton’s many awards are the Kingston Whig-Standard Award, Ontario (1969), John Moores Prize Winner (1972), Grocers’ Company Fellowship to work in Italy (1973), First Prize at the Second British International Drawing Biennale, Middlesborough (1975) and Charles Wollaston Award (Royal Academy, 1989). Eyton was elected a Member of the London Group in 1958, Member of the Royal West of England Academy in 1984, Royal Academician in 1986 (ARA 1976), Member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1988 and a Member of the Royal Cambrian Academy in 1993. Anthony Eyton lives and works in London.

    Recent solo exhibitions
    2009 Eden Project, Cornwall
    Browse & Darby, London
    2006 Bankside Gallery, London
    Kunst Galerie, Zell Am See, Austria
    2002 Kings Road Gallery, London
    2000 Browse & Darby, London
    Royal Academy of Arts, Friends’ Room
    1997 A T Kearney
    1996 Browse & Darby, London
    1993 Browse & Darby, London
    1990 Browse & Darby, London

    Public collections
    Arts Council of Great Britain
    Contemporary Arts Society
    Government Art Collection
    Imperial War Museum, London
    Leicester Royal Infirmary
    Plymouth Art Gallery
    Royal Academy of Arts, London
    Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
    Tate Gallery, London
    Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne

    Contact details for further information
    Email membershipoffice@royalacademy.org.uk