Maxwell Doig Painter UK 1966

Maxwell Doig was born (UK 1966) in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire and trained in the 1980s at Manchester School of Art, where he received his BA (Hons) in Fine Art, between 1988 and 1990, he then undertook postgraduate studies at the Slade and at UCL where he also studied anatomy. In 1990 he had his first solo show with the Hart Gallery, Nottingham and won the Joseph Webb Prize for Draughtsmanship.
In the early 1990s, he was Artists in Residence at the Hochschule Der Kunst, Berlin and began to develop his mixed-media technique. After he returned to Huddersfield, he set up his first studio at Slaithwaite and started to explore aerial compositions. After winning the Villiers David Prize in 1997, he travelled extensively throughout the USA, particularly its coastlines, as well as to Australia and Mexico, where he became increasingly fascinated by anthropology. All of these travels informed the series of textural aerial views that comprised his Villiers David Prize show, which ran at the Hart Gallery between 1998 and 1999. After lecturing part-time at Leeds Metropolitan University, he had his first solo show at the Albemarle Gallery in London, which were followed by associated shows in New York and Bologna. By this time, he had become interested in Flemish art, having travelled throughout Belgium and studying works from Van Eyck to Permeke.
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