FRED CUMING

Fred Cuming Biography

 

 

Frederick (Fred) Cuming, RA, born 1930

Fred Cuming's impressive list of exhibitions and accolades is evidence that he is one of England's most well respected artists. Born in London in 1930, Cuming was educated at Sidcup School of Art and the Royal College of Art. In 1955 he won a scholarship which enabled him to travel to Rome.

Cuming takes an everyday scene and, through his subtle approach and through focusing on light and tone, he lends it an elevated atmosphere. His subjects are often orientated around the sea, harbours, marshland, ships and figures wondering on beaches as well as studios and garden interiors. These subjects are painted loosely with a restricted and light palette creating a dreamy affect. Cuming wrote for the RA: 'I am not interested in pure representation. My work is about responses to the moods and atmospheres generated by landscape, still life or interior.'

Cuming is a member of the New English Art Club, an Associate of the Royal College of Art and was elected full Royal Academician in 1974. In 2001 he was the featured artist in the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, with an entire gallery dedicated to his work.

Awards:
1977 Winner of Grand Prix Fine Art, Monaco Sir Brinsley Ford Award
1986 New English Art Club
1988 Grand Prix de la Art contemporaries

One-Man Exhibitions:

1972-75		New Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone
1974/6/9		Chichester
1976		Thackeray Gallery, London
1983		Easton Rooms, Rye
1988		Gallery 10
1983/5/7/8		New Grafton Gallery, London
1990		New Grafton Gallery, London
1975		Jonleigh Gallery, Guilford
1983-88		Drew, Canterbury
1987		Bath, Elgin
1989		Mason Watts Fine Art, Leamington
1990		Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford
1933		Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford

Group Exhibitions (selected)
Piccadilly Gallery, London
Redfern Gallery, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Rye Art Gallery
Odette Gilbert Gallery, London
and Galleries in Monaco, New York and Paris.

Groups and Travelling Exhibitions:
International Arts Fairs at Chicago, Toronto, New York, Stockholm and Basel with Poole Fine Art.
Bath Festival, Middleton Gallery, Maryland with Poole Fine Art.
Posner Gallery, Milwaukee with Poole Fine Art.
Jersey, Channel Islands with Poole Fine Art.
Young Contemporaries, London
AIA Gallery, London
AIA Travelling Exhibition.
Molton Gallery, London.
London Group.
Royal Academy, London.
Leicester Gallery, London.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh.
Royal Institute, Glasgow.
Compass Gallery, Glasgow.
North East Arts Council Travelling Exhibition.
Open Sculpture, Haworth Park.
Two man show, Haworth Park.
Two man show, Keele University.
Midland View, Stoke.
Mid Art, Dudley.
Gilmans Gallery, Chicago.
Regul Gallery, Chicago.
Kornbluth Gallery, New York.

Works in Public Collections
Royal Academy
Ministry of Works
Towner gallery, Eastbourne
Maidstone Museum
Carlisle Museum
Scunthorpe Museum
Kendall Museum
Southend Museum
Worcester College.
London Tourist Board
Farringdon Collection Trust
National Trust Foundation for Art
Chantrey
Department of the Environment
Brighton and Hove Museum
National Trust Foundation for Art
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Bradford Museum
New Metropole Arts Centre, Folkstone
Monte Carlo Museum
Preston Museum
St John's College, Oxford Lloyds of London
W.H. Smith Ltd