# Jennifer Durrant

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{{Short description|British artist}}
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'''Jennifer Durrant''' {{Post-nominals|post-noms=[RA](/source/List_of_Royal_Academicians)}} (born 17 June 1942) is a British artist.

Jennifer Durrant was born in [Brighton](/source/Brighton) on 17 June 1942, and studied at the [Brighton College of Art](/source/Brighton_College_of_Art) from 1959 to 1963, and at the [Slade School of Art](/source/Slade_School_of_Art) from 1963 to 1966.<ref name=RA>{{cite web | last=Royal Academy of Arts | url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/artist/46 |title=Jennifer Durrant RA (b. 1942) | accessdate= 5 March 2020}}</ref>

In 1971 she began to work at the [Stockwell Depot](/source/Stockwell_Depot), a former brewery in [Stockwell](/source/Stockwell) forming a co-operative studio and exhibition space,<ref name="stockwell-ridinghouse">{{cite web |title=Stockwell Depot 1967–79 |url=https://www.ridinghouse.co.uk/publications/137 |publisher=Ridinghouse |accessdate=5 March 2020}}</ref> described as "a rough and tough environment". The influential critic [Clement Greenberg](/source/Clement_Greenberg) visited the Depot in 1978 and praised her work.<ref name=linden />

As a visiting lecturer she was to teach at numerous art schools, including [Canterbury College of Art](/source/Canterbury_College_of_Art). In 1979 she was invited by the artist [Stass Paraskos](/source/Stass_Paraskos) to be an artist-in-residence at the [Cyprus College of Art](/source/Cyprus_College_of_Art) arts centre in [Paphos](/source/Paphos) on the island of [Cyprus](/source/Cyprus).<ref>Michael Paraskos, et al, ''Stass Paraskos'' (London: Orage Press, 2010)</ref> In 1979&ndash;80 she was artist-in-residence at [Somerville College, Oxford](/source/Somerville_College%2C_Oxford).<ref name=linden>{{cite web|url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/bright-paintings-and-twisted-metal-sculptures-from-europe-are-gallerys-late-summer-showcase-188969/|title=Painter Jennifer Durrant and sculptor David Evison present Made in Europe showcase at Linden Hall Studio in Deal|date=2 September 2018|website=KM Group}}</ref> She moved to [Umbria](/source/Umbria), Italy, in 2000,<ref name="artnet">{{cite web |title=Jennifer Durrant Biography |url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/jennifer-durrant/biography |publisher=Artnet |accessdate=5 March 2020}}</ref> and works in a studio overlooking [Lake Trasimeno](/source/Lake_Trasimeno), and also has a home in her birth town of Brighton.<ref name=linden />

Her work is held in collections including [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston](/source/Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2C_Boston), [Neue Galerie, Aachen](/source/Neue_Galerie%2C_Aachen), [Tate Gallery, London](/source/Tate_Gallery%2C_London), The [Government Art Collection](/source/Government_Art_Collection), ICI [Millbank](/source/Millbank), [National Westminster Bank](/source/National_Westminster_Bank), New York, and [Union Bank of Switzerland](/source/Union_Bank_of_Switzerland), London.<ref name=RA />

A 2008 article describes her art as "instantly recognisable: bands of colour, painted in acrylic and gouache, are overlaid with vivid dots of contrasting colour. Abstract and spontaneous in their intentional asymmetry, they borrow from nature but are in no sense literal."<ref name="maddocks">{{cite web |last1=Maddocks |first1=Fiona |title=In the studio with Jennifer Durrant RA |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/in-the-studio-jennifer-durrant |website= |publisher=Royal Academy |accessdate=5 March 2020 |date=21 November 2008}}</ref> {{As of|2020}} the Royal Academy shop offers notecards, aprons and teatowels featuring these characteristic designs.<ref name=RA />

==Recognition==
Durrant was elected as a [Royal Academician](/source/Royal_Academician) in 1994.<ref name=RA/>

The [National Portrait Gallery](/source/National_Portrait_Gallery%2C_London) holds a photograph of Durrant, taken by [Dennis Toff](/source/Dennis_Toff) in her studio in Italy in 2007.<ref name="npg">{{cite web |title=Jennifer Durrant |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw136377/Jennifer-Durrant |publisher=National Portrait Gallery |accessdate=5 March 2020 |language=en}} ''Shows the portrait''</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Art UK bio}}

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Category:20th-century English painters

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