# Terry Atkinson

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'''Terry Atkinson''' (born 1939) is an English artist.
==Career==
Atkinson was born in [Thurnscoe](/source/Thurnscoe), near [Barnsley](/source/Barnsley), Yorkshire.  He lives in Leamington Spa, England with his wife, artist Sue Atkinson, with whom he has frequently collaborated. In 1967, he began to teach art at the [Coventry School of Art](/source/Coventry_School_of_Art) while producing [conceptual](/source/conceptual_art) works, sometimes in collaboration with Michael Baldwin. In 1968 they, together with [Harold Hurrell](/source/Harold_Hurrell) and [David Bainbridge](/source/David_Bainbridge_(artist)) who also taught at [Coventry](/source/Coventry), formed [Art & Language](/source/Art_%26_Language), a group whose influence on other artists both in the UK and in the United States is widely acknowledged.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.flashartonline.com/article/art-language/|title=Art & Language|date=4 December 2015|work=Flash Art|access-date=18 January 2018|archive-date=7 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907033727/https://www.flashartonline.com/article/art-language/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/culture/stories/2003/04/art-and-language.shtml|title=BBC – Coventry and Warwickshire Culture – Art and Language|publisher=BBC|access-date=18 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.artnet.com/market/art-language-philippe-meaille-french-chateau-310458|title=Largest Art & Language Collection Finds Home|date=23 June 2015|work=artnet News|access-date=18 January 2018}}</ref> Atkinson was founder-member (with colleagues [John Bowstead](/source/John_Bowstead), Roger Jeffs and Bernard Jennings) of the group Fine-Artz (1963), and (with David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin and Harold Hurrell) of the group Art & Language (1968–74), two of the most influential collectives in contemporary Western art.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Crow|first=Thomas|date=30 November 2017|title=Art by the Many: London Style Cults of the 1960s|url=http://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-7/london-style|journal=British Art Studies|issue=7|doi=10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-07/conversation|issn=2058-5462|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lanchestergalleryprojects.org.uk/artist/terry-atkinson/|title=Lanchester Gallery Projects {{!}} Artists {{!}} Terry Atkinson|website=lanchestergalleryprojects.org.uk|access-date=18 January 2018}}</ref>

Atkinson stopped teaching at [Coventry](/source/Coventry) in 1973 and the following year left [Art & Language](/source/Art_%26_Language).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://frieze.com/article/terry-atkinson|title=Terry Atkinson|website=frieze|access-date=18 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=MORGAN |first=STUART |date=1985-12-09 |title=Terry Atkinson |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/terry-atkinson-3-224285/ |access-date=2025-11-22 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref> He has since exhibited under his own name, including at the 1984 [Venice Biennale](/source/Venice_Biennale)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fondazione Imago Mundi - Terry Atkinson |url=https://fondazioneimagomundi.org/en/artista/terry-atkinson-2/ |access-date=2025-11-22 |website=Fondazione Imago Mundi |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Recognition and representation in collections==
In 1985 he was nominated for the [Turner Prize](/source/Turner_Prize)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/pictures/0,8542,1062817,00.html|title=20 years of Turner prize-winners index|website=The Guardian|access-date=18 January 2018}}</ref> and exhibited a series of paintings, including The Stone Touchers I.
Atkinson's work is held in many collections, including the [Tate Gallery](/source/Tate_Gallery).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Search results|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/search?q=terry%20atkinson|website=Tate|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
*Information from [http://www.chateau-montsoreau.com/wordpress/fr/accueil/ Château de Montsoreau-Museum of contemporary] 
*[http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-1985/turner-prize-1985-artists-terry-atkinson information from Tate Britain website]
* [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/25936/lang/1 Terry Atkinson in Artfacts.Net]
* [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/5548/lang/1 Art & Language in Artfacts.Net]
*[http://yaleunion.org/atkinson/]
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Category:1939 births
Category:Living people
Category:British conceptual artists
Category:People from Thurnscoe
Category:English contemporary artists
Category:Art & Language
Category:Academics of Coventry University
Category:Artists from South Yorkshire

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