Ken Draper lives and works in Menorca. His work is in over 10 public collections in the UK including the Ashmoleum Museum, Oxford and the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge. He taught at Goldmiths’ College School of Art and Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts.

He is represented by the Hart Gallery.

Dateline:

• 1959-62: Studies at Chesterfield College of Art

• 1962-65: Studies at Kingston School of Art, London

• 1965: Wins prize at Young Contemporaries

• 1965-68: Studies at at the Sculpture Schools of the Royal College of Art

• 1969: Solo exhibition at the Redfern Gallery, London

• 1971: Wins the Mark Rothko Memorial Award

• 1972: Work included in the British Sculptors ’72 group exhibition at the Royal Academy, London. Commission for the John Dalton Building at Manchester Polytechnic

• 1977: Work included in the Silver Jubilee Contemporary British Sculpture Exhibition group exhibition in Battersea Park. Commission for the Oriental Gateway for Bradford University. Wins a Major Arts Council Award

• 1980: Elected to the Faculty of the British School in Rome. Work included in the British Art Show group exhibition

• 1981: Work included in the Sculptors of the Twentieth Century group exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Retrospective at the Warwick Arts Trust

• 1983: Work included in The Sculpture Show group exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London

• 1990: Solo exhibition at the Hampstead Theatre Gallery, London

• 1991: Elected a Royal Academician

  Solo exhibitions at the Grape Lane Gallery, York; Austin Desmond Gallery, London; Glenn Green Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

• 1993: Solo exhibitions at the Adelson Gallery, New York, USA; Royal Academy of Arts (Friends Room), London; Hart Gallery, Nottingham

• 1994: Solo exhibition at the Hart Gallery, London

• 1995: Solo exhibitions at the Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport, Dorset; Hart Gallery, London; Peter Bartlow Gallery, Chicago, USA; Hart Gallery, Nottingham

• 1996: Solo exhibition at the Hart Gallery, London

• 1998: Solo exhibitions at the New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, and Hart Gallery, London

• 2000: Solo exhibition at the Hart Gallery, London

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