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Artist Geoffrey Key official website
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British Painter & Sculptor
GEOFFREY KEY
EXHIBITIONS LIST
Geoffrey Key’s work features in public and private collections across the world, including Hong Kong, France, Australia, America and his adopted home town of Salford.
His one-man shows have been held on four continents and he has been the subject of many articles and interviews.
"Goth" a series of oil paintings and works on paper by Geoffrey Key
Geoffrey Key has recently completed one of the most arresting and striking series in a career spanning over six decades. These twenty-five new paintings have the power to stop you in your tracks, being both tonally different but also obviously flowing from the hand of the artist.
31st October 2024 - 18th November 2023 NOW CLOSED
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Key Decades – Exhibition, Book and Film.
14th May - 14th June 2022 NOW CLOSED
63 Geoffrey Key pieces will be shown as part of the Cheshire Art Gallery - Decades Exhibition with accompanying Book by Nick Brown OBE FRSA & Short Film.
As one of Britain’s most popular and distinctive artists, Geoffrey has gone to extreme lengths to cultivate this individual style and has in his recent series ‘Isolated Heads’ painted perhaps the most intensely observed and sensitive psychological record of the pandemic.
Over sixty three years as a professional artist, through a combination of technique, tone and colour Geoffrey Key has produced a body of work that, whilst highly original, creates a feeling of deep joy and timeless quality.
Cheshire Art Gallery are proud to present ‘Key Decades’ Exhibition, the first full retrospective. This major exhibition, which has taken more than three years to curate has uncovered many important works several of which were believed lost. The result is a sensuous taste of Key’s artistic journey that will not only delight but also challenge the orthodox view of Key’s progress as an artist. It will also surprise even his most knowledgeable and avid admirers.
Cheshire Art Gallery: 13 Ack Lane East, Bramhall, Stockport, SK7 2BE.
View public artworks: Click here for details
Daily Telegraph
Perhaps the artist who stands out most is Geoffrey Key, who in recent years has attained considerablestature. His robust female forms show a self-confidence, which is compelling.
Lancashire life: Geoffrey Key - Lancashire's Greatest Living Artist
"At his recent London show he says that three pictures were sold to Beijing, three to Moscow & the Who’s Peter Townsend also bought one. ”That was my highlight” he said. Among his contemporaries at art college wereBernie Dwyer of Freddie and the Dreamers and British blues musician John Mayall.“Its my generation” Key says with a twinkle"
Lancashire life article
Image features: Geoffrey Key at his first solo exhibition in Manchester - 1966
International Exhibitions
Geoffrey Key movie: Hong Kong exhibition 2000
Geoffrey Key movie: Ten pictures from Hong Kong
"Key combines skill with his innovative and personal language to produce a generosity to form, elegance of movement and richness of colour and tone."
Window, Hong Kong
"Key can make a magical scene in which figures belong to the communal world of each other. They radiate an intimacy which does not come from a direct or literary portrayal."
Sunday Business Post Dublin
"First impressions of Geoffrey Key’s work reveal confidence, dedication, purpose and sincerity. More exciting than Baroque and placing Picasso in time perspective, he conveys a classical quality with no question of imitation. His images are uncompromisingly commanding andhe has a penetrating vision, which allows him to strip away the facades and expose the true meaning of his subject."
American Club News, Hong Kong
LOCATION:
Vision 35 Gallery, Nancy, France
Salon d'Automne, Clermont Ferrand, France
Gallery Tendenz, Germany
Lausanne, Switzerland
New York Coliseum, USA
Solomon Gallery, Dublin
25th Salon, St Ouen, France
Damme, Belgium
Moret sur Loing, France
Mandarin Gallery, Hong Kong
Galerie Got, Barbizon, France
Joshua Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur
Sandra Walters, Rotunda, Hong Kong
Oriel Gallery, Dublin
Leprosy appeal, Hong Kong
The Oriel Gallery, Dublin
Art & Sold, Sydney, Australia
Faces in Time, The Oriel Gallery, Dublin
The Oriel Gallery, Dublin
Living Artists, The Oriel Gallery, Dublin
Living Artists, The Oriel Gallery, Dublin
YEAR:
1974
1974
1977
1980
1980
1983
1989
1990
1991 - 1994
1992 - 1994
1993
1997
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2004
2006
2008
2013
2019 exhibition: Cheshire Art Gallery
Image features: Geoffrey Key with Colin Jellicoe artist & Manchester gallery owner in the 1960s.
Image features: Lancashire's Brian Bradshaw with Geoffrey Key - 1970s Manchester art show.
Solo exhibition: Messums fine art London 2013 & 2014.