Biography

1945 b. London.

1961-65 St Martin’s and Harrow Schools of Art.

1965-83 Studied jazz piano and composition. Worked as musician (1964-67) and
art director and designer in London and Europe (Hamburg 67-70 & Frankfurt 74-76).

1983-88 Returned to painting exclusively, working in London, Italy and Cornwall.

1988 Moved to St Ives, Cornwall.

1989-2006 Composed and recorded works for jazz ensemble.

1992 Elected member of Newlyn Society of Artists, (served on committee 1993-2003).

Elected member of Penwith Society of Artists.

1996 Granted tenancy of one of the Porthmeor Studios.

1998 Founded St Ives Jazz Club.


Visiting lectureships

2006 University College Falmouth.

2001 Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design.

1999 University of Sussex.

1998 University of Central England.

1985 Bournemouth College of Art.


Solo exhibitions

2008 Matter out of Place, New Millennium Gallery, St Ives.

2006 Paintings and Constructions, New Millennium Gallery, St Ives.

2003 New Millennium Gallery, St Ives.

2002 Freud Museum, London: Foundations and Fragments.

1999 New Millennium Gallery, St Ives.

— Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex: Foundations and Fragments.

1997-98 Tate Gallery St Ives: Foundations and Fragments.

1996 Sternberg Centre, London: Foundations and Fragments.

1992 Royal Cornwall Museum: New Paintings.

1991 Stuhlmann Gallery, Hamburg.

1990 Man, Spirit, Energy, Castello di Pomerio, Milan: series of commissioned works.

1988 Louise Hallett Gallery, London.

1986 Etruscan Lands, Artspace Gallery, London.

1985 Fire and Water, Goldader Gallery, Hamburg.

1983 Camden Arts Centre, London.


Selected group exhibitions & projects

2004 Fragments from Life, Campden Gallery.

— Gallery@OneOTwo, London.

— Lemon Street Gallery, Truro.

— St Ives – The Next Wave, Hutson Gallery, London.

— The Book Show II, Wordsworth Trust, Cumbria.

2003 The Book Show, Nunnery Gallery, London.

— Adze Gallery, York.

— Conflict & Resolution, Harbour House Gallery, Devon.

2002 Twenty Years of Contemporary Art, Jean Monnet-Haus, Berlin.

2000 Twenty Years of Contemporary Art, Falmouth Art Gallery.

— The Music Show, Bruton Gallery.

1999 The New St Ives Artists, Maidstone Museum & Gallery.

— Aspects of Abstraction (group of 4), Falmouth Art Gallery.

— Cornish Art in the Nineties, Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh.

1998 Prizewinner, Critics’ Choice,Newlyn Art Gallery.

— Royal West of England Academy.

1996-2002 Kunst uit Cornwall, Amersfoort, Holland.

1996 Hebden Bridge Arts Festival.

1993 Edinburgh Festival, Demarco’s European Art Foundation.

— Newlyn Festival, invited artist.

1992-2008 NSA Members’ Exhibitions, Newlyn Art Gallery.

— Penwith Society of Artists Members’ Exhibitions.

1992 Crossing the Boundaries (Four Cornish Artists in Europe), Royal Cornwall Museum.

1989 Boundary Gallery, London.

1988-90 Chicago International Art Expo, Louise Hallet Gallery.

1986-90 Louise Hallett Gallery, London

1986 Eight European Artists, Civitella D’Agliano, Italy.

— Anderson O’Day Gallery.

1985 New Mexico Artists for Peace, Albuquerque.

1982-86 Camden Arts Centre, London.

1982 The Other Hand, Ben Uri Gallery, London.


Publications

2008 Matter out of Place, New Millennium Gallery, (exh cat).

2006 Ralph Freeman, The Second Generation, A Rotas (PhD paper).

— Ralph Freeman, Paintings and Constructions, New Millennium Gallery, (exh cat).

— Art About St Ives, Gilbert, Ray, & Orchard.

2004 Falmouth Art Gallery Collection Vol 4.

— St Ives – The Next Wave, Hutson Gallery, London, (exh cat).

2003 Ralph Freeman, More Than the Messages, Michael Bird, New Millennium Gallery, (exh cat).

— The Book Show, Utopia Press with The Nunnery and Wordsworth Trust.

2002 ARTNSA, Newlyn Society of Artists publication.

— Foundations and Fragments, Freud Museum, (exh cat).

2001 Behind the Canvas, Sarah Brittain and Simon Cook.

2000 Arts Review (October issue), Michael Bird.

— Twenty Years of Contemporary Art at Falmouth Art Gallery.

1997 Foundations and Fragments, David Cohen, Tate Gallery St Ives, (exh cat).

1996 Drawing Towards the End of the Century, Newlyn Society of Artists publication.

1994 Portrait of an Art Colony, Marion Whybrow.

— Artists in their Workplace, Marion Whybrow.

1992 Ralph Freeman, New Paintings, Royal Cornwall Museum, (exh cat).

1990 Man, Spirit, Energy, Albion Group, (exh cat).

1988 Ralph Freeman, Recent Works, Louise Hallett Gallery, (exh cat).


Commissions

2006 Partita, Julian Arguelles (CD art).

1997 Songs for the Betrayed World, Life & Death Orchestra (artwork).

1993-2002 Newlyn Society of Artists exhibition posters and publishing projects.

1990 Man, Spirit, Energy, series of thirty works for The Albion Co.

1985 Nevermore, Study of Paul Gaugin, London theatre stage set.

1967-83 Wide-ranging design and concept work, including social, cultural, political and
film posters as well as numerous print, photographic, TV and corporate design projects.


Public collections

Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem.

Freud Museum, London.

Falmouth Art Gallery.

Albion Collection.

Yamaha Kemble Music.

Alco Corp, Korea.

Conran D&D Collection.