Included in the Victoria and Albert’s major museum exhibition, ‘You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970’. From September 2016- March 2017, then travelling world wide until 16 September 2020
Completed aural ‘Life Story’ for British Library, autumn 2015. To be released worldwide for everyone to listen to Autumn 2016
‘Wilful Blindness’ W139 Gallery, Amsterdam
Tate Britain – BP display
Curate and exhibit in exhibition ‘Human Suffering at Times of Crisis’, Debut Gallery, London
Show recent drawing in Slash/Seconds electronic magazine. Various interviews and reproductions in electronic magazines and national newspapers
1966 performance film, ‘You Will, You Are, You Have’, St.Martin’s School of Art, and 1968 ‘Space, Colour, Form’ film collected by Tate Gallery Archives, and Henry Moore Institute
On going recording of my ‘Life Story’ as an artist, for British Library, London
‘Polychromies’ Opening of new refurbished sculpture galleries, Leeds City Art Museum. Shown alongside works by, Duchamp; Gabo; Pevsner; Pasmore; Riley
Victoria & Albert Museum travelling exhibition to German and Austrian Survey of Museums collection celebrating its 150th Anniversary and Prince Albert
Installation of ‘On the Case’, 26'x18'x8', glass, acrylic, print, Victoria & Albert Museum
Limited Edition print based on Installation ‘On the Case’, Collected by The Henry Moore Institute
‘United Enemies’ Survey of British Sculpture, 1965-1975. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Exhibited ‘Discerning Eye’ Exhibition, Mall Galleries. Show 6 works at invitation of curator Julius Bryant
Exhibition, Jan Mol, Covent Garden, London. Jan Mol presents work to Victoria & Albert Museum.
Monograph book on the artist entitled, The tomorrow of my yesterday, published by Veenman Publishers, Holland. Author: Julius Bryant, with contributions from Richard Humphreys, Raymond Keene Gm., and Adrian Glew
Victoria & Albert 150th Anniversary Album, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Mixed Exhibition. The Drawing Gallery, London
Pairs – 5 artists. The Drawing Gallery, London
Art Fair. Islington, London
S.O.F.A. Chicago International Art Show
‘40-40’, The Drawing Gallery, London, purchased by the Victoria & Albert Museum
Mixed Exhibition. The Drawing Gallery, London
Inaugural Exhibition. The Drawing Gallery, London
The Firebird Series: Votive Movements in bronze, glass, grass and brass. Zest Gallery, London
Going Forward to Drawing – a Retrospective. The Drawing Gallery, London
The Art of Chess. The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London. Martin’s work accompanied art by Damien Hirst, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Yoko Ono and others Catalogue by Timothy Stevens. Galerija Riga, Novigrad-Cittanova, Croatia
Retrospective, Art of Chess, Gilbert (collection) Somerset House, London
Drawing Causal Rhythm, 1963 purchased by Arts Council of England. Also acquire working drawing for series Revelation Tret 1965-66 (a kinetic sculpture already in their collection purchased 1968)
Invited by The University of London, The Slade School, to create a print under their auspices
Create ‘Rim or Imager’, printed by Coriander Press, London
Recent Acquisitions exhibition to accompany the inaugural opening of Tate Britain. Tate Gallery, London
‘Viola’ main summer exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Royal Society of British Sculptors Summer Exhibition inaugural show
LED. COM. Drawings, prints, Kinetic word sculpture and performance Saturday 4 November.
At the World Chess Tournament between Gary Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik, London
Official artist for the world championship chess match between Kasparov and Kramnik. Riverside Studios, London
Tate Britain – Opening exhibition
291 Gallery, London Porcupines
‘Reflections on Structions on Structure and Meaning’, Olympia, London
Elected member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, Invited by English Heritage to unveil the Blue Plaque in London to commemorate the great English and world chess champion Howard Staunton
Organise painting and drawing summer school in Marche region, Italy
5 works cast by The Royal College of Art, London. Several works purchased by German collectors
Bronze relief sculptures, relief bronze purchased by Harrodian School, London
Organise painting and drawing summer school at the Medici hunting fortress, Trebbio, Florence, Italy
Mind sports Olympiad, review The Times. Festival Hall, London
Organise painting and drawing summer school with architect Jasper Jacob, at St. Jory, France
36 Hour Non-Stop Homage to Marcel Duchamp created by the artist this was the first time a gallery was opened throughout the night. Entwistle Gallery, Cork St, London
Martin writes The Times obituary for Alexina (Teeny) Duchamp
Invited to spend two weeks in Jordan by Prince Mohammed bin Talal, (the late King Husssein’s younger brother). View the country from top to bottom impressed by Petra
Design the Howard Stauton memorial grave in Kensal Green Cemetery. Unveiled the summer
Bad Bishops and Red Rooks, exhibited 18 drawings and other work on paper, Gave lecture on work, Hasting Museum of Art
New View exhibit 14 large drawings under the auspices of English Heritage. Hamilton Forbes Gallery, Chelsea Harbour, London, British Sculpture Since 1945. Chiswick House, London
Chess and Art: Hastings Chess Congress Centenary Exhibition. Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, England. Eighteen chess-related works
2 day symposium entitled Action debate my work along with Bruce MCLean, Professor John Aitken, Peter Struyken, Gordon Pask, Christian Zwaniken. The Slade School of Art and The Architectural Association, London
Exhibit work on channel 4 Television interviewed by Carol Vorderman
Exhibition of work to accompany world Chess Match between Nigel Short and Gary Kasparov as the official artist, sponsored by The Times newspaper
Echec et Mat, exhibited work along with those of Duchamp, Ernst, Man-Ray, Brooodthaers, Richard Hamilton. Beaux Art Gallery, Brussels
Chess Images. Sandra Higgins Fine Arts, Bourdon Street, London, W1, Selection of drawings and paintings
Co-organise, Art and Chess symposia, Tate Gallery, London along with John Cage, Teeny Duchamp (the late Marcel Duchamp’s wife), Raymond Keene, Richard Humphreys, Tate Senior Curator(the first of these symposia was in 1991 to which the above came)
Move into newly completed studio in Chiswick House grounds, West London
Awarded inaugural Picker Lectureship, Kingston University, Kingston, London
Reviews
International Exhibition of Paintings on Drawings, Naples, Italy
City University, 12 collages, London
Small Works Celebration for Briget Bardot, Milan. Italy
London Group, Camden Art Centre
International Exhibition of Drawings. Bilbao, Spain
12 British Painters Touring Exhibition, Japan
Newcastle Poly Gallery. Small Drawing Also '81, '79
Studio Exhibition. Space Studios, Berry Street, London
Mashomac. New York, USA
London Group, South London Art Gallery
Gwynn Hoges Gallery, Oxford
Studio Show. Space Studios, Berry Street, London
Drawing Show, Morley Gallery
Goya Gallery. Zaragosa, Spain
Contemporary Arts Society, Mall Gallery
Artist's Market, London Warehouse
British Art Show, Art Council ’79 ’80
Patrick Seale Gallery, London
Taranman Gallery, London
South Bank Sculpture Exhibition, 100 Years of St. Martin’s Art School
Artist’s Market, Warehouse Gallery
British Painting 7952-7977, Royal Academy
12 British Painters, Arts Council and British Council Exhibition for Iceland, Also wrote introduction for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee catalogue of British Sculpture exhibited in Battersea Park, London
Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Studio International Gallery, London (Formerly Art Net)
Group Show, Air
Group Show, Hoya
Hoya Gallery, London
London Group, Whitechapel
Group Show. Grabowski, London
Movements. Harlow, Essex
Frere Jacques, Kensington
Arts Council. Spectrum, Alexandra Palace
London Group, R.A.
I .C.A Electric Theatre
Richard Demarco Gallery
London Group R.A.
Manufactured Art. Camden Arts Centre, London
Arts Council of G.B. Hayward Gallery, Kinetics
Onnasch Gallery, Berlin (Air)
Arts Council, Serpentine Gallery
Geisen Kirchen Museum, Berlin (Air)
Documentary film made for BBC 2 Shown. Canada, Australia
Manifestation of Light-Light Artist’s. Bromsgrove Festival, Birmingham (Air Exhibition)
London Group, R.A. Elected Member
Poet’s Choice, A.I.A Gallery
Pavilions in the Parks
Two Man
Man Show, with William Crozier, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
London Group. R.I. Gallery, London
‘Young Contemporaries’, London
‘4 Young Artists’, I.C.A. London, selected from the ‘Young Contemporaries Exhibition’
‘London Group’, R. I. Galleries, London
‘Northern Young Contemporaries’, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
‘Sculpture Now’, A.I.A. Gallery, London
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