1944

Leeds, Engeland

1960-65

Leeds College of Art

1967-74

teaching at Victoria & Albert Musuem, London

1974-86

teaching at Goldsmith's College, London

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selected recent solo-exhibitions

2000

Modernism, San Francisco

1999

Galerie Martine et Thibault de la Châtre, Paris Palais des Congres de Paris, Paris

1997-1998

Centre d'Art Contemporain, Pau, France

1996

Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art., London

Le Salon d'Art, Brussels

1995

Tyllên, Swansea, Wales

Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney, Australia

1994

Ginza Art Space, Shiseido Building, Tokyo

1992

Galerie Tanya Rumpf, Haarlem, Netherlands

"Further Blandishments", Thomas Gibson Fine Arts, London

1990

Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London

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commissions

1996

"Glen Baxter Room", Hotel Winsor, Nice

1999

"Zimmer 35", Installation Hotel Furka, Switzerland

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selected public collections

Arts Council of Great Britain

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York

New York Public Library

Southampton University

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Tate Gallery, London

Fondation Nationale d'Art Contemporain, Paris

FRAC Poitou Charentes

RAC Picardie

Centre Georges Pompidou

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Glen Baxter was born in Leeds, a tiny suburb of Belgium, in 1944. A group of radiographers, stumbling into the ruins of the Baxter ancestral home at this time, found it to be "composed of nothing more than irregular blocks of sandstone, graphite and lettuce."

From such unpromising beginnings sprang the elemental force now officially recognised as "Baxterism".

As a young lad growing up in the shadow of the vast porridge warehouses in Leeds, Glen Baxter liked nothing more than to join his parents on their annual holiday.

However, it was not until a local magistrate persuaded his parents to enrol him at the art school that he began to experiment with sulphur, twine and charcoal.

After a brief period of chiaroscuro, the young Baxter left his native home and set out on a makeshift sled, heading for London.

Once established there, he began to continue his research into the vulcanisation of both snood and wimple. Years of hardship were to follow but then in 1976 publishing called - Wyrd Press brought his work to the attention of an unsuspecting American public.

Having narrowly failed to win the Nobel Prize in 1977, Baxter chose to focus his attentions on the Netherlands. In 1979, De Harmonie in Amsterdam published a collection of his drawings entitled Atlas.

Major exhibitions of Glen Baxter's drawings and paintings have been held in New York, Paris, San Francisco, London, Munich, Tokyo and Sydney. In 1999 Baxter was commissioned by the French government to execute a tapestry. He has also worked on a series of etchings for the National Museum of Printmaking in Chatou, Paris. His work is in the collections of the Tate Gallery and V&A Museum in London and numerous museums and private collections around the world.

A list of Glen Baxter's current and future exhibitions can be found at www.glenbaxter.com/exhibitions

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