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Anthony Frost

1951
(UK) BRITISH

We Float IVWe Float IV
Anthony Frost
We Float IV
Painting
76.2 X 101.6 X 0.0 cm 30.0 X 40.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£5,800.00
Sun Zoom SparkSun Zoom Spark
Anthony Frost
Sun Zoom Spark
Painting
91.4 X 121.9 X 0.0 cm 36.0 X 48.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£9,000.00
Strictly PersonalStrictly Personal
Anthony Frost
Strictly Personal
Painting
61.0 X 71.1 X 0.0 cm 24.0 X 28.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£5,000.00
Mirror ManMirror Man
Anthony Frost
Mirror Man
Painting
76.2 X 76.2 X 0.0 cm 30.0 X 30.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£6,000.00
ElectricityElectricity
Anthony Frost
Electricity
Painting
61.0 X 30.5 X 0.0 cm 24.0 X 12.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£4,000.00
Dropout BoogieDropout Boogie
Anthony Frost
Dropout Boogie
Painting
91.4 X 76.2 X 0.0 cm 36.0 X 30.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£6,000.00
Doc at the Radar StationDoc at the Radar Station
Anthony Frost
Doc at the Radar Station
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76.2 X 76.2 X 0.0 cm 30.0 X 30.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£5,800.00
DakotaDakota
Anthony Frost
Dakota
Painting
101.6 X 76.2 X 0.0 cm 40.0 X 30.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£5,000.00
Crow Hoof IICrow Hoof II
Anthony Frost
Crow Hoof II
Painting
61.0 X 45.7 X 0.0 cm 24.0 X 18.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£3,500.00
Clear SpotClear Spot
Anthony Frost
Clear Spot
Painting
207.0 X 119.4 X 0.0 cm 81.5 X 47.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£20,000.00
Blue Jeans and MoonbeamsBlue Jeans and Moonbeams
Anthony Frost
Blue Jeans and Moonbeams
Painting
61.0 X 88.9 X 0.0 cm 24.0 X 35.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£5,000.00
Bat Chain PullerBat Chain Puller
Anthony Frost
Bat Chain Puller
Painting
76.2 X 121.9 X 0.0 cm 30.0 X 48.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£7,000.00
Surface PressureSurface Pressure
Anthony Frost
Surface Pressure
Painting
50.8 X 40.6 X 0.0 cm 20.0 X 16.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£4,000.00
Space EchoSpace Echo
Anthony Frost
Space Echo
Painting
61.0 X 88.9 X 0.0 cm 24.0 X 35.0 X 0.0 inch Sale price£5,000.00
ZoomsterZoomster
Anthony Frost
Zoomster
Painting
101.6 X 76.2 X 0.0 cm 40.0 X 30.0 X 0.0 inch

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Giant SandGiant Sand
Anthony Frost
Giant Sand
Painting
99.1 X 99.1 X 0.0 cm 39.0 X 39.0 X 0.0 inch

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Anthony Frost is an English abstract artist whose vibrant, colorful paintings and prints exhibit the raw energy and freedom of rock music. He lives and works in Cornwall.

Anthony Frost

Education

Frost is the son of Sir Terry Frost RA. He earned his BA Honors in Fine Art from Cardiff College of Art in 1973, and has served as artist in residence at the Cyprus School of Art, Cyprus, the Montmiral School of Painting, Tarn, France, Eton College, UK, and was the Tate Artist in Residence, Oceania, Caribbean in 2011.

Anthony Frost's Work

Technique

Frost has developed a unique process that is part painting and part collage. His method is based on instinct and intuition, similar to automatic drawing or action painting.

He begins by forming abstract shapes out of found materials such as sail cloth, fruit netting, burlap, pumice, and rubber. He then collages them in layers on the canvas and paints the shapes with vivid color. His technique is fast-paced and unconventional....

The goal is to transcend the limitations of preconceived ideas and come up with something true to his inner vision.

Frost is also an accomplished printmaker. Despite the methodical requirements of printmaking, he is renowned for his ability to impart the freedom and energy of his painting style into his prints.

Inspiration

Frost has said that music inspires him more than the work of other visual artists. He has created several album covers and merch designs for the English post-punk band The Fall.

His ambition when he begins a new painting is to visually manifest sensations normally attributed to music, such as rhythm, speed, and volume....

He sees color, shape, texture, dimensionality, and mark-making as tools with which to create a new space in which these musical elements can materialize as abstract visual compositions.

Anthony Frost's Work
Anthony Frost's Work

Artist Statement

“When starting a painting I don’t know the problems I will have to deal with until the painting is well on the go, and the secret (for me) is to keep the whole thing on the boil ...right to the end, so the finished work has that feeling of excitement, speed, and danger. I try to take all my paintings to the edge – it is a voyage of discovery, full of surprises, problems, accidents (happy accidents that I use to my advantage) and decisions, which all have to be resolved in some crazy way.”

Exhibitions

Frost has exhibited extensively in Europe and the US. Recent exhibitions include Sound and Vision: TateShots at the Tate Modern, London, and Works on Paper at the Royal Academy, London.

Collections

His works are included in the collections of Warwick University, Truro Museum and Galleries, Kasser Foundation, New York, Limerick Art Gallery and Museum, Ireland, The Bank of America, London, and many others.

Galleries

Beaux Arts, London
Zimmer Stewart Gallery, UK

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Solo Exhibitions


2016 ‘Beyond Cool’ , Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel
2016 ‘Luminous Tracks’, Beaux Arts, London
2014‘Painting Smoke ‘, Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel
2014‘Sound City’, New Mono Prints, Advanced Graphics London
2013 ‘Sun – Zoom – Spark’, Beaux Arts, London
2013 ‘Zoomstar’, The Belgrave Gallery,St Ives
2011 ‘Magnetic Fields’, Beaux Arts, London
2011 ’Ohio Buzz’, Advanced Graphics, London
2011 ’Sublime Frequencies’, Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel
2010 ‘Back to Back’, New Prints, Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton
2009 ‘The Colour of Sound’, Beaux Arts, London
2009 Arundel Festival Exhibition, Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel
2009 ‘Printhead’, New Editions and new mono prints, Advanced Graphics, London
2007 ‘Surface Noise’, Beaux Arts, London
2007 ‘Surface Noise: The Prints’, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
2007 ‘New Monoprints & Recent Editions’, Advanced Graphics, London
2005 The Otter Gallery, Chichester University
2005 ‘Lunar Notes – Neon Dreams’, Advanced Graphics, London
2004 ‘Zig Zag Wanderer’, New Work, The Somerville Gallery, Plymouth
2003 ‘Big Colour in Space’ Space, Penzance
2002 The Original Print Gallery, Dublin
2001 ‘The Sound of Colour’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
2001 ‘The Space I’m In’, The Corporate Connoisseurs London
2001 ‘Walking into Red’, Advanced Graphics, London
2000 Kings College, Cambridge
1999 The Corporate Connoisseurs, London
1999 Jersey Arts Centre, Jersey
1998 ‘Viva Blues’, Mid Penine Gallery, Burnley
1998 Maymie White Contemporary Art, London
1998 Kings University Arts Centre Gallery, Cambridge
1997 ‘Viva Blues’, Darlington Arts Centre
1997 Kings University Arts Centre Gallery, Cambridge
1997 ‘Viva Blues’ (The remix – The Unofficial Tour), The Belgrave Gallery, London
1997 ‘Viva Blues’ (First Touch of Frost – The Unofficial Tour), The Forefront Gallery
1996 ‘Viva Blues’, Newlyn Art Gallery, Touring show
1996 Belgrave Gallery, London
1996 ‘Viva Blues’ Midland Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham
1995 Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Exeter
1995 Jersey Arts Centre
1994 Bodily Gallery, Cambridge
1993 Rainyday Gallery, Penzance
1991 Monotypes & Related Paintings, Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Exeter
1991 Paintings and Monotypes, Royal Cornwall Museum Galleries, Truro
1989 New Paintings, The Salthouse Gallery, St Ives
1987 ‘Whiff of Magic’ New Paintings, Wolf at the Door Gallery, Penzance
1986 Anthony Frost ‘On Colour’, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn Orion
1983 ‘Dangerous Diamonds’, Posterngate Gallery, Hull, Lincs & Humberside (touring)
1982 ‘Works on Paper’, Canterbury University Gallery
1981 Mandeer Gallery, London
1979 Newlyn Art Gallery

Group Exhibitions

2016 Works on Paper, Royal Academy, London
2016 ‘Kith & Kin’ Falmouth Art Gallery, Nicholsons/ Lanyons/ Hiltons & Frosts
2016 ‘Full Colour ‘ Heritage Courtyard Studios, Wells Summer Show, Belgrave Gallery
2016 St Ives Summer Show, Beaux Arts, London
2016 Craigie Aitchison & Anthony Frost, Screen prints & Monotypes, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2016 New Mono Prints, Advanced Graphics, New York.
2015 Modern British Contemporary, Beaux Arts, London
2015 ‘St Ives ‘ New Art Gallery, Walsall
2014 Colour Exhibition, Beaux Arts, London
2014 Summer Show, Beaux Arts London
2014 ” detail ” Arts Council & University Of Lincoln } H-Project Space, Bangkok } Transition Gallery, London } The Usher Gallery, Lincoln } Summer Show ,Belgrave Gallery ,St Ives Summer Show, Penwith Gallery, St Ives “Small Is Beautiful” Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
2013 Islington Art Fair, Beaux Arts, London
2013 20 Years in Cork Street, Beaux Arts
2013 London Summer Show, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives
2013 D.T.R. Modern, New York
2013 ‘The Fall Artists’ Christiana Gallery, Copenhagen
2013 Royal Academy Summer Show, London
2012 Islington Art Fair, Beaux Arts, London
2012 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Beaux Arts, London
2012 Llowes Court Gallery, Hay-on-Wye Festival, Bob Devereux and Anthony Frost
2012 The Armoury, Advanced Graphics, New York
2011 Llowes Court Gallery, Hay-on-Wye Festival, Bob Devereux and Anthony Frost
2011 Islington Art Fair, Beaux Arts, London
2011 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Beaux Arts, London
2011 The Armoury, Advanced Graphics, New York
2011 ‘8 Artists from Cornwall’, Eton Drawing Schools
2010 Sound and Vision’ ‘Tate Shots’, Tate Modern, London
2010 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Beaux Arts, London
2010 The Armoury, Advanced Graphics, New York
2010 ‘Small is Beautiful’, XXVIII Flowers, London
2010 ‘Spoilt for Choice’, King’s Place Gallery, London
2009 Collectors Prints, Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
2009 Bert Irvin R.A. and Anthony Frost (Rare and Unique Prints) Gallagher and Turner Gallery, Newcastle
2009 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (Newlyn Society of Artists)
2009 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Beaux Arts, London
2009 ‘Summer Show Part I’, The Stoneman Gallery, Penzance
2009 ‘Paintwork #3 The Fall’, Gallery Borchardt, Hamburg
2009 ‘Painted Quartets’, Cheltenham Music Festival
2009 The Armoury, Advanced Graphics, New York
2009 Mixed Exhibition, Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
2009 Islington Art Fair, Beaux Arts, London
2008 ‘The Painted Path’ (including John Hoyland and Basil Beattie), Hillsboro Fine Art Gallery, Dublin
2008 ‘New Publications’, Advanced Graphics, London
2008 ‘Crossing Over’, Beaux Arts, Bath
2008 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Beaux Arts, London
2008 The Armoury, Advanced Graphics, New York
2008 ‘Small is Beautiful’, Flowers East, London
2008 ‘The Colour Show’ (including Maurice Cockrill, Luke Frost, Rose Hilton,
2008 Mali Morris and Geoffrey Rigden), Hilton Young Gallery, Penzance
2007 Art Now Cornwall, Tate St Ives
2007 Anthony Frost & Essex Tyler, Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel
2007 The Armoury, Advanced Graphics, New York
2007 ‘One over One – Recent Mono Prints’, Advanced Graphics, London
2007 ‘Small is Beautiful’, Flowers Central, London
2006 Islington Art Fair, Beaux Arts, London
2006 Irving/Frost/Canning Monoprints, Advanced Graphics, London
2006 ‘Paintwork, The Fall’, Praxis Hagen Gallery, Berlin
2006 ‘London Calling’, Advanced Graphics, The Original Print Gallery, Dublin
2006 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Beaux Arts, London
2006 The Armoury, Advanced Graphics, New York
2005 Islington Art Fair, Beaux Arts, London
2005 The Armoury, Advanced Graphics, New York
2005 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Beaux Arts, London
2004 ‘Buon Natale’, Advanced Graphics, London
2003 ‘Frost/Bourne/Tyler’, Maltby Contemporary Art, Winchester
2000 – 01 Eden Project, Cornwall
1999 Flowers West, Santa Monica, Americ
1995 – 96 Anna Bornholt Gallery – Mixed Shows
1995 ‘Beyond the Edge’, Paintings & Sculpture from Cornwall, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
1995 ‘The Edge of Beyond’
1994 ‘Beyond the Edge’, Paintings & Sculpture from Cornwall, Unit 10, Exeter Touring
1994 Affordable Abstract Art, Belgrave Gallery, London
1994 Contemporary Printworks, Spacex, Exeter
1994 ‘Small is Beautiful XII’, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1994 The Little Picture Show, Rainyday Gallery, Penzance
1994 6” x 6” Small Artworks, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (& London/Germany)
1993 Small is Beautiful ‘Homages’, Flowers East, London
1992 Artists from Cornwall, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1992 Summer Show, Curwen Gallery, London
1992 Three Man: Andrew Lanyon, Alfred Wallis, Anthony Frost, Gordon Hepworth Gallery, London
1991 – 92 ‘Small is Beautiful’ – Part 9 Abstract, Flowers East, London
1991 – 92 Cornish Artists, Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Exeter
1991 ‘Colour Senses’, Three Abstract Painters, Spacex, Exeter
1991 ‘Young St Ives Painters’, Hall Gallery, Sterts Centre, Liskeard
1990 – 91 Christmas Exhibition, Austin Desmond, Exeter
1990 Abstract ’90, Cleveland Bridge Gallery, Bath
1990 South West Touring Exhibition, Plymouth – Prize – Winner
1990 Commission: The Fall ‘Extricate’ – Album & 2 Singles covers, T-shirt & backdrop
1989 A Century of Art in Cornwall, Truro Museum & Art Gallery
1988 – 89 ‘Small Show’, Flowers East, London
1988 Invited Artist. ‘The London Group’, Royal Collage of Art, London
1987 ‘Four Abstract Artists’, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1987 ‘The Daybrook’, Smiths Gallery, London
1983 ‘Small is Beautiful’, Angela Flowers, London
1983 Wet Paint, Four Man, Festival Gallery, Bath
1983 ‘Flower Pot Art’, Bath Art Fair and Christopher Hull Gallery, London
1983 ‘A View from my Window’, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1982 Sainsbury’s ‘Images for Today’ Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1981 Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1980 ‘Three Degrees of Frost’ (Terry, Anthony & Adrian), Prescote Gallery, Banbury
1980 ‘Public Hanging’, Penwith Gallery, St Ives
1979 Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1978 John Moores, Liverpool
1977 – 78 ‘Four Young Artists’, Penwith Gallery, St Ives
1977 ‘Dartist’ Show, Newlyn Art Gallery
1976 ‘Deck of Cards’, JPL Fine Arts, London
1975 Envelope Show, JPL Fine Arts, London

Awards

2009 Honorary Degree of Master of the University in Recognition of Services to the Arts (Open University)

Commissions

2012 The Fall (Backdrop, T-shirt and Badge)
2008 The Fall: Imperial Wax Solvent (album, T-shirt and badge)
2000 Planting design (a living painting for the fodder crops exhibit) for The Eden Project
1990 The Fall: Extricate (album and two singles’ covers, T-shirt and backdrop)

Artist In Residence

2011 Eton College, UK (The James McLaren Art Fund)
2008 Tate Artist in Residence, Oceania, Caribbean
1999 Judge – JJ Fox Painting Competition, Jersey
1993 Montmiral School of Painting, Tarn, France
1992 Cyprus School of Art, Cyprus
1992 Judge & Organiser, Seven Celtic Artists, Finnistere, France

Collections

Warwick University
Nulfield Trust
John Moores
Contemporary Art Society
Cornwall County Council
Truro Museum and Galleries
Kasser Foundation, New York
Devon County Council
Contemporary Irish Art Society
Limerick Art Gallery and Museum, Ireland
Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
Lloyds T.S.B. London
Kings College, Cambridge
Addenbrooks Hospital, Cambridge
The Bank of America, London
E-People, Milton Keynes
Rotary Watches Ltd
Standard Life
QBE International Insurance
Williams Energy, London
Otter Gallery, University of Chichester Collection
New Art Gallery, Walsall ( Permanent Collection)

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