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Neville Weston (born 1936) is a figurative painter,〔(From Monet's garden to a Bronte barbeque. ) ''The Sydney Morning Herald.'' 20 March 1987.〕 academic and writer. Based in Australia for many years, before relocating to the UK in 2005 he has held a number of Australia's top academic posts in the field of performing and visual arts, as well as working as an art critic across numerous publications. As a painter his work is represented in major collections internationally. His role as a key player in the Liverpool Avante Garde art scene has been noted in the Tate Liverpool's 2007 exhibition Liverpool - Creative Centre of the Universe. During his time in Liverpool (1960-1975) he was closely associated with artists including Adrian Henri and Keith Arnatt. ==Academia== Born Birmingham, UK in 1936, he studied painting, drawing, and lithography at Stourbridge School of Art, 1952-1956 (awarded National Diploma in Design) before attending the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, 1956, 1957, 1958 (awarded University of London Diploma in Fine Art). At the Slade he was a student of William Coldstream, Claude Rogers, Lucian Freud and Ernst Gombrich. Weston also attended the Courtauld Institute of Art history and studied under Anthony Blunt and Douglas Cooper. He was a lecturer at Liverpool College of Art 1961-1965 teaching drawing and painting and principal lecturer and head of school, University of Manchester Colleges of Education division, Padgate College of Education (1965-1975). His first association with Australia came with a visiting fellowship at the Australian National University Humanities Research Centre, Canberra, 1975. In 1977 he relocated to Australia to teach Art History and Theory, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia before moving to Perth to become Dean of School of Visual Art., Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth. 1991-2001 then Adjunct Professor, Curtin University of Technology, 2001-200 and Professor at James Cook University, Townsville teaching painting and art history. Neville Weston has written extensively about Australian art and is the biographer of leading Australian artist Lawrence Daws. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neville Weston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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