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Walter Kershaw, born 7 December 1940 in Rochdale, Lancashire,〔(Biography ), Walterkershaw.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-09-30.〕 is an artist in oils and watercolours but is best known for his large scale, external, mural paintings in towns in Northern England and the Americas.〔Bob Stanley (21 September 2012) (Walter Kershaw: 'Britain's first graffiti artist' ), ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 2013-09-30.〕 ==Biography== Kershaw is the only son of Florence Kershaw (née Ward) (1916–2010), a retired school caterer; and Walter Kershaw (1917–1998), who was in the RAF from 1936 to 1946; at Duxford during the Battle of Britain, retiring as Flight Sergeant. He has two younger sisters. Kershaw attended De la Salle College in Pendleton, Salford, from 1951 to 1958; later as a student at King's College, Durham University (now part of Newcastle University) from 1958 to 1962, graduating with a BA Honours in Fine Art. Kershaw has been twice married and divorced but now has a son and daughter with Gillian Halliwell. Kershaw has always been self-employed and still runs his studio business today. His early large external murals painted on slum properties alongside his provocative public sculptures attracted much media attention in the ‘60s, ‘70s and early ‘80s. For example, interviews with Anna Ford for Granada TV; as a guest of Janet Street Porter on London Weekend TV; Sue McGregor’s interview for "Conversation Piece" on BBC Radio 4; and as a guest alongside Eric Morecambe on Russell Harty’s BBC2 chat show. George Best was a good friend to Kershaw and purchased six large drawings and oil paintings from him, whilst playing at Manchester United; and Bob Monkhouse was very kind to him, purchasing his paintings, corresponding and promoting his work on his BBC Radio 2 show. Ian Potts, now at the BBC and then a student at Regent Street Polytechnic made a film "The First Graffiti Artist" about Walter’s work. This won the best student film award at the Cannes Film Festival. His work is in public collections worldwide; including Bury Art Museum, Salford Museum and Art Gallery,〔(Your Paintings - Walter Kershaw ), BBC. Retrieved 2013-09-30.〕 the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Arts Council, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the National Collection of Brazilian Art in São Paulo. 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「Walter Kershaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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