David Cobley painter
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 curriculum vitae
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 the nude
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 available work
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Solo Exhibitions
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath 2007
Messum's, London 2005
Beaux Arts, Bath 2004
Beaux Arts, Bath 2002
 
Open Exhibitions
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005
The Discerning Eye 1998, 2000, 2001
The Hunting Art Prizes 1999, 2005
The BP Portrait Award 1995
The John Player Portrait Award 1989
The Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo 1982
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
'The Drawing Room', The Royal West of England Academy 2006
'Naked' at The Royal West of England Academy 2004
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters 1989, 1995, 1997 to date
Royal West of England Academy 1989 to 1994, 1996 to date
The New English Art Club 2000, 2001, 2003 to date
The Holburne Portrait Prize 2002, 2004
People's Portraits (touring exhibition) 2000
Three Man Show, Yamagata Gallery,Tokyo 1984
 
Awards

Llewellyn Alexander Award 2004
Public Prize, The Holburne Portrait Prize 2004
Prosigns and Graphics Prize 2002
Andrew Brownsword Prize 2001
Daler-Rowney Award, RWA 1999
Public Prize, RWA 1999
Tom Rice Gallery, Dublin, Award 1999
John Brandler Prize 1993
Short-listed, John Player Portrait Award 1989

 
Collections
The National Portrait Gallery
The Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
People's Portraits, Girton College Cambridge
The Inner Temple
The Royal West of England Academy
 
Portrait Commissions include
HRH The Princess Royal, Princess Anne
Ken Dodd OBE
Steven Berkoff
Richard Briers
Dame Alicia Markova
Stephanie Cole
The Lord Mayor of London 2000
Sir Timothy Sainsbury
The Dean of Westminster

The President and Officers, the Royal West of England Academy
 
Publications

Art Class: A Complete Guide to Painting, Jennings & Bulgin
The Portrait Now, Nairne & Howgate

50 Wessex Artists, Evolver

 
Memberships
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters (elected 1997)
The Royal West of England Academy (elected 2001)
The New English Art Club (elected 2003)
Bath Society of Artists (elected 2000)