Robert Scott Alexander (1936–2005), Lord Alexander of Weedon, QC 2010
Andy Pankhurst (b.1968)
University of Exeter, Fine Art Collection
London-based figurative painter, and teacher, most of whose works were “constructed ideas generated from direct perceputal experience from the model.” Andrew Pankhurst gained a general art and design diploma from Bournemouth & Poole College of Art, 1984–6; graduated with honours from the Slade School of Fine Art, 1986–90; gained a higher diploma in fine art from there, 1990–2; and taught there from 1996. Pankhurst was awarded first prize in the Winsor & Newton Young Artists Award, 1990, and second prize, NatWest Art Prize, 1991. He also taught at the University of Westminster, 1992–00; Canterbury Christchurch University College, 2000–1; The Prince’s Drawing School, from 2001; IES, London, from 2002; and was tutor and director, London School of Painting and Drawing, from 2003.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
