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Printmaker, teacher and painter, born in Farnham, Surrey, son of the artists Peter Rees Roberts and Ursula McCannell. He read English at Cambridge University, 1970–3, then for two years studied film theory at Slade School of Fine Art, with a special interest in German Expressionist cinema, and began to etch. From 1975–7 studied postgraduate printmaking at the Slade, won the Slade Prize and began to show widely in Europe and Britain. From 1977–9 was an assistant in the Slade’s printmaking department; was in 1980 made a lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art; and in 1982–3 was visiting professor of fine art at University of Central Florida. Went on to exhibit including a 1984 show of Scottish prints which toured northern Europe; in 1985 gained Hon.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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