Biography
Bill Jacklin RA (b. London 1943) studied graphics at Walthamstow School of Art (1960–1), before working as a graphic designer at Studio Seven, London. He returned to Walthamstow in 1962 to study painting and was then at the Royal College of Art (1964–7). Betweeen 1967-75, he taught at Chelsea School of Art, Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art and at schools in Kent and Surrey. Jacklin’s reputation started to be established in 1970 when he began exhibiting in group exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art, New York and he also had the first of a series of solo shows at Nigel Greenwood Inc., London. After appearing in a group show at Marlborough Fine Art in 1978, in 1979 and subsequently, he had a solo exhibitions there and in the Marlborough Gallery, New York, where he moved to in 1985. He has undertaken many commissions, notably from the Bank of England, the Ivy Restaurant, De Beers and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority for the North Terminal of Washington National Airport.
Jacklin’s art has gone through a number of changes, although underlying it were preoccupations with geometry and light. He was preoccupied with Environmental Art, Pop Art and Minimalism and, then he worked representationally, being noted for his American townscapes, a sample of which were included in a fiftieth birthday survey at Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, (1992–3). He was elected a Royal Academician in 1991 and in 1993 was Official Artist-in-Residence for the British Council in Hong Kong. The Arts Council; The Hunterian, Glasgow; the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery hold his work.
