Biography
Mick Moon RA (b. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 1937 - d. London 2024) grew up in Blackpool and later studied at Chelsea School of Art (1958-62), then at Royal College of Art (1962-3). For a decade he taught at Chelsea School of Art (1963-73) and at the Slade School of Fine Art (1973-90). He had a series of solo shows at the Waddington Galleries from 1969. In 1972 he took part in a three-man exhibition, with his friends Patrick Caulfield and Howard Hodgkin, simply called: Caulfield, Hodgkin, Moon at the Galerie Stadler in Paris which was the driving force in the staging of large show of English paintings a year later at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, which included Moon’s work. He also participated in British Painting ’74 at the Hayward Gallery and in British Painting 1952–1977 at the Royal Academy. He had an exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1976, and later a show at the Alan Cristea Gallery in 1996, who also held his last solo exhbition in 2019, the year his first monograph by Mel Gooding was published. Moon was Artist in Residence at the Prahran School of Art and Design in Melbourne in 1982. In 1980 he had received a Major Arts Council Award and was awarded First Prize at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, and in 1984 he received the Gulbenkian Print Award. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1994. Inspired by Cubism he often painted on plastic strips, later using calico and acrylic to create pictures which had characteristics of monoprints and collage. In addition to the Tate’s holding of key early works by Moon, his paintings and prints are held in numerous public collections including Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, as well as private collections.
