About the artist:

Mick Moon studied at Chelsea School of Art, London from 1958 to 1962 and at the Royal College of Art, London from 1962 to 1963. He was Senior Lecture at the Slade School of Fine Art, London from 1973 until 1990, and was Artist in Residence at the Prahran School of Art and Design in Melbourne, Australia in 1982. Moon’s first solo exhibition was held at Waddington Galleries, London in 1969, with subsequent exhibitions held there throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He has continued to exhibit in solo shows throughout the UK, the USA and Australia including the Tate Gallery, London (1976), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (1980), Macquaire Galleries, Sydney (1982), Dolan Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia (1986) and at the Bowles Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco (1996). In 1980 Moon received a Major Arts Council Award and First Prize at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, and in 1984 he received the Gulbenkian Print Award. He was elected Royal Academician in 1994 and lives and works in London. Recent Solo Exhibitions 1996 Alan Cristea Gallery, London Bowles Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco 1994 Linda Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg 1992 Waddington Graphics, London Selected Collections Aberdeen Museum of Modern Art Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Art Council of Great Britain, London Australian National Gallery, Canberra Birmingham City Art Gallery Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea Hunterian Gallery, Glasgow Museum of Western Australia, Perth Power Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney Reading Museum and Art Gallery Saatchi Collection, London Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh Tate Gallery, London University College, London Victoria and Albert Museum, London Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool