Jesse Bruton (born 1933) is a British artist, and a founder of the
Ikon Gallery
The Ikon Gallery () is an English gallery of contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. It is housed in the Grade II listed, neo-gothic former Oozells Street Board School, designed by John Henry Chamberlain in 1877.
Ikon was set u ...
in Birmingham.
He gave up painting in 1972, to become a
picture conservator.
Bruton was born in 1933
and was educated at
Birmingham College of Art
The Birmingham School of Art was a municipal art school based in the centre of Birmingham, England. Although the organisation was absorbed by Birmingham Polytechnic in 1971 and is now part of Birmingham City University's Faculty of Arts, Design a ...
, where he later lectured.
He painted
landscapes
A landscape is the visible features of an area of Terrestrial ecoregion, land, its landforms, and how they integrate with Nature, natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionar ...
, and later
abstract works.
He exhibited at the
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square. It is both a re ...
, and held solo exhibitions at Ikon in 1965 and 1967.
A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at Ikon from July to September 2016.
His painting ''Winding'' (1967–1968) is in the collection of
Birmingham Museums Trust
Birmingham Museums Trust is the largest independent charitable trust of museums in the United Kingdom. It runs nine museum sites across the city of Birmingham, including Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) and Thinktank, Birmingham Science ...
.
Publications
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References
External links
Artist's Talk - Jesse Bruton and
Pamela Scott Wilkie in conversation
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1933 births
20th-century British painters
Living people
Conservator-restorers
British landscape painters
British abstract artists