Maria Lalić (born 1952) is a British artist. She studied Painting at
Central School of Art and Design
The Central School of Art and Design was a school of fine and applied arts in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1896 by the London County Council as the Central School of Arts and Crafts.
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(BA) and the
Chelsea School of Art
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(MA) and was Fellow in Painting at Bath Academy of Art 1977–8.
Work
As Principal Lecturer, she teaches PhD students at the
Bath School of Art and Design
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[bathspa.ac.uk]
Bath Spa University
accessdate: 22/08/2014 on a Master of Fine Art programme co-written by herself. She has also taught at The Slade School of Fine Art, Central School of Art and Design and Goldsmiths College and has been external examiner for the PG Diploma programme at Goldsmiths College and PhD at University of Plymouth, Bath Spa University, University of Gloucester, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Her 'Metal and Colour' series explores the origination of pigments from various metals. She is also known to use 19 grades of pencil within her drawings, as a means to challenge the medium.
Lalić has exhibited work throughout the UK, and Europe and in the US and New Zealand. In 1997, she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize and has work in a number of UK public art collections including
Tate
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, Victoria and Albert Museum and Arts Council England.
History Paintings
She is best known for monochrome paintings name
'History Paintings'(1996-2004). These use the history of certain pigments as a basis for the artworks. In 2000, this series was on display in the exhibition 'Blue: borrowed and new' at the New Art Gallery, Walsall.
"The individual titles of this series of paintings list the separate pigments used to make them. The paint layers can be seen at the edges. The artist says that these edges can be read
''almost like a bar code'', making it possible to ''uncover the history of each painting''. They come from a group of fifty such works, which trace the history of painting by classifying and indexing the development of artist''s pigments, from early cave paintings to the present day. The information is taken from a chart produced by the paint manufacturers Winsor & Newton." Tate website, September 2004
References
British artists
1952 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design
Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts
Academics of Bath Spa University
Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London
Academics of the Slade School of Fine Art
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