Austin Wright Solo Exhibitions

  • 1995
    • Austin Wright Crib, displayed annually, Wakefield Cathedral
  • 1960
    • Austin Wright retrospective exhibition, Wakefield City Art Gallery
    • (also shown at Cartwright Hall, Bradford)
  • 1962
    • Austin Wright Gregory Fellows Exhibition, City Art Gallery, Leeds
    • Abbot Hall, Kendal
    • Lane Gallery, Bradford
  • 1963
    • York University, York
    • Sheffield University, Sheffield
  • 1964
    • Rowan Gallery, London
  • 1965
    • Selby Festival, Selby Abbey
  • 1966
    • Macclesfield Festival, Macclesfield
  • 1968
    • Goosewell Gallery, Menston
  • 1969
    • Lane Gallery, Bradford
  • 1970
    • Gallery 359, Nottingham
    • Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond-on-Thames
  • 1971
    • Peterloo Gallery, Manchester
    • Goosewell Gallery, Menston
  • 1973
    • Goosewell Gallery, Menston
    • (York Festival), St.Martin-cum-Gregory, York
  • 1974
    • Sheffield University, Sheffield
    • Retrospective, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • 1975
    • Goosewell Gallery, Menston
  • 1976
    • York University, York
  • 1977
    • City Art Gallery, Wakefield
  • 1981
    • 70th Birthday Retrospective, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire
  • 1983
    • Arcade Gallery, Harrogate
  • 1988
    • Retrospective, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
    • Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
  • 1989
    • Gallery North, Kirby Lonsdale
    • Grape Lane Gallery, York
  • 1991
    • 80th Birthday Exhibition, Upper Poppleton
  • 1994
    • York, City Art Gallery

top of pageAustin Wright Group Exhibitions

  • 1941-48
    • West Riding Artists, City Art Gallery, Wakefield
  • 1950
    • Two Modern Artists (with Dudley Holland), City Art Gallery, York
  • 1952
    • West Riding Artists, City Art Gallery, Wakefield
  • 1953
    • Modern Art in Yorkshire, City Art Gallery, Wakefield
  • 1954
    • London Group
    • West Riding Artists, City Art Gallery, Wakefield
  • 1955
    • Modern art in Yorkshire, City Art Gallery, Wakefield
    • Austin Hayes Gallery, York
  • 1956
    • Some Contemporary British Sculpture, Aldeburgh Festival (Arts Council; subsequent tour)
    • Three Modern Artists (with Norman Adams and Russell Platt), City Art Gallery, York
  • 1956
    • Roland, Browse and Delbanco (with Philip Sutton), London
  • 1956-57
    • Younger British Sculptors (British Council) (with Robert Adams,
    • Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Robert Clatworthy,
    • Hubert Dalwood, Elizabeth Frink, Bernard Meadows, Eduardo Paolozzi,
    • Leslie Thornston and William Turnbull), Sweden, Gothenburg, Sandviken,
    • Linkoping, Tranas, Lund, Halsingbore, Halmstead, Falkenberg, Orebro and Stockholm
  • 1957
    • Sculpture 1850 and 1950, Holland Park, London
  • 1957-58
    • Ten Young British Sculptors (British Council) (with Robert Adams, Kenneth
    • Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, F E McWilliam, Bernard Meadows,
    • Eduardo Paolozzi, Leslie Thornton and William Turnbull), South America,
    • Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santiago, Lima and Caracas
  • 1957
    • Contemporary Welsh Painting and Sculpture, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
  • 1958
    • Roland, Browse and Delbanco (with Norman Adams), London Sculpture in the Home (Arts Council)
    • Artists of Fame and Promise, Leicester Galleries, London West Riding Artists, City Art Gallery, Wakefield
  • 1959
    • V Biennale of International Sculpture, Middleheim Park, Antwerp
    • John Moores Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
  • 1960
    • Northern Artists (Arts Council)
    • Five Sculptors (with Elizabeth Frink, F E McWilliam, Uli Niptsch and Eduardo Paolozzi), Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (Also shown at Manchester, Leicester, Nottingham and Birmingham)
  • 1961
    • Contemporary British Sculpture, Norwich Festival, Norwich
    • Opening exhibition, Midland Group, Nottingham
  • 1962
    • Sculptors Today, Midland Group, Nottingham
    • Festival of Labour, New Art Centre, London
    • Artists Serve the Church, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
  • 1963
    • (with Francis Moreland and Clive Sheppard), Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford
    • (with Willi Tirr), Lane Gallery, Bradford
  • 1964
    • Gregory Fellows, Queen Square Gallery, Leeds
    • Summer Exhibition, Queen Square Gallery, Leeds
  • 1965
    • British Sculpture in the Sixties, (Contemporary Art Society exhibition)
    • Four Sculptors, (with Robert Clatworthy, Elizabeth Frink and F E William),
    • Arden Gallery, Henley-in-Arden, Arden
  • 1968
    • Three Ideas for Sculpture (with Neville Boden and Hubert Dalwood), City Art Gallery, Leeds
  • 1969
    • Sculpture in a Landscape, Aldbourne, Wiltshire
    • Maquettes for Civic Sculpture, Darlington
  • 1970
    • Small Sculpture for the Home, (with Neville Boden, Roger Leigh, Margaret Lovell, Michael Marsden and John Milne), Park Square Gallery, Leeds
  • 1971
    • Three Yorkshire Artists (with Marie Walker Last and Laimonis Mierins)
  • 1972
    • Winter Exhibition, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
    • More Love than Money - the collection of Ronnie Duncan, Park Square Gallery, Leeds
  • 1973
    • (with Peter Collingwood), Peterloo Gallery, Manchester
  • 1974
    • Peter Stuyvestant Northern Painters and Sculptors Exhibition, Art Gallery, Sunderland
    • British Sculptors’ Attitudes to Drawing, Arts Centre, Sunderland
    • (with Peter Collingwood), Peterloo Gallery, Manchester
    • (with Theo Moorman), Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
  • 1976
    • 20th Century British Sculpture from Northern Public Collections,
    • Townley Hall Art Gallery, Burnley
    • Drawings and Prints (with Ainslie Yule), Park Square Gallery, Leeds
  • 1977
    • Opening Exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
  • 1979
    • British Drawings since 1945, Whitworth Art gallery, Manchester
    • Artist’s Market, Covent Garden, London
    • 900 Festival Exhibition, Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • 1980
    • Sculpture in the Open Air, Sandbeck Park, Rotherham
  • 1982
    • Bosworth Festival, Bosworth, Leicestershire
    • Maquettes for Public Sculpture, Welsh Sculpture Trust, Margam
  • 1983
    • Yorkshire Art at the Manor House, Manor House, Ilkley
    • International Sculpture Symposium, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
    • Sculpture in a Country Park, Welsh Sculpture Trust, Margam
  • 1984
    • Sara Gilchrist Personal Choice, University Gallery, Leeds
  • 1986
    • Sculpture for the Garden, Harlow Carr Gardens, Harrogate
    • Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
  • 1990
    • Sculpture in the Bothy Garden, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
  • 1991
    • Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London