Roberta Booth

• REF David Buckman, A Dictionary of British Artists in Britain since 1945

Education

• 1947 Born Derby, UK
• 1964-66 Luton School of Art
• 1966-69 Coventry College of Art, Dip AD Fine Art - Painting
• 1969-72 Royal College of Art, MA RCA Fine Art - Printmaking

Solo Exhibitions

• 1979 University of Surrey
• 1994 Hanover Fine Art, Edinburgh
• 1996 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London
• 1998 The Media Centre, London
• 1998 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London
• 2000 The Workhouse Gallery, London
• 2000 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London
• 2001 St Anne’s College, Oxford University
• 2001 King’s College, Cambridge University
• 2002 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London
• 2003 Newhall, Cambridge University
• 2005 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London
• 2008 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London
• 2012 NewHall Murray Edwards College Cambridge
• 2021 Castor Gallery, Deptford, London

Group Exhibitions

• 1971 Hachette Gallery, London
• 1971 British Council Exhibition, Linz, Austria
• 1971 Morley Gallery, London
• 1972 Cracow Print Biennial, Poland
• 1973 ‘Young Generation Exhibition’, Norkoppings, Sweden
• 1976 ‘East London Open’, The Whitechapel Gallery, London
• 1976 ‘Five Realists’, The Minories, Colchester, England
• 1976 ‘Summer Show I’, Serpentine Gallery, London
• 1976 ‘Three Exhibitions’, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
• 1977 ‘Tolly Cobbold’, Eastern Arts, Cambridge
• 1978 The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
• 1979 ‘Art and Technology’, University of Surrey, Guildford, England
• 1983 ‘Cambridgeshire Artists’, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
• 1986 The International Contemporary Art Fair, London
• 1987 150 Years of Printmaking at the RCA, Barbican, London
• 1989 ‘In the Making’, touring exhibition, England
• 1988 The Edith Grove Gallery, London
• 1992 Fermoy Gallery, Norfolk
• 1993 Represented by ‘Art View’, Nahan Galleries, West Broadway, New York
• 1995 Society of Botanic Artists, London
• 1995 Castle Ashby Gallery, Northampton
• 1995 Blakesley Gallery, Northampton
• 1995 Newport Gallery, Essex
• 1996 University of Waikato, New Zealand
• 1997 National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
• 1997 Arcturus Fine Art, Contemporary Artists summer show, London
• 1997 The Conningsby Gallery, London
• 1998 Cambridge University Digital Arts Festival, Cambridge
• 1999 The Workhouse Galley, London
• 1999 Seven Springs New Gallery, Hertfordshire
• 2002 Recent Prints from Curwen studio, Curwen Gallery, London
• 2009 ‘Booth’s Paradise Gardens’ with Dieter Richard Volmar (two-person show), Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London
• 2018 Turps Gallery, London
• 2023Castor Gallery, Fitzrovia, London

Teaching

• 1978-82 Lecturer in Fine Art at Barnfield College, School of Art
• 1973-2007 Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
• 1982-87 Lecturer in Fine Art at Harrow School of Art

Examiner in Fine Art

• 1986-92 Cambridge University Examination Syndicate
• 1993-2007 Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge: Assessor in BA hons Fine Art and MA Fine Art
• 2007 Brighton University: PhD External Assessor

Research

• 1968-88 Research into philosophy and psychology: Alchemical texts, Jung, Nietzsche, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Fromm
• 1970-89 Research into Eastern and Western Esoteric traditions: The Essene tradition, Krishnamurti, Omraam Mikheal Aivanhov, Gnosticism, Sufism, Rumi, Gurdjieff, Ouspenski
• 1980-2001 Research into colour and Metaphysics: Goethe, Steiner, Beesley, Ousley, Kandinsky, Klee
• 1998-2012 Research into shamanism and the creative process; the nature of consciousness; the ecumenicism of Sacred art; and towards a postmodern sublime.

Lectures, Papers, Awards

• 1985 Eastern Arts Association award to artists
• 1977 Tolly-Cobbold exhibition UK
• 1995 International Association of Colour, London: Guest speaker
• 1996 University of Waikato, New Zealand: Guest speaker
• 1998 Completed manuscript on colour
• 2000 International Association of Colour: Guest speaker
• 2000 Colourama Magazine: article on the true nature of art
• 2000 Limited-edition lithograph published by Curwen Studio
• 2004 APU-funded sabbatical: Towards an Ecumenical 21st-century art

Public and Private Collections

• Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, UK, www.kettlesyard.co.uk
• University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London, www.vam.ac.uk
• University of Waikato, New Zealand
• Chilford Hall, Cambridge, UK
• King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK
• St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, UK
• New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, www.art.newhall.cam.ac.uk
• Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK
• The British Broadcasting Corporation, London,
• Curwen Studio, Cambridge, UK www.thecurwenstudio.co.uk
• The Cambridge Institute of Astronomy www.ast.cam.ac.uk
• Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridgeshire www.anglia.ac.uk
• Many also held in Private Collections in Australia, Germany, Guernsey, New Zealand and the UK

Selected Exhibiton Catalogues

• 1996 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London. Text by Professor Norbert Lynton, art historian and critic
• 1998 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London. Text by Professor Norbert Lynton
• 2000 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London. Text by Professor Norbert Lynton
• 2001 St Anne’s College, Oxford University. Text by Dr Alison Denham; Iris Murdoch Chair
• 2002 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London. Text by Michael Harrison, Director, Kettle’s Yard
• 2005 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London. Text by Dr W Crombie, Waikato, University, New Zealand
• 2008 Duncan Campbell Fine Art, London. Text by Professor Michael Tucker, University of Brighton
• All Roberta Booth Catalogues are in Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London. witt@courtauld.ac.uk