
Gary Wragg
Diagonal, White, 1967
Oil on cotton duck
183 x 168 cm
Signed, titled and dated verso
Diagonal, Whites, Reds, Blues, Yellow and Green, 1967
Oil on linen
182 x 166 cm
Signed, titled and dated verso
Vertical, White, Red & Blue, 1967
Oil on cotton duck
183 x 168 cm
Signed, titled and dated verso
Blue/Grey Interior, 1968
Acrylic on cotton duck
107 x 86.5 cm
Signed, dated and titled verso
Olive Green Interior / Exterior, 1969
Acrylic on canvas
35 x 30 cm
£1,000
Peach Interior / Exterior, 1969
Acrylic on cotton duck
35 x 30 cm
£1,000
Tan Interior / Exterior, 1969
Acrylic on canvas
35 x 30 cm
£1,000
GARY WRAGG British, born 1946
Gary Wragg, born in 1946, first attended the High Wycombe School of Art before moving to London. There he studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, where he won a Rotary Travelling Prize to Florence and Rome as well as the Lord Carron Prize awarded by Bryan Robertson. He continued post-graduate painting at the Slade School of Fine Art and won a Boise Travelling Scholarship to USA and Mexico, which he took in 1972. He also received an Arts Council grant in 1975 and a London Arts Association grant in 1978.
Gary Wragg’s trips to America, first to New York and Provincetown to visit Jack Tworkov, between 1971 and 1974, and the time he spent in Springs, East Hampton with Willem de Kooning in 1985, were highly significant in his artistic development.
His first one-man exhibition was held at Acme Gallery, London in 1976, with a subsequent successful show in 1979. Gary Wragg exhibited regularly at the Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, between 1980 and 1989 and held a series of important solo and group exhibitions at Flowers East, London, between 1996 and 2010.
In his work Gary Wragg explores from what he calls his ‘treasure chest’, a traditional lineage of Poussin, Titian, Rubens, Goya, Delacroix, Cézanne, Bonnard, Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning.
Since the late seventies, Gary Wragg’s love for painting has integrated with his passion for the Chinese martial art of Tai Chi Chuan. Wragg has found that the gestures and controlled movements of the discipline have formed a parallel in the painting and his work has subsequently evolved from the vocabulary and legacy of Abstract Expressionism to his investigation of energy painting.
Selected solo exhibitions:
1976
Gary Wragg, Acme Gallery, London
1979
Gary Wragg, Acme Gallery, London
1979
Peterloo Gallery, Manchester
1982
Gary Wragg, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1983
Gary Wragg, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
1984
Gary Wragg, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1984
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
1986
Gary Wragg, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1989
Jean Wainwright, Chiswick, London
1989
Open Studio, Hackney, London
1989
Studio Show, West Hampstead, London
1990
Goldsmiths Gallery, London
1990
Studio Show, West Hampstead, London
1991
Gallery 10, London
1991
Studio Show, West Hampstead, London
1992
Studio Show, West Hampstead, London
1993
Studio Show, West Hampstead, London
1994
Studio Show, West Hampstead, London
1996
Gary Wragg: Works on Paper, Gallery M, Flowers East, London
1997
Gary Wragg, Flowers East, London
1999
Gary Wragg, Flowers East, London
1999
King Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000
The Quiet Paintings, Flowers East, London
2003
Flowers Central, London
2003
Studio Show, Vyner Street, London
2006
Gary Wragg, Burgh House, Hampstead, London
2008
Flowers East, London
2008
Gary Wragg, Mason’s Yard Gallery, London
2010
Gary Wragg: Early Works 1968-1969, Alan Wheatley Art, London
2012
Gary Wragg: Spontaneity of Movements, Alan Wheatley Art, London
2014
Gary Wragg: Constant Within the Change, Clifford Chance, London
Public collections include:
Arts Council of Great Britain
Barclays de Zoete Wedd, London
Contemporary Arts Society, London
DeBeers Consolidated Mines, London
Eastern Arts Association, Leicester
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
National Gallery of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham
Saatchi Collection, London
Slade School of Art Collection, London
University College, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London