Sargy Mann
Despite losing his sight, Sargy Mann has not let that affect his work as a
painter. Having spent most of his career nearly blind, in the past few years,
Mann has completely lost all of his vision. Employing the use of blu-tack to
map out his canvases, Mann creates figurative paintings that are exploding with
colour. Taking advantage of his handicap, rather than letting it hinder him,
Mann’s loss of sight provides him a new found imaginative freedom. The
restrictions imposed by the reality of vision no longer apply to him, and he
now has complete creative liberation. “I chose the colour chord for each
painting intuitively, thinking in an overtly decorative way which, before, I
would never have allowed myself to do. It seems that blindness has given me the
freedom to use colour in ways that I would not have dared to when I could see”.
Education
1953-58 Oxford Technical
College, Higher National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
1960-64 Camberwell School
of Art and Crafts
1967 Postgraduate,
Camberwell School of Art and Crafts
Selected Exhibitions
2008 ‘Frances’,
Cadogan Contemporary, London
2006 ‘Cadaques’,
Cadogan Contemporary, London
2005 Cadogan
Contemporary, London
2003 Cadogan
Contemporary, London
2001 Cadogan
Contemporary, London
2000 Hunting Art Prizes Exhibition, Royal
College of Art, London
1999 Cadogan
Contemporary, London
1997 Cadogan
Contemporary, ‘Small Paintings 1967-1984’, London
1996 Cadogan
Contemporary, London
1995 Ernst
& Young Exhibition
1995 Royal
Academy Summer Show, London
1995 Hunting
Art Prizes Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London
1994 ‘Earlier
Paintings 1967-84’, Cadogan Contemporary, London
1993 Chappell
Gallery, Mixed Exhibition, Colchester
1993 Cadogan
Contemporary, London
1992 Discerning
Eye, Collector’s Choice, Mall Galleries
1991 Cadogan
Contemporary, London
1990 Cadogan
Contemporary, Works on Paper, London
1990 Royal
Academy Summer Show, London
1989 Royal
Academy Summer Show, London
1989 Cadogan
Contemporary, London
1987 Royal
Academy Summer Show, London
1987 Cadogan
Contemporary, London
1983-85 Upper
Gallery, Royal Academy, London
1983 6th
International Drawing Biennale
Public and Corporate Collections
Contemporary Art Society
Arts Council of Great Britain
Cleveland County Council
Salomon Brothers Int. Ltd
Cable & Wireless
Private Collections
The late Sir John Betjeman
The late Cecil Beaton
Dame Iris Murdoch
Elizabeth Jane Howard
The late Sir Kingsley Amis
Daniel Day-Lewis
Jilly Cooper
Sir Robin Day
The Sultan of Oman
Awards
Director’s Choice at New Academy Gallery/Business Art Galleries
Royal Academy Summer Show, Daler Rowney
Prize, London
Spirit of London, South Bank, First
Prize
2nd International Drawing
Biennale, Second Prize