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master of colour was also an inventive artist in black and white. He celebrated his 80th year with a large exhibition of his current work at the
Flowers Galleries, while a concurrent exhibition of his paintings of the 1950s and 60s at the Pyms Gallery, also in London, triggered a reappraisal of his early paintings. Acquisitions of his work by the Tate Gallery and the National Gallery of Ireland quickly followed.
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in 1992 and was elected an honorary member of the Royal
Hibernian Academy. In 2005 Crozier celebrated his 75th birthday with a major exhibition in Cork to celebrate the European Capital of Culture. Here Crozier exhibited a selection of his drawing work, providing the first opportunity to see that the
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Several films have been made about
Crozier and his work, such as Gordon Smith's 'William Crozier' for Scottish TV (1970) and 'The Truth About a Painter' directed by Cian O hEigertaigh for RTÉ (1993). Meridian Film UK made two films centred on Crozier and his art: ‘’Charlston’ and ‘Meon Shore’ as
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Profoundly affected by post-war existential philosophy, Crozier allied himself and his work consciously with contemporary
European art throughout the 1950s and 1960s, rather than with the New York abstractionists, who were more fashionable in the UK at the time. He was also part of the artistic and
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European tradition. From the 1980s, Crozier's painting blossomed with new freedom and confidence, the result of his giving up teaching and the stimulus provided by his studios in West Cork in Ireland, and in Hampshire in England. His abstract
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between 1949 and 1953. On graduating he spent time in Paris and Dublin before settling in London, where he gained a reputation as the 1950s equivalent of a Young
British Artist through the early success and notoriety of his exhibitions of assemblages and paintings at the ICA, Drian and the Arthur
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British Isles, and in the National Galleries of Ireland, Canada, Poland and Australia, and the Tate Gallery in Britain among many other national collections. He is strongly represented in corporate
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landscapes and still life paintings used sumptuous colour to convey an emotional intensity. To the end of his life, he was endlessly concerned with the challenge of creating a new language in figurative painting.
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collections in the UK and
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Crozier represented the UK and Ireland overseas and was awarded the Premio Lissone in Milan in 1958 and the Oireachtas Gold medal for Painting in Dublin in 1994. In 1991 the
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