Adrian Berg RA

Born in 1929 he studied medicine and english at Cambridge university from 1949-52 and went on to a high diploma in Education at Trinity College Dublin. After teaching he studied at St Martins, Chelsea School of Art and Royal College of Art between 1955-61.

He returned to Royal College as a senior Tutor from 1987-88.A retrospective exhibition 1955-80 at Rochdale Art Gallery followed by an exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery 1986 which toured to Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, and the Polytechnic Gallery Newcastle upon Tyne. He marked his 70th Birthday with a solo show at Royal Academy Friends Room coinciding with a show at the Piccadilly Gallery. Winner of Florence Biennale Gold Medal award in 1973, prizewinner of John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 1980/82.

Elected a Royal Academician in 1992 and Honorary Fellow at Royal College of Art in 1994. He awarded the National Trust Foundation for Art in 1987 and was commissioned a series of watercolours for the National Trust in 1995.

Various solo shows include 1985-2002 Piccadilly Gallery London, 1994 Rye Art Gallery, 1993 Concourse Gallery Barbican touring to Victoria Gallery Bath, City Art Gallery Plymouth, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Mappin Gallery Sheffield, Hatton Gallery Newcastle, Royal Botanic Gallery Edinburgh 1992 Brighton Festival, The Gardener Centre University of Sussex 1978-83 Waddington Galleries 1964-75 Arthur Tooth and Sons His paintings are in many private and public collections to include Arts Council of Great Britain, Borough of Camden, Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery, City of Bradford, Contemporary Art Society of Wales, Contemporary Arts Society, Corporation of London, Dartington Hall, East Sussex County Council, Government Art Collection, Guildhall Art Gallery Hove Museum and Art Gallery, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds Education Authority London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Manchester City Art Gallery Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Northern Arts, Repton School, Richmond College, Surrey, Rochdale Art Gallery, The British Council, The British Museum, The European Parliament, The National Trust, The Royal College of Art, The Tate Gallery, The University of Liverpool Art Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Towner Art Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum