Chronology and Exhibitions
Historical exhibitions and key moments from Davids life.
Milestones
| 2015 | Andrew Lambirth’s book, David Inshaw, is published by the Unicorn Press |
| 1995 | Moves back to Devizes. |
| 1989 | Moves to Clyro near Hay-on-Wye in Powys, Wales, with his second wife Shelagh Popham. |
| 1983 | Leaves the Brotherhood of Ruralists. |
| 1980 | The Badminton Game is purchased by the Tate Gallery. |
| 1979 | Marries Robin Lambert and moves back to Cambridge for a year. |
| 1977 | Moves back to Devizes. |
| 1975 | Forms the Brotherhood of Ruralists with Graham and Ann Arnold, Graham and Annie Ovenden, Peter Blake and Jann Haworth. Appointed to a two-year fellowship in Creative Art at Trinity College, Cambridge. Resigns from teaching post in Bristol and moves to Cambridge. |
| 1971 | Moves to Devizes in Wiltshire. Forms the Broad Heath Brotherhood with the artists Graham and Ann Arnold. |
| 1970 | Participates in the first Arts Council exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London. Sells first painting, Kiss Kiss Kiss, to the J Walter Thompson advertising agency. |
| 1969 | First solo exhibition at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. First visit to West Bay in Dorset. |
| 1967 | First reads the novels and poems of Thomas Hardy and starts making regular trips to Dorset to explore Hardy’s Wessex. |
| 1966-67 | Parents and brother emigrate to Canada. |
| 1966 | Starts teaching painting and printmaking at the West of England College of Art in Bristol. Moves to Bristol. |
| 1964 | Awarded a French Government scholarship to study in Paris for six months. |
| 1963-66 | Moves to London and studies painting at the Royal Academy Schools. Contributes work to the annual Young Contemporaries exhibition in London. |
| 1959-63 | Studies painting at Beckenham School of Art. |
| 1950 | Moves to Biggin Hill in Kent. |
| 1943 | Born 21st March in Wednesfield, Staffordshire. |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2025 | “Thinking the Landscape”, Redfern Gallery, Cork Street, London Redfern Gallery, Cork Street, London |
| 2024 | “Remembering”, Sladers Yard in West Bay, Dorset. |
| 2023 | “Moments of Vision”, Sladers Yard in West Bay, Dorset |
| 2022 | “Naked”, Redfern Gallery, Cork Street, London |
| 2021 | “Dorset and Wiltshire Stories“, Sladers Yard in West Bay, Dorset |
| 2020 | “Pyrotechnics and Other Wiltshire Stories”, The White Horse Bookshop in Marlborough, Wiltshire |
| 2019 | “Looking Back, Looking Forward”, at the Saatchi Gallery “A Vision of Landscape”, at the Redfern Gallery, London |
| 2015 | “David Inshaw: New Paintings”, at the Fine Art Society, London |
| 2013 | “David Inshaw: Recent Paintings”, at Sladers Yard in West Bay, Dorset “Paintings by David Inshaw”, at the Fine Art Society, London |
| 2008 | “Between Dreaming and Waking”, at The Millinery Works, London |
| 2007 | “West Bay Beatitudes”, at Sladers Yard in West Bay, Dorset |
| 2005 | “Paintings from 1965 to 2005”, Narborough Hall, Norfolk |
| 2004 | “Moments of Vision (Between Fantasy and Reality)”, at Agnews, London |
| 2003 | RWA, Bristol – Friends and Influences |
| 2000 | Chapel Row Gallery, Bath |
| 1998 | Theo Waddington Fine Art Ltd, London Chapel Row Gallery, Bath |
| 1996 | Solo exhibition at the Annandale Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 1995 | Theo Waddington Fine Art Ltd, London The Old School Gallery, Bleddfa, Powys |
| 1994 | Devizes Museum, Wiltshire |
| 1989-92 | Works on a series of six Wiltshire Landscape etchings at the 107 Workshop in Melksham |
| 1989 | Waddington Galleries, London |
| 1987 | Devizes Museum, Wiltshire (paintings and etchings) Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1984 | Waddington Galleries, London |
| 1980 | Park Street Gallery, Bristol (drawings) Waddington Galleries, London |
| 1978 | Royal Pavilion Art Gallery, Brighton |
| 1977 | Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge (paintings and drawings) |
| 1976 | Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge (photographs) |
| 1975 | Waddington Galleries, London |
| 1972 | Second solo exhibition at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. |
| 1969 | Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol Dartington Hall, Totnes |
Group Exhibitions
| 2009 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol |
| 2008 | “Ancient Landscapes, Pastoral Visions”, Southampton City Art gallery, touring to The Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; FaImouth Art Gallery Chapel Row Gallery, Bath |
| 2003 | “Friends and Influences”, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol |
| 1991 – 2004 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition |
| 1989 | “Farm, Field and Fantasy”, Bishops Palace, Chichester “The Secret Garden”, Bleddfa Trust, Knighton, Wales |
| 1988 | “Royal Academy Summer Exhibition”, Royal Academy, London “Mother and Child”, Lefevre Gallery, London |
| 1986 | “Royal Academy Summer Exhibition”, Royal Academy, London |
| 1983 | “The Definitive Nude” (Peter Blake’s retrospective with the Ruralists), Tate Gallery, London |
| 1982 | “The Harveys Collection”, ICA, London; Arnolfini, Bristol |
| 1981 | “The Brotherhood of Ruralists”, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, touring to Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery: Third Eye Centre, Glasgow: Camden Arts Centre, London “Photographs 1957 – 1981”, Martin Axon, David Inshaw, Graham Ovenden; Plymouth Arts Centre, touring to Park Street, Bristol; Sutton Library, Suffolk |
| 1980 | “The Brotherhood of Ruralists, Ophelia Exhibition”, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge |
| 1979 | “The Brotherhood of Ruralists”, Charleston Festival, Sussex |
| 1977 | “The Brotherhood of Ruralists”, Festival Gallery, Bath |
| 1976 | “Royal Academy Summer Exhibition” (Brotherhood of Ruralists first exhibited as a group), Royal Academy, London |
| 1975 | Bath Festival Exhibition, Bath |
| 1974-75 | “The Recollections”, Cheltenham Art Gallery South West Arts Touring Exhibition |
| 1974 | “John Moores Liverpool Exhibition”, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool “An Element of Landscape”, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery Arts Council Touring Exhibition “Critic’s Choice”, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London “Peter Blake’s Choice”, Festival Gallery, Bath |
| 1973 | “Summer Studio” participation exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London |
| 1972 | “Bath Festival Exhibition”, Festival Gallery, Bath |
| 1971 | “Art Spectrum South”, Art Council exbibition touring to City Art Gallery, Southampton; Folkestone Art Centre; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol |
| 1970 | “John Dee, John Howlin, David lnshaw, Barry Martin”, Arts Council exhibition, Serpentine Gallery, London |
| 1968 | “Royal Academy Bicentenary Exhibition”, Royal Academy, London |
| 1966 | “Young Contemporaries”, RBA Galleries, London |
| 1963 | “Young Contemporaries” |
Television Films
| 2011 | The BBC documentary series “Hidden Paintings” features an episode on “The Badminton Game”. |
| 2005 | “A Picture of Britain” presented by David Dimbleby, BBC |
| 1984 | “Between Dreaming and Waking”. in collaboration with Geoffrey Haydon, BBC Arena |
| 1977 | “Summer with the Brotherhood”, produced and directed by John Read, BBC (London) |
| 1975 | “Gallery”, produced by ACH Smith, HTV |
| 1974 | “Private Landscapes”, directed by Keith Sheather, produced by John Carlaw, BBC Bristol |
Public Collections
| Arts Council Of Great Britain |
| Bristol Museum & Art Gallery |
| British Council |
| Department of the Environment |
| Devizes Museum |
| The Government Art Collection |
| Royal West of England Academy |
| Tyne and Wear Museums, Sunderland |
| Tate |