ARTIST CV
1928 Born, London1944 South East Essex School of Art, Dagenham,
(first contact with David Bomberg)
1945 City Literary Institute, London
(also studying under David Bomberg)
1946-51 Borough Polytechnic,
A founder member of the Borough Group
gathered around David Bomberg
1947 Starts exhibiting with the London Group
1956-59 Slade school of Art, London
Studied as a mature student
1958 Won prize for Figure Painting, Slade School
Won the Steer Prize for Landscape Painting
Slade School
1959 Elected Member of the London Group.
Fails final year exams at the Slade for
refusal to sit a paper on perspective, declaring to
the Principle (Sir William Coldstream) that
perspective had no place in her art.1958-59 President of the Young Contemporaries
1973 Elected first woman President
of the London Group
1975 Died June 12th 1975, age 47
Solo Exhibitions
2005 Dorothy Mead, Boundary Gallery, London
2013 Recognising Dorothy Mead: David Bomberg,
the Slade, and After,
Borough Road Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
1947 Borough Group, Archer Gallery
1948 Borough Group: Second Annual Exhibition
1949 Borough Group: JCR, Brasenose College,
Oxford and Everyman Cinema, London
Monthly Borough Group exhibitions at the
Bookworm Gallery, London
Borough Group Third Annual Exhibition
1951 Four Contemporary Painters;
Creffield, Holden, Mead & Richmond,
Parson’s Gallery, London
1952 Fyra Engelsmann:
Creffield, Holden, Mead & Richmond,
Gummesons Konstgalleri, Stockholm
1956 Halland Museum of Art, Sweden
(with Holden)
1959 Figure Variations, Paris Gallery, London,
British Aquarelles, touring USA.1960 7 Figurative Painters: Dennis Creffield,
Mario Dubsky, Andrew Forge, Michael
Fussell, Cliff Holden, Dorothy Mead,
& Joe Tilson,
Artist’s International Association, London
Boras Museum of Art, Sweden
(Joint exhibition with Cliff Holden)1964 London Group Jubilee Exhibition 1914-64,
Tate Gallery, London
David Hockney, Bridget Riley & Euan Uglow
Arts Council Touring exhibition
1974 British Painting ‘74, Arts Council,
Hayward Gallery, London
1989 The Borough Group and Bottega,
Fine Arts Associates, London
1991 David Bomberg, Some Students and
Current Influences,
Towner Art Gallery & Museum, Eastbourne
1992 Bomberg and his Students, South Bank
University Centenary 1892-1992, London
2004 Bomberg and Pupils – the Borough Group,
Boundary Gallery, London
2012 Since the opening of the Borough Road
Gallery in June 2012, Mead’s work has
featured in numerous group surveys centred
around the Sarah Rose Collection.
Mead’s art is represented in the collection of the Arts
Council of Great Britain, the Tate Gallery, the British
Academy and the Government Art Collection.