Curriculum Vitae
Moving from my birthplace in the Midlands to London in the early seventies I was dismayed on visits home to see the backstreets where I grew up disappearing under the bulldozer along with a way of life never to surface again. I started feverishly to record these scenes before they disappeared forever, using photography and quick on the spot sketches as a base from which to develop more substantial durable works of art in the studio, a method I have used ever since
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Le Temps Qui Passe
La Maison du Pays, Valleraugue, Gard, France
2003 Quiet Corners, Still Scenes
Wigmore Hall. London
1999 Scenes from an Urban Life
Ogilvy & Estill, Conwy, N. Wales
1999 Scenes from the Continent
Wigmore Hall, London
1998 Recent Paintings
Marks & Spencers Head Office, London
1996 Recent Paintings
Luton Chamber of Commerce
1989 Dockland in Transition
Greenwich Theatre Art Gallery
1988 Life in the City
Waterman’s Art Gallery
I987 An Urban View of Life
London Borough of Tower Hamlets Touring Exhibition
1985 East End Works
Spitalfields Health Centre
1981 Townscapes
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1980 Shop Fronts/Street Corners
City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Doreen Fletcher was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, North Staffordshire
She lives and works in London and France
Still Standing
15 Nov - 20 Dec 2020
Town House
5 Fournier Street
London
E1 6QE
Wednesday to Saturday 11am - 6pm
Admission Free
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Sept 2020 Townhouse Open, Townhouse Gallery, 5 Fournier Street, London, E1 6QE
June 2019 Architecture of London Guildhall Art Gallery, EC2V 5AE
June 2019 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition The Royal Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly London W1J 0BD
Jan 2019 Doreen Fletcher - A Retrospective The Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ
Nov 2018 Painting the Hamlets Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives
Oct 2017 Shortlisted for the inaugural Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize
Oct 2017 In Between, Almost Gone,Townhouse Gallery, 5 Fournier Street, London, E1 6QE
July 2017 Le Chemin des Reves, La Maison du Pays, Valleraugue, Gard, France
2016 Lost Time, Townhouse Gallery, 5 Fournier Street, London, E1 6QE
2015 Le Temps Qui Passe, La Maison du Pays, Valleraugue, Gard, France
2000 W & N Millenium Painting Awards,
St. James’ Palace, London
The United Nations New York
World Trade Centre Stockholm
1998+96 Whitechapel Open Art Exhibition, London
1993+91+90 Laing Art Collection, Mall Galleries, London
1987+86+84 Whitechapel Open Art Exhibition, London
1986+85+82 GLC Spirit of London Exhibition, Royal Festival Hall, London
1979 Tolly Cobbold Touring Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
1976 Young Contemporaries, South London Art Gallery
1975 Northern Young Contemporaries, Liverpool
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Foreign Office, London
Corporation of London, Guildhall Galleries
Fife Regional Council Collection
London Borough of Tower Hamlets Collection
London Borough of Hammersmith
City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Borough Museum & Art Gallery, Newcastle-under-Lyme
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Arthur Andersen & Co, London
Hambros Bank, London
Spero Communications, London
Druce & Co. London
Charterhouse Bank plc, London
Baker & McKenzie, Solicitors, London
Morgan & Grenfell Merchant Bankers, London