Paintings and work on paper by women arists asscociated with Barbican Arts Group Trust.
Lesley Dalton is a British artist who was born in Singapore. She later settled with her family in Leicester and attended Loughborough School of Art followed by De Montfort University. Following her graduation she moved to London and worked as a colourist for Marvell Comics. Later, she gained a Higher National Diploma In Ceramics at City Literary Institute, London. She has exhibited regularly in group shows since 1978. From 1982 to date she has held 5 solo exhibitions in Leicester and London.
Lesley Dalton works across a range of disciplines including painting, collage, sculpture and ceramics. Her BAGT Editions #I print is derived from a continuing series of paintings on paper. The original paintings are often made from day to day and take on a personal character, much like a visual diary. They are painted and stencilled, sometimes including collage, with deceptive dexterity.
Lesley joined BAGT in 1986. She currently has a studio at BAGT Hertford Road Studios.
Lucile Montague's earlier work looked at people and city life. In recent years she has shifted her attention to landscape. Her paintings derive from regular walks in the green areas of North London. Her subjects are a mixture of fantasy and reality set within the calming effects of nature.
Her work has featured in many exhibitions that have included the Royal Academy Summer Show and the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Her work is to be found in numerous public and private collections which include Coventry Museum and Art Gallery, Coopers & Lybrand and the Bankers Trust Company.
Lucile studied at Plymouth College of Arts and Byam Shaw School of Art. She joined BAGT in 1977 and currently has a studio at BAGT Blackhorse Lane Studios.
Franki Austin’s work has been exhibited widely and is included in both private and public collections.
Franki studied painting and glass at the Central School of Art and Design in London, and gained an MPhil in fine art from the University of Plymouth for research relating to the international artists working at Dartington Hall in Devon during the 1930s. She later pursued the subject of this research, working and travelling in India.
She has worked with poets, installing participatory exhibitions in the UK using folk tales common to peoples across the world. In 2007 her work began to include references to climate change. She first learnt about trees from her Scottish grandfather.
“The trees in my paintings are those found in ancient Scottish woodland. The stories I weave around them come from all parts of the world. Trees play major roles in our constantly changing climate but I paint only those trees bound into my personal history”.
Her works on the subject of climate change have been shown in mixed exhibitions at artist-led spaces. These include:
Artworks Project Space Barbican Arts Group Trust, 2023, 2024,
The Way It Is: a solo show at the Chelsea Arts Club September 2020,
Dispositions: Bermondsey Project Space, curated by Marguerite Horner 2019
We Grow into the Forest: at The Art Pavillion, Mile End, curated by Judit Prieto, 2019
Aviary: Transition Gallery, curated by Matthew Krishanu and Niamh White, 2016
Franki joined Barbican Arts Group Trust studios in 2005. Currently, she has a studio at BAGT’s Balckhorse Lane Studios.
Lesley Dalton is a British artist who was born in Singapore. She later settled with her family in Leicester and attended Loughborough School of Art followed by De Montfort University. Following her graduation she moved to London and worked as a colourist for Marvell Comics. Later, she gained a Higher National Diploma In Ceramics at City Literary Institute, London. She has exhibited regularly in group shows since 1978. From 1982 to date she has held 5 solo exhibitions in Leicester and London.
Lesley Dalton works across a range of disciplines including painting, collage, sculpture and ceramics. Her BAGT Editions #I print is derived from a continuing series of paintings on paper. The original paintings are often made from day to day and take on a personal character, much like a visual diary. They are painted and stencilled, sometimes including collage, with deceptive dexterity.
Lesley joined BAGT in 1986. She currently has a studio at BAGT Hertford Road Studios.
Lucile Montague's earlier work looked at people and city life. In recent years she has shifted her attention to landscape. Her paintings derive from regular walks in the green areas of North London. Her subjects are a mixture of fantasy and reality set within the calming effects of nature.
Her work has featured in many exhibitions that have included the Royal Academy Summer Show and the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Her work is to be found in numerous public and private collections which include Coventry Museum and Art Gallery, Coopers & Lybrand and the Bankers Trust Company.
Lucile studied at Plymouth College of Arts and Byam Shaw School of Art. She joined BAGT in 1977 and currently has a studio at BAGT Blackhorse Lane Studios.
Franki Austin’s work has been exhibited widely and is included in both private and public collections.
Franki studied painting and glass at the Central School of Art and Design in London, and gained an MPhil in fine art from the University of Plymouth for research relating to the international artists working at Dartington Hall in Devon during the 1930s. She later pursued the subject of this research, working and travelling in India.
She has worked with poets, installing participatory exhibitions in the UK using folk tales common to peoples across the world. In 2007 her work began to include references to climate change. She first learnt about trees from her Scottish grandfather.
“The trees in my paintings are those found in ancient Scottish woodland. The stories I weave around them come from all parts of the world. Trees play major roles in our constantly changing climate but I paint only those trees bound into my personal history”.
Her works on the subject of climate change have been shown in mixed exhibitions at artist-led spaces. These include:
Artworks Project Space Barbican Arts Group Trust, 2023, 2024,
The Way It Is: a solo show at the Chelsea Arts Club September 2020,
Dispositions: Bermondsey Project Space, curated by Marguerite Horner 2019
We Grow into the Forest: at The Art Pavillion, Mile End, curated by Judit Prieto, 2019
Aviary: Transition Gallery, curated by Matthew Krishanu and Niamh White, 2016
Franki joined Barbican Arts Group Trust studios in 2005. Currently, she has a studio at BAGT’s Balckhorse Lane Studios.
