Sandra
Blow studied at St Martin's, the Royal Academy Schools and the Academy of Fine
Arts, Rome. She went on to teach at the Royal College of Art from 1960. Blow's
career saw solo shows, with a retrospective of her work held at the Royal
Academy in 1994.
Blow
also participated in many international group exhibitions from an early age in
her career, including 'St Ives' held at the Tate Gallery in 1985. Blow's awards
include joint-winner of the International Guggenheim Award in 1960 and Second
Prize winner in the John Moores Liverpool exhibition in 1961.
In
1994 her work 'Green and White' was purchased for the Nation. Among her
recent commissions are a glass screen for Heathrow Airport (commissioned by BAA
in 1995), and illustrations for 'Waves on Porthmeor Beach', by Alaric Sumner
(Wordsworth Books in 1995).
Sandra
Blow was appointed Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 1973 and
Honorary Fellow of the London Institute in 2003. She lived and worked in
Cornwall.
Sadly, Sandra passed away
in August 2006.
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