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
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Oct-Dec 2024
June 2024
June/July
2022
Nov 2020
Sept 2020
June 2019
June 2019
Jan 2019
Nov 2018
Oct 2017
Oct 2017
July 2017
2016
2015
2000
1998/96
1993
91/90
1987
86/84
1986
85/82
1979
1976
1975
In the footsteps of the East London Group
The Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London
East, Doreen Fletcher: Recent Paintings
Townhouse Gallery, 5 Fournier Street, London
Traces, Doreen Fletcher: Recent Paintings
Townhouse Gallery, 5 Fournier Street, London
Still Standing, Recent Paintings
Townhouse Gallery, 5 Fournier Street, London
Townhouse Open
Townhouse Gallery, 5 Fournier Street, London
Architecture of London
Guildhall Art Gallery
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
The Royal Academy, London
Doreen Fletcher - A Retrospective
The Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London
Painting the Hamlets
Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives
Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize
Shortlisted. The National Gallery, London
In Between, Almost Gone
Townhouse Gallery, 5 Fournier Street, London
Le Chemin des Reves
La Maison du Pays, Valleraugue, Gard, France
Lost Time
Townhouse Gallery, 5 Fournier Street, London
Le Temps Qui Passe
La Maison du Pays, Valleraugue, Gard, France
Winsor & Newton Millenium Painting Awards
St. James’ Palace, London
The United Nations New York
World Trade Centre Stockholm
Whitechapel Open Art Exhibition
The Whitechapel Gallery, London
Laing Art Collection
Mall Galleries, London
Whitechapel Open Art Exhibition
The Whitechapel Gallery, London
GLC Spirit of London Exhibition
Royal Festival Hall, London
Tolly Cobbold Touring Exhibition
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Young Contemporaries
South London Art Gallery
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