High House Glen Baxter Glen Baxter was born in Leeds, a tiny suburb of Belgium, in 1944. A group of radiographers, stumbling into the ruins of the Baxter ancestral home at this time, found it to be "composed of nothing more than irregular blocks of sandstone, graphite and lettuce." From such unpromising beginnings sprang the elemental force now officially recognised as "Baxterism". As a young lad growing up in the shadow of the vast porridge warehouses in Leeds, Glen Baxter liked nothing more than to join his parents on their annual holiday. However, it was not until a local magistrate persuaded his parents to enrol him at the art school that he began to experiment with sulphur, twine and charcoal. After a brief period of chiaroscuro, the young Baxter left his native home and set out on a makeshift sled, heading for London. Once established there, he began to continue his research into the vulcanisation of both snood and wimple. Years of hardship were to follow but then in 1976 publishing called - Wyrd Press brought his work to the attention of an unsuspecting American public. Having narrowly failed to win the Nobel Prize in 1977, Baxter chose to focus his attentions on the Netherlands. In 1999 Baxter was commissioned by the French government to execute a tapestry. He has also worked on a series of etchings for the National Museum of Printmaking in Chatou, Paris. His work is in the collections of the Tate Gallery and V&A Museum in London and numerous museums and private collections around the world. (courtesy of www.glenbaxter.com) SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1974 Gotham Book Mart, New York 1976 Gotham Book Mart, New York
1977 Konblee Gallery, New York 1978 Anthony Stokes Gallery, New York 1979 Gotham Book Mart, New York 1980 Anthony Stokes Gallery, New York 1981 ICA, London 1982 Jacobson Hochman, New York 1984 Galeria del Cavalino, Venice Chapter Gallery, Cardiff Royal Festival Hall, London 1985 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco 1986 Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris Musee de l Abbaye de Saint-Croix, Les Sables d Olonne 1988 Borgardenkapel, Bruges Tilman, Fesler. Confu Galerie, Brussels 1989 Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris 1990 D-C-Art, Sydney Musee-Galerie de la Seita, Paris Musee de Bourg-en Bresse, Bourg-en Bresse Artiste Gallery, Bath 1991 Abbaye Saint-Andre, C.A.C., Meymac Nouveau Musee Municipal, Bourbonne les Bains Espace Paul Boye, Sete Chapelle des Visitandines, Amiens Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers Musee de Dole, Dole 1992 Adelaide Festival, Poitiers Tanya Rumpf, Haarlem 1994 Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo 1995 Les Entrepots Laydet, Paris Arthoteque de Caen et C.A.C Basse-Normandie, Caen 1996 Le Salon d Art, Brussels Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London
Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney Richard Dennis Gallery, London 1997 Modernism Gallery, San Francisco Le Parvis, Pau, France 1998 Stedelijk Museum, Oud-Hospitaal, Aast, Belgium Schaible Medienpartner, Munich, Frankfurt Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nantes Modernism, San Francisco 1999 Arthoteque d Angouleme, Centre National de la Gravure, Chatou Chateau de Chalus-Chabrol, Limousin Palais des Congres de Paris, Paris 2000 Modernism, San Francisco 2001 Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York 2003 Le Salon d Art Brussels, Brussels 2004 Flowers Central, London Centre d Art Contemporain, Sete, France Galerie Wetering, Amsterdam Centre International de Poesie Marseilles, Marseilles 2005 Flowers New York, New York Modernism Gallery, San Francisco 2006 Flowers Central, London 2007 Jane s Gallery, Eden Rock Hotel, Guadeloupe 2008 Le Salon d Arte, Brussels 2009 Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London The Chelsea Arts Club, London Galerie Daneil Blau, Munich Many more - to be updated...
COLLECTIONS Arts Councill of Great Britain Centre Georges Pompidou Chase Manhattan Bank New York De Young Museum, San Francisco Fondation Nationale d Contemporain, Paris FRAC Poitou- Charentes, FRAC Picardie New York Public Library Southampton University Tate Gallery, London Victoria & Albert Museum, London BOOKS 1969 The Falls Tracer, Tetrad Press, London 1973 The Khaki, Adventures in Poetry, New York 1974 Fruits of the World in Danger, Gotham Book Mart, New York The Handy Guide to Amazing People, Gotham Book Mart, New York Cranireons Ov Botya, Adventures in Poetry, New York 1976 Stories, Joe di Maggio, London 1977 The Works, Wyrd Press, New York 1979 Atlas, De Harmonie, Amsterdam 1981 The Impending Gleam, Jonathan Cape, London 1983 Atlas, Le dernier terrain vague, Editions Hoebeke, Paris His Life: The years of Struggle, Thames and Hudson, London 1986 Jodhpurs in the Quantocks, Jonathon Cape, London 1989 Welcome to the Weird World of Glen Baxter, Harper & Row, New York 1990 The Billiard Table Murders, Bloomsbury, London Ma vie: les jeunes annees, Editions Hoebeke, Paris L heure du the, Editions Hoebeke, Paris 1992 Glen Baxter Returns to Normal, Bloomsbury, London Retour a la normale, Editions Hoebeke, Paris 1994 The Collected Blurtings of Baxter, Little, Brown and Company, London The Further Blurtings of Baxter, Little, Brown and Company, London 1995 The Wonder Book of Sex, Little, Brown and Company, London 1996 Wundersame Welt der Erotik, Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1997 Glen Baxter s Gourmet Guide, Bloomsbury, London
Le livre de l amour, Editions Hoebeke, Paris Hotel Furka 19.36, 19.37, Marc Hostettler Galerie Editions Media, Neuchatel 1999 Podium, Les Editions de le 4 Mers, Paris Blizzards of Tweed, Bloomsbury, London 2000 Meurtres a la Table de Billard, Editions Hoebeke, Paris 2001 The Unhinged World of Glen Baxter, Pomegranate, USA Trundling Grunts, Bloomsbury, London 2004 Loomings over the Suet, Bloomsbury, London 2005 Haro Syr le Suif, Editions Hoebeke, Paris 2008 Speech with Humans, Clark Coolidge, Arc Publications 2009 Practical Lunacy, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich