Tom Cross 1931-2009

Trained at Manchester School of Art.

Awarded the Proctor Scholarship, the Plimmer Scholarship and the silver Medal for Painting of the Royal Manchester Institution. Founder Member of the Northern Young Artists Association 1949-53
Studied at the Slade School of Art, University of London, President of the Slade Society
Awarded the Robert Stanbury Post-Graduate Scholarship 1953-56
Awarded the Abbey Minor Scholarship. Worked at the British School in Rome and travelled in northern Italy
Awarded a French Government Scholarship and worked for a year in Paris and in the south of France 1956-58
Assistant Director of the Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff 1959-63
Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Reading. (Senior Lecturer 1969-1976.) 1963-76
Visiting Professor for six months at Ohio State University, Columbus, USA 1971
Principal of Falmouth School of Art. Member of the Penwith Society of Artists, St Ives. Later Chairman of the Penwith Galleries Ltd. 1976-87
Elected Member of the London Group 1978
Visiting Professor at the Simons Centre for the Arts, College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA 1983-84
External Examiner in Art and in Art History, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and at the University of Exeter. Lecturer in Continuing Education. University of Exeter 1989-94
Examiner in Fine Art to the Dublin Institute of Technology 1998-2000
Lecturer for the National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies. (NADFAS) 1994-2003

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