Biography
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1942
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Born
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1960
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Enroled at Bath Academy of Art
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1964
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Reliefs shown for the first time, at the AIA gallery
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1965
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First solo show, at the Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford
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1969
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Co-founded the Systems Group, alongside effrey Steele, David Saunders and Malcolm Hughes
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First Systems show, in Helsinki
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1972
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Touring Systems show, organised by the British Council
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1977
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Invited to join Arbeitskreis
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1980s
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Organised a series of exhibitions and lectures as a member of Exhibiting Space
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1990
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Founded Countervail
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1997
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Married Malcolm Hughes
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1998
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Both Hughes and Spencer died
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Selected solo exhibitions
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1965
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Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford
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1969
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The Arts Centre, University of Sussex
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1974
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Didsbury College of Education, Manchester
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1980
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Sally East Gallery, London
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1986
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Galerie Grare, Paris
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1994
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Galerie Vromans, Gebouw Atrium, Amsterdam
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2000
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Tate, London (Jean Spencer and Malcolm Hughes Memorial Exhibition)
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2006
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The Yarrow Gallery, Oundle
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2014
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Redfern Gallery, London
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Selected group exhibitions
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1964
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AIA Gallery, London, 'Kenneth Robinson, Jean Spencer and Michael Tyzak'
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1966
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Nottingham, 'Midland Group'
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Axiom Gallery, London, 'Constructions'
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1967
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Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 'John Moores 6'
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1969
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Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki, 'Systeemi'
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1971
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Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, 'Matrix'
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1972
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Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 'Systems'
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1973
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Polytechnic of Central London, 'Systems II'
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1975
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Kunstcentrum Badhuis, Gorinchem, 'Rational Concepts: English and Dutch Drawing'
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1977
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Museo di Mirabello, Varese, 'Sul Concetto di Serie'
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1978
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Warehouse Gallery, London, 'Constructive Context'
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Galerie Circulus, Bonn, 'Prinzip Seriell: der IAFKIG und Freunde'
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Walker Art Gallery, 'John Moores 11'
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1979
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Motovun, Yugoslavia, 'Transforacije papira'
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Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, 'Kunstlerbucher'
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1980
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Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, 'Modern British Abstracts'
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Polytechnic of Central London, 'Arbeitskreis: Motovun 79'
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