Biography
Oliver Soskice was born in 1947. He comes from a family of painters, the best known of whom was the pre-Raphaelite Ford Madox Brown. An early influence was the painter and critic Adrian Stokes, who lived next door. He read English literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and after several years in publishing has painted full time since 1972. He lived in Oxford from 1974 to 1988, and was a founder member of the Oxford Artists’ Group. Since 1988 he has lived and worked in Cambridge.
Exhibitions
North House Gallery, Manningtree, 2018
Clare Hall, Cambridge, 2011
Swaffham Prior, 2008
Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge, 2003
Kettle’s Yard Open, Cambridge, 1999
Sebastian Pearson Gallery, Cambridge, 1998
Christchurch Picture Gallery, Oxford, 1997
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 1994
Lapis Gallery, Hampstead, 1991
Publications and Lectures
2007, ‘Monet in London’ (lecture), Gymnasium Rauderfeyn, Leer, Germany
2000, ‘Can Being Be Painted?’ (lecture), University of Cambridge
1997, ‘Painting the Depth of the World’ (lecture), University of Sussex (for the New Metaphysical Art Society)
1993, ‘The Paintings of Adrian Stokes’ (lecture), University of Kent at Canterbury (for the conference ‘Adrian Stokes and Psychoanalysis’)
1991, ‘Art and the Absence of Grace’ (essay), Modern Painters
1987, ‘Still Life Painting’ (essay), Artscribe Magazine