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William Crozier: A Heightened Vision of Nature, 1977-1980
Flowers Gallery (21 Cork Street)
BORN in Glasgow to working-class Irish parents and educated at the Glasgow School of Art, William Crozier settled in London where he established a reputation as one of the most interesting artists of his time.
His peripatetic life took him to Dublin (he took Irish citizenship) and Paris in the 1950s, then to Andalusia in 1963, locations which proved central to his development as an European artist. Later he divided his time between West Cork and Hampshire.
As for many of his post-WWII generation — he was 15 when it ended — its horrors, concluding in the atomic bomb, were reflected in deep anxieties.
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