Norman ackroyd artist biography
Norman ackroyd artist biography
Artist autobiography.
Norman Ackroyd
English aquatint artist (1938–2024)
Norman AckroydCBE RA (26 March 1938 – 16 September 2024) was an English visual artist known primarily for his etchings and work with aquatint.
He lived and was based in Bermondsey, London.[1]
Background
Ackroyd was born on 26 March 1938 in Leeds, Yorkshire.[2] His father was Albert Ackroyd, a butcher, and his mother Clara Ackroyd (née Briggs) was a weaver.[3] He attended Cockburn High School, then Leeds College of Art from 1957 to 1961 and the Royal College of Art, London, from 1961 to 1964,[1] where he studied under Julian Trevelyan and met his future wife, the artist Sylvia Buckland, alongside David Hockney, Mary Quant and Zandra Rhodes.[3] Subsequently, he lived for several years in the United States.
He was elected to the Royal Academy of Art in 1988[1] as an associate, then a Royal Academician in 1991, and appointed Professor of Etching, University o