Sargy Mann - 1937 - 2015
Established by the artist’s estate the Sargy Mann Archive aims to further an understanding of his work and to collaborate on projects bringing his paintings, drawings and writing on art and visual perception to a wider public audience.
Throughout his life Sargy Mann (1937- 2015) had a fascination with the nature of visual perception and a desire to make paintings that could communicate his experience of the world.
This website has been set up with the intention of creating an archive of Sargy Mann’s paintings and drawings and also of his writing and research on painting (notably the work of Pierre Bonnard) and visual perception.
In an essay, Shared Experience (1996) he wrote this description of the kind of painting he was interested in, “It can give the viewer what he would not see were he in the place of the artist. It can give him something essentially and qualitatively different from that, something he could never experience except through the medium of that particular painting. It can give him what the artist saw or imagined. This, I believe was what John Betjeman was getting at when he once said to me, “art is shared experience.” “
The essay ‘Shared Experience’ can be read in full here.
Contact…
We are happy to facilitate research into Sargy Mann’s work or the use of his own research into projects where it could be valuable.
For any enquiries contact info@sargymannarchive.com
1937 Born in Hythe, Kent
1943-53 Dartington School
1953 -58 Oxford Technical College
1960-64 Camberwell School of Art and Crafts
1967 Postgraduate, Camberwell School of Art and Crafts
1969-88 Teaching, Camberwell School of Art and Crafts
1969-88 Teaching, Camden Arts Centre
1973 Cataract Operations
1973 First solo exhibition, Salisbury Festival of Art’s
1976 Marries Frances Carey
1978 First retinal detachment, resulting in blindness in one eye
1980 Moves with family to 58 Lyndhurst Grove SE15
1980 Second retinal detachment, leaving only partial vision in one eye
1987 First solo exhibition at Cadogan Contemporary
1990 Moves from Peckham to Bungay, Suffolk
1994 Curates Bonnard at Le Bosquet exhibition at Hayward Gallery
1999-08 Visiting Lecturer at the Prince’s Drawing School
2002 Corneal graft, bringing temporary, but significant improvement to vision
2005 Total loss of vision on return from trip to Cadaques, Spain
2006 Exhibition of Cadaques paintings (first to be made after total loss of sight)
2015 Died in Bungay, Suffolk
2015 Final exhibition of new work at Cadogan Contemporary