Jeffery Steele
b. 1931, Cardiff
Jeffrey Steele (1931-2021) born in Cardiff into a working class family in the Splott area. In 1948 he went to Cardiff Art School but left in 1950 after a disagreement to cycle daily to Newport instead. Spending time in London and Paris he returned to Wales in 1960.
During the 1950s he experimented with representational styles. In Paris in 1959 he encountered the work of geometric abstractionists such as Victor Vasarely and Max Bill and adopted a lifelong abstract approach. For eight years he worked purely in black and white and was identified with the Op-art movement.
He was an active participant of the Barry Summer School and organised the Systeemi group exhibition in Helsinki. As a Marxist he presented lectures on theoretical and political aspects of art as head of fine art at Portsmouth Art College until 1988.
Exhibition // Arddangosfa:
REBUILD the POETS
Links :
http://www.jeffreysteele.co.uk/
