Mary Plant is an established and internationally known artist who has created enormous amount of impressive artistic work during the last 25 years. Mary Plant was born in the now occupied by the Turkish troops beautiful town of Famagusta in Cyprus and has devoted her life in painting. Her unique work appeared in many Exhibitions and enriches many Public and Private collections world wide. After the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus and the occupation of her home town Famagusta by the Turkish army, Mary Plant moved to England where she worked for many years and now lives and works in Cyprus devoted, to the creation of masterpieces of modern art.
Below we give a summary of Mary Plant’s key events in her career as an artist.
1943 Born in Famagusta, Cyprus
1976-80 BA Painting, Chelsea School of Art1980-01 MA Painting, Chelsea School of Art
1982 Visiting Tutor, Chelsea School of Art
One person Exhibitions
- Jenny Stein’s House Gallery, London
1990 Diaspro Art Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus
- Gallery K, London
1995 Morphe Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus
- The Hellenic Centre, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
1978 Stowells Trophy, Royal Acadamy
1981 The London Group, Morley Gallery
- Stowells Trophy, Royal Academy
1981 Trent Polytechnic
1981 Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth art Gallery
1981 Eight Artists’, Morphee Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
1983 Woodlands Gallery
- Camden Annual, Camden Arts Centre
1984 The Royal Overseas League
1986 The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith (two person exhibition)
1987 Polytechnic of North London
1987 ‘Critic’s Space’, Air Gallery (selected by Paul Overy)
1987 Summer Show, Kapil Jariwala Gallery
1987 Aldgate Barrs Gallery
1988 The Square Gallery
1988 Air and Space Art Sale
1988 ‘Le Genie de la Bastille- Porte Ouvertes a l’Europe’, Paris
1989 PNL UK Cypriot Exhibition, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia, Cyprus
1989 ‘Critic’s Space’, Air Gallery (selected by Mary Rose Beaumont)
1989 Friends of Space and Art Sale, Air Gallery
1990 PNL UK Cypriot Exhibition, Commonwealth Institute, London
1990 Homahe to the Square II – Flaxman Gallery
1991 Corn Exchange, Bedford
1991 Commonwealth Institute, London
1991 Actors’ House, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia
1992 Book Works: A Women’s Perspective, London
1993 Bank of Cyprus Award, Gallery K, London
1993 Art ’93 – The London Contemporary Art Fair
1993 ‘Triangles’ M & W Art, Hong Kong
1993 Women and Europe, RIBA, London
1993 Summer Exhibition, Gallery K
1994 ‘Kiss 2’, Gallery K
1994 Galerie Kohler, London (two person exhibition)
1995 Contemporary Art Exhibition & Draw, Christies- Imp. Cancer Research Fund
1995 ‘Kiss 3’, Gallery K
1995 Bank of Cyprus award, Gallery K
1995 Camden Irish Centre, London
1996 ‘Kiss 4’, Gallery K
1996 Diaspro Art Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus
1996 The Hellenic Centre, London
1997 Moufflon bookshop, Nicosia – Artists Books the 20th Century Art Form
1997 Famagusta Gate, Nicosia – "The Works of Aphrodite" – with Antje Siebrecht organised by the Goeyhe Institute
1998 Contemporary Art Exhibition & Draw, Mall Galleries – Imp, Cancer Research Fund
1998 Artists in Arms, St David,s Hall, Cardiff
1999 Blackheath Conservatoire of Music and Arts Exhibition & Draw, Mall Galleries
1999 COME TOGETHER I – Kassel – with Antje Siebrecht
1999 One of a kind, Artists’ Books, Nicosia, Cyprus – Organised by R. Keshishian
Awards
1980 Morland Lewis Scholarship
1987 GLA Grant
1995 Bank of Cyprus Award prize winner
Public Collection
The A C Leventis Foundation, London
The Bank of Cyprus, London
The Cyprus Popular Bank, London
Cultural Service, Ministry of Education, Cyprus
Other Activities
1990 Publication of book ‘Salamis’
1991 Travelled in Russia as guest of the Artists Union of Krasnoyarsk
1992 Travelled in Mongolia as guest of the Artists Union of Ulan Bator
1998 Travelled in Mongolia as guest of the Artists Union of Ulan Bator
1998 Cover for Nicola Lacey’s book ‘Unspeakable Subjects’ – painting, ‘Lost in a Burning Forest with Eros’
Mary Plant in her London Studio ( Dec 2001)
email: maryplant@nostos.com
Some of Mary's work below
