1943  Born Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK.
1960 – 1963  Somerset College of Art, Taunton.
1963 – 1966  Royal College of Art, London.
2016  Died, London.                                                                                                                 . 

In the studio at the RCA c. 1963

Selected Group Exhibitions

1965
John Moores, Liverpool.  Junior Prize Winner (selected by Clement Greenberg, Patrick Heron, John Russell).
1968
AIA Gallery, London.
‘Preview London’, Camden Arts Centre, London.
1971
‘Four Painters: Beattie, Gouk, McLean, Rigden’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
1975
Stockwell Depot Annual, London.
1977
Tolly Cobbold/Eastern Arts Association Open, Cambridge and UK touring. Prize Winner.
Zygos Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
1979
‘Summer Show 2’, Serpentine Gallery, London.
Stockwell Depot Annual, London.
1980
‘Small Works by Younger British Artists’,
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London.  Selected by John Hoyland.
1981
‘Art For Now’, Industrial Sponsors/Lloyds Bank, London.
‘Painters and Sculptors from the Greenwich Studios’, Woodlands Art Gallery, London.
Tolly Cobbold Open, London and UK touring.
1982
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London.
‘Alan Gouk and Geoff Rigden’, Woodlands Art Gallery, London.
‘Small Paintings’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Selected by Tim Hilton.
‘Two Artists’, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
1983
Triangle Arts Workshop, Pine Plains, New York, USA.
1984
‘Two Painters at Winchester’, Winchester School of Art.
‘Two Artists’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
1985
‘Six Artists’, Showroom Gallery, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1986
‘Retrospective’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.  (Artists from Cyprus College of Art).
1987
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1988
‘Paintings from the Collection of Sir Anthony Caro’, Wolfson College, Oxford.
1989
Summer Exhibition, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1990
‘Art Fair’, Olympia, London.
‘Colour in Modern Painting’, City Art Gallery, Stoke-on Trent.
‘Geoffrey Rigden and Johanes Zechner’, Agathe Nisple Galerie, St.Gallen, Switzerland.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1991
‘Art Fair’, Islington, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
 ‘Contemporary British Painting’, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Saskachewan, Canada.
1992
Gallery Artists, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual.
1993
Unit 10 Gallery, Exeter.  (With Jennifer Harding).
‘Art Fair’, Islington, London.
Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.

Fiftieth birthday, Greenwich 1993 | Photo M. Morris

1994
‘Jennifer Harding & Geoffrey Rigden – Paintings and Constructions’, The Cut Gallery, London.
‘Made in Greenwich, 1974-94’, The Living Room, Greenwich, London.
Gallery Artists, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
‘Lead and Follow, The Continuity of Abstraction’, Atlantis Gallery, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1995
‘Thomas Watt and Friends’, Ramsgate Library, Kent.
1996
‘Delight – Six Painters’, University of Manchester.
2001
‘British Abstract Painting’, Flowers East, London.
2002
‘Art Crazy Nation’, Milton Keynes Gallery.
‘John Moores Open’, Liverpool.
2005
Blake, Jaques, Lewis, Rigden.  Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable, Kent.
‘To The Lighthouse’ (with J.Harding), En Plo Gallery, Kato Paphos, Cyprus.
‘Mainstream Abstract Painting from the 70s: Abercrombie, Gouk, Rigden.’  Poussin Gallery, London.
2006
‘From the Medway to the Med’, Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable, Kent.
‘Through the Large Glass’, Three Colts Gallery, London.
‘Jennifer Harding & Geoffrey Rigden’, Kypriaki Gonia Gallery, Larnaca, Cyprus.
2007
‘Triple Vision’, (with J.Harding & N.Stephens), Apocalypse Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2008
‘The Colour Show’, Hilton Young Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall.
Royal Academy Summer Show, London.  Invited exhibitor.
‘Open Studios’, APT Studios, Deptford, London.
2009
‘Summer Show’, Beaux Arts, London.
‘The Seamless Garment’, Broadbent Gallery, London.
‘Dual Purpose’ – Paintings & Constructions (with Norman Toynton), APT,London.

At APT Gallery, Deptford, 2009 | Photo Chris Morphet @Getty Images

2010
The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk.  (With Jennifer Harding).
Beaux Arts, London. Winter Exhibition.
2011
‘Uncaught Hares’ – Painting & Sculpture at Greenwich Studios 1974-1994.
Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich.
2012
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
‘Double Vision’, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London.
2013
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
‘Chromatology’, Cornaro Institute, Larnaca, Cyprus. (With J. Harding, M. Paraskos, S. Paraskos, D. Webb).
2014
‘SWITCH’, APT at Pulchri Studios, The Hague.
2015
‘8:Connect’, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent.
‘Contemporary British Abstraction’, SE9 Container Gallery, London.
‘Stockwell Depot 1967-1979’, University of Greenwich Galleries, London.
‘Construction Industry: Contemporary Assemblage, Construction and Relief’, APT Gallery, Deptford, London.
2016
‘Long Friendships’, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent. (With Mick Blake & Rob Welch).
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
2017
‘Cabbages and Kings’, Maddox Arts, London.
2018
‘The London Deal’, The Building Centre, London.
‘British Abstract Painting in the Eighties’, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University.
‘Winter Exhibition’, Maddox Arts, London.
2019
‘Clyde Hopkins and Friends’, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent.

From the archive

One Man Exhibitions

1981          Studio, Greenwich, London.

1982          Spacex Gallery, Exeter.

1983           Air Gallery, London.

1988           Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.

1990           Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.

1993           Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.

1995           Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.

1999           DeliBar, London.

2000           Cross Street Gallery (Mark Wilson Fine Art), London.

2005           Artist of The Day, Flowers Central, London.

2012           ‘Paintings and Constructions 1975 – 2012’, Poussin Gallery, London.

2016           ‘Geoffrey Rigden 1943 – 2016. An Exhibition.’, APT Gallery, Deptford, London.

Exhibition APT 2016 | Photo C. Morphet

Awards

1979           Greater London Arts.

1982           Greater London Arts.

1983           Elephant Trust.

1996           Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc., New York.

Public Collections

Arts Council of Great Britain

Contemporary Arts Society

Federation of Black Artists, Soweto, South Africa.

London Borough of Hounslow.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Corporate Collections

Arthur Andersen & Co., London.

London College of Contemporary Music

Thessaloniki 2012 | Photo J. Harding

1943  Born Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK.
1960 – 1963  Somerset College of Art, Taunton.
1963 – 1966  Royal College of Art, London.
2016  Died, London.                                                                                                               . 

In the studio at the RCA c. 1963

Selected Group Exhibitions

1965
John Moores, Liverpool.  Junior Prize Winner (selected by Clement Greenberg, Patrick Heron, John Russell).
1968
AIA Gallery, London.
‘Preview London’, Camden Arts Centre, London.
1971
‘Four Painters: Beattie, Gouk, McLean, Rigden’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
1975
Stockwell Depot Annual, London.
1977
Tolly Cobbold/Eastern Arts Association Open, Cambridge and UK touring. Prize Winner.
Zygos Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
1979
‘Summer Show 2’, Serpentine Gallery, London.
Stockwell Depot Annual, London.
1980
‘Small Works by Younger British Artists’,
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London.  Selected by John Hoyland.
1981
‘Art For Now’, Industrial Sponsors/Lloyds Bank, London.
‘Painters and Sculptors from the Greenwich Studios’, Woodlands Art Gallery, London.
Tolly Cobbold Open, London and UK touring.
1982
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London.
‘Alan Gouk and Geoff Rigden’, Woodlands Art Gallery, London.
‘Small Paintings’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Selected by Tim Hilton.
‘Two Artists’, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
1983
Triangle Arts Workshop, Pine Plains, New York, USA.
1984
‘Two Painters at Winchester’, Winchester School of Art.
‘Two Artists’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
1985
‘Six Artists’, Showroom Gallery, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1986
‘Retrospective’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.  (Artists from Cyprus College of Art).
1987
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1988
‘Paintings from the Collection of Sir Anthony Caro’, Wolfson College, Oxford.
1989
Summer Exhibition, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1990
‘Art Fair’, Olympia, London.
‘Colour in Modern Painting’, City Art Gallery, Stoke-on Trent.
‘Geoffrey Rigden and Johanes Zechner’, Agathe Nisple Galerie, St.Gallen, Switzerland.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1991
‘Art Fair’, Islington, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
 ‘Contemporary British Painting’, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Saskachewan, Canada.
1992
Gallery Artists, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual.
1993
Unit 10 Gallery, Exeter.  (With Jennifer Harding).
‘Art Fair’, Islington, London.
Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.

Fiftieth birthday, Greenwich 1993 | Photo M. Morris

1994
‘Jennifer Harding & Geoffrey Rigden – Paintings and Constructions, The Cut Gallery, London.
‘Made in Greenwich, 1974-94’, The Living Room, Greenwich, London.
Gallery Artists, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
‘Lead and Follow, The Continuity of Abstraction’, Atlantis Gallery, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1995
‘Thomas Watt and Friends’, Ramsgate Library, Kent.
1996
‘Delight – Six Painters’, University of Manchester.
2001
‘British Abstract Painting’, Flowers East, London.
2002
‘Art Crazy Nation’, Milton Keynes Gallery.
‘John Moores Open’, Liverpool.
2005
Blake, Jaques, Lewis, Rigden.  Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable, Kent.
‘To The Lighthouse’ (with J.Harding), En Plo Gallery, Kato Paphos, Cyprus.
2005
‘Mainstream Abstract Painting from the 70s: Abercrombie, Gouk, Rigden.’  Poussin Gallery, London.
2006
‘From the Medway to the Med’, Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable, Kent.
‘Through the Large Glass’, Three Colts Gallery, London.
‘Jennifer Harding & Geoffrey Rigden’, Kypriaki Gonia Gallery, Larnaca, Cyprus.
2007
‘Triple Vision’, (with J.Harding & N.Stephens), Apocalypse Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2008
‘The Colour Show’, Hilton Young Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall.
Royal Academy Summer Show, London.  Invited exhibitor.
‘Open Studios’, APT Studios, Deptford, London.
2009
‘Summer Show’, Beaux Arts, London.
‘The Seamless Garment’, Broadbent Gallery, London.
‘Dual Purpose’ – Paintings & Constructions (with Norman Toynton), APT,London.

At APT Gallery, Deptford, 2009 | Photo Chris Morphet @Getty Images

2010
The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk.  (With Jennifer Harding).
Beaux Arts, London. Winter Exhibition.
2011
‘Uncaught Hares’ – Painting & Sculpture at Greenwich Studios 1974-1994.
Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich.
2012
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
‘Double Vision’, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London.
2013
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
‘Chromatology’, Cornaro Institute, Larnaca, Cyprus. (With J. Harding, M. Paraskos, S. Paraskos, D. Webb).
2014
‘SWITCH’, APT at Pulchri Studios, The Hague.
2015
‘8:Connect’, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent.
‘Contemporary British Abstraction’, SE9 Container Gallery, London.
‘Stockwell Depot 1967-1979’, University of Greenwich Galleries, London.
‘Construction Industry: Contemporary Assemblage, Construction and Relief’, APT Gallery, Deptford, London.
2016
‘Long Friendships’, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent. (With Mick Blake & Rob Welch).
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
2017
‘Cabbages and Kings’, Maddox Arts, London.
2018
‘The London Deal’, The Building Centre, London.
‘British Abstract Painting in the Eighties’, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University.
‘Winter Exhibition’, Maddox Arts, London.
2019
‘Clyde Hopkins and Friends’, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent.

From the archive

One Man Exhibitions

1981          Studio, Greenwich, London.

1982          Spacex Gallery, Exeter.

1983           Air Gallery, London.

1988           Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.

1990           Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.

1993           Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.

1995           Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.

1999           DeliBar, London.

2000           Cross Street Gallery (Mark Wilson Fine Art), London.

2005           Artist of The Day, Flowers Central, London.

2012           ‘Paintings and Constructions 1975 – 2012’, Poussin Gallery, London.

2016           ‘Geoffrey Rigden 1943 – 2016. An Exhibition.’, APT Gallery, Deptford, London.

Exhibition APT 2016 | Photo C. Morphet

Awards

1979           Greater London Arts.

1982           Greater London Arts.

1983           Elephant Trust.

1996           Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc., New York.

Public Collections

Arts Council of Great Britain

Contemporary Arts Society

Federation of Black Artists, Soweto, South Africa.

London Borough of Hounslow.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Corporate Collections

Arthur Andersen & Co., London.

London College of Contemporary Music

Thessaloniki 2012 | Photo J. Harding

1943  Born Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK.
1960 – 1963  Somerset College of Art, Taunton.
1963 – 1966  Royal College of Art, London.
2016  Died, London.                  . 

In the studio at the RCA c. 1963

Selected Group Exhibitions

1965
John Moores, Liverpool.  Junior Prize Winner (selected by Clement Greenberg, Patrick Heron, John Russell).
1968
AIA Gallery, London.
‘Preview London’, Camden Arts Centre, London.
1971
‘Four Painters: Beattie, Gouk, McLean, Rigden’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
1975
Stockwell Depot Annual, London.
1977
Tolly Cobbold/Eastern Arts Association Open, Cambridge and UK touring. Prize Winner.
Zygos Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
1979
‘Summer Show 2’, Serpentine Gallery, London.
Stockwell Depot Annual, London.
1980
‘Small Works by Younger British Artists’,
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London.  Selected by John Hoyland.
1981
‘Art For Now’, Industrial Sponsors/Lloyds Bank, London.
‘Painters and Sculptors from the Greenwich Studios’, Woodlands Art Gallery, London.
Tolly Cobbold Open, London and UK touring.
1982
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London.
‘Alan Gouk and Geoff Rigden’, Woodlands Art Gallery, London.
‘Small Paintings’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Selected by Tim Hilton.
‘Two Artists’, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
1983
Triangle Arts Workshop, Pine Plains, New York, USA.
1984
‘Two Painters at Winchester’, Winchester School of Art.
‘Two Artists’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
1985
‘Six Artists’, Showroom Gallery, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1986
‘Retrospective’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.  (Artists from Cyprus College of Art).
1987
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1988
‘Paintings from the Collection of Sir Anthony Caro’, Wolfson College, Oxford.
1989
Summer Exhibition, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1990
‘Art Fair’, Olympia, London.
‘Colour in Modern Painting’, City Art Gallery, Stoke-on Trent.
‘Geoffrey Rigden and Johanes Zechner’, Agathe Nisple Galerie, St.Gallen, Switzerland.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1991
‘Art Fair’, Islington, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
 ‘Contemporary British Painting’, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Saskachewan, Canada.
1992
Gallery Artists, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual.
1993
Unit 10 Gallery, Exeter.  (With Jennifer Harding).
‘Art Fair’, Islington, London.
Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.

Fiftieth birthday, Greenwich 1993 | Photo M. Morris

1994
‘Jennifer Harding & Geoffrey Rigden – Paintings and Constructions, The Cut Gallery, London.
‘Made in Greenwich, 1974-94’, The Living Room, Greenwich, London.
Gallery Artists, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
‘Lead and Follow, The Continuity of Abstraction’, Atlantis Gallery, London.
Greenwich Studios Annual, London.
1995
‘Thomas Watt and Friends’, Ramsgate Library, Kent.
1996
‘Delight – Six Painters’, University of Manchester.
2001
‘British Abstract Painting’, Flowers East, London.
2002
‘Art Crazy Nation’, Milton Keynes Gallery.
‘John Moores Open’, Liverpool.
2005
Blake, Jaques, Lewis, Rigden.  Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable, Kent.
‘To The Lighthouse’ (with J.Harding), En Plo Gallery, Kato Paphos, Cyprus.
2005
‘Mainstream Abstract Painting from the 70s: Abercrombie, Gouk, Rigden.’  Poussin Gallery, London.
2006
‘From the Medway to the Med’, Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable, Kent.
‘Through the Large Glass’, Three Colts Gallery, London.
‘Jennifer Harding & Geoffrey Rigden’, Kypriaki Gonia Gallery, Larnaca, Cyprus.
2007
‘Triple Vision’, (with J.Harding & N.Stephens), Apocalypse Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2008
‘The Colour Show’, Hilton Young Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall.
Royal Academy Summer Show, London.  Invited exhibitor.
‘Open Studios’, APT Studios, Deptford, London.
2009
‘Summer Show’, Beaux Arts, London.
‘The Seamless Garment’, Broadbent Gallery, London.
‘Dual Purpose’ – Paintings & Constructions (with Norman Toynton), APT,London.

At APT Gallery, Deptford, 2009 | Photo Chris Morphet @Getty Images

2010
The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk.  (With Jennifer Harding).
Beaux Arts, London. Winter Exhibition.
2011
‘Uncaught Hares’ – Painting & Sculpture at Greenwich Studios 1974-1994.
Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich.
2012
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
‘Double Vision’, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London.
2013
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
‘Chromatology’, Cornaro Institute, Larnaca, Cyprus. (With J. Harding, M. Paraskos, S. Paraskos, D. Webb).
2014
‘SWITCH’, APT at Pulchri Studios, The Hague.
2015
‘8:Connect’, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent.
‘Contemporary British Abstraction’, SE9 Container Gallery, London.
‘Stockwell Depot 1967-1979’, University of Greenwich Galleries, London.
‘Construction Industry: Contemporary Assemblage, Construction and Relief’, APT Gallery, Deptford, London.
2016
‘Long Friendships’, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent. (With Mick Blake & Rob Welch).
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
2017
‘Cabbages and Kings’, Maddox Arts, London.
2018
‘The London Deal’, The Building Centre, London.
‘British Abstract Painting in the Eighties’, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University.
‘Winter Exhibition’, Maddox Arts, London.
2019
‘Clyde Hopkins and Friends’, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent.

From the archive

One Man Exhibitions

1981  Studio, Greenwich, London.

1982  Spacex Gallery, Exeter.

1983   Air Gallery, London.

1988   Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.

1990   Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.

1993   Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.

1995   Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.

1999   DeliBar, London.

2000   Cross Street Gallery (Mark Wilson Fine Art), London.

2005   Artist of The Day, Flowers Central, London.

2012   ‘Paintings and Constructions 1975 – 2012’, Poussin Gallery, London.

2016   ‘Geoffrey Rigden 1943 – 2016. An Exhibition.’, APT Gallery, Deptford, London.

Exhibition APT 2016 | Photo C. Morphet

Awards

1979  Greater London Arts.

1982  Greater London Arts.

1983  Elephant Trust.

1996  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc., New York.

Public Collections

Arts Council of Great Britain

Contemporary Arts Society

Federation of Black Artists, Soweto, South Africa.

London Borough of Hounslow.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Corporate Collections

Arthur Andersen & Co., London.

London College of Contemporary Music

Thessaloniki 2012 | Photo J. Harding