About
Teresa Lawler studied at the Slade School of Fine Art , University College London
before joining the BBC Design Department, leaving in 1993. Since then she has worked in
Production Design both in TV and theatre and in education first at NTU in Singapore and then
at Kingston University where she was Course Director for MA Production Design in Film and TV
from 1999 -2013.
During this time she has continued to produce her own work ranging from paintings,
drawings and prints to light installations. Over recent years the emphasis has moved to
painting and drawing which are now the main focus of her practice.
Education
1981 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London HDFA (post graduate Painting)
1978 University of Northumbria BA (hons) Fine Art
Selected exhibitions and productions
2020 Forthcoming:
Seen through a filmic eye : Paintings by Roger Aslin
and Teresa Lawler. Joint exhibition at the Lightbox, Woking
18th - 30th August
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours annual exhibition
Mall Galleries, London 2nd - 17th April
The Pastel Society annual exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2019 The Westmorland Landscape Prize
Rheged Gallery, Penrith, Cumbria
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours annual exhibition
Mall Galleries, London
2018 Art Gemini Prize Finalists Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London
New Light Prize exhibition
Bankside Gallery, London
Huddersfield Art Gallery
Tullie House Museum and Gallery, Carlisle.
Yvonne Arnaud Art Exhibition, The Mill Studio, Guildford
2017 New Light Prize Exhibition
Bowes Art Museum, Barnard Castle
Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2016 Derwent Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London
Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Art Gemini Prize Finalists Exhibition, Asia House Gallery, New Cavendish Street, London
Group show, Clyde and Co, Guildford
2015 Art Gemini Prize Finalists Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London
Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2014 Group Show, Baker-Tilley, 1 London Square Guildford
2013 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Cork Street Open Exhibition
2008 The National Open Art Competition, Chichester
2007 The National Open Art Competition, Chichester
NOAC highly commended works The Arts Club, Dover Street, London
Celeste Painting Prize, shortlisted artist
2002 Jonathan Creek BBC TV drama – Art Director
2001 The Cazalets BBC TV period drama – Art Director
1997 Cyrano de Bergerac , ZooTango Theatre Company Australia – Designer
1996 Deceit, Louis Nowra play , Zootango Theatre Company Australia - Designer
1995/6 Multi media exhibition on ‘Communication'
Large scale solo exhibition involving interactive light based installations, paintings
and prints shown in Singapore and Melbourne Australia
sponsored by British Telecom
1991 Solo exhibition British Council Singapore -
work purchased by the National Museum Singapore, British Airways
and the British Council Singapore