London, Albemarle Gallery, John Bratby, Venice: The Hemingway Suite, March – April 1991 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 9);
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Colourful Lives of Artists, 30 April – 30 June 2013;
Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, The Human Face, 27 January – 12 March 2016
John Bratby worked in a social realist style, using vibrant colours painted or applied thickly onto his canvasses. On first seeing the work of Bratby and his contemporaries in 1954, David Sylvester saw that their art presented a remarkable variety of subjects. “Everything but the kitchen sink? The kitchen sink too.” The name the Kitchen Sink Painters was thus coined.
