Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Sea Pictures, 16 January – 21 March 2010;
Woking, The Lightbox, Ways of Seeing, 15 January 2011 – 13 March 2011;
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, 23 October 2016 – 8 January 2017;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, London|Forward Facing, 26 September 2017 – 18 July 2018;
Cookham, The Stanley Spencer Gallery, Counterpoint: Stanley Spencer and his contemporaries, 28 March – 3 November 2019;
Norwich, Sainsbury Centre, Art Deco by the Sea, 9 February – 20 September 2020 and touring to Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery, 17 October 2020 – 27 February 2021;
Hastings, Hastings Contemporary, Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach, 27 May – 31 October 2021
Robert Greenham was born in Streatham and trained at the Byam Shaw School of Art and then at the Royal Academy Schools, 1926-29, where he won many prizes. His work became popular during a period when he painted coastal and beach scenes, many of which were set in Suffolk. His landscapes are characterised by strong outlines and areas of flat colour, rather poster-like in style, where aspects of the composition take on an almost abstract life. In the thirties and forties, Greenham made a series of portraits of actresses and film stars, including Greta Garbo and Jessie Matthews, inspired by cinema stills.
