Nigel Temple (1926-2003)
Nigel Temple 1926-2003
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Artist Information
Nigel Temple was an artist in collage, a photographer, and a lecturer and writer on architecture. He was born in Lowestoft, studied at Farnham School of Art, 1948-52, then received his national diploma in design and art teacher's certificate at Sheffield College of Art, 1952-3.
Nigel Temple also gained his master's degree in architecture at University of Bristol, 1978, and a doctorate at University of Keele, 1985.
After serving in Royal Air Force meteorology, 1944-8, then five years as a full time art student Temple lectured at colleges of art and education, 1957-78, from 1978-9 having an artist-in-residence secondment at Bristol University. He was a member of the RWA, also showing with the Cheltenham Group and on the continent.
He had a series of solo exhibitions in the provinces including RWA and Cheltenham Art Gallery, both of which hold his work, Bristol and Reading Universities and New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham. There was a retrospective, entitled Continuum at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton in 2000.
Nigel Temple lived in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.