EDWARD BULLMORE
, an exhibition of leading Surrealist painters at Exeter City Gallery in 1967, and through film-maker Stanley Kubrick’s inclusion of his work in Clockwork Orange (1971).
He attended Canterbury University College of Art, Christchurch, New Zealnd (1951-1955) and studied portraiture in Florence under Pietro Annigoni in 1959, then Bullmore moved to London in 1960. There his painting rapidly absorbed numerous influences: Neo-Romanticism, Classicism, Surrealism, and Pop Art. However, essential to his work was a perception of the landscape as primeval, erotic and fertile. For example: The Days Grow Longer, (1959), the Hikurangi Series (1965), and the shaped canvases of the Astroform series in London (1967). Famously his work featured in a scene in A Clockwork Orange, by Stanley Kubrick, the film director being a collector of his work.
In 1969 he returned to New Zealand but like many expatriate artists he has remained essentially under appreciated in his homeland. He moved with his family to Rotorua to take up a teaching position in 1969 and died in 1978.
Bullmore’s work is held in the Tauranga Art Gallery and the Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa in Wellington, New Zealand.
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