Aidan
Hart Biography
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BIOGRAPHY
OF AIDAN HART
Aidan was
born in England in 1957 and grew up in New Zealand. There
he worked as a full-time sculptor after completing a degree
in English literature and a Diploma in Secondary Education
teaching. At the age of twenty-five, after becoming a member
of the Orthodox Church and returning to live in England,
he began painting and carving icons, which he has been doing
professionally ever since.
His commissioned work has been primarily for panel icons,
which are painted in the traditional way in egg tempera,
but has also frescoed churches, illuminated on vellum and
carved work in stone and wood for churches. He has over
700 commissioned works in private and church collections
in over 15 countries of the world.
He has had numerous articles published on the subjects of
iconography, ecology and Orthodox spirituality, has curated
four icon exhibitions, and is the founder and tutor to the
Diploma in Icon and Wall Painting run by The Prince's School
of Traditional Arts, London. He has spent a total of two
years on Mount Athos, mainly at the Holy Monastery of Iviron.
Aidan has recently completed a major work, "Techniques
of Icon and Wall Painting", published by Gracewing.
For more information or to buy, click
Aidan Hart New Icon Book
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- 1957
- 1958-1983
- 1976
- 1977
- 1978-1983
- 1980-1983
- 1983
- 1984,5,6
- 1987,8
- 1993,4
- 2002
- 2005
- 2009
- Born in England
- Grew up in New Zealand
- BA from the University of Auckland, NZ
- Dip. Ed.
- Worked as a professional sculptor in Auckland
- Sculpting Tutor at The Auckland Society of Artists
- On becoming a member of the Orthodox Church he returned
to the U.K. and began full-time as an icon carver and
painter
- Visits Russia to study icons
- Lives in Thessalonika, Greece to study modern Greek
at the University of Aristotle and study Byzantine icons
- Lives at Iviron Monastery, Mt Athos Greece with main
work as monastery iconographer
- Became visiting tutor at The Prince's
School of Traditional Arts, London
- Began lecturing as a visiting tutor at the Cambridge
University International Summer Schools
- Founded and teaches The Diploma in Icon and Wall Painting
in Shropshire, run by The Prince’s School of Traditional
Arts
COMMISSIONS
: A SELECTION
Since
1980 Aidan has completed over 700 private and church commissions.
A small selection is listed below
- 1980
- 1981
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1989
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- 1995
- 1996
- 1996-2000
- 1997
- 1998
- 1999
- 1999-2004
- 2000-2003
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009-2010
- Crucifix for St Paul's
Anglican Church, Auckland
- Bronze statue of St Francis of Assisi for St Barnabas
Church, Auckland
- Wooden carved cross for The Parish of St John of Kronstadt.
Bath
- Wooden cross for the Convent of St John of Kronstadt,
Bath
- Wooden cross for a school in Belfast, commissioned
by Lord Hilton
- Bronze icon for Sir John Tavener
- Icon of St Wilfrid, for Hexham Abbey, Northumberland
- Large icon for Birmingham Greek Orthodox Cathedral
- Icons of the Crucifixion and the Virgin for St Ann's
Church, Kew Gardens, London
- Tabernacle for the Monastery of St Silouan, Saint
Mars de Locquenay, France
- Carved oak casing for the Portaitissa
icon, Iviron Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece | Iviron
commissions an icon for His All Holiness the Ecumenical
Patriarch, Bartholomeios | Iviron commission a design
of large embroidery to adorn the Portaitissa icon
- Fresco the chapel of the Hermitage of St. Anthony
and St Cuthbert, Shropshire
- Twelve feast icons for St John's
Anglican Church, Clevedon, Bristol
- Carved oak icon screen, icons and stone altar for
The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Fathers, Shrewsbury.
- The Antiochian Deanery of Britain commission an icon
of St Chad for Lichfield Cathedral
- Icon screen, icons, tabernacle and silver lamps for
the Chapel of St Joseph's
Presbytery, Barnoldswick, Lancashire
- Icon of the Virgin for Hereford Cathedral
- Icons for HRH The Prince of Wales
- Illustrations on vellum for The Saint Johns Bible,
St. John's
Abbey. Minnesota, USA.
- Fresco the Chapel of the Holy Veil in Limni, Evia,
Greece | Fresco of the Annunciation for a private house
in Cumbria
- Fresco for HRH The Prince of Wales, at Highgrove,
England
- Icons of the Mother of God and St. Nicholas
for St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle-on-Tyne | Icon
of Francis of Assisi for church in Spain | Transfiguration
icon for St Gasty Retreat House, Wales | The Bishop
of Warwick commissions an icon of the Transfiguration
- The Merciful Jesus for St Martin's
Church, Cardiff | Carve icon screen and paint the icons
for The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Camberwell, London
- Frescoes for a private chapel in Keswick, Cumbria
| Frescoes for chapel of Shrewsbury School | Icon for
Carlisle Cathedral
- Icon of John the Baptist for St John's
University, Minneapolis. | Portrait bust commissioned
by HRH The Prince of Wales of Patrick Holden, Director
of the Soil Association
- Portrait bust of the Bishop of London,
Richard Chartes, commissioned by HRH The Prince of Wales.
| Carve stone icon screen for St Nicholas Russian Orthodox
Church, Amsterdam. | Two metre high “Romanesque”
crucifix for St Urban’s Catholic Church, Leeds
EXHIBITIONS:
GROUP AND ONE MAN
- 1978
- 1979
- 1980
- 1982
- 1991
- 1999
- 2000
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- Outreach, Auckland, NZ
- Vision Gallery, Auckland, NZ
- Denis Cohen Gallery, Auckland, NZ
- Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney, Australia
- Oriel 31, Newtown, Wales | Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
| Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
- The Pumphouse, Auckland; works on vellum
- Bear Steps Gallery, Shrewsbury | The Pieridis Gallery,
Athens
- Bear Steps Gallery, Shrewsbury | Art in Essence, Mandeville
Place, London
- Long and Ryle, London | Minneapolis Museum for The
St John's Bible, volumes I-III
- The Victoria and Albert Museum, volume
IV of The Saint John's Bible | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha,
USA, for St John's
Bible volumes I-III | Tyler Museum of Art. Texas, St
John's Bible
| Museum of Biblical Image and Art, New York, St John's
Bible | Library of Congress, Washington, DC, St John's
Bible | "Sacred Iconography: A Living Tradition",
at The Prince's
Foundation, London.
- "Epiphany: Contemporary iconographers" at
Wallspace Gallery, London.
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