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Painter and printmaker born in Edinburgh. At the onset of World War II, his family relocated to Blackpool while his father enlisted in the army. Mick's first employment was with Amalgamated Press working as an illustrator on comics before moving to London where he studied at Chelsea School of Art, 1958-1962 and at the Royal College of Art, London from 1962 to 1963. Moon also lectured at the Slade from 1973-1990. He held a residency in Australia at the Prahran School of Art and Design in Melbourne in 1982.
His first solo exhibition was at the Waddington Galleries, London in 1969, with others at the Tate Gallery, London in 1976, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham in 1980 and at galleries in Sydney, Philadelphia and San Francisco. In 1980 Moon received a Major Arts Council Award and First Prize at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, and in 1984 he received the Gulbenkian Print Award. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1994.
His works are held in numerous public collections including Aberdeen Art Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Hunterian Glasgow, Reading Museum, Saatchi Collection, London, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Gallery, London, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, the Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
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