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# Deanna Petherbridge

(1938–2024)   Artist   United Kingdom

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Deanna Petherbridge was an artist from the United Kingdom, best known for *Deanna Petherbridge*.

## Quick Facts About Deanna Petherbridge

Born November 30, 1938

Died January 8, 2024

Nationality United Kingdom

Profession Artist

Notable works Deanna Petherbridge

## About Deanna Petherbridge

Deanna Petherbridge was a South African and British artist, writer and curator. Petherbridge's practice was drawing-based, although she also produced large-scale murals and designed for the theatre. Her publications in the area of art and architecture were concerned with contemporary as well as historical matters, and in latter years she concentrated on writing about drawing. The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice was published June 2010 and curated exhibitions included The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy, 1997, Witches and Wicked Bodies, 2013. She celebrated a retrospective exhibition of her drawings at Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester accompanied by the monograph Deanna Petherbridge: Drawing and Dialogue, Circa Press, 2016.

## Awards & Honors

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

##  Quotes by Deanna Petherbridge

> [In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deanna-petherbridge/in-my-work-i-ve-never-done-preliminary-drawing-because-it-s-sometimes/)

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> [It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deanna-petherbridge/it-is-my-entire-visual-art-practice-i-eat-sleep-think-write-about-and/)

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> [I work on drawing as a final product.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deanna-petherbridge/i-work-on-drawing-as-a-final-product/)

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