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Studio Club, the predecessor of the St. Catharines Art
Association which he also founded. Partridge co-founded the St. Catharines Public Library Art Gallery in 1952 where he became its first curator, a post he was to hold until 1956. Partridge was also an unpaid art critic for the St Catharines Standard for three years. He taught with the St Catharines Art Association for four years before retiring from teaching, and relocating to Paris where he studied under
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were not only imbued with colour and texture, but arranged in such a manner as to encourage the viewer to interact and touch the works, allowing soundwaves to resonate throughout the gallery. Partridge had a solo exhibition at the Moore
Gallery, Hamilton in 1987, and showed at Nancy Poole's Studio in
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in 1949 and returned in the two subsequent years with an oil and a watercolour. It was thirteen years before he presented further works to the academy returning with two works, one painting and one sculpture in 1964. He returned to the RCA at regular intervals throughout of his career. Partridge sat
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College where he taught art between 1947 and 1956. Between 1952 and 1956 he also taught part-time at St Catharines Collegiate. He also taught in the summer school at Queen's where he was a student several years earlier. Partridge founded the
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Partridge had his first solo exhibition at the St. Catharines Public
Library Art Gallery, Ontario in 1956 where he returned for another one-man show in 1959. He also held further solo displays at the Robertson Galleries, Ottawa in 1959, 1960, and in 1962. In 1959 he displayed works at the Third
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Jerrold Morris International Gallery in Ontario presented his works in the winter of 1962. In the autumn of 1962 Partridge moved with his family to England where had received an honourable mention at the RCA earlier in the year. The family remained in England for 12 years before
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Partridge suffered a stroke in 2003 which limited his mobility. He died of a heart attack on 11 December 2006, aged 87. He was survived by his wife, one son, and a daughter. In 2007, Toronto's Moore
Gallery held a retrospective of Partridge watercolours painted after his stroke.
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studio in the winter of 1956. Partridge then moved to Sussex, England for 2 years. He returned to Canada in 1958 and settled in Ottawa. He returned to teaching part-time, twice a week at the
Municipal Art Centre in Ottawa in 1960. Partridge retired from teaching in 1962.
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Partridge present a further one-man show of sculpture and reliefs at the Hamilton Galleries, London, curated by Annely Juda Fine Art. In November 1970 Partridge hosted his fourth one-man exhibition in London, at the Covent Garden Gallery. The
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Partridge held a solo exhibition in the Rose and Crown Tavern in the village of
Fletching, East Sussex in 1957. Before his return to Ottawa in 1958 Partridge's main interests were in etchings and painting but he soon began to work on his first
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Partridge indulged his lifelong passion for flying by buying a DIY microlight plane in 1980 which he partially constructed at his studio before transporting it to the family's summer lodge at Stony Lake, Ontario for its maiden flight.
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for $ 750. By the time he held his first solo exhibition at the New Vision Centre London in 1964, Partridge had completed around 75 relief sculptures from nails. Partridge presented one of his nail sculptures at
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their largest purchase to date, partnering with Ontario's Wintario Lottery to pay the artist's $ 30,000 fee in 1979.
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returning to Toronto in 1974 where Partridge was to engage the Robertson Gallery as his main agents.
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