New Acquisitions Display June 2025

Stephen Buckley – 10 Colour Etchings

This set of 10 colour etchings was recently donated by Marco Livingstone, the art historian and writer, via the Art Fund. Livingstone has a vast collection and offered Leicester Museums a large number of works by the artist Stephen Buckley, who hails from Leicester. We selected this set of etchings as we didn’t have any prints by the artist, but already had paintings.

Stephen Buckley is best known as an abstract artist. He has had solo exhibitions at galleries including the Tate, and his works are held in major public collections both within the UK and further afield. His works are often large-scale paintings, sometimes employing mixed media, so these etchings are a distinct contrast to those, both in scale and texture.

Stephen Buckley (b. 1944), Ten Colour Etchings, Etchings on paper, 1979-1980.

Presented by Marco Livingstone through the Art Fund, 2024.

Roy Bizley Screenprint

This screenprint has come from a local lady, Maureen Waugh, who was a friend of the artist’s wife, Pat. They met in the mid-1960s through the Leicester branch of the National Housewives’ Register, which was formed to help young educated wives of the emerging professional middle class to meet similar women who had had to give up work when they had married and had children (as was the norm at that time). Maureen had been a hospital biochemist and Pat a radiographer, and they bonded over their shared interests of theatre, film and the local Labour Party. This screenprint was a gift to Maureen from Pat and Roy one Christmas.

Roy was an important local artist, who came to Leicester in 1964 and was instrumental in setting up the printmaking department at Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), where he taught until his retirement.

Roy Bizley (1930-1999), Untitled, Screenprint, 1968.

Donated by Maureen Waugh, 2025.