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Although he became best known as a publisher, he saw himself primarily as an artist whose business activities existed to support his painting.[2] BiographyOscar Mellor was born and educated in Manchester, moving to Birmingham with his family in 1939 and serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II.[1] He had been painting surrealist watercolours from the age of 15, but took up painting more seriously on returning from the war in 1946, studying part-time at the Birmingham School of Art and the Ruskin School and becoming an associate of Conroy Maddox and the Birmingham Surrealists.[3] In 1947 he was a founder member of the Birmingham Artists Committee - which existed to organise exhibitions of avant-garde artists ignored by the conservative Royal Birmingham Society of Artists - exhibiting with them alongside artists such as John Melville, William Gear, Emmy Bridgwater and Desmond Morris between 1947 and 1951.[1] Moving to Oxford in 1948 to continue his studies at The Ruskin, he briefly went into business with Conroy Maddox before establishing himself as a publisher and photographer in Swinford, Oxfordshire, founding the Fantasy Press in 1951 and producing regular photographic work for Oxford Playhouse.[1] From 1969 until 1973 he was a lecturer in photography at Exeter College of Art, after which he returned full-time to painting[4] until shortly before his death in 2005. References1. ^1 2 3 {{Citation | last=Sidey | first=Tessa | chapter=Biographies: Oscar Mellor | editor-last=Sidey | title=Surrealism in Birmingham 1935-1954 | pages = 59–60 | publisher=Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery | publication-date=2000 | isbn=0-7093-0235-5 | year=2000 }}. {{Surrealism}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Mellor, Oscar}}2. ^You Muddy Fools Letter by Trevor Denning to the London Review of Books, 7 February 2002 3. ^{{Citation | last=Tulip | first=Phoebe | chapter=Oscar Mellor: a Private View | editor-last=Sidey | title=Surrealism in Birmingham 1935-1954 | pages = 47–50 | publisher=Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery | publication-date=2000 | isbn=0-7093-0235-5 | year=2000 }}. 4. ^The Eynsham Record, Number 19, 2002 "Oscar Mellor, Printer & Artist", p34 8 : Surrealist artists|20th-century English painters|English male painters|21st-century English painters|British book publishers (people)|Alumni of Birmingham Institute of Art and Design|1921 births|2005 deaths |
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