Berenice Sydney British, 1944-1983

Berenice Sydney's oeuvre spans multiple media, including painting, printmaking, and costume design. Sydney studied at the Central School of Art and Design in London but soon left to open her own studio. During her short lifetime she took part in many international solo and group exhibitions.  Following her premature death in 1983, The Royal Academy organised a memorial show of her production called 'Salute to Berenice', followed by solo shows in Italy, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Switzerland, and the UK. Her artworks are included in over a hundred important private and public collections around the world, including Tate (London), the British Museum (London), the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), the Bibliotèque Nationale (Paris), the Bibliothèque Royale (Brussels), the Galleria D'Arte Moderna (Bologna), the Uffizi Gallery (Florence), the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.), the Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires), the Philadelphia Museum, the Brooklyn Museum (New York), and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).

Her earlier artistic style was heavily influenced by cubism and fauvism but in the late 1960s she abandoned this style and fully dedicated herself to abstraction. Through the use of her bold color pairings Sydney is able to capture a strong sense of movement in her work.