About Tess Jaray
Tess Jaray (born 1937) is a British painter and printmaker. She taught at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL from 1968 until 1999. Over the last twenty years Jaray has completed a succession of major public art projects. She was made an Honorary Fellow of RIBA (Royal Institute for British Architects) in 1995 and a Royal Academician in 2010 and later a Senior RA in 2013. Jaray's father Franz Ferdinand Jaray was a chemical engineer and industrial inventor. Jaray's great aunt was the gallerist Lea Bondi Jaray who was responsible for bringing many of the German Expressionists to London. In 2017 she received an honorary award from Norwich University of the Arts in recognition of her outstanding contribution t.
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