Painter, who was born in Yoker, Glasgow of Irish parentage and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, 1949-53 where his tutors included Mary and William Armour, and David Donaldson, before spending time in Paris. He also worked as a set painter for the Olympia Theatre and the Theatre Royal in Dublin. His first one-person exhibition was held in London in 1957. From the early 1980’s, Crozier spent part of each year in West Cork, Ireland and also taught at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham and at Winchester College of Art as Head of Painting.
His various exhibiting venues included the Drian Gallery, London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, ICA, Madeleine Gallery, Paris, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, Traverse Art Gallery, Edinburgh, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Serpentine Gallery, London, Angela Flowers, Ireland, the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh and London, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, RHA, Dublin, The Taylor Galleries, Dublin and at the William Jackson Gallery, London.
Crozier who was a member of Aosdana has paintings are in the collections of Aberdeen Art Gallery, ACGB, AIB, Birmingham Art Gallery, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA, Copenhagen Museum of Modem Art, Dallas Museum of Modern Art, Gdansk National Museum, Huddersfield Art Gallery, IMMA, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Manchester City Art Gallery, Melbourne National Museum of Australia, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Collection, SAC, SNGMA, Sheffield Art Gallery, Shipley Art Gallery, Towner Art Gallery, V&A, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Warsaw National Museum.
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