From 1967 he taught art at various colleges in the south of England. He left the school at the age of 16 to study painting at the Walthamstow College of Art, having gained GCE 'O' Levels in English Language, English Literature and Art.įrom 1964 he studied art at the Royal College of Art under Peter Blake, and in 1967 took part in a group exhibition, "Fantasy and Figuration", alongside Pat Douthwaite, Herbert Kitchen and Stass Paraskos at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. If I got a word wrong I had to go back, they added that to the end of the sentence and after five nights of this my head had definitely gone. I had to go into a box room where the suitcases were stored and learn 80 lines of Ode to Autumn by yer man Keats. Chailey taught trades such as cobbling and printing, but Dury's mother wanted him to be more academic, so his aunt Moll arranged for him to enter the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, where he recounted being punished for misdemeanours by being made to learn long tracts of poetry until a housemaster found him sobbing and put a stop to it:
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After six weeks in a full plaster cast in Royal Cornwall Infirmary, Truro, he was moved to Black Notley Hospital, Braintree, Essex, where he spent a year and a half before going to Chailey Heritage Craft School, East Sussex, in 1951.Ĭhailey was a school and hospital for disabled children, and believed in toughening them up, contributing to the observant and determined person Dury became.
Although he saw his father on visits, they never lived together again.Īt the age of seven, he contracted polio most likely, he believed, from a swimming pool at Southend on Sea during the 1949 polio epidemic. In 1946 Peggy brought Ian back to England and they stayed with her sister, Mary, a doctor in Cranham, a small village in Essex. After the Second World War, the family moved to Switzerland, where his father chauffeured for a millionaire and the Western European Union.
William Dury trained with Rolls-Royce to be a chauffeur, and was then absent for long periods, so Peggy Dury took Ian to stay with her parents in Cornwall. 1995) was a health visitor, the daughter of a Cornish doctor and the granddaughter of an Irish landowner.
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His father, William George Dury (born 23 September 1905, Southborough, Kent died 25 February 1968), was a bus driver and former boxer, while his mother Margaret (known as "Peggy", born Margaret Cuthbertson Walker, 17 April 1910, Rochdale, Lancashire d. Dury was born at his parents' home at 43 Weald Rise, Harrow Weald, Middlesex (though he often pretended that he had been born in Upminster, Essex, which all but one of his obituaries in the UK national press stated as fact).
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