Walter Kershaw, Esq

Career: war artist King's Regt NI 1976; artist and pioneer of large external mural painting; UK work: Manchester Trafford Park 1993, Science Museum, Manchester United FC, CEGB, Univ of Salford 1979-89, Br Aerospace and Granada TV 1984-88, Wensum Lodge Norwich 1985, Italian Consulate Manchester 1991, P&O Manchester Arndale 1996; work abroad: Brazil, São Paulo and Recife 1983-95, Sarajevo Int Arts Festival 1996, Briggs of Burton 1999, Airtours 1999, Leonard Cheshire Homes 2002, Yuri Gagarin Mural Manchester 2011; works exhibited: V&A, Tate Gallery, Nat Portrait Gallery, Gulbenkian Fndn, Arts Cncl and Br Cncl Berlin, Brazil and Edinburgh; in conversation BBC Radio Four with Sue MacGregor 1984