- John Latham was born on the 23rd of February 1921
- He was a North-Rhodesian-born British conceptual artist
- Latham was educated at Winchester College
- In the Second World War, he commanded a motor torpedo boat in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
- After the war, he studied art, first at the Regent Street Polytechnic and then at the Chelsea College of Art and Design
- He married a fellow artist and collaborator Barbara Steveni in Westminster in 1951
- The spray can become Latham’s primary medium, as can be seen in Man Caught Up with a Yellow Object (oil painting, 1954) in the Tate Gallery collection
- In 2016 the Henry Moore Institute presented A Lesson in Sculpture with John Latham, an exhibition addressing Latham’s visionary contribution to the study of sculpture, bringing sixteen works by Latham, spanning 1958 to 2005, into conversation with sixteen sculptures by artists working across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- In 2016 Pink Floyd released their collection of rare and unreleased recorded early material in the box set The Early Years 1965–1972
- In 2017, Latham’s work featured in the main exhibition of the 57th Venice Biennale, Viva Arte Viva
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