CURRICULUM VITAE SAIED DAI RP, NEAC
ART EDUCATION
1980 – 1984 Royal Academy of Arts, London, Post Graduate Diploma in Painting
1977 – 1980 Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Degree – Fine Art, Painting
1976 – 1977 Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Foundation Diploma
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2022 – Portrait Commission for The Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art – Houses of Parliament
2021 – Double portrait of Derek Paravicini and Adam Ockleford for Roehampton University (commissioned by Dame Stephanie Shirley)
2019 – Portrait of Dame Jacqueline Wilson, for The Foundling Museum (commissioned by Dame Stephanie Shirley)
2019 – Worshipful company of Information Technologists, London, Architectural Commission
2018 – Portrait of the first female Master, Debby Ounsted, for The Mercers Company, London
2018 – Dame Carol Black, for Newnham College Cambridge
2013 – Dame Monica Mason, for National Portrait Gallery
2012 – Dame Stephanie Shirley, Philanthropist, for Balliol College Oxford
2012 – The Very Reverend Christopher Lewis, Dean of Christchurch College, Oxford
2007 – Major Charles Marriot, Yeoman to the Queens Body Guard
2007 – Sir Christopher Frayling (Chairman of ‘The Arts Council’, and Rector of ‘The Royal College of Art’, London).
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 – ‘In the Mind’s Eye’, Brian Sinfield Gallery, Oxfordshire
2023 – ‘Capturing Life’: A Century of The New English Art Club, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
2022 – ‘Winners‘: Award Winning Artists 2020-2022, Mall Galleries, London
2020, 2021, 2022 – The New English Art Cub at Chris Beetles Gallery, Mixed Show
2019 – Joint Exhibition, Brian Sinfield Gallery, Oxfordshire
2000 – 2023 – Royal Society of Portrait Painters
2009 – 2023 – The New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London
2018 – New Perspectives, Messums Wiltshire
2017 – Joint Exhibition, Brian Sinfield Gallery, Oxfordshire
2016 – Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition
– Columbia Threadneedle Prize Exhibition
– Brian Sinfield Gallery
2015 – Toronto Art Fair, with Messum’s
2014 – Messum’s Gallery, Cork Street, London
2014 – Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, Mixed Show
– Toronto Art Fair, with Messum’s
2013 – National Portrait Gallery, B.P Portrait Award Exhibition
– Dame Monica Mason portrait commission, for The National Portrait Gallery
2012 – Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, Mixed Show
2011 – Messum’s Gallery, Cork Street, London, Solo Show
– ‘Pure Gold: 50 Years of the Federation of British Artists’, Mall Galleries, London
2010 – ‘The Discerning Eye’ Mall Galleries, London
– Royal West of England Academy, Open Exhibition, invited Artist
– ‘The Magic and Poetry of Everyday Life’, Messum’s, London
2009 – Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, Solo Show
2009 – Frost and Reed, London,
2005- 2009 – Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London, mixed exhibitions
2008 – Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath, mixed exhibition
– Alan Cluckow Fine Art, Sunningdale, Berkshire, Three Man Show
– Girton College, Cambridge, Peoples Portrait Collection
– Quest Gallery, Bath, Solo Exhibition
– Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Prince of Wales Drawing School Award
2006 – Holburne Museum, Bath, The Holburne Dukes Portrait Prize
– Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London, Solo Show
2000 & 2006 – National Portrait Gallery, Selection of work from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition
2005 – Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London, Solo Show
2004 – The Holburne Contemporary Portrait Prize Exhibition, Holburne Museum, Bath
1990 – 2016 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (regular exhibitor)
1990 – Nairi Sahakian Gallery, London
– B.P. Portrait Award Exhibition (Prize Winner) The National Portrait Gallery, London
– ‘Young Contemporaries‘, (Prize Winner) Christies, London
– Sue Rankin Gallery, London
– Agnew’s Fine Arts, London
PRIZES & MISCELLANEOUS
2023 – ‘The William Lock Portrait Prize’, Royal Society of Portrait Painters
2021 – ‘Ondaatje Prize’ and Gold medal for Portraiture, Royal Society of Portrait Painters
2018 – ‘RP Portrait Prize’, Mall Galleries,
2014 – ‘Changing Faces Prize’, Royal Society of Portrait Painters
2009 – Elected to The New English Art Club
2007 – The Prince of Wales Drawing School Award, for Portrait Drawing, Royal Society of Portrait Painters
2006 – ‘Ondaatje Prize’ and Gold Medal for Portraiture, Royal Society of Portrait Painters
2004 – Elected to The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London
2002 – BBC Documentary on Elizabeth 1, (‘Great Britons’ series) 35 pieces of artwork.