Frank Lisle Biography

Born May 7 1916 Leeds
Died May 27th 1986, Shillingstone, Dorset
Education 1927 - 31 Leeds Modern School - (don't think he got any certificates at all!)
1931-1936 Leeds College of Art 1933 Intermediate Art Scholarship
1936 Senior Art Scholarship
1926 Awarded Free Studentship Royal College of Art
1939 Associateship of the Royal College
War Service 1940-1945 1940 Corporal Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
1941 Sergeant Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
1942 Commissioned East Lancashire Regiment
1944 Captain
1945 Loss of Left Eye
Teaching 1946 Appointed to Staff of Leeds College of Art
1948-1960/61 Bradford College of Art, Head of School of Painting
1961 - Leeds College of Art - Head of Foundation Department
1976 Leeds College of Art Principal - renamed as Jacob Kramer College of Art by Frank
Other From its start Education Representative on Clothing and Allied Products Training Board until 1976
Chairman of Art and Design Committee of the Yorkshire Council for Further Education (4 years)
Senior Art Examiner for the Northern Universities Circuit (3 years)
1976 Resigned in order to continue own work Exhibited RA, RBA and RP
Elected ARBA 1981, full member 1982, council member 1984
Part-time teacher SACA
(Sherbourne Shillingstone Summer School venture 1985)
Work in collections Italy
America