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Cherith McKinstry (Cherith Rosalind Boyd) was born on 4 March, 1928 in Powick, Worcestershire, is an Irish painter and sculptor. Discover Cherith McKinstry's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

Popular As Cherith Rosalind Boyd
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Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 4 March 1928
Birthday 4 March
Birthplace Powick, Worcestershire
Date of death 2004
Died Place Lisburn, County Antrim
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1928

Cherith McKinstry (4 March 1928 -October 2004) was an Irish painter and sculptor.

Cherith Boyd was born in Powick, Worcestershire to Lilian Goodwin, a nurse, and Arthur Boyd a psychiatric doctor.

She was the middle child of three girls.

When Cherith was three years old her father moved the family back to his native Ulster where he was to take a post as superintendent at Antrim Mental Hospital.

Boyd was taught by a governess until the age of ten, when along with her older sister she was enrolled as a boarder at Ashleigh House in Belfast.

At school she befriended Florence McKinstry whose brother she would later marry.

1939

Her father died in 1939 and her mother was appointed matron at Ashleigh House in the same year.

When World War II broke-out the students were evacuated to Learmount Castle in the Sperrins, where Boyd contracted polio which was to affect her gait for the rest of her life.

Her art teacher Romilly Seymour recommended that she train at Belfast College of Art, where she was to meet Basil Blackshaw and T.P. Flanagan.

She maintained a lifelong friendship with Blackshaw.

1950

Boyd dated Blackshaw in the early 1950s and painted her portrait in 1958.

She studied under Romeo Toogood between 1950 and 1953.

1951

Boyd was presented a prize for the best painting and drawing student of 1951 at the opening of the Ulster Arts Club's annual winter exhibition.

1954

In 1954 Boyd was the first female recipient of a Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts travel scholarship worth £75, which she used to study in Italy and France.

Boyd was particularly interested in studying Florentine sculptors and their modern counterparts.

Boyd exhibited with eight recent graduates at the YMCA Hall in Belfast in 1954.

In the same year Boyd contributed a sculpture to the British Industries Fair at Earl's Court, one of six Ulster artists to show work, including Mercy Hunter, George MacCann and Dan O'Neill.

She taught for a time at Whitehead High School and also at Belfast Art College.

1957

A Roman Scene was later one of 145 works selected from a thousand submissions for an exhibition at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery in 1957.

1958

Boyd met her future husband at Belfast School of Art, Robert McKinstry, an architect and lecturer, whom she married in 1958.

She later bore three sons.

1960

McKinstry's earliest works were sculptures which was often evident in her figurative paintings of the 1960s.

Her early paintings were often imbued with a sense of suffering and inhumanity as well as endurance, often focusing on Christian interpretations of these themes.

She was later to work in a more abstract manner.

Her works were influenced by the Dublin painters Patrick Pye and Charles Brady.

1962

McKinstry's first solo exhibition was hosted by the Council For the Encouragement of Music and the Arts in Belfast in 1962.

1967

After an absence of four years in which time she had been raising her three sons, McKinstry held a solo exhibition at the New Gallery on the Grosvenor Road, Belfast, in 1967.

1968

Cherith held an attic studio at their Rugby Road home until 1968 when the McKinstrys settled at Chrome Hill in Lisburn where Cherith had a studio attached to the house.

McKinstry accepted several large-scale commissions including the Stations of the Cross for St. McNissi Church at Magherahoney which were previewed at the Bell Gallery in 1968.

1974

Studies for a 1974 private commission Christ Crucified were shown as part of McKinstry's solo show at the Octogon Gallery that autumn.

1975

In 1975 McKinstry showed a portrait of the Olympic pentathlete Mary Peters at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Gallery.

1977

Her works were shown in a solo exhibition at the Kays Gallery in Derry in September 1977.

1979

Her largest works were the six canvas ceiling panels she created for the Grand Opera House in Belfast, part of a renovation conducted by her husband in 1979.

The two largest panels measured 12 ft by 6 ft. To allow for their creation the McKinstrys cleared their living room of furniture for a period of around a year.

Basil Blackshaw assisted McKinstry to stretch the canvases.

Before their installation the paintings were displayed alongside preparatory plans and sketches in Towards the Opera House ceiling paintings, an exhibition at the Ulster Museum.

1980

In 1980 McKinstry showed a series of new works in a two person show at the Keys Gallery in Derry, with Charles Brady, where they were to return three years later.

McKinstry was the recipient of a £5000 subsistence award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1983.

1986

and Students a mural, for the main staircase at Queens University Belfast in 1986.