Anthony "Doc" Shiels (born 1938) is a Salford-born artist, magician and writer. After attending the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London, he moved to St Ives, Cornwall where in 1961, following the resignation of Barbara Hepworth, he was made a member of the committee of the influential Penwith Society of Arts. In St Ives he ran the progressive 'Steps Gallery', where he showed artists like Brian Wall and Bob Law. He had several solo exhibitions in London before then leaving St Ives following a drunken incident, in which he threatened police with a gun that he had obtained from painter-friend Terry Frost.
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| - Tony Shiels (fr)
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| - Tony Shiels (souvent surnommé "Doc") est un illusionniste et chasseur de monstre anglais, né en 1938, qui fut un des fondateurs du mouvement magie bizarre à la fin des années 1960. Il est également artiste peintre et collagiste. (fr)
- Anthony "Doc" Shiels (born 1938) is a Salford-born artist, magician and writer. After attending the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London, he moved to St Ives, Cornwall where in 1961, following the resignation of Barbara Hepworth, he was made a member of the committee of the influential Penwith Society of Arts. In St Ives he ran the progressive 'Steps Gallery', where he showed artists like Brian Wall and Bob Law. He had several solo exhibitions in London before then leaving St Ives following a drunken incident, in which he threatened police with a gun that he had obtained from painter-friend Terry Frost. (en)
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| - City of Salford, England, UK (en)
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| - Shiels at a pub in Killarney, Ireland, in November 2015 (en)
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| - artist, magician, writer, busker, psychic entertainer, hoaxer (en)
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| - Tony Shiels (souvent surnommé "Doc") est un illusionniste et chasseur de monstre anglais, né en 1938, qui fut un des fondateurs du mouvement magie bizarre à la fin des années 1960. Il est également artiste peintre et collagiste. (fr)
- Anthony "Doc" Shiels (born 1938) is a Salford-born artist, magician and writer. After attending the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London, he moved to St Ives, Cornwall where in 1961, following the resignation of Barbara Hepworth, he was made a member of the committee of the influential Penwith Society of Arts. In St Ives he ran the progressive 'Steps Gallery', where he showed artists like Brian Wall and Bob Law. He had several solo exhibitions in London before then leaving St Ives following a drunken incident, in which he threatened police with a gun that he had obtained from painter-friend Terry Frost. (en)
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