| 02 Feb 1943 | Ovenden Born in New Alresford, Hampshire, into a Fabian household | |
| Summers 1951-3 | Spent at Badgermoor House ( McAlpine home ) With Aunt who was nanny to McAlpine children. | |
| 1954-59 | Attended Itchen Grammar School taught music by Albert Ketèlbey. | |
| Up to 1959 | During the 1950s Ovenden made regular trips from Southampton to London to take photographs of street scenes. Up until this time these were taken with a Box Brownie camera. | |
| 29 Aug 1959 | Obscene Publications Act bringing the 1867 act up to date. This was directed mainly at pornographic material, but did not define what was obscene and only covered the publication of this material. | |
| 1962 | Takes up painting | |
| 31 Jul 1964 | Small updates to Obscene Publications Act to include possession of material deemed to be obscene. | |
| 1960-4 | Attended the Southampton School of Art | |
| 1965-8 | Studied at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1968 | |
| 1969 | Gallery 200, Amsterdam | |
| 10 Feb-7 Mar 1970 | Exhibition - Graham Ovenden London : Piccadilly Gallery 13 drawings and 17 oil paintings including 4 portraits of Alice |
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| 1-23 Dec 1970 | Exhibition - Alice,br />Waddington Galleries II and III Paintings, drawing and screen prints by Graham Ovenden and Peter Blake on the theme of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Exhibition also included works by several other artists. |
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| c1970 | 'Alice Monitor Program' BBC Documentary also featuring Peter Blake. (No listing found) | (No listing found) |
| 2 Mar-26 Mar 1971 | Critic's Choice Arthur Tooth & Sons, 31 Bruton Street, London, W1 5 works, The Meeting, Oil on canvas, 35½" x 24", The Meeting (small version), Oil on paper, 11½" x 7¼", Belinda age 8 years, Oil on paper, 17" x 15¼", Landscape towards Tistead 1971, Charcoal and conté, 10¼" x 10½" and Untitled Drawing, 1971, Pencil, 12" x 15" |
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| 28 Mar-22 Apr 1972 | The Piccadilly Gallery. London 11 paintings, 8 drawings and 7 prints |
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| 1972 | Book - The Illustrators of Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass; London, Academy Editions; New York, St. Martin's Press |
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| 1972 | Book - Pre-Raphaelite photography London, Academy Editions; New York, St. Martin's Press |
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| 1972 | Book - Victorian Children London, Academy Editions; New York, St. Martin's Press |
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| 1972 | Exhibition - Jane & Elizabeth Uxbridge : Hillingdon Press An exhibition of photographic portraits of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, from 13 January-11 March 1973 |
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| 1973 | Move to Cornwall from London. Date used by court as alleged start of abuse, but discredited allegations predate this date. | |
| 1973 | Book - Hill & Adamson photographs London, Academy Editions; New York, St. Martin's Press |
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| 1973 | Book - Victorian erotic photography New York, St. Martin's Press |
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| 1973 | Book - A Liddell family album Uxbridge [Middlesex] : Hillingdon Press |
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| 1973 | Book - Photography as art ? Publisher |
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| 19 Feb-16 Mar 1974 | The Piccadilly Gallery, London 8 paintings and 12 drawings |
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| 1974 | Book - Alphonse Mucha photographs London, Academy Editions; New York, St. Martin's Press |
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| 1974 | Book - Clementina, Lady Hawarden London, Academy Editions; New York, St. Martin's Press |
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| 1975 | Ovenden was a founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists along with Graham Arnold, Ann Arnold, Sir Peter Blake, David Inshaw, Annie Ovenden and Jann Haworth. | |
| 1975 | Lolita Drawings and Prints 1972-5 Waddington Galleries, London |
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| 1975 | Book - A Victorian album : Julia Margaret Cameron and her circle New York : Da Capo Press |
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| 1976 | Book - Nymphets & fairies : three Victorian children's illustrators London : Academy Editions ; New York : St. Martin's Press |
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| 1976 | Book - Aspects of Lolita London : Academy Editions ; New York : St. Martin's Press |
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| 1977 | Exhibition - Ovenden Drawings and Prints Asard and Asard Gallery, Stockholm |
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| 1978 | TV Documentary - 'Summer with the Ruralists' BBC Documentary with Peter Blake | IMDb Listing BFI Listing |
| 17 Oct-11 Nov 1978 | Exhibition - Graham Ovenden : paintings and drawings 1974-78 London : Piccadilly Gallery |
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| 1979 | Protection of Children Act makes taking of sexual images of children a specific offence rather than relying on the obscenity laws | |
| 1980 | Book - The illustrators of Alice in wonderland New York : St. Martin's Press |
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| 1981 | Exhibition - Gallery XX, Hamburg | |
| 10 Mar-4 Apr 1981 | Exhibition - The Piccadilly Gallery, London | |
| 1981 | Exhibition - The Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg | |
| 1981-84 | Exhibition - David Inshaw, Graham Ovenden, Martin Axon : photographs 1957-1981 [Plymouth Arts Centre touring exhibition Plymouth Arts Centre |
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| 1981 | Book - Graham Ovenden by Victor Arwas London : Academy Editions ; New York : St. Martin's Press |
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| 1981 | Book - Graham Ovenden London : Piccadilly Gallery |
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| 1982 | 'Controversial' image taken for book 'States of Grace' | |
| 1983 | Exhibition - Graham Ovenden : photographs 1955-83 London : Olympus Gallery |
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| 1983 | Book - Satirical poems and others St Columb, Cornwall, Turangalila Press |
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| 1984 | Book - Lewis Carroll London : Macdonald |
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| 1984 | Exhibition of Photographs - The Olympus Gallery, London | |
| 20 Mar-14 Apr 1984 | Exhibition - The Piccadilly Gallery, London 14 oil paintings |
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| 13 Jun 1987 | TV Documentary - The Artist, a Television South West Interview by Robert Robinson | BFI Listing |
| Jul 1987 | TV Documentary - Bats in the Belfry Home Sweet Home, a Television South West Interview by David Young | BFI Listing |
| 1-31 Jul 1987 | Exhibition - Recent Paintings and Drawings New Library, Exeter University Featured Destroyed Old Red Sandstone Woodlands, near Exeter, 1987, Oil on panel, 12" x 18½". |
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| 27 Oct-18 Dec 1987 | Exhibition - Charles Causley: A Tribute from the Artists The Piccadilly Gallery, London 19 oil paintings; 6 drawings; 4 acrostic portraits (mixed media, with rhymes by Ovenden and black and white decorations by Brian Partridge); 3 cliche papiers |
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| 1988 | Exhibition - Parco Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1989 | End of period abuse is alleged to have taken place according to Judge Cottle. Some 70 girls have been photographed by that time, but only one incident of any naked contact and second victim supposed to be present has never been identified. Two of the alleged victims refused to appear in court because they were adamant that nothing the police alleged ever happened during any photo shoots at Barley Splatt. | |
| 1989 | Exhibition - Other Worlds Bearnes Rainbow, Torquay |
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| 1989 | Exhibition - Images of Paradise Christies at Harewood House |
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| 12 Jul-27 Jul 1990 | Exhibition - The Piccadilly Gallery, London Reviewed by Helen de Borchgrave in Arts Review, 13 July 1990, pages 394-5, including colour reproduction of Shropshire Valley (Oil). |
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| 1990 | Exhibition - Summer Exhibition Bruton Gallery |
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| 1992 | Exhibition - Painters and Poets Sterts Centre, Liskeard, Cornwall |
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| 16 Apr-16 May 1992 | Exhibition - Street Memories Portfolio Gallery, London Private View: 15 April 1992 |
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| 24 Jun-18 Jul 1992 | Exhibition - Cabinet of Dark Secrets Portfolio Gallery, London Private View: 23 Jun 1992, 6 photographs |
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| 1 Jul-31 Jul 1992 | Exhibition - Recent Paintings and Drawings The Piccadilly Gallery, London 17 oil paintings, 6 drawings |
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| 1992 | Book - States of grace : photographs, 1964-1989 Amsterdam : Ophelia |
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| 28 May 1992 | Prosecution in the US over 'States of Grace' is dropped after the model testifies in court that in the one page of the book identified as obscene she is not acting sexual and was never asked by Ovenden to so do. This image was taken when she was 8, but at this stage the US had no Child Pornography Legislation. | |
| 10 Mar 1993 | Obscene Publications Squad raid on Barley Splatt - Nothing seized was obscene and was eventually returned, and at this time no one was identified as having been abused. | |
| 11 May 1993 | TV Documentary - Lolita Unclothed Episode of Without Walls TV Documentary Series | IMDb Listing BFI Listing |
| 1993 | Exhibition - East End Photographs Akehurst Gallery, London |
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| 1993 | Exhibition - Over the Rainbow Bearnes Rainbow, Torquay |
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| 24 Jul 1993 | Exhibition - Recording angels : the work of Lewis Wickes Hine Catalogue of an exhibition held at the University of Nottingham, July 24-Aug. 21, 1993 "All photographs, documents and books in this exhibition are from thecollection of Graham and Annie Ovenden" |
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| 1994 | Concept of pseudo-photograph added to the Protection of Children Act. | |
| 1994 | Book - Family found : the lifetime obsession of self-taught artist, Morton Bartlett New York, N.Y. : Marion Harris |
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| 3 Oct-8 Nov 1994 | Exhibition - Back to the Drawing Board (The Nude) White Lane Gallery, Plymouth Also featured work by Graham Arnold and David Inshaw |
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| 18 May-23 Jun 1995 | Exhibition - The Piccadilly Gallery, London 15 oil paintings |
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| 10 Feb-08 Apr 1996 | Exhibition - Die Kraft Der Builder at Martin-Groplus-Bau, Berlin "The Power of Pictures" - Exhibition of the Artists' Association Josie (1993-4) and Exmoor (1994) exhibited |
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| 1997 | TV Documentary - 'For the Sake of the Children' Channel 4 Discussion Program with John Wadham, Ron Oliver and Roger Moody | BFI Listing |
| 1998 | Book - Childhood streets Berkeley, CA : Ophelia Editions |
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| 4 Jan 1998 | 'Curiouser and Curiouser: Lewis Carroll 1898-1998' BBC Omnibus Program with Alice Liddell, Ralph Steadman and Michael Bakewell | BFI Listing |
| 21 Apr 1998 | 'For the Love of Alice' Episode in the For the Love of' series by Jon Ronson | IMDb Listing |
| 7-20 Nov 1998 | Exhibition - Surrealist Realist Ruralist Byram Gallery, Somerset College of Arts and Technology, Taunton Private View: 8 November 1998 |
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| Sep 1999 | Review of Childhood Streets in Photo Metro Magazine | See In Print |
| 02 Jun 2000 | Grace Lau interview for the British Library sound archive | British Library Pt 1 British Library Interview |
| 01 Dec 2001 | Entry in 'Censorship: A World Encyclopedia' | See In Print |
| 2003 | Book - Acrostics London : Artists' Choice Editions |
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| 2005 | Exhibition - The Brotherhood of Ruralists and the Pre-Raphaelites London : Leicester Galleries |
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| ? Nov 2006 | Second raid on Barley Splatt | |
| 2007 | Book - Viriditas : an arboreal alphabet or acrostic Church Hanborough, Oxford : Inky Parrot |
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| 2007-11 | Touring Exhibition - Controverses: A legal and ethical history of photography, curated by Daniel Girardin, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland. Included own works and woks from his collection. | |
| 2008 | Further amendment to Protection of Children Act as to what constitutes an 'image'. It is worth adding that there is still no legal definition as to what is Indecent , but the sentencing guidelines set a minimum classification of an erotic pose. | |
| 19 Jun-18 Oct 2009 | Exhibition - Pastoral Visions Dimbola Lodge, Isle of Wight Landscape paintings Orchard Moon was reproduced on the Dimbola Lodge 2009 printed programme of events. |
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| 22 Jun 2009 | Exhibition - The truth about faeries : from a Midsummer night's dream to the Lord of the rings Southampton City Art Gallery, 22nd June to 13th September 2009 |
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| 21 Oct 2009 | Trial charged with 16 counts of creating ‘indecent’ photographs or pseudo-photographs of children, but again no aligation of abuse. | |
| 22 Oct 2009 | The jury was discharged and a new trial date set | |
| 09 Apr 2010 | After a five-minute hearing, the case was thrown out by the judge as two key prosecution witnesses, police officers who had searched his home three and a half years earlier, failed to appear in court. | |
| 19 Apr 2010 | The Western Morning News said the Child Abuse Investigation Team of the Metropolitan Police, the force which had carried out the three and a half-year investigation for the trial, was investigating Ovenden over allegations of child sex abuse. ( Western Morning News website currently down so unable to verify what was actually reported ) | ( Western Morning News website currently down so unable to verify what was actually reported ) |
| 11 Mar 2013 | Trial at Truro Crown Court starts ... 9 charges relating to 4 girls | |
| 02 Apr 2013 | Majority verdict on 7 charges after charges relating to 3 of the four girls are dismissed by Judge Cottle. Only one guilty verdict actually related to 'sexual contact' over an incident the Ovenden insists never happened and the third person alledged to be precent has never been identified. | |
| 04 Jun 2013 | 1 Year Suspended Sentence | |
| 09 Oct 2013 | Appeal changes sentence to 2 years 3 months Custodial | |
| 13 Oct 2015 | Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court - Confiscation hearing in front of Judge Elizabeth Roscoe - historic works to be destroyed. | |
| 21 Oct 2015 | Question asked in House of Lords of the destruction of works of art. | |
| 19/20 May 2016 | Isleworth Crown Court Appeal on confiscation order overturns Judge Roscoe on over 60 images. | |