The Changing Room

Robert Tavener (1920-2004) trained in the military, participating in the D-Day Landings during the Second World War. Post-war, Tavener studied art with the foundation college of the Rhine Army at Göttingen University.

In 1953, the same year as he produced The Changing Room, Tavener took up a teaching post for printmaking at Eastbourne College of Art and Design. Later, he worked as an illustrator producing posters, magazines and book illustrations.

The Changing Room was one of five engraving and lithograph winners at the 1953 exhibition, for which Tavener received £50.