work in his studio with the help and support of the artist Adrian Richardson until a month before his death having been diagnosed with cancer. Kidner was predeceased by his wife Marion in 2004 and their son Simon was killed in a motorbike crash in 1980. He survived to see his last show of his 1960s working studies, Dreams of the World Order at the Royal Academy in September 2009. Bibliography Exhibition Catalogues Love is a Virus from Outer Space [Catalogue of the exhibition held at Flowers East 2003] London. Michael Kidner: At-tension to the Wave [Catalogue of the exhibition held at Center for International Contemporary Arts, 1990] New York. Micheal Kidner RA: Dreams of the World Order 1960s [Catalogue of the exhibition held at Flowers East 25 September – 9 December 2009] London. Michael Kidner: No Goals in a Quicksand [Catalogue of the exhibition held at Flowers East 14 September – 13 October 2007] London. References External links michaelkidner.com Flowers gallery Guardian obituary for Michael Kidner Independent obiturary for Michael Kidner Telegraph obituary for Michael Kidner sculpture.org.uk Whitfordfineart.com Tate gallery archives Artnet Modern artists British abstract artists British conceptual artists People from Kettering 1917 births 2009 deaths Op art Royal Academicians