"Bondage Cats Cradle" Acme Studios 2019/20 photographs by Alex Rimmer

Invitation to Bondage Catscradle peformance Acme Studios 2020

Early "dens" 

Selected Photographs by Benjamin Whitley 

Instagram works 2016-2018

Goldsmiths Degree Show 2016 install images by Peter White

Selected earlier works 

153 x 178cm Acrylic Gouache, spray paint and household lacquers on canvas, 2008

Berlin Paintings

267 x 162cm Acrylic Gouache, spray paint and household lacquers on canvas, 2010

approx 3metres wide, Paper, Pigment and Acrylic Binder on Calico 1991 (Berlin)

approx 3metres wide, Paper, Pigment and Acrylic Binder on Calico 1991 (Berlin)

approx 3metres wide, Paper, Pigment and Acrylic Binder on Calico 1991 (Berlin)


St Martins Paintings 

Approx 2 metres high, Paper, Acrylic, pencil and crayon on Board 1990

Approx 2 metres high, Paper, Acrylic, pencil and crayon on Board 1990

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Curriculum Vitae

 

2012-2016                  MFA Fine Art Goldsmiths

 

1990-1993                  BA (hons) Fine Art Painting Central St. Martins

 

1991-1992                  Erasmus Exchange HDK Berlin (Prof. Berndt Koberling)

 

1989-1990                  Art Foundation Mid Cheshire College

 

Solo Shows

 

2021                           Bitumen Boiling Behind My Box Kite Eyes, Cable Depot Project Space, London

 

2020                           Bondage Cats Cradle curated by Kirsten Cooke, sound by Rich Martin, Acme Studios London

 

2018                           Fragility Spills in collaboration with Cairo Clarke and Benjamin Whitley ASC Gallery, London

 

2017                           Nothing is True Everything Is Permitted, DKUK, Peckham, London


2016                           c.m. Galeria Bacelos, Madrid, Spain

 

2014                           I Killed a Viper (Jessica Wilkes Award) Acme Space, London

 

2012                           New Works, Studio 1.1. Gallery, London

 

2011                           Digital Tenderness, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London

 

Two Person Shows

 

2008                           With Rob Leech, Crimestown Gallery, London

 

 

Selected Group Shows

 

2021                           Julie’s Bob Curated by Julia Warr Terrace Gallery, London


2020                           John Lennon is not Dead, Curated by Harry Pye, Stash Gallery London

 

           Dear Painting, British Abstract Painting curated by Jo Hummel, Nordic Art Agency, Malmö, Sweden

  

A Tapered Teardrop Curated by Karl Bielik, Terrace Gallery, London

 

Notice The Small Things Curated by Louise Fitzjohn, Jealous Gallery, London

 

2019                           Black Swan Arts Open (Highly Commended Hauser and Wirth Somerset Prize) Black Swan Arts, Frome

 

Mother Art Prize (Shortlisted) Mimosa House Gallery, London

 

    One of One,  Afterprojects, 163 Gallery, London

 

2018                           Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London

 

Hardest Hue To Hold, Curated by Aindrea Emelife, Oaktree and Tiger Gallery, London


APT+1 Selected by Laurence Noga, APT Gallery, London

 

                                   Testing 1>2 Selected by Stephen Buckeridge, Unit 3 Gallery, London


She Performs, London Gallery West Curated by She Performs 

 

                                   Flow Curated by Emily Glass, OBS Gallery, Tonbridge

                                  

Control to Collapse Curated by Liz Elton and Rebecca Byrne, Blyth Gallery, London

 

2017                         Show of four prints made for Jealous Gallery Graduate Print Prize, Jealous   Gallery, London 

 

                                       The Ear, Curated by Paul Carey Kent, Transition Gallery, London

 

                                   Merge Visible, Curated by Charley Peters; Contemporary British Painting, Paint Britain Space, London

                                

                                     British Painters on Paper Exhibition, Cheng Centre for Contemporary Art, Beiijing, China

 

2016                           Glossary, Afterprojects , The Safehouses, Peckham

 

                                     Oriel Davies Open (Winner Student Prize), Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales

 

                                               Myth Material TAP Gallery, Southend

 

                                   What Cannot Be Contained, Contemporary British Painting, Smiths Row Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds

 

                                     Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Laurie Grove Baths, London

 

2015                             Autocatalytic Future Games, Curated by Playpaint, No Format Gallery, London

 

                                     London 2.0, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne

 

                                     Contemporary British Abstract Painting, SE9 Container Gallery, London

 

2014                             Penumbra, Curated by VERB, APT Gallery, London

 

                                     Red Xmas, Studio 1.1. Gallery, London

 

                                     Art Britannia, Lion and Lamb Gallery, Miami Art Fair

 

2013                             Lion and Lamb Fundraiser, Sluice Art Fair, London

 

                                     Postcards From My Studio, Acme Space, London

 

                                       Harry Pye’s South London Salon, Deptford X, London

 

                                       Untitled 1: Glitsch, Peacock Projects, London

 

                                       Future Postcards,  Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales

 

                                       Summer Saloon Show, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London

 

                                       Marmite Prize for Painting (touring), Thameside, Glasgow, Cambridge, Plymouth and London

 

                                       An Elixir Of Photons, Curated by Playpaint, Pop Up Space, Charlotte Street, London,

 

2012                               Even Clouds, Studio 1.1. Gallery, London

                                

                                       Seduction Curated by Julia Ravenscroft, Simon Oldfield Gallery Project Space, Mayfair, London

 

                                       First Come First Served, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London

 

2011                               Peckham Open, Peckham Space, London

 

                                       100 Mothers Curated by Harry Pye, Chester University, Chester

 

                                       Hazard Perception, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London

 

                                         From 3 to 36 New London Painting, Brown Gallery, London


2010 Urban Fragment Curated by Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman Day+Gluckman Collyer Bristow Gallery

 

2009                                 House of St. Barnabas, Quintessentially Soho, London

 

                                         Artworks Open, Artworks Open Project Space, London

 

2008                                 Art In The Car Park, Curated by AF2012, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool

 

                                         Fresh Air Machine, Calvert 22, London


2003 Visuals for Russell Sage Runway Show London


2002 Poster as part of a set by Clink Street Studios

 

1995                                 Show of paintings, Two Floors Bar Kingley Street, London

 

1993                                 Graduate Group Show Camden, London

 

1991                                   Two Show Off with Katrine Hjelde  alongside Mutoid Waste Company, Berlin

 


 

Writing   



 2023                             Forthcoming Caló a small book of ideas  

2023         Forthcoming Thoughts and illustrations in relation to "Lea Leigh Berry's VERY Good Idea" a story by Andy Bramble


 

2022                         Dear Philomena, in relation to a letter written as a text as part of Bitumen Boiling Behind My Box Kite Eyes at Cable Depot

 

2021                         Sonanyway Magazine curated by Derek Horton and Gertrude Gibbons


2020       Instagram Prose 2020


 2020                         I spat on it to put it back together – School of Commons

 

  2020                               Hoax Magazine

                                

2020                         Assemblage Magazine


2019         Instagram Prose 2017- 2019

 

2019                         Dateagle Writing Residence

 

Miscellaneous Projects and Residencies 

 

 

2019                         “She hears” storytelling with She Performs, Tate Exchange, London

 

2014                           Mentored by Mali Morris as part of a pilot graduate scheme for APT Gallery

 

2011                             Joya Residency Los Gazquez, Spain

 

2009                             Joya Residency Los Gazquez, Spain

 

2001                           Film Shown at ICA as part of Onedotzero Festival

 

  1999                               Short self initiated  film commissioned by Carhartt "Movie Stars"

 

1996                           Drawings used for the Underworld video Born Slippy

 

                                   Drawings used for projection Alexander McQueen runway show


1994           Type and drawings used for "Blow" Magazine by Isabella Blow


1993-95   Art Workshops and respite care for Adults and Children with      special needs, Only Connect, Camberwell       


Collections

            Socitété Générale Collection of Female Painters

 

                                   Soho House Art Collection

 

                                     Marcelle Joseph’s Girlpower Collection

 

                                     V&A Museum Permanent Print Collection

 

                                     Hogan Lovells Collection

 

                                     Matthew Flowers Collection

 

                                 Private Collections Nationally and Internationally

                                          


Awards     


2022 Time, Space, Money a-n Funding


2020 Arts Council Emergency Covid Funding


2019 Highly Commended Hauser and Wirth Somerset Prize, Black Swan Arts Open


Shortlisted for the Mother Art Prize, Mimosa House, London


2018 Shortlisted for the Bryan Robertson Trust Award, nominated by Matthew Flowers


2016         Jealous Graduate Print Prize Goldsmiths 


Winner of Oriel Davies Open 2016: Painting Student Prize

Longlisted for John Moores Painting Prize


2013 Acme Jessica Wilkes Award


2011 Shortlisted for Acme Jessica Wilkes Award


Nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award by Ian Davenport


2009 Shortlisted for the Dazed and Confused Emerging Artist Award


Shortlisted for Acme Jessica Wilkes Award 


 

Selected Artist Talks                         

 

2020                         Artist Talk invited by Fiona Stirling “Painting Ad Hoc” Liverpool Independent Biennial

 

                                 Artist Talk Camberwell College of Art invited by Daniel Sturgis

 

2019                         Transmission Lecture Series, Sheffield Hallam University and Site Gallery

 

2018                         Artists Talk, University of Reading 


                                 In Conversation with Andrew Renton Professor of Curating Goldsmiths, Flowers Gallery, London

 

                                 Panel Discussion, “Women of Abstract Expressionism” to accompany the Abstract Expressionism Show, The Royal Academy, London

 

2010                         Artist Talk, Camberwell College of Art

 

2009                         Artist Talk, Chelsea College of Art

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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