Education

2006-2008 Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. MFA Painting                

2002-2006 University of Newcastle upon Tyne. BA Fine Art

2000-2001 Winchester School of Art. Foundation

Solo & duo exhibitions & projects

(* denotes accompanied by a Publication)

2022 Painted Conversations - Sarah Longworth-West + Marcus Murison, WhiteSpace Gallery, Edinburgh*

2014 Remnants, Aldeburgh LOOKOUT, Suffolk, UK

2012 Temporary Surfaces, duo-show with Sarah Ryder (formerly Bowker-Jones), Surface Gallery, Nottingham *

2012 Recline, LEDGE, London. Project run by Artist Rebecca Birch

2010 Everyone's looking at ME, KUBE, Poole

Selected Group and Solo Exhibitions  

Forthcoming - 2024 ○ A.S.P Vortic Art Digital exhibition launch, curated by Matthew Burrows MBE, UK.

2024 ○ Beep Painting Prize 2024, Asylum Gallery, Wales.

○ Wells Art Contemporary, selectors Katherine Jones RA, Shanti Panchal & Tessa Coleman, Wells, UK

○ This Year’s Model, Studio 1:1, London

○ Fight, Flight or Freeze, Pictorem Gallery, London, curated by Michelle Fletcher *

○ Waverton Art Prize, short list exhibition, London *

○ It Rose and it fell, Terrace Gallery, London, curated by Karl Bielik

2023 ○ Blink 4, Safehouse, Copeland Road, London

○ Useful Drawings, Eye to Pencil, London

2022    ○ Barbican Arts Group Trust, Artworks 2022. Selectors Louise Ashcroft & Jasleen Kaur, London.

○ Colours, Stone Space gallery, curated by Dr Matthew Macaulay Jackson’s Painting Prize 22 Shortlist Exhibition, London ○ Jackson’s Painting Prize 22 Shortlist Exhibition, London Jackson’s Painting Prize 22 Shortlist Exhibition, London ○ The Ridley Road Years, Ridley Road Complex, London (curated project)

2020 ○ Twenty Twenty Women, Artistellar, London. Curated by Adele Smejkal

2019 ○ WIMMIN II, Art Licks Weekend Space, London. Curated by Kirsty Harris Jackson’s Painting Prize 22 Shortlist Exhibition, London
○ Cabin Baggage, Norwich University of the Arts gallery, UK

2018 ○ Fully Awake, Dyson Gallery, (RCA) London* curated by Ian Hartshorne & Sean Kaye - in relation to ‘Teaching Painting, A Conference’.

2017 ○ Merge Visible curated by Charley Peters, Contemporary British Painting, London*

○ Outpost Members Show ’17, Norwich, UK Jackson’s Painting Prize 22 Shortlist Exhibition, London
○ Mother, Bruton Art Factory, Somerset, UK Jackson’s Painting Prize 22 Shortlist Exhibition, London
○ Painting (Now), Studio One Gallery, Acava, London

2016 ○ The Garden of Forking Paths, Lewisham Art House, London

2015 ○ East/West, IMPACT 9 International Print conference, The China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou, China ○ hundreds and thousands, Lubomirov / Angus Hughes, London Jackson’s Painting Prize 22 Shortlist Exhibition, L ○ A5, Lubomirov-Easton, Platform Projects @ Art-Athina, Athens, Greece

2014 ○ The Trouble with Painting Today, Pump House Gallery, London. Curated by Hannah Conroy ○ Saloney, Embassy Gallery Members' show, Edinburgh

2013 ○ Print , Woburn Centre, UCL, London Jacks
○ Sluice Art Fair, London * ○ Q-Art, APT Gallery, London Jackson’s
○ Shelf Life, xvi collective, Leytonstone Library, London
○ Fringe Arts Bath, Officiers Club, Bath
○ Anonymous Drawing, Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany & toured to Temporary Art Centre (TAC), Netherlands ○ Tasty Modern, Schwartz Gallery, London J
○ Aniamamus: A Living Gallery, Coohaus, Chelsea, New York, USA Prize 22 Shortlist Exhibition, London
○ Defcon Salon, Embassy Gallery Members' show, Edinburgh

2012 ○ Crash Open Salon, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
Selected by Matthew Collings (art writer, broadcaster, artist), Ceri Hand (gallerist), Fiona MacDonald (Standpoint Gallery) and Sarah Rowles (Q-ART)
◦ Zeitgeist, ZAP, London * Selected by David Kefford (Artist & co-founder of Aid and Abet)
○ LDN/BCN, Untitled Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
○ Angelika Open, High Wycombe
Selected by Rod Barton (Gallerist), Paul Kindersley (Artist & Curator), Boo Ritson (Artist) and Danny Rolph (Artist)
○ The Hearing Trumpet, West Dean - The Edward James Foundation, Chichester *
○ Bite Artists making prints, Mall Galleries, London *
○ WW Solo Award Group, London *
Selected by Sheila McGregor (Chief Executive, Axis), Helen Sumpter (Deputy Art Editor, Time Out London),
Kate Davis (Artist & Tutor, RCA) and Deb Covell (Artist & Co-founder, Platform-A)
○ ALAS Residency Exhibition, Matt Roberts Arts, London *
○ Salon Neu, Embassy Gallery Members' show, Edinburgh
○ The Department, North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford

2011 ○ Auction Room, Globe Gallery, Newcastle
○ Core gallery in conjunction with the Deptford X Visual Arts Festival, London. Selected by Graham Crowley (Artist), Fiona Macdonald (Standpoint Gallery), Alli Sharma (Transition Gallery) and Sarah Williams (Jerwood Space)
○ Send my love, Quare, 21 Folgate street, London

2010 ○ A Tender Cut, Fold Gallery, London
○ FringeMK Annual Painting Prize, Milton Keynes *
○ Print Now, Bearspace, London. Toured to London Art Fair 2010, Art Projects

2009 ○ Sold Out, Globe City Gallery, Newcastle
○ If it's HOT, it's HERE, Annuale, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
○ Ishihara, Study Gallery/KUBE, Poole
○ I.R.P goes Live, Southwark Playhouse

2007 ○Paper works? Woburn Research Centre, UCL, London

2006 ○ Bounty, Globe Gallery, Newcastle *

Awards and Residencies

2024 ○ Waverton Art Prize, short list

2022  ○ Jackson’s Painting Prize 22 Shortlist   ○ Barbican Arts Group Trust, Artworks 2022

2014 ○ a-n The Artists' Information Company. Re:View Bursary 2014
○ Aldeburgh Beach LOOKOUT, Caroline Wiseman Residency

2012 ○ Jerwood Painting Fellowship - Shortlisted - Selected by Marcus Harvey, Mali Morris RA and Fabian Peake
○ ALAS Summer Residency, Matt Roberts Arts, London

Bibliography

2024 Turps Banana Magazine A/W 24 Issue 29 Interviewing Artist Charley Peters

Interview by Robert Priseman for ‘Artist to Artist’ - Priseman and Seabrook collection site

2023 London Paint Club Fall 2023 issue - Interview with Kelly Foster

2022 Painted Conversations - Sarah Longworth-West + Marcus Murison, Project Dialogue e.book. Curators: Lyndsey Gilmour + Peter Chalmers

2022 Jackson’s Painting Prize 22 Shortlist reviewed & documented on Jacksons’ site.

2017 Merge Visible publication. Curated & edited by Charley Peters.

2015 The Trouble with Painting Today. Artist Talk with curator Hannah Conroy and artist Cara Nahaul.

2013 BRG Publication. In Numbers: A Catalogue of Collaboration.
a-n magazine. Sluice: more than a happening than an art fair. Dany Louise.
Marmite Painting Prize Catalogue - Selected by Iain Andrews, Marta Marce, Dawn Mellor and Tim Stoner

2012 TATE Guide, Oct-Nov 2012
a-n magazine, Interface. Temporary Surfaces. Matt Roberts
Left Lion. Temporary Surfaces. Tom Norton
NVA. The lasting effect of Temporary Surfaces. Jennifer Gleadell
a-n magazine, Interface. Temporary Surfaces. Rebecca Scofield
Axis artist of the week 13 - 20 February - Selected by Julian Lister

2009 Handmade Graphics, Rotovision ISBN 978-2-88893-077-8

2008 Cluster Arts Magazine Issue 2:Act Two. Front cover and featured artist
Paint/Print, University College London Print Publication

Lecturing

Qualification

CLTAD, University of the Arts, PG Cert Teaching Art and Design in Higher Education (2010)

Current

Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich - Lecturer (from 2013-present)

Scholarly Activities

WALL TO WALL: self initiated pedagogical project using the BA Fine Art Project Spaces (PS4) at Norwich University of the Arts; for an inclusive cross year collaborative community centred large scale painting project. Year 1, 2, 3 and MA involvement. Project started in 2019 and continues. I will be writing a paper to draw out some analysis within the coming year.

Flat Volume: curatorial research project. See FLAT VOLUME section on this website. 1st exhibition will be at A.P.T in October 2025.

Academic Paper: “10 + EXTEND”: how can we teach painting to students who already think they know what painting is?
Co-authored with Dr. Sarah Horton representing Norwich University of the Arts.
Delivered at Teaching Painting: Conference at The Whitworth Museum, Manchester in partnership with Manchester School of Art.
Teaching Painting : How can painting be taught in art schools? Published by Black Dog. 2016.
Member of ‘Teaching Painting: Steering Group’ (from 2016)