53. STUART
PEARSON WRIGHT
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Death
Oil on linen, 2013 750 x 898 mm |
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Take the Night off
Oil on linen, 2013 410 x 606 mm |
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Home on the Range
Oil on found canvas, 2008 390mm x 280mm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1975, Northampton, England
Nowadays:
Lives and Works in East London
Studies:
Wright
went to school in Eastbourne, Sussex and graduated from Slade School of Fine
Art, University College of London (1995–1999), receiving a B.A. in Fine Art.
He won the BP Travel Prize in 1998. When he was 25 the
National Portrait Gallery acquired his painting of the actor John Hurt.
In 2001 he won the BP Portrait Award. Part of his
reward was a commission to create a painting of six presidents of the National
Academy. The result was described as "astounding", showing the men
surrounding a dead chicken.
Wright won the Garrick/Milne Prize in 2005.
Themes and
style:
Portrait
Artist
Techniques:
His work is developed in paintings and
video.
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Together in Electric Dreams, Riflemaker,
London
2010
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere,
Stephensons
Works, Newcastle
2010 I
Remember You, Riflemaker, London
2010
MAZE installation, Riflemaker, London
2007 A
Hole in the Bucket, Galerie Huebner,
Frankfurt
2007
Most People are Other People, University of
Wales
Art Gallery, Aberystwyth
2006
Most People are Other People, National
Portrait
Gallery/ National Theatre
1999
National Portrait Gallery (BP Travel Award)
1995
Eastbourne Arts Centre
Group
Exhibitions
2012
Marcel Duchamp in South East Asia, Equator
Art
Projects, Singapore
2012
Frank & Cherryl Cohen at Chatsworth,
Chatsworth
House, Derbyshire
2011 The
First Actresses, National Portrait Gallery,
London
2011
Writers of Influence, Sunderland Museum,
Graves
Gallery Sheffield, Southampton City Art
Gallery,
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
2011
Smile For London, London Underground
System
and Museum of London
2010
Solyanka State Museum, Moscow
2009
Kunskog, Five Hundred Dollars Gallery,
London
2009 Anopseudononymous, Five Hundred
Dollars
Gallery,
London
2008
John Moores prize, Walker Art Gallery
Liverpool
2007/8
Home and Garden Part 4, The Geffrye
Museum
2007
Looking Forward, Agnews, London
2007
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space,
London
2006 God
Bless Our Home, Mall Galleries
2006
Things Standing Still, Browse & Darby,
London
2005
Garrick/Milne Prize, Christies, London
2005
Hunting Prize
2004
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times
Watercolour
competition
2004 Being
Present, Jerwood Space, London
2004
Originals 04
2004
Hunting Prize
2003 The
Drawing Year Show, Prince's Foundation
2002
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
2001
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries
2001 BP
Portrait Award
2000
Royal Society of British Painters, Mall
Galleries
2000
Garrick/Milne Prize
2000 BP
Portrait Award
2000
Hunting Prize
1999 BP
Portrait Award
2000
Windsor & Newton Millennium Competition
1999
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times
Watercolour
competition
1999
Hunting Art Prize
1999
Group Show, Thompsons Art Gallery
1998
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times
Watercolour
competition
1998 BP
Portrait Award
1998
Hunting Art Prize
1998
Royal Academy Summer Show
1994
Solo Show Eastbourne Arts Centre
1993
Group Show, Brighton Arts Centre
Awards
2008
Shortlist, John Moores Painting Prize
2007
Shortlist, Jerwood Drawing Prize
2005
First Prize, Garrick/Milne Prize
2004
First Prize, Singer & Friedlander/Sunday
Times
Watercolour competition
2004
Purchase Prize, University of Wales,
Aberystwyth
2004
Printmaking Award, Joseph Webb
Commemorative
Fund
2003
Travel Award, Discerning Eye (Sri Lanka)
2001
Winner, BP Portrait Award
2000
Third Prize, Garrick/Milne Prize
2000
Grant Award, Elizabeth Greenshield
Foundation
2000
British Finalist, Windsor & Newton Millennium
Competition
1999
Third Prize, Singer & Friedlander/Sunday
Times
Watercolour competition
1998
Travel Award, BP Portrait Award
Collections
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Aldo Coronelli
Collection
Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford
British Academy
British Museum
Daniel Radcliffe
Collection
David Roberts Art
Foundation
David Thewlis
Collection, London
Frank Cohen Collection,
Manchester
Garrick Club, London
Government Art
collection, House of Commons,
London
Graham Fink Collection,
Beijing
Index ventures
Collection, Geneva
ING Barings Bank,
Brussels
Jerwood Foundation,
London
J.K.Rowling Collection,
Edinburgh
John Hurt Collection,
London
Keira Knightley
Collection, London
National Portrait
Gallery, London
Nick Candy Collection,
London
Omer Koc Collection,
Istanbul
Philip Mould
Collection, London
Rhode Island School of
Design Museum, USA
School of Art Gallery
& Museum, Aberystwyth ,
Wales
Singer and Friedlander
Bank
Singer and Friedlander
PLC
Sir Paul Smith
Collection, London
Scheringa Museum,
Holland
Taylor Thomson
Collection, LA
In his own words:
"People say I make my subjects look
sad or old. I suppose I do instinctively either bring out of them, or project
on to them, something rather melancholy. It's about trying to find a point of
empathy, something that draws us together as human beings, and we're all trying
to cope with the things that make life upsetting. I look and see how much life
hurts. I no longer find it easy to paint my mother: when I look at her I almost
see too much and it becomes quite painful."
Representative
Galleries:
Rifflemaker
Gallery
For
more Information:
http://www.riflemaker.org/s-stuart-pearson-wright