BORN: - -
UNITED KINGDON, 1971 - -
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LIVES/WORKS: - -
LONDON, UNITED, KINGDOM - -
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EDUCATION: - -
2002 - 2005 Royal Academy Post-Graduate Diploma Royal Academy Schools
1999 - 2002 BA (Hons) 1st Class Degree Camberwell College of Art
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS: - -
2007 KinThe Wyer Gallery, London
2007 The Tower Anna Klinkhammer Gallery, Dusseldorf
2006 Richard Moon: New Paintings the Wyer Gallery, London
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2007 The Future Can Wait (curated by Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis) The Atlantis Gallery, London
2007 Salon Nouveau (curated by Jasper Sharp) Engholm Engelhorn Gallery, Vienna
2007 Figure (curated by Sarah Myerscough) Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
2006 New London Kicks II, (curated by Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis) Wooster Projects, New York City
2006 John Moores 24, finalists exhibition The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2006 The Celeste Art prize Finalists Exhibition The Truman Brewery, London
2006 Concrete Allotment (curated by Kristen Lovelock) Temporary Contemporary Gallery, London
2006 New London Kicks (curated by Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis) Soho House, New York City
2005 New Paintings (curated by Jane Wyer) The Wyer Gallery, London
2003 Sound of the Suburbs The Woodlands Gallery, London
2002 The Next Big Thing The Gallery, Cork Street, London
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AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: -
2006 Finalist for John Moores 24
2006 Finalist for The Celeste Art Prize
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COLLECTIONS: - -
The Saatchi Collection, London
The Javier Baz Collection, Denver
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ARTIST STATEMENT: -
My work strives to create a particular effect through the re-contextualisation of various images, taken largely from anachronistic photography and re-interpreted in oil on canvas. Images that are distanced by time and corrupted through manipulation produce an effect both of familiarity and uncertainty, and the paintings’ strong association with photography brings with them all the effects of loss, longing and nostalgia that is often experienced when looking at such imagery. The liberties taken with source material produces an appearance of narrative, yet leaves the options open, inviting the viewer to deduce their own interpretation of the work.