BIOGRAPHY | EMMA BENNETT
| EDUCATION | ||
| 1997-1998 | MA Fine Art | Chelsea College of Art and Design, London |
| 1993-1996 | BA (Hons) Fine Art | Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London |
| ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2023 | SOLO Contemporary, British Art Fair | Saatchi Gallery, London |
| 2021 | All Aflame | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2019 | Volcano Lovers | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2017 | Haunts | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2015 | Several Small Fires | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2013 | Emma Bennett | Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff |
| 2012 | And, Afterwards | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2010 | Death & Co. | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2002 | Emma Bennett: New Paintings | Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2023 | Beyond the Gaze – Reclaiming the Landscape (curated by Zavier Ellis) | Saatchi Gallery, London |
| 2021 | Thing Worlds | Art Spot Korin, Kyoto |
| 2019 | 10 Years | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2018 | Sammlung Reydan Weiss. "Ohne Etikett fühle ich mich freier..." Herzog Anton | Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
| 2018 | Context: Gallery Artists & Collaborators | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2017 | doing identity. Die Sammlung Reydan Weiss | Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum |
| 2017 | In Memoriam Francesca Lowe | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2017 | Nature Morte: Contemporary Still Life (curated by Michael Petry) | Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
| 2017 | Part III: Interiority (curated by Zavier Ellis) | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2016 | I Prefer Life: Reydan Weiss Collection | Wesserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen |
| 2016 | Flora (curated by Alex Boyd Jones) | Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth |
| 2016 | Black Paintings (curated by Heike Strelow) | Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt |
| 2016 | Flora (curated by Alex Boyd Jones) | Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Pwllheli |
| 2016 | Black Paintings (curated by Zavier Ellis) | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2015 | Flora (curated by Alex Boyd Jones) | Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Camarthen |
| 2015 | Flora (curated by Alex Boyd Jones) | Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown |
| 2015 | Die English Kommen! New Painting from London (curated by Zavier Ellis) | Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt |
| 2015 | Still Life - Ambiguous Practices (curated by Frances Woodley) | School of Art Gallery and Museum, Aberystwyth |
| 2015 | Collection of Small Paintings | The Contemporary London, London |
| 2014 | 100 Painters of Tomorrow: London | Beers Contemporary, London |
| 2014 | Saatchi’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis, Simon Rumley & Rebecca Wilson) | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2014 | Still Life: All Coherence Gone? (curated by Frances Woodley) | BayArt Gallery, Cardiff |
| 2014 | Fleursdumal | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2014 | Fleursdumal | Lion and Lamb Gallery, London |
| 2013 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis, Simon Rumley & Rebecca Wilson) | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2013 | Emma Bennett & Caro Suerkemper: Glazed | BRAUBACHfive, Frankfurt |
| 2012 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis, Simon Rumley & Rebecca Wilson) | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2012 | The Serpent’s Tail | Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam |
| 2012 | Polemically Small (curated by Zavier Ellis & Edward Lucie-Smith) | Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham |
| 2012 | Kalliphilia | Vegas Gallery, London |
| 2012 | East Wing X | Courtauld Institute, London |
| 2011 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis, Simon Rumley & Rebecca Wilson) | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2011 | Charlie Sierra Lima | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2011 | Polemically Small (curated by Edward Lucie-Smith) | Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre, Klaipėda |
| 2011 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT presents: Polemically Small (curated by Zavier Ellis, Edward Lucie-Smith, Max Presneill & Simon Rumley) | Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles |
| 2010 | New British Painting | Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki |
| 2009 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2009 | New London School (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) | Galerie Schuster, Berlin |
| 2008 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2007 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2007 | Equinox | Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London |
| 2006 | Nocturnal | Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London |
| 2006 | John Moores 24 / Liverpool Biennale | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
| 2005 | Between Dog & Wolf | Clapham Art Gallery, London |
| 2004 | Forever Beautiful | Clapham Art Gallery, London |
| 2004 | Summer Showcase 2004 | Case 1, London |
| 2004 | Emma Bennett, Marion Coutts, Anna Lucas | Front, London |
| 2001 | A Month in the Garden | The Museum of Garden History, London |
| 2001 | Bittersweet | Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London |
| 2001 | Uchaperoned | Aroma Project Space, Berlin |
| 2001 | Deptford X | Deptford X, London |
| 1999 | Blink | Princelet Street, London |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | ||
| 2015 | Still Life: Ambiguous Practices, Frances Woodley | Aberystwyth University |
| 2014 | 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Kurt Beers | Thames & Hudson |
| 2014 | Still Life: All Coherence Gone?, Frances Woodley | Aberystwyth University |
| 2013 | Nature Morte, Michael Petry | Thames & Hudson |
| 2013 | 100 London Artists Vol. 1, Zavier Ellis & Edward Lucie-Smith | iArtBook |
| 2013 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | Ellis Rumley Projects & Saatchi Gallery |
| 2012 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | Ellis Rumley Projects & Saatchi Gallery |
| 2011 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | Ellis Rumley Projects & Saatchi Gallery |
| 2008 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | Ellis Rumley Projects |
| COLLECTIONS | ||
| K & K Kollektion, Monaco | ||
| Prieskel & Co, London | ||
| Julian & Stephanie Grose, Adelaide | ||
| David Roberts, London | ||
| The Reydan Weiss Collection, Munich | ||
| Private collections in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom & United States | ||
BIOGRAPHY | DOMINIC SHEPHERD
| EDUCATION | ||
| 1994–1995 | MA Painting | Chelsea College of Art and Design, London |
| 1985–1988 | BA (Hons) Painting | Chelsea College of Art and Design, London |
| ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2019 | Downstream | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2015 | Bare Foot Prophet | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2012 | Jerusalem | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2010 | Lucifer Rising | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2010 | Mycelium | The Arts University College at Bournemouth |
| 2009 | In the Country of the Blind | Galerie Schuster, Berlin |
| 2001 | Recent Paintings | Clapham Art Gallery, London |
| 2000 | Contemporary Romantic | Clapham Art Gallery, London |
| 1998 | New Paintings | Cadogan Contemporary, London |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2019 | 10 Years | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2018 | Fully Awake (curated by Ian Hartshorne and Sean Kaye) | Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Arts, London |
| 2018 | Inaugural exhibition (curated by Dean Melbourne) | Width of Circle, Black Country |
| 2017 | Black Mirror: Magic in Art (curated by Dominic Shepherd) | TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth, Bournemouth |
| 2017 | In Memoriam Francesca Lowe | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2016 | Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter | RWA, Bristol |
| 2015 | The Fantasy of Representation | Beers Contemporary, London |
| 2015 | Das Unheimliche (curated by Zavier Ellis) | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2015 | Die English Kommen! New Painting from London (curated by Zavier Ellis) | Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt |
| 2014 | Saatchi’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis, Simon Rumley & Rebecca Wilson) | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2014 | Cultus Deorum (curated by Zavier Ellis) | Saatchi Gallery, London |
| 2013 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis, Simon Rumley & Rebecca Wilson) | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2012 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis, Simon Rumley & Rebecca Wilson) | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2012 | Black Mirror (with John Stark) | Galerie Lichtpunkt - Ambacher Contemporary, Munich |
| 2012 | Polemically Small (curated by Zavier Ellis & Edward Lucie-Smith) | Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham |
| 2012 | Critical Dictionary | WORK, London |
| 2012 | The Perfect Nude (curated by Phillip Allen & Dan Coombs) | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2012 | The Perfect Nude (curated by Phillip Allen & Dan Coombs) | Wimbledon Space, London |
| 2012 | The Perfect Nude (curated by Phillip Allen & Dan Coombs) | Phoenix Gallery, Exeter |
| 2011 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis, Simon Rumley & Rebecca Wilson) | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2011 | Charlie Sierra Lima | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2011 | Beyond the Commission | The Arts University College, Bournemouth |
| 2011 | Polemically Small (curated by Edward Lucie-Smith) | Klaipeda Culture Communication Centre, Klaipeda |
| 2011 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT presents: Polemically Small (curated by Zavier Ellis, Edward Lucie-Smith, Max Presneill & Simon Rumley) | Torrance Art Museum, Torrance |
| 2011 | Polemically Small (curated by Edward Lucie-Smith) | Garboushian Gallery, Beverley Hills |
| 2010 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) | Shoreditch Town Hall, London |
| 2010 | Territories | Galerie Schuster, Miami |
| 2010 | Papyrophilia | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2010 | DEMONOLOGY | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2010 | New British Painting | Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki |
| 2009 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2009 | New London School (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) | Galerie Schuster, Berlin |
| 2008 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2007 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2007 | Dominic Shepherd & Julian Lee | Galerie Schuster, Berlin |
| 2007 | Meeting Place | Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth |
| 2006 | Town & Country | Francis Hair Fashions Gallery, London |
| 2005 | Between Dog and Wolf (with Emma Bennett) | Clapham Art Gallery, London |
| 2005 | Bournemouth University Art Loan | Bournemouth University, Bournemouth |
| 2004 | Forever Beautiful | Clapham Art Gallery, London |
| 2004 | John Moores 23 | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
| 2004 | Dominic Shepherd & Liza Campbell | Michael Naimski Gallery, London |
| 2002 | Print UK | Manhattan Graphics, New York |
| 2002 | If Pressed | Sherborne House Arts |
| 2000 | Defining the Times | MK G, Milton Keynes |
| 1999 | Made in England | Vasby Kunsthall, Stockholm |
| 1998 | Winter Show | E1 Gallery, London |
| 1997 | Art in the 90’s: Pure Fantasy | Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno |
| 1996 | Gilchrist Fisher Memorial Award | Cadogan Contemporary, London |
| 1995 | SBC European Art Prize | Smithfield Gallery, London |
| 1995 | 7th Oriel Mostyn | Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno |
| AWARDS & RESIDENCIES | ||
| 2004 | John Moores 23, Visitors Choice Prize | |
| 2000 | Oppenheim-John Downes Trust Award | |
| 1999 | Oppenheim-John Downes Trust Award | |
| 1998 | Artist in Residence | Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno |
| 1995 | Liquitex Excellence in Art Award | |
| 1994 | Portugal 600 Travel Award | Portugal |
| 1993 | South East Arts Training Award | |
| 1993 | Artist in Residence, Shave International Artist’s Workshop | Somerset |
| 1992 | SEA Young Artist of 1992 | |
| 1989 | Artist in Residence | Koursalo Island, Finland |
| 1988 | Henry Biddulph Travel Scholarship | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | ||
| 2014 | Black Mirror 0: Territories, editorial introduction by Dominic Shepherd | Fulgur Esoterica |
| 2013 | The Golden Age: Between Wilderness and Utopia, Dominic Shepherd | The New Pastoral Issue, Architectural Design |
| 2011 | The Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | Ellis Rumley Projects & Saatchi Gallery |
| 2011 | Critical Dictionary, edited by David Evans | Black Dog Press |
| 2010 | Mycelium, Gavin Parkinson | Text + Work |
| 2008 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | Ellis Rumley Projects |
| 2007 | Meeting Place | Exhibition Catalogue |
| 2007 | Critical Dictionary 12 & 14 | criticaldictionary.com |
| 2005 | Bournemouth University Art Loan | Exhibition Catalogue |
| 2005 | Hansel & Gretel | Volume 1, Issue 3, Tales Magazine |
| 2004 | John Moores 23 | Exhibition Catalogue |
| 2004 | The Labyrinth of the Gaze, edited by Gavin Turk | Five |
| 2000 | Dominic Shepherd & Clapham Art Gallery, Oliver Jones | What's On Magazine |
| 1997 | Art in the 90's: Pure Fantasy, Susan Daniel | Exhibition Catalogue |
| 1996 | Seventh Mostyn Open, Mel Gooding | Volume 3, Contemporary Art |
| COLLECTIONS | ||
| Paula Granoff, Providence, Rhode Island | ||
| Steve Shane, New York | ||
| Markus Winzer, Untersiemau | ||
| Private collections in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, United Kingdom & United States | ||
TEXT | EMMA BENNETT | 2017
| TEXT | EMMA BENNETT | 2017 |
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| Exhibition: Haunts | Volta NY |
| Exhibition Dates: Wednesday 1 March - Sunday 5 March 2017 |
| Emma Bennett’s paintings at once recall Dutch and Flemish still-life painting, 20th century Modernism, film and photography. Exquisitely composed, Bennett’s recurring motifs of fruit, flowers, drapery, fire, dead game and interior objects set against black monochromatic grounds operate on multiple levels as memento mori. Exploring the fleeting nature of existence, experience and encounters, Bennett’s work refers to the incomplete, fragmented nature of memory and thought: ‘My paintings, like memories, contain small fragments of imagery - these are focused details surrounded by darkness and ambiguity. The imagery of the paintings locates memories in specific places and, as with memories, there are sharply focused details as well as inaccuracies and things that one can't quite recall.’ Bennett continues to subtly introduce new imagery into her work. Most recently, interior details including stairs, mirrors, lamps and personal artefacts reference regularly frequented places that were once intimate or familiar, but now resonate only in memory. Lamps illuminate areas partially, reflections in the mirror are abstracted, and curtains or drapery conceal the unknown. Unanchored objects are employed in combination with the voidal to suggest absence, longing and uncertainty. Emma Bennett was born in Wales in 1974. She graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London in 1998. Bennett was recently included in ‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’ and ‘Nature Morte’, both published by Thames & Hudson, and the iArtBook ‘100 London Artists’. She has exhibited globally in galleries and museums including Aberystwyth, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bremen, Cardiff, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Klaipėda, London and Los Angeles. Bennett’s work is also represented in prominent private collections in Australia, Germany, Italy, Monaco, Switzerland, United Kingdom & United States |
TEXT | DOMINIC SHEPHERD | 2017
| TEXT | DOMINIC SHEPHERD | 2017 |
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| Exhibition: Old England | Volta NY |
| Exhibition Dates: Wednesday 1 March - Sunday 5 March 2017 |
| Dominic Shepherd’s paintings are beautifully elaborate vistas that reveal a world of ancient, modern and personal mythology. Drawing on the landscape of his home environment – a secluded cottage nestled in woodland in the West Country of England – Shepherd locates his subjects within a natural idyll that suggests a magical otherworldliness. Cultish cyphers and masquerading figures emerge from and recede into the backgrounds, hinting at bygone rituals and long lost secrets that might, in the right moment, be revealed in the surfaces of water, bark or stonework. Shepherd’s merging of the known and unknown operates on several levels. There is a slippage between reality and imagination where dream, hallucination, symbolism and folklore bleed into each other, offering the audience a fictionalized place that might just be real. Made as part of the series Old England, Shepherd’s ongoing concerns have reached beyond the personal and historical to the political. In a climate where nationalism has gained so much traction globally, Shepherd addresses the relationship between actual and nostalgic notions of received traditions, opening onto a consideration of the complex relationship between Romanticism, folk, patriotism and nationalism. Dominic Shepherd was born in England in 1966. He graduated with a Masters in Fine Art Painting from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London in 1995. He is an Associate Professor at the Arts University Bournemouth and is co-coordinator of the Black Mirror Network, which explores the influence and role of Enchantment, the occult and magic in modern and contemporary art. Shepherd was a prize winner in the renowned John Moores exhibition in 2004 and has exhibited globally in galleries and museums including Berlin, Bristol, Frankfurt, Klaipėda, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Helsinki, Miami, Munich and New York. His work is also represented in numerous private collections in France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. |