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Biography
| EDUCATION | ||
| 1999-2002 | Post-Graduate Diploma Fine Art | Royal Academy Schools, London |
| 1996-1999 | BA (Hons) Fine Art | Loughborough University School of Art |
| ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2024 | Phantasmagoria | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2016 | Hype Trace | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2013 | Mise en Abyme | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2010 | A King’s Gambit Accepted | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2009 | Hexen Reflex | Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2006 | Unnatural Selection | Sartorial Contemporary Art, London |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2023 | PREVIEW | Gramercy Park Studios |
| 2019 | 10 Years | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2018 | The Future is Female | 21c Bentonville, Bentonville |
| 2018 | Truth or Dare: A Reality Show | 21c Museum Cincinnati, Cincinnati |
| 2017 | In Memoriam Francesca Lowe | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2016 | Black Paintings (curated by Heike Strelow) | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2015 | Black Paintings (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 |
| 2012 | The 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 | Polemically Small (curated by Zavier Ellis & Edward Lucie- Smith) | Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham |
| 2012 | The Id, the Ego and the Superego (curated by Zavier Ellis & Marcella Munteanu) | BRAUBACHfive, Frankfurt |
| 2011 | The 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 | 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 | Attraction of the Opposites (curated by Kiki Petratou) | CUCOSA, Rotterdam |
| 2010 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) | Shoreditch Town Hall, London |
| 2010 | Papyrophilia | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2010 | The Reflected Gaze | Torrance Art Museum, Torrance |
| 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 |
| 2008 | The Past is History (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) | Changing Role Gallery, Rome/Naples |
| 2008 | New London School (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) | Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2007 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley) | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2006 | Icons | Chungking Projects, Los Angeles |
| 2006 | Half Life | Fieldgate Gallery, London |
| 2006 | New Figurative Realism | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2006 | People Like Us | No More Grey, London |
| 2005 | Maji Jabii!! Fucking Brilliant!! | Tokyo Wondersite, Tokyo |
| 2005 | Carter Presents | Carter Presents, London |
| 2005 | New London Kicks | Wooster Projects, New York |
| 2005 | The Deviants | Sartorial Contemporary Art, London |
| 2005 | The Sun Also Rises | Rockwell, London |
| 2005 | Faux Realism Part 1+2 | Rockwell & Royal Academy Pumphouse, London |
| 2005 | Darkest Hour | Leisure Club Mogadishni, Copenhagen |
| 2004 | Horizon of Expectation | Empire Gallery, London |
| 2004 | Born, Cry, Eat, Shit, Fuck, Die | Rockwell, London |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | ||
| 2011 | The Face of Jesus, Edward Lucie-Smith | Harry N. Abrams |
| 2011 | The Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | Exhibition Catalogue |
| 2011 | 3 Worlds in 1 | Exhibition Catalogue |
| 2009 | New Masters of Paint: today’s top contemporary painters | Modern Edition |
| 2009 | Ten New Artists you should really Have Heard of by Now | GQ Magazine |
| 2008 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | Exhibition Catalogue |
| 2006 | Rockwell Space and Artists | Modern Painters |
| 2005 | Review | Time Out Magazine |
| 2005 | Feature, Keith Talent Gallery, London | Miser & Now |
| 2004 | Liberal Intervention: The Empires New Clothes?, Allegra Stratton & James Lindon (eds) | Aitchess Press |
| 2003 | Friends in High Places | Art Review |
| COLLECTIONS | ||
| Marc Coucke, Ghent | ||
| Jean Pigozzi, Geneva | ||
| David Roberts, London | ||
| Thomas Rusche, Münster | ||
| Dr Rainer Schiweck, Munich | ||
| The SØR Rusche Collection, Oelde / Berlin | ||
| Howard Tullman, Chicago | ||
| Private collections in France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom & United States | ||
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| GAVIN NOLAN |
| SOLO Contemporary > Stand 6 |
| British Art Fair |
| EXHIBITION DATES :Thursday 26 - Sunday 29 September 2024 |
| ADDRESS: Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, London SW3 4RY |
| CHARLIE SMITH LONDON presents Gavin Nolan in SOLO Contemporary at British Art Fair. Nolan presents ten portrait paintings that continue a mature style introduced in 2023. Each painting depicts a figure, real or imagined, engaged in the creative process. Deep in concentration or caught in a moment of contemplation, Nolan’s subjects represent Modernist archetypes who defined visual culture during the 20th century. They are also, however, referred self-portraits. Nolan approaches this series in the knowledge that his own assumptions, beliefs and judgement tendencies influence the making process. In doing so, he is manifesting alternative realities where each portrait acts as a cipher for a confluence of personal, objective, real and imagined events. The construction of the paintings is in part left visible, again referencing the act of making by revealing the artist’s process. Each layer - primer, under-painting, and grisaille - leads to a refinement of illusion and signifies the history of the object. The black and white colour palette serves as shorthand for objectivity, whilst suggesting dream or memory. The spaces the figures inhabit are simplified and provisional, emphasising the flatness of the picture plane and the primacy of the subjects and the objects they create. Brush marks metamorphose into sculptural forms, smoke and other phantasmagoria, and the individuals depicted dissolve, becoming immersed in the composition. Subject, objects, environment and material ultimately merge into one thing in itself. Gavin Nolan graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2002, having completed his BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Loughborough University School of Art in 1999. Nolan has exhibited at galleries, institutions and off-site projects internationally throughout his career, including 21c Museum, Saatchi Gallery, Klaipeda Culture Communication Centre, Torrance Art Museum, Chungking Projects, Wooster Projects, Leisure Club Mogadishni, Rockwell and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT. His work is placed in leading private collections globally. For enquiries please email direct@charliesmithlondon.com |