EDUCATION

Postgraduate Painting Diploma, Central St. Martins, London

BA (Hons) 1st class WSCAD, Farnham

BA (Hons) 2:1 University College London

 

AWARDS

2021 Winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize

2017/18 Long listed : Contemporary British Painting Prize

2017 Long listed : Rye Winter Salon prize

2012 Juliet Gomperts Trust bursary

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2015-2022

Wells Art Contemporary (2020/22) 

BEEP Wales (2016/18/20/22)

The London Group Open (2015/17) 

Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (2015/17)

ING Discerning Eye 

Royal West of England Academy

'Supernature' touring exhibition: The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough, Rye, Sevenoaks  

Matthew Burrows Selects, Unit 1, London

Contemporary British Painting Prize, Huddersfield/London

Hansard Studio, London

Hastings Contemporary 'A Generous Space'

Rye Winter Salon, Rye

Painting [Now], Studio One Gallery, London 

'Antennae' Angus-Hughes Gallery, London 

PS Mirabel, Manchester 

Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent 

No Format Gallery, London

 

Contemporary British Painting 2022 +

'X' Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne

'Paint Edgy' CBP & guests @ The Ropewalk, Barton-upon-Humber

'Vitalistic Fantasies' CBP @ Elysium Gallery, Swansea 

'Paradoxes', CBP @ Quay Arts, Isle of Wight

 

OTHER EXHIBITIONS 1986-2014

Winsor & Newton Young Artists Awards (Finalist), Mall Galleries, London; Young Unknowns Gallery, London; The Art House, London; ‘Celebration’ South Bank Photo Show, London; ‘East Meets West’, East West Gallery, London; ‘Identikit’ at Pixley Street Studios, London; The Affordable Art Company, Connaught Brown Gallery, London; Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex – Quentin Follies; South London Women Artists, Dulwich Library; 'Then and Now' Free Painters and Sculptors at Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, London; Espacio Gallery, London; The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury; 

 

DESIGN

Tecno UK Ltd., London – solo exhibition of paintings and rug designs; Kappa Lambda Rugs, London ('Colour', 'Urban Swing', 'Liquide', 'Point' and 'Ardennes' solo rug collections); Purves & Purves, London – solo exhibition of rugs; ‘Dunkelbunt’ rug for Christopher Farr, London; Private commission - rug for country house; Ernst & Young, London – rug commission; Tent London’, Truman Brewery, London; ‘Sleep’ Old Billingsgate Market, London;

 

PUBLICATIONS/CATALOGUES

'Leap Before You Look' Contemporary British Painting Prize catalogue, winner's essay by Matthew Burrows MBE, 2021

'Drawing and Painting' by Kate Wilson - Thames & Hudson, February 2015

‘Contemporary Rugs’ by Christopher Farr, Matthew Bourne, Fiona Leslie – Merrell, 2000