Arron Kuiper

Arron Kuiper (b.1984) is a Welsh artist who has practiced for over a decade in his native North Wales. He has garnered a handful of national awards, shown extensively across the U.K. including 2 Solo Exhibitions, has work on permanent display and in a number of private collections as well as featuring in international art publications. He is currently represented by Tides Gallery, Swansea.
He is best known for his invention of Sculptural Oil Painting but continues to combine a wide range of media and invented techniques with work in more traditional materials. This broad experimental approach and tendency towards zero waste is borne of growing up in poverty where, though he never quite had to beg for materials (lucky, as not many people carry around a tube of burnt umber on their person) he learned to develop and produce work with whatever was to hand.
His themes and inspirations are as varied as the media he uses (and let's be honest, interpretation is in the eye of the viewer), but broadly it's about the people, land, environment and history of his homeland.
He continues to make work in his shed, on a hillside, in the woods of rural North Wales.

B.A. Fine Art under Andre Stitt and Dave Shephard, Cardiff School of Art and
Design, 2011

HND Fine Art, Leicester DeMontfort,
2008

Foundation Art and Design, Yale College
Wrexham, 2006

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Paint³
Elysium Gallery Swansea

2014
Terra Infirma,
Modern Alchemists Gallery, Cardiff

​OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

2022
Ty Pawb Open, Ty Pawb
Wrexham

2021
Royal Cambrian Open
Royal Cambrian Academy of Art
Conwy

Ty Pawb Open, Ty Pawb
Wrexham

2020
Beep Painting Biennial, Elysium
Gallery Swansea

2018
Ty Pawb Open
Ty Pawb Wrexham

2016
Beep International Painting Prize
Elysium Gallery, Swansea; Undegun
Gallery, Wrexham

2011
ING Discerning Eye
Mall Galleries, London

2015
Cardiff Contemporary Oriel Castell, Cardiff

2012
Cardiff Open, Project 10, Cardiff

PERMANANT DISPLAY

Tides Gallery
Swansea

Drawing Board
Wrexham

OTHER SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Land of Change Elysium Gallery
Swansea
Uncommon Ground Undegun Gallery Wrexham
2017
Wandering Chapel Gallery
Ormskirk
Works of Barefoot Rascals Sho Gallery Cardiff
2016
Beep International This is the
place I never wanted to leave
Arcade Gallery, Cardiff
2015
MADE from the Museum, M.A.D.E Gallery and National Museum Cardiff
Haye Festival Show Lion Street Gallery Haye on Wye
Grand Opening Erwood Station Gallery Erwood
2014
Undetermined Paths Abacus Gallery
Cardiff
Half Bound Abac...