Aston Fessey

Aston is a conceptual painter focusing on physical and mental health, investigating the stigma surrounding it. Aston’s current work explores the duality between physical pain and mental health issues, exploring how they feed into each other, taken from his personal experiences since being in a car crash last year. Influenced by Neo-expressionism, Cubism and Abstract Expressionism, Aston uses expressive painting techniques to communicate to a wide audience, using minimalistic expressions at a large scale to communicate taboos of trauma and pain with the audience. His work is universally readable to encourage an open and honest conversation about physical and mental health.

BaHons in Fine Art attained at the University of Lincoln.
Attained three A-levels and an EPQ
Attained 11 GCSEs

Demo Valley (June 2023):
Solo exhibit in a group exhibition. Painted two walls parallel to each other, creating a claustrophobic environment with disturbing imagery to show a personal experience of mental and physical ill health.

Locating Practice (January 2023):
Solo exhibit in a group exhibition. A painting with performance elements, made the audience bend down and pick up paintings on paper that depicted my pain and experience of a car crash. I also made an audio to invite people to interact with the work. Exhibited in the Fine Art studios of Lincoln University.

Through the Looking Glass (May 2022):
Group exhibition at the Blue Room (The Lawn, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3BU). I used The Lawn’s background of being an old asylum to explore mental health and stigma. I worked in collaboration with three artists on a two-day show, each working on our own art – I produced an environment using lights, broken mirror, restraints and a bed. To fill the room and create atmosphere I created an audio loop that read aloud the past residents of the asylum, all the information for that was researched from The Lawns archive and the Lincolnshire Archive’s record office.

Bodies of Practice (January 2022):
Solo work in a group exhibition. Thre...