Kj Pocock

My work includes painting, drawing, prints and video. Originally from Dorset I studied architecture at Cambridge University. Now based in Manchester I show my artwork in the UK (including the John Moores exhibition) and internationally.

My work is inspired by the built and natural environment, their relationship to each other and to my own thoughts, dreams, memories and experiences. I am interested in the effect these different environments have on us and how we feel and respond to them - physically, psychologically, knowingly and unknowingly. I construct and express this private interior of thoughts usually as a colourful, semi-abstracted space. It encompasses themes such as power, control, hierarchy, repetition, aggression, the passage of time, transformation and contemplation. I am interested in how the personal can represent the universal. Sometimes the subject and theme is about the wider built and natural environment, sometimes more personal about a special place and sometimes both together. I develop my ideas through a design process that involves sketches, investigative studies, technical drawings and software.

Cambridge University (BA Hons, MA and Diploma in Architecture)

SOLO AND SHARED EXHIBITIONS

2020 Traces of Reality, PS Mirabel Gallery, Manchester, England
2019 Giving Art a New Home, Didsbury Arts Festival, Manchester, England
2018 Material Illusions, King Street Studios Gallery, Lancaster, England
2013 Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, England
2013 Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport, England

Solo exhibitions 2010 and before

Clare College, Cambridge University, England
Beales Gallery, Bournemouth, England


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Aesthetica Art Prize (listed artist)

2021 Fronteer Open, Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield, England
2021 ANNIVER5ARY, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, England
2021 Figurative art now, Federation of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London, England
2021 Summer Exhibition, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, England
2021 In Manchester, Cotton On MCR, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, England

2020 Saatchi Art - chief curator showcased artist
2020 New Light curators exhibition, Scarborough Art Gallery, Scarborough, England
2020 Derwent Art Prize (for drawing), gallery@oxo, London, England and Paris, France
2020 Quarantzine 03, Gaada Projects CIC, Shetland, Scotland
2020 Manchester Open, HOME Arts Centre, Manchester, England


2019 Warrington Contemporary A...