Kurt Hickson

Kurt Hickson is a mixed media artist who combines found objects and materials with the vocabulary of painting to explore ideas of taste, tradition and process. Whilst he embraces retro art practices, Hickson confronts the so-called ‘death of painting’ with a playful DIY approach to making, revamping the conventions of abstract painting with modern materials and experimental methods of production. Shifting between styles, Hickson explores the act, process and materiality of painting as it battles a world of commercial images, new media art forms and its own historical baggage.

Kurt Hickson lives and works in Birmingham, UK. He graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 2006. Hickson's work has been exhibited at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Towner Eastbourne, Ikon Gallery (Birmingham), The Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, Test Space-Spike Island (Bristol), Eastside Projects (Birmingham), New Art Gallery Walsall, and mac Birmingham.

2003-2006
Liverpool JMU
BA (Hons)Fine Art

2019

The Twin, Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art (Technical Director)
Summer Camp, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Shape Pattern Process, Asylum Gallery, Wolverhampton (solo)
Birmingham Architectural Association, Senator, Birmingham
Blender: Soup ptV (Three), Stryx, Birmingham
Blender: Soup ptV (Two), Stryx, Birmingham
Blender: Soup ptV (One), Stryx, Birmingham
Forward: New Art from Birmingham, Ikon Gallery off-site at Medicine, Birmingham

2018

Objects, T Street Gallery, Birmingham (solo)
Summer Camp, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
The Everyday and Extraordinary, ACC Partnership Show, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
The Everyday and Extraordinary, ACC Partnership Show, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

2017

The Future, CET Building, Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art
Photocopy Show, Test Space-Spike Island, Bristol
Monochrome, The Wig, Birmingham (solo)