Geoff Diego Litherland

Geoff Diego Litherland is a Mexican born artist based in Nottingham. In 2012 he completed an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London. Recognition to date includes featuring in the Bonhams auction A Contemporary Edge in 2014, being selected for the 2013 Catlin Guide; in 2012 he won the Saatchi Online Surreal Showdown and the prestigious Warden’s Purchase prize from Goldsmiths. He has also been selected for the John Moores 25 Painting prize at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool and won the Nottingham Castle Open in 2008; his work is featured in public and private collections worldwide. Geoff is currently an associate lecturer on the Fine Art course at Nottingham Trent University.

Geoff’s work explores the tension between the natural world and its grasping appropriation by human influence. It draws from traditional genres of painting together with the rusty surrealism of science fiction and the fantasia of abstraction to create parallel worlds that seek to not only question our perception of and relationship to nature, but paintings’ historical and current role in that.

Education
2010-2012 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University of London
2002 CELTA Teaching Certificate, International House, Barcelona
2002 BA Fine Art Painting, 1st Class Honours, Falmouth College of Art
1999 BTEC Diploma Foundation Studies in Art, LUSAD

Solo Shows
2015 Infinite Summer, Lacey Contemporary, London
2015 Venture in the Slipstream, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham
2013 We Were Never Here, BEARSPACE, London
2013 We Will Say Goodbye to Everything Nancy Victor Gallery, London
2012 Flat Like the Old Days Watergate Gallery Hay on Wye
2012 Geoff Diego Litherland New Paintings, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington
2011 Collisions, Art Work Space, London
2009 Conjuntos, Nottingham Castle Galleries
2009 Multiverses, Wallner Gallery, Lakeside Art Centre, Nottingham
2008 Goldfactory Research Space Residency, Egerton Studios, Nottingham
2007 Falling Awake (joint show with Michael Bowdidge) 1851 Gallery, Nottingham
2002 Esperar, Falmouth College of Arts Degree Show, Falmouth College of Arts
2001 long5º29ºwlat50º14ºn, Spring Gallery, Falmouth Arts Centre

Selected Group Shows
2014 Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Galleries
2013 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2012 Oriel Davies Open
2011 Colour in Art, Beldam Gallery, Uxbridge
2010 Crash, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
2010 Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Galleries
2008 Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Galleries,
2008 John Moores 25 Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpo...