Marguerite Horner

Marguerite Horner is a London based artist and a winner of the British Women Artists Award 2018 and the NOA17 MSAmlin prize

On graduating with an M.A. in Fine Art in 2004 she was awarded the "˜Kidd Rapinet prize' for outstanding degree work, presented by Sir Peter Blake.
In 2006 Marguerites work was short-listed for the first Celeste Painting Prize.


She has since been exhibiting widely in Art Fairs and Group Shows, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2005-2008-2010- 2011-2012-2013) the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition (2005- 2010-2011-2012-2013-2014-2015) ) Art in Action (2009) The Threadneedle Prize (2010-2013) The Lynn Painters Stainer Exhibition (2010-2012) Artsway Open (2010) National Open Competition Exhibition (2011-2012)The Griffin Gallery(2015)

2011 Marguerite exhibited at the 54th Venice Biennale in "˜Afternoon Tea' with WW Gallery and in July Exhibition with one other artist in "˜The MacGuffin' exhibition.

2012 Marguerite had her first London Solo Exhibition "˜The Seen and Unseen' at The PM Gallery.
Lady Marina Vaizey C.B.E. (former Art Critic for the FT and Sunday Times and Turner Prize Judge) wrote an essay on her work for the catalogue.

In 2013 marguerite exhibited two solo exhibitions '...

EDUCATION:

2001-2004: M.A. in Fine Art Painting: City and Guilds of London school of Art. (winner of the Kidd Rapinet Prize for outstanding work in the MA show)

B.A. Honours Degree in Fine Art Painting: Sheffield University.Foundation: Lincoln College of Art.

My practice is concerned with the non-material, a reality we can access through contemplation and painting.

Today the moving image dominates our world and whilst visually powerful in so many respects, it denies us the opportunity for stillness and reflection. The value of a painting lies in its ability to induce a contemplative state in the viewer. As Walter Benjamin says 'before it the spectator can abandon himself to his associations.'

For me, the value of contemplation lies in its ability to reconcile the heart and the mind into one. I'm inspired by Merleau-Ponty's observation that it is 'precisely because painting does not ‘copy’ things, and because it does not offer things to thought as does science but presents them immediately and bodily, in their depth and movement, that painting gives a true sense of the world and what it means to see it.'

Through my work I'm interested in enquiring into the ways in which man may be related to the infinite. Upon the...

2018: 'In the City' Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich galleries: 7th Sept 24th October.
2018: Shortlisted for the TRINITY BUOY WHARF Drawing Prize
2016: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition,Piccadilly London.
2016: Contemporary British Painters Summer Exhibition, Quay Arts Gallery Newport, Isle of Wight.
2016: Derwent Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries London
2016: ING DISCERNING PRIZE Exhibition, Mall Galleries.
2016: Edgelands: Group show, The Crypt,London.
2015:Contemporary British Watercolours
Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery
2015: 'Cars and Streets' recent painting by Marguerite Horner: Art Bermondsey Project Space, London
2015: ‘London Painting Survey’ Artswork Project Space, Barbican Arts Trust.
2015: ‘Griffin Gallery Open’, London W11
2015 'The Stations of the Cross' SE19 Container Gallery, London SE9
2015: ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2015
Mall galleries
London
12th -22nd Nov 2015
2015: ‘Contemporary British Watercolours’ Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery
2015: Contemporary British Painting, The Crypt, St Marylebone Church, London
2015 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galeries
2015: ‘Rugby collection’ Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.
2015: ‘Present Tense’ Swindon Museum & Art Gallery.
2015: ‘Station of ...