Abi Box

Painting as poetry makes sense to me, especially with concern to translation and interpretation, words painting pictures and pictures inspiring words. I like to think of the possibilities present in gesture and suggestion, to think of light as something so bright that it might be audible. When I paint, my mind is in constant flux for how a painting can be made, constructed, pieced together, and subsequently read and understood. I want to make spacious, minimal, balanced paintings, I want to make awkward, messy, chockablock paintings. I’d like to make both kinds of painting at the same time, and then there’s the risk, every time, of making a bad painting. The good paintings are so often accidental, ignorantly brave and beautifully reckless.

2005 - 08 Camberwell College of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting)

2004 - 05 Camberwell College of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture)

2003 - 04 Glasgow School of Art, Diploma in Fine Art Studies (Sculpture and Environmental)

RESIDENCIES / AWARDS

40 Celsius (shortlisted) 2018, Stiwdio Maelor Corris, North Wales 2016, Refugio Amazonas Puerto Maldonado, Peru Rainforest, Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize (Shortlisted), Trélex Residency Switzerland, 2015, La Braderie de l’Art La Condition Publique Roubaix France 2013, Signature Art Prize (Shortlisted) 2010, Catlin Art Prize (Longlisted) 2008.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Windswept BSoA Bermuda (Solo) 2019, Paper Cuts Saatchi Gallery London, Bermuda Biennial Bermuda National Gallery, Transcendence The Cello Factory, London 2018, Haloclines Jessica Carlisle Gallery London, Lost + Found Unit 3 Projects London, The Smaller The Larger Sobering Galerie Paris 2016, Strobe Maneuvre Unit 3 Projects, Painting the Future Contemporary Collective, Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Mall Galleries 2015, Of this Earth Yarrow Gallery Oundle, Dichromatic Allure Identity Art Gallery Hong Kong 2014, Burning Bright Saatchi Suit Hyatt Hotel London, L o u d L i g h t ASC Window Space London (Solo), Connect A-side B-Side Gallery London 2013, Art Taipei Identity Art Gallery Taipei, Call of the Wild Identity Art Gallery Hong Kong (Solo), Imprint The Serpentine Gallery Project Space London 2012, oneforone London View Tube London 2011, Q-art A...