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Jean-Luc Almond is a British artist who received his BFA in 2013 from the City & Guilds of London Ar...
About the artist
Joined In 2012
(1060 Followers)
About the artist
Joined In 2012
(1060 Followers)
Jean-Luc Almond is a British artist who received his BFA in 2013 from the City & Guilds of London Art School. His paintings have won various awards, including The Channel Islands Fox Art Prize, the Cass Art Commission of the National Open Art Competition, Somerset House and The Best Painting Prize at the ‘Injustice’ Open Art Competition, La Galleria, Pall Mall, judged by esteemed art critic, Edward Lucie Smith.
He has been featured as a Saatchi Art 'One to Watch' and in the '20 Emerging Artists to Buy Now' Collection on Saatchi Art. His work is exhibited internationally. Notable exhibitions include Start Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, SCOPE Basel, Switzerland, The Other Art Fair and The London Art Fair.
Collections of interest include Mark Cass- CEO and founder of Cass Art, Tony Elliot, founder of Time Out Magazine, Sandstorm films- UK and Arte Al Limite- Chile.
Among Jean-Luc’s influences is Victorian photography. His paintings are constructed through the processes of creation and destruction, damage and repair. Jean-Luc is obsessed with the materiality and texture of the paint itself. He embraces the transformations that take place when he is no longer a slave to the image and the painting becomes more about the paint and the su...
2009-2013 City & Guilds of London Art School. BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Beautiful Chaos. Arkley Fine Art Gallery, Hitchin, 1-25 April 2024
Jean-Luc Almond, Oink Gallery, Swindon, 28 Oct- 22 Nov 2022
Assolo, Le Dame Art Gallery. The Meliá White House Hotel. London. 4-16 October 2016.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ART FAIRS:
Burderop House Launch exhibition. Oink Gallery, Their Gallery. Swindon. 6th June, 2024
The Other Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London, 7-10 March 2024
Oink Pop-Up, Oink Gallery, Cirencester, 1st Dec 22 - 8th Jan 23
Fresh Art Fair, Arkley Fine Art, Cheltenham, 27-30 April 2023
Arkley Introduces, Arkley Fine Art Gallery, Hitchin, 1-25 April 2023
The Sixth Sense, Shay Hewett Fine Art, Mauritius, 8-14 October 2022
The Other Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London, 17-20 March 2022
The Other Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London, 14-17 Oct 2021
Wells Art Contemporary Awards. Wells Cathedral, Wells, 28 August-26 Sept 2021
Trace, Exhibition with Fiona Wilson, The John Bunyan Museum, Bedford, 10-21 March 2020
The Other Art Fair. Victoria House. London. October 2019
London Art Fair. Business Design Centre. Edgar Modern Gallery Jan. 16 - Jan. 20, 2019
The Affordable Art Fair. New York City. Metropolitan Pavilion. USA. Art Unified. 26 -.30 Sept, 2018
London Art Fair, Edga...
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Showed at the The Other Art Fair
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