Gareth Kemp

BIO
I am an artist born on the Wirral and based in Liverpool UK. I studied Art History before eventually starting painting around 2006. I participated on the Turps Banana Correspondence Course 2014-2017, where my mentors were Jennifer Coates (New York based Painter and Art Critic), Covadonga Valdes (Painter) and Phil King (Painter, writer and co-editor of Turps Banana Magazine). This supportive, intensive period developed and reinvigorate my practice. The period during and since has witnessed my paintings becoming more sought after for exhibitions. ‘This Could Be Eastern Europe’ was selected for John Moores Painting Prize 2016. Five paintings were selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018 (‘The Mirage’, ‘The Clearing’, ‘Firewood//Setting Sun’, ‘Harvest Moon’ and ‘Starry Night//Campfire Light’). I won second prize in the Bankley Open in 2016 with ‘Time Of The Season’. Significantly in 2017 I was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Arts. I have recently exhibited internationally, showing three paintings at Berlin’s Sluice Art Fair (November 2018) and three paintings were selected for Art – Letter Home, an exhibition touring four venues across China (2018-19). In 2018 I received A.C.E. A.I.D.F. Funding to spend four...

BA (Hons) History of Design and the Visual Arts. Staffordshire University 1995

MA Art History. Liverpool University 1997

Turps Banana Correspondence Course 2014-17. Mentors - Jennifer Coates/Covadonga Valdes/Phil King

HIGHLIGHTS

2021 Bloomberg New Contemporaries Studio Bursary - Bluecoat

2021 Arts Council England Developing Your creative Practice Funding

2018 Bloomberg New Contemporaries

2018 Arts Council England Artist' International development Fund recipient

2017 Paul Hamlyn Award For Visual Arts Nomination

2017 Bankley Open Call 2nd Prize Winner

2016 John Moores Painting Prize

2008 Short-listed for Liverpool Art Prize

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022

Light Sensitive Area Ahead; A Presentation of New Work by Gareth Kemp. Bridewell Studios and Gallery. Liverpool

Refractive Pool; Contemporary Painting in Liverpool. Walker Art Gallery. Liverpool

In The Flat Field. 50MV. Waterloo. Sefton.

Beep Painting Prize 2022. Elsyium Gallery. Swansea.

The Bankley Open 2022. Bankley Gallery and Studios. Manchester.

Ty Pawb Open 2022. Ty Pawb. Wrexham.October 2022.

2021

Wells Contemporary 2021. Wells Cathedral. Wells.

2020

TY PAWB OPEN 2020 Ty Pawb Market Street, Wrexham, LL13 8BY.

BEEP PAINTING PRIZE 2020 Elysium Gallery 210/211 High Street, Swansea, SA1 1PE.

TALK TO. ME …DIRTY. MEGACITY. ONE Terrace Gallery, London. April 16 – 10 May 2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID 19 – NEW DATES TBC

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