Michael Curgenven

I was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire. As a child I would constantly be found with a sketch book and pencil in my hands, a love of drawing which i maintain to this day. After leaving school i continued my love of art by starting work as a trainee artist for an advertising agency whilst also attending Leeds school of Art. After a break of several years during which i worked as a professional musician i resumed my interest in art and attended Swarthmore College, where i studied painting and life drawing for three years under the tutelage of Mary Lord. I am married with two children and currently lives in the Holme Valley, West Yorkshire. I am an exhibiting member of Leeds Fine Artists.

Leeds College of Art
Swarthmore College, Leeds.

Selected exhibitions

• Peterborough Art Gallery and Museum (Woodbine Contemporary Arts)
• Bradford College (Leeds Fine Arts)
• Battersea Affordable Art Fair
• Philip Not Gallery, London
• Oldham Art Gallery (Leeds Fine Arts)
• Dean Clough, Halifax (Laing painting competition-regional finalist)
• Mall galleries, London (Laing painting competition-national finalist. Selected for Laing calendar)
• Discerning Eye Exhibition (Mall galleries, London, Archive 2013)
• Cannon Hall Museum and Art gallery, Barnsley



Work in many collections in the U.K, U.S.A and Europe

• Duke of Devonshire collection (suite at Bolton Abbey Hotel)
• Parliamentary Art collection, House of Lords.