Malcolm Race

My retirement in 2010 from being Course Leader for BA Contemporary Fine Art Practice at Hull School of Art & Design has given me the freedom to practice my art full-time. 

During the last eight years my approach to painting has changed and a relocation to the wonderful picturesque landscape of South Devon has challenged and questioned my muse. I feel that the new body of work that has materialised has fulfilled unanswered questions while creating new voids to fill. I now move forward embodied with a new spirit enthusiastically working towards a series of exhibitions.

My paintings are a physical manifestation of forgotten and lost fragments from my subconscious,
discovered and remembered and even prompted through the process of painting.  

I bury my thoughts and ideas in an abstract language of marks filtered through my emotional response to a time, place or memory. The diversity of painting with it's infinite possibilities, is for me, an exciting and fertile environment, and I continue to explore the qualities of the materials to unleash new paths to follow. It is important that my paintings are not literal and remain evocative, and though they sometimes include clues often as vague as a colour, mark, or brushstroke as po...

19770-71 Art & Design Foundation Coventry UK
1971-74 BA (Hons) Fine Art Leeds Polytechnic UK

2016 'Extracts' Group Show, The Old Schoolhouse Gallery, York, UK
2017, 'Found in the Act of Finding' Solo Exhibition, The Ropewalk, Barton, Lincolnshire Uk
2017 'Fountain 17' Group Show, Hull & London, UK
2018 'Dialogue With A Landscape' Solo Exhibition, Morten Gallery, Bridlington. East Yorkshire, UK
2020 Connections. Artisan Gallery, Torquay, Devon