Lot 19 - Lara Cobden - The Blessing
Lot 19 - Lara Cobden - The Blessing

Lot 19 - Lara Cobden - The Blessing

Ink on paper

2023

A6 (10x15cm)

Original Artwork

Signed on Verso

ARTIST INFO

About

Lara Cobden is a figurative painter living and working in Norfolk. Following a degree in Painting at the University of Brighton, Lara spent 11 years in Ireland before relocating to East Anglia. Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally.

 

Education

1992-95 BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting - University of Brighton
2019-20 Turps Correspondence Course - Turps Banana

 

Select Exhibitions/Awards

SELECTED AWARDS
2021 John Moores Painting Prize - Finalist Walker Gallery Liverpool
2020 Castlegate Painting Prize - Finalist - Castlegate House Gallery 
2020 BEEP Biennial 2020 - Exhibited Shortlist - Elysium Gallery
2019 ING Discerning Eye - Chairman’s Purchase Prize
2019 Westmorland Landscape Prize - Exhibited Shortlist 
2019 2nd Prize Winner - Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize
2018 Wells Arts Contemporary - Recipient of Parker Harris Mentoring Award
2017 ING Discerning Eye - Exhibited Shortlist 
2017 RWA - Shortlist 165th Annual Summer Exhibition 
2017 Recipient The Artist Editor’s Choice Award - SWA Annual Summer Exhibition 
2016 ING Discerning Eye - Exhibited Shortlist 
2016 1st Prize winner - Sir John Hurt Art Prize

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 
2022 Incantations of Light Irving Contemporary Oxford
2022 Falling Without Ever Landing Liliya Art Gallery London
2022 The Shadows Inbetween Cane & Davis London

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 London Trees The Arborealists and Urban Contemporaries 
2022 Visions of Healing Hallam Conference Centre
2022 Weary Harold ASC Gallery London
2022 Trees and the Sacred The Hostry Norwich Cathedral
2021 Incandescent Irving Gallery Oxford
2021 Petrichor Liliya Gallery Putney London
2021 Silent Disco curated by Graham Crowley Suffolk
2021 Works on Paper Blue Shop Cottage Gallery London
2020 Trees & Woodland of Dartmoor & Exmoor - The Arborealists Somerset Museum
2019 The Arborealists - National Arboretum Staffordshire
2019 “If we opened people up we’d find landscapes” Curated Show Fairhurst Gallery 2019 Arborealists at Musee Collégiale Sainte-Croix de Loudun France
2018 Arborealists and Guests – featuring Paul Nash - Black Swan Frome Somerset

 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 

Flesh and the Answer is taken from the poem Elegy in Joy by Muriel Rukeyser - this in turn inspired these four apple tree ink drawings.

 

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