Lot 404 - Simon Keenleyside - Until The Morning

ARTIST INFO

About  

After studying for his BA at Brighton University Simon Keenleyside completed an MA in painting at the Royal College of Art. He has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and internationally in Italy, Tokyo, America and Denmark. In 2002 he won the BOC Emerging Artist Award and in 2004 he was the UK winner of the Lexmark European Art Prize. He has work in private and corporate collections that include The BOC Group, Comme des Garcons, David Roberts Foundation, Hiscox, Marsh Mclennan , Mario Testino collection and The Museo del Novecento Collection. 

Education  

2000- 2002 MA Painting Royal College of Art, London 
1997-2000 BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting Brighton University, Sussex 

Select Exhibitions/Awards  

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 
2021 Primeval CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London  
2013-14 Back to the World Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples 
2010 Magic lurks Rokeby, London 
2010 Safe in the magic of my wold Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples 
2008 A place in the darkness Rokeby, London 
2007 The Uninhabited Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples 
2006 Endless Coloured Days Mogadishni, Copenhagen 
2006 Dreams by the sea Rokeby, London 
2005 No life in the land Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milan 
2004 Rainbows In Dark Places Mogadishni, Copenhagen 
2003 Digging and Daydreams Standpoint Gallery, London 
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS  
2021/22. A Generous Space, Artist support pledge. Hastings contemporary. Hastings. 
2020 Accelerate Your Escape Whitechapel Gallery, London 
2020 PROJECT PAPYROPHILIA CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London  
2018 Summertime 2018 Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen 
2017 Natura Plastica Blindarte, Milan  
2015 Mario Bertolini Collection. The Museo del Novecento, Milan 
 

Gallery Representation  

BLINDARTE gallery - Naples/Milan 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork    

For a long while my work has been focused on landscape and I’ve spent a number years returning to two specific locations; the backwaters and tributaries of the Thames and small woodlands that I discovered and explored as a child. I return to these same sites as an approach in mediation on the changing environment. Each work and each repetition highlighting the shifts in the landscapes - But rather than an interest in pure landscape, I endure repeated trips to these sites not only to evoke physical places, but also mental states, desires and anxieties that accompany me during those times.