LEX SHUTE

 

EDUCATION

2017-19       MA Painting

                        Royal College of Art, London.

2007             Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art

                        Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.

1996-98      Certificate in Higher Education, Fine Art

                        University of the West of England, Bristol.

1995-96      National Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art & Design)

                        University of the West of England, Bristol.

1991-94       BA Hons Sociology 

                         Greenwich University, London.

 

EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS

2024           Walk While You Have The Light. Safehouse 1, London. 

2024           Tipping Point: Shapers. Bell House, Dulwich Festival, London. 

2024           Portal 1. Infront of f Space, Wuppertal, Germany. 

2023           Portal 256. Portal Offices, Amsterdam.  

2021-22    In (Matters of the Soul). ASC Gallery, London.  

2021           Trace Elements | 1971, The Factory Project, London. Curators Rosalind Davis &                                  Thorp Stavri. 

2021           Travers Smith CSR Art Programme Selection, in association with the Serpentine                                Gallery, Travers Smith London.

2020            The Birds Are Singing In The Distant Woods, The Violet Hour. (Online).

2020            The Collector's Room. JGM Gallery, London. 

2019            Tender. The Violet Hour, London.

2019            Indoor Voices. Greystone Industries, Suffolk.

2019         Travers Smith CSR Programme Selection, in association with Serpentine Gallery,                     Travers Smith London.

2019            RCA Graduate Show. Royal College of Art, London.

2019            A Raw Garden. Fitzrovia Gallery, London.

2019            Crossroad. Hoxton 253 Project Space, London.

2018            Width of Circle. Titan House, Stourbridge.

2018            Thumbnails. Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London.

2018            WIP. Royal College of Art, London.

2016            Telling Tales. Collyer Bristow Gallery, London.

2016            HYG Editions. Hundred Years Gallery, London

2016            Paint Her To Your Own Mind. Shandy Hall Gallery, Yorkshire.

2016            HYG Editions Spring 2016. Hundred Years Gallery, London.

2016            Multiple Choices 2016. Simmons & Simmons, London.

2016            Counter_Fitters. Geddes Gallery, London.

2016            The Exchange. Brunswick East, London.

2015            HYG Editions. Hundred Years Gallery, London.

2015            Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition. ASC Bond House Gallery, London.

2015            Bells From The Deep. Hundred Years Gallery, London.

2015            Rites of Passage. Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia, Spain.

2014            Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition. ASC Bond House Gallery, London.

2013            Of Truth of Clouds (Solo Show). South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire.

2013            Wider than a Postcard. Breeze Block Gallery, Portland, USA.

2012            National Open Art Competition. Princes Foundation Gallery, London.

2012            160th Open Exhibition. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.

2012            Space//Form. Breeze Block Gallery, Portland, USA.

2012            Westworld. Xero, Kline & Coma Gallery, London.

2012            Young Masters. Rupert Cavendish Fine Art, London.

2012            Woolgather Art Prize. Cross York Street, Leeds.

2012            Rising Stars Art Prize. New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham.

2012            Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. Mall Galleries, London.

2012            London Art Fair. Opus Gallery, London.

2012            At Home With The Ludskis. Rio Cinema, London.

2011            Young Masters @ Sphinx. Sphinx Gallery, London.

2011            Future Proof (Solo Show). Opus Gallery, Newcastle.

2011            Heartlands. Downstairs Gallery, Great Brampton House, Hereford.

2011            11:11. East Gallery, London.

2010            Making It / Faking It. Orleans House Gallery, London.

2010            Victoria Stakes 20:20. Victoria Stakes, London.

2010            Dalston Underground Ten Years. Boleyn Boys Club, London.

2010            Scope. Opus Gallery, New York, USA.

2009            Art Basel Miami Beach. Opus Gallery, Miami, USA.

2009            Visions of Desire. Galeria Espacio, Valencia, Spain.

2009            Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Royal Academy, London.

2009            Scope. Opus Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.

2009            Bridge. Opus Gallery, New York, USA.

2009            Drawing with Dolphins. Crimes Town Gallery, London.

2009            Contemporary Painters. Opus Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.

2008            Kounter Kulture. Opus Gallery @ Truman Brewery, London.

2008            Café Gallery Projects Annual Open. Café Gallery Projects, London.

2007            Pastoral Sliders. Guerrilla Gallery & Brompton Design Project, London.  

2007            SaLon 07 - Best of London’s Post Graduates. SaLon Gallery,London.

2007            Free Association. Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.

 

AWARDS

2021            Travers Smith CSR Art Programme

2019            Travers Smith CSR Art Programme

2016            Artist Residency at the Merz Barn, Cumbria

2013            Woolgather Art Vend Commission

2012            Woolgather Art Prize (Third Prize)

2012            Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize (Shortlist)

2012            Rising Stars (Shortlist)

2010            Artist Residency at the Cill Rialaig Project, Ireland

2002            Royal Television Society Award

                      Team award for ‘Way With Words’ website. Available Light, Bristol.

2001            BAFTA for Online Learning

                       Team award for ‘Grid Club’ website. Available Light, Bristol.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2022            ‘Looking-Glass’. Paper presented to PSSA Conference 'Unusual Suspects'.

2019            ‘Redacted Text’. RCA dissertation (Distinction).

2016            ‘In Search of an Author’ Artists’ Book (ArtCircus Books).

2015            HYG Editions Catalogue.

2015            Woolgather Art Vend Catalogue.

2013            The Art Circus’ Best of 2013; Wall Street International; Creative Boom;                                                     The Art Circus Interview.                              

2012            National Open Art Competition Catalogue; Westworld Catalogue;                                                               Woolgather Art Prize Catalogue; Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Catalogue;                                                 Rising Stars Prize Catalogue; The Young Masters Prize short film; a-n                                                       magazine.            

2011            The Journal; a-n magazine; FAD Arts.                       

2010            The Independent; Richmond and Twickenham Times and Local                                                                   Guardian; The Surrey Comet; Arrested Motion; Who’s Jack Magazine;                                                     Digital Arts Magazine; Cherchez la Femme; Folio Magazine Shortlist.

2009            Who’s Who in Art, Hilmarton Manor Press; Church Times review; Fringe                                                 MK Painting Prize Catalogue; Marmite Prize Catalogue of Drawings. 

2008            Spoonfed review by Tom Jeffreys.

2007            ‘Futuristic Nostalgia in Notopia’. Chelsea College of Art dissertation (Distinction).

1994            ‘Framing the Primitive; Art & Religion in the 20th Century’. Greenwich University                                 dissertation (Distinction).        

 

COLLECTIONS

Work in private collections in the UK, USA and Germany

Origin Gallery, Dublin, George & Lizbeth Krupp, Daniel Kleinman.

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