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Chris Gilvan-Cartwright

Country of residence United Kingdom
Contact chris@gilvan.co.uk

Gilvan-Cartwright’s work is dictated by a fascination for fantasy and “dreamworlds” as much as for the act of painting itself; to engage in “the imagination and the dynamic properties of a painted reality”.Appropriating images from high and low art sources, he builds his paintings with layers of thin washes,glazes and passages of painterly excess. Reminiscent of Fragonard, the German Romantics and Victorian fairy paintings, his work is both rigorous and playful. They have an extraordinary light revealing half remembered dreams and desire for utopia.

He studied at Central St. Martins, Brighton University and Crakow in Poland. He won the Royal Overseas League Travel Bursary (1997). He has had four solo shows at the East West Gallery Notting Hill; was shortlisted for John Moores Art Prize twice; and exhibited at the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004. He designed the BBC Proms logo 1998/99. The Times, Independent, Telegraph and BBC Radio 4 Itchy Feet, have featured his work.

Solo shows
1999 Royal Overseas League London, Edinburgh - Out of the Blue
2000 East West Gallery London - In the Spiritual Landscape
2001 Royal Overseas League London, Edinburgh - Prints
2002 East West Gallery London - Land Light Fantastic
2004 East West Gallery London - Greetings From Another Place
2006 East West Gallery London -Prawn Biennale
2006 Fosterart London - Hare Sprayed Streams


Selected Mixed Shows
1987 Royal Festival Hall London - Art for Aids
1989 Royal Festival Hall London - Images of London
Royal West of England,Bristol - Annual Open
1990 Lineart International Art Fair, Gent, Belgium, Represented by Van Wanning Gallery, Rotterdam
1991 Tarnowskie Gora Gallery Poland
1994 Polish Cultural Institute London - No Visa Required
Sothebys,Fruitmarket Gallery London and Edinburgh -Spectator/Adam & Co Annual Open
1995 Artforum London
Polish Cultural Institute London - British Artists in Poland
1996 Royal Overseas League London and Edinburgh College of Art - Annual Open
Polish Cultural Institute London - No Visa Required III
Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh - On a Small Scale
1997 Royal Overseas League London and Edinburgh College of Art - Annual Open
1997 - 2003 East West Gallery London
1999 Wolverhampton City Art Gallery Mountains
2002 University of Brighton MA Fine Art Graduates - International Horse of the Year Show
2003 East West Gallery London - Prize Winners
2003 Royal Academy Summer Show London
Phoenix Gallery, brighton Ship Of Fools
2004 Jerwood Drawing Prize London

Selected Commissions
Becoming Me (Frances Lincoln Publishing)BBC Proms Catalogue and Logo 98 & 99

Exhibitions '00 Nature Part 1, 10.Apr - 15.May.08, Contemporary Art Projects, Start Your Collection 2007!, 01.Aug - 30.Sep.07, Contemporary Art Projects, Summer exhibition 2006, 17.Aug - 03.Sep.06, Contemporary Art Projects, Hare-sprayed Streams, 20.Jul - 13.Aug.06, Contemporary Art Projects, Fosterart Summer Exhibition 2005, 06.Jul - 10.Sep.05, Contemporary Art Projects

Links London on Loan


www.longandryle.com, www.gilvan.co.uk

 

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