Sue Arrowsmith
Sue Arrowsmith was born in 1968 in Manchester UK. She graduated from Goldsmith’s College in 1990 and lives and works in London.
She photographs trees on walks in her local area, capturing these images on 35 millimetre slide film. Once these are processed, she projects them onto her studio wall. She uses inks and acrylics and paints directly onto a prepared surface usually aluminium panel coated with watercolour or more recently gilded metal. These precious metals have become integral to the artists practise as they allow greater play with light.
Changing during the day, the images dance and move across the surface, which is never still. Painting fluidly and at speed, drips and blobs accumulate to make up an image that becomes more abstracted from the original as it unfolds. The artist states, “I am interested in exploring themes of light, gesture and space through the energy and rhythm of mark-making”. Sue Arrowsmith has exhibited widely across Europe and in the UK.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Flickering Light, Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome
2022 Light Up My Sky, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2021 Sue Arrowsmith – Galerie andres Thalmann @ BVLGARI, Zurich
2020 Natura Naturans, Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2019 Let the wind blow through your heart, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
2018 We could dream this night away, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2016 Waiting for the Moon, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
2015 Whisper from The Shadows, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2013 Sue Arrowsmith – Studio Show , October, London
2011 Courtyard Gallery, The National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthen, Galles
2009 Galerie allerArt, Bludenz, Austria
2004 Artist of the Day, Flowers Central, London
Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany
2001 Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
1999 Galerie Frahm, Copenhagen
1997 Cold Spring, Entwistle Gallery, London
1994 Entwistle Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Winter Collection, Mucciaccia Gallery, Cortina
Snow, Stars and More, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
2022 Eye On Nature, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2021 Artists of the gallery – Christmas Edition, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
2020 Rebooting Nature, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Every day, Terrace Gallery, London
Time, Suspended, The Gallery at Catherine Prevost, London
2018 Nature Morte, Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Transference, with Mathew Weir, MOCA London, London
Arcadian Dreams, CCASM, Jersey Channel Islands
Whispering Colour, Bo Lee Gallery, London
Artists of the Gallery – Part 1, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
2017 Nature Morte, The four Domes Pavillion, National Museum of Wrocław, Poland
Die Wunderkammer, Objects of Virtue, CCASM, Jersey Channel Islands
2016 Nature Morte, Konsthallen-Bohusläns Museum, Sweden
2015 Summer Exhibition, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Nature Morte, Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life, Ha gamle prestgard, Stavanger, Norway
2014 Natural Order, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2012 Sweethearts – Artist Couples, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Plus Art Projects at The Mayor’s Parlour, Bow, London
2011 Drawing 2011, Drawing Room, London
2010 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
William Blake and the Naked Tea Party, Ekleksographia, ahadada
2009 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
Drawing 2009, Drawing Room, London
Open Impact, Spike Island, Bristol
2008 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, Londra
Drawing 2009, Drawing Room, London
Open Impact, Spike Island, Bristol
2008 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
2007 Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg Space, London
Drawing 2007, Drawing Room, London
Force Of Nature, The Gallery@Adventure Ecology HQ, London
Summer Exhibition 2007, Royal Academy, London
British Painting, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany
Small Is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
2006 Into The Light Of Things, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Small is Beautiful, Portraits XXIV, Flowers Central, London
2005 Sue Arrowsmith, Claude Heath, Ausstellungsraum, Gallery Hollenbach, Zurich
Drawing Two Hundred, The Drawing Room, London
Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg, Space, London
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
2004 Arbeiten Auf Papier, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany
Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, London
2003 Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, London
About Painting, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany
Pictures at an Exhibition, KPMG, London
Drawn 2B Alive, Hales Gallery, London
2002 At Sea, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
Prospects 2002 Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Essor Gallery Project Space, London
Mapping the Process, Essor Gallery, London
The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002, University of Gloucester, Cheltenham touring to Jerwood Space, London; mac, Birmingham; Glasgow School of Art; EICH Gallery, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, Hull; The Promenade Gallery, The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester
2000 Y2K Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
Incorporate 3, Art and Business, London
Cultural Ties, Jariwala Westzone Gallery, London
2001 Sue Arrowsmith, Maria Chevska, Alexis Harding,Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany
Tradition and Innovation, British Painting from The Royal Bank of Scotland Art Collection, York City Art Gallery, York, England
XS, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London
At Sea, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2001, University of Gloucester, Cheltenham, touring to The Alberto Vilar, Gallery at The Prince’s Foundation, London, EICH Gallery, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, Hull, England
Collection Selection, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, England
1998 The Natwest Art Prize 1998, Lothbury Gallery, London
1997 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 20, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Public Collections
Fidelity Investments, Boston and London
Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London
Goldman Sachs Collection, London
Kupferstichkabinett of the National Gallery of Berlin, Berlina
Royal Bank of Scotland Group Art Collection, London
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
The Government Art Collection, London
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