Essays
Catalogue Essay 2023 - Aidan Quinn
No decree or creed can outlaw you
As you take every living thing apart. Little
Master of earth, no one gets to heaven
Without going through you first.
Ode to the Maggot - Yusef Komunyakaa
Catalogue Essay 2021 - Aidan Quinn
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.- Kahlil Gibran
Catalogue Essay 2019 - Aidan Quinn
Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.- Franz Kafka
Catalogue Essay 2017 - Aidan Quinn
Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.- Graham Greene
Catalogue Essay 2015 - Aidan Quinn
What will survive of us is love.- Philip Larkin
Catalogue Essay 2013 - Aidan Quinn
My child could do that.- [Anonymous]
Catalogue Essay 2011 - Aidan Quinn
If you dig deep enough, all of our dreams are the same.- Amos Oz
Catalogue Essay 2009 - Aidan Quinn
It’s hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once, when I was poor.- Larry Holmes
Awards
- Discerning Eye 2017, Invited artist and regional prize, Mall Galleries, London.
- Art in Action, Best of the Best - 2nd prize 2015, 1st prize 2014
- National Art Open 2013, Towry regional prize, London and Chichester.
- BP Portrait Awards 2011, visitors choice 2nd prize, National Portrait Gallery, London.
- The Contemporary Arts Society of Wales, selection 2010
- Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London: 1st prize: 2001, 2003, 2010, 2nd prize: 1999, 2000, Commendation: 2004
- Arts Council of Wales Project Grant. 2008
- Royal Society of British Artists, Gordon Hulson Memorial Prize, Mall Galleries, London. 2001
- Royal West of England Academy, Commendation. 2001
- Young Artists’ Britain, The Prince of Wales’s Young Artists’ Award, Hampton Court Palace, London. 1999
- The Worshipful Company of Painter - Stainers bursary in painting, London. 1998
- Full scholarship to study at Byam Shaw School of Art, London. 1997 - 2000
Exhibitions
- Solo Exhibitions, Beaux Arts Bath. 2003 - 2023
- Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London. 2000, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2018, 2024
- The London Art Fair, London. 2006 - 2024
- British Art Fair, London. 2007 - 2015, 2022 - 2024
- Ffin y Parc Gallery, Conwy. 2021
- Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, Piano Nobile, London. 2017
- Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London. 1997, 2003, 2011, 2017
- The Ruskin Prize, Walsall and London. 2016
- Artist in Residence at The International School of Zug and Lucerne, Switzerland. 2015
- Art in Action, Waterperry House, Oxford. 2014, 2015, 2016
- Unfurl, Gallery 1261, Denver. 2015
- National Art Open, London and Chichester. 2013, 2015
- Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London. 2013
- Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, London. 2013, 2015
- Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, London. 2012
- Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London. 1999, 2007, 2008, 2012
- Holbourne Portrait Prize, Bath. 2012
- Art London. 2007 - 2011
- Eisteddfod, Cardiff. 2008
- Lilly Zeligman Gallery, The Netherlands. 2009 - 2013
- Victor Felix Gallery, London. 2006 - 2013
- Bossanova, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff. 2008
- Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff. 2005 - 2012
- Fairfax Gallery, London/Tunbridge Wells. 2002 - 2008
- Face Value, Chelsea Art Gallery, San Francisco. 2005
- Slice 1, Jacob’s Market, Cardiff. 2003
- Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London. 1999 - 2012
- Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London. 2001, 2002, 2012
- Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. 2001
- The Prince’s Foundation, London. 2001
- New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London. 2000
- Young Artists’ Britain, Hampton Court Palace, London. 1999
- Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, Livery Hall, London. 1998