Sue Arrowsmith

Biography

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

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

Biografia

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.

Opere

Selezione mostre personali

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

Selezione mostre collettive

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

Test personali POP-UP

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

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