I paint and build people. They are usually imagined, occasionally remembered and sometimes they are models; fragments of bodies that I have found and/or built.
Whatever the source, the work proceeds with some urgency as if it were a hunt. Meanings percolate gently through the mixing; attaching and detaching themselves as the arrangements shift. I exert little control but take notice and what I notice I paint or build. I suspect that at the heart of the process is a question of identity, allied to a suspicion that the real world is as much a product of desire as it is an object.
I paint and build people. They are usually imagined, occasionally remembered and sometimes they are models; fragments of bodies that I have found and/or built.
Whatever the source, the work proceeds with some urgency as if it were a hunt. Meanings percolate gently through the mixing; attaching and detaching themselves as the arrangements shift. I exert little control but take notice and what I notice I paint or build. I suspect that at the heart of the process is a question of identity, allied to a suspicion that the real world is as much a product of desire as it is an object.
In recent work I have looked more and directed less. The work has become smaller and simpler. The larger groupings have given way to smaller studies. Heads float in space, arms lie on planes, figures drift.
Date of Birth: 22. 12. 1964
Nationality: British
Languages: Spanish, fluent
Qualifications: B.A. (OXON) 1st 1986
Website: www.leadwhite.co.uk
Blog: www.leadwhite.co.uk/blog
Key Information
Art Fairs
2017 Edinburgh
2017 Battersea
2017 Manchester
2017 Cambridge
2016 Beijing
2014 New York
2014 Miami (Context)
2013 Battersea
2013 Hampstead
Selected Exhibitions
2018 Timewarp, Espacio Gallery, London
2017 Lynn Painter Stainers, London
2017 Ashurst Art Prize, London
2017 ‘Beyond The Real’, Stratford
2016 Private, Beijing 55 Art Space
2016 “Thinking”, Riverside Gallery, Beijing
2016 ‘How the Light Gets In’, Institute of Ideas, Hay on Wye
2016 Correspond, 35 Painters, Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh
2016 Fulcrum, ARB Cambridge
2015 The Discerning Eye, London
2015 ‘One’, The Exhibitionist Hotel, London
2015 The Sleep Of Reason Part 4, Cambridge
2015 ‘How the Light Gets In’, Institute of Ideas, Hay on Wye
2014 Context Art, Miami
2014 The Sleep of ReasonPart3, Eton AB, London
2014 The Sleep of Reason Part2, Norwood Club,New York
2014 The Sleep of Reason Part1, Konstnärshuset ,Stockholm
2014 Affordable Art Fair, New York
2013 A Beautiful Death, View, Bristol
2013 RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy ,London
2013 Affordable Art Fair, New York
2013 Battersea Affordable Art Fair, London
2013 Hampstead Art Fair, London
2011 ‘Configured’ Signal Gallery, London
2011 ‘Summer Contemporary’ , Alon Zakaim, London
2011 ‘Show Me The Monet’ Royal College of Art, London
2011 ‘Painting Stories” Solo show Kings College, Cambridge
2010 Real Broadgate| GoFigurative
2010-14 Open Studios, Cambridge
2009 London Design Week “ Furniture File”
1995 ‘Irish Days 3’, Slupsk, Poland
1995 ‘Do It’, CCA, Glasgow
1994 ‘Modern Art’, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1991 ‘Salon Glasgow’, CCA, Glasgow
1990 Galerie Sculptur, Helsinki, Finland
Employment
2010 Self Employed Artist
2008 – 2010 Art Director: Little Big Planet PSP, Sony Cambridge
2008 Art Director: Heavenly Sword 2, Sony Cambridge
2007 Art Director: One Life (Prototype), Sony Cambridge
2007 Visual Development Lead Killzone 2, Guerrilla Amsterdam
2007 External Art Director: Heavenly Sword Sony Cambridge
2005-07 Character and Animation Director: Eight Days, Sony London
2005-07 Lead Concept artist: Eight Days, Sony London
2003-04 Lead Artist : Nicktoons Snapshot, Warthog Manchester
2002-03 Lead Artist on Looney Tunes Back In Action, Warner Bros
1999-02 Lead Artist on Loons, Infogrames/ Warner Bros, Manchester
1997-99 Lead Artist on PSX title Drone Supernatural, Inner Workings
1995-97 Lecturer in Sculpture, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
1991-94 Visual arts Co-ordinator, Tramway, Glasgow
1990-91 Installation Co-ordinator, Tramway Glasgow
1989 Visiting Tutor, Glasgow School of Art
1988-90 Exhibition Supervisor, CCA, Glasgow
Press and Publications
2012 ‘Good Old Drawing:G.O.D” by: Sir Nicholas Serota, et al
2011 ‘From Killzone to Canvas’ interview in Guardian Newspaper
2011 ‘Show Me The Monet’ BBC2
Grants And Awards
1995 Scottish Arts Council; Small Assistance Grant
1990 GDC Exchange Programme; 3 month exchange to Helsinki,
1990 British Council Research grant: Arte Leku, San Sebastian, Spain
Related Activities
2010 BAFTA (best art direction: handheld)
1993 Selector for Scottish Sculpture Open
1988-92 Director and Vice Chair , Glasgow Sculpture Studios
1991 Chair of Independent Artists Initiative, (Art 2000)
1989 Chair of Steering Committee for Association of Scottish Artists