Chris Pickup

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Descent to Aviation, 2012

Descent to Aviation, 2012

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Chris Pickup is based in Nottingham, East Midlands


The work is derived from our urban environment; it focuses on the aspects of that environment that we habitually ignore. My most recent project was a commission for City University London which was based on a photographic study of one of their stair wells. This works questions our perceptions of reality, beauty and abstraction.

Solo exhibitions

  • 2008 Seed of a City, Imagine a City... by Mantle Arts, Odeon Arcade, Leicester
  • 2007 INMATES: Site responsive installation and accompanying publication, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield
  • 2005 Chronological Marks, Amberhouse Gallery, Tideswell, Derbyshire

Group exhibitions

  • 2010 CUBE Open, CUBE Gallery Manchester, Manchester

Corporate commissions

  • 2012 Descent to Aviation, City University London, Graduate School Library Centre
  • 2006 Urban Surface, Geldards LLP, Nottingham

Site specific

  • 2012 rEvive, Empty shop unit, Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire

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