I make images with paint, collage, drawing and camera. Work is from observation, directly from life, from drawings, from photographs, from screen images. Self-portraiture is central, partly because I'm simply the observable human figure in what I paint but also, through performance, it allows me to trespass into the worlds of other women and, more particularly, men. Different realities can be combined
Education
Bsc Mathematics Ulster University
!st Class Honours in Painting Chelsea Art School
Postgraduate Diploma in Painting Slade School
Employment
Tutor Royal Drawing School
Formerly Senior Lecturer Cardiff Art School
Recent Solo exhibitions
2015 - Cherry Pickles Thomas Williams Fine Art Old Bond St London
2015 - Cherry Pickles Oriel Mwldan Cardigan Wales
2014 - The Precarious Image Westminster Reference Library London WC2
2012 - Cherry Pickles 'Heads and Tales', Kapil Jariwala, Camberwell
2012 - Cherry Pickles Artist in Residence Exhibition, Oriel-y-Parc, St Davids Pembrokeshire
2012 - 'Overseas', Ezair Gallery, 905 Madison Avenue, New York, USA
2011 - Cherry Pickles: 'Wales and Beyond', Tenby Museum, Tenby, Pembrokeshire
2008 - 'Fast and Loose', Piano Nobile Gallery, Holland Park, London
Recent Group exhibitions
2016 Women Can't Paint (four women artists inc Rose Wylie) Turps Banana London
2015 National Open Art (prizewinner) Royal College London
2015 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Exhibition
2014 - Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition
2014 - National Eisteddfod Wales
2013 - Cork Street Open, The Gallery, 28 Cork Street, London
2013 - Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Competition Exhibition, Kings Place Gallery, York Way, Kings Cross, London
2013 - SELF £20000 Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition, Royal Portrait Society, Mall Galleries, London
2013 - The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
2013 - The National Eisteddfod of Wales Visual Arts Exhibition, The National Eisteddfod, Denbigh
2012 - National Open Art Competition, Minerva Theatre and Prince's Foundation, Chichester and London
2012 - Wales International Painting Prize: Through Tomorrow's Eyes, BEEP 2012, Volcano Theatre, High St, Swansea
2011 - Curatorial Contrast 2, BayArt, Cardiff 2011 - Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Exhibition, Kings Place Gallery, Guardian/Observer Building, Kings Place, Kings Cross, London
2010 - Welsh Painters (Co-curator and Exhibitor), The Welsh Office, Whitehall, London
Residencies
2015 - Dumfries House Royal Drawing School Residency
2014 - Philip Guston-Musa McKim Residency Yaddo New York State
Previous: Oriel y Parc St Davids Wales Altos de Chavon Dominican Republic (x2) Omi NY State USA Ragdale Illinois USA Athens Art School (x3) Ratti Foundation Como Italy (x2) St Andrews University
Live/Performance
2015 In conversation with Yaddo collaborator and writer Lawrence Weschler (author of 25 years of conversations with David Hockney etc) at the Royal Drawing School
2013 - Sky Arts Regional Final, Portrait Painter of the Year, Cardiff City Hall, Cardiff
Intervention
2011 - 4-Dimensional Drawing intervention in 'Measure for Measure', Central Booking, Brooklyn, New York
Recent Competitions, prizes and awards
2013 - Finalist, SELF, £20,000 self-portrait award, Mall Galleries, London
2013 - Prizewinner, Lynn Stainer-Painter Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2013 - Regional Finalist, Sky Arts Portraitist of the Year, Sky Arts at Cardiff City Hall, Cardiff, Wales
2011 - Finalist in Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Competition, Kings Place Gallery (Guardian Newspaper Building), Kings Cross, London
