Christopher Hall is an artist who works primarily as a painter though his practice has included film, installation, photography and live event/performance. He was the winner of the Swinton Foundation Prize at New Lights 2013.
Christopher Hall is an artist who works primarily as a painter though his practice has included film, installation, photography and live event/performance. He was the winner of the Swinton Foundation Prize at New Lights 2013.
Born in the Midlands and a Fine Art graduate of Leeds School of Art, Christopher has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe; his paintings and artworks have been widely acclaimed, and can be found in many private collections.
He takes a methodical and a collage-like approach to his work; utilising a range of media to explore and present his ideas. His approach, coupled with a strong desire to experiment and let chance play its part, means that his output is not easily defined or compartmentalised. Rather it can be seen to ‘hang together’ and the results have a consistency and coherence of their own.
His paintings are strewn with half-buried fragments, scrubbed out lines, appropriated material and allegorical references; the discipline and craft of oil painting finely balanced with a compulsion to experiment. The ‘failings’ and idiosyncrasies of his method are singularly embraced, encouraged even; they are allowed to change the course of the work and take it in new and unexpected directions.
Forthcoming
2015 - Christopher Hall at The Bowery
Qualifications and training
2006 - EXP24 film collective 2006-09, East Street Arts, Leeds
2002 - BA (Hons) Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds
Competitions, prizes and awards
2015 Aesthetica Art Prize (longlist)
2014 Northern Artist’s Film Programme, Quays Culture, MEDIACITYUK (shortlisted)
2014 Threadneedle Art Prize (pre-selected artist/longlist)
2013 Swinton Foundation Award (winner)
2013 New Lights Art Prize (shortlisted)
Solo exhibitions
2013 - Endlichkeit, Swinton Park Hotel, Swinton Park, Masham, Ripon
2010 - REAL-TIME, Leeds Central Library, Exhibition Space, 1st Floor Leeds Central Library
Group exhibitions
2014 - Leeds Revisited, East Street Arts & The Dortmunder Gruppe, BIG Gallery, Dortmund, Germany
2014 - Art in the Barn, Oakwell Hall, Birstall
2014 - New Lights Award Exhibition, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2013 - South Square Salon, South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford
2013 - Batley Open Exhibition, Batley Art Gallery
2013 - New Lights, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
2013 - Lightworks 2013 - Film 'Sethos' (10:00 mins: Super 8 transferred to DV: 2013), Grimsby
2012 - Awakening, Left Bank Leeds, Cardigan Rd, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS6 1LJ
2012 - Lightworks 2012 - Film 'Composition' (5:00 mins: Super 8 transferred to DV: 2012), Grimsby Minster, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
2012 - Shadow and Light, Light Night, Leeds College of Art, Vernon Street, Leeds
2012 - South Square Salon 2012, South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford
2011 - Artisan Salon, East Street Arts, Patrick Studios
2011 - Full Circle Launch Exhibition, FullCircle Bespoke Design Emporium, Unit A, Aire Place Mills 141 Kirkstall Road
2011 - Jackson's Yard Spring Art Show 2011, Red Eric Studios, Westfield Road, Leeds
2007 - Artists Show 2007, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
2007 - Leeds Art Fair 2007, The Light, Leeds
2006 - Leeds Art Fair 2006, The Light, Leeds
2005 - The Yorkshire Open, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
2004 - Sound Light Movement, Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds
2003 - The Walsall Open, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
2002, Artists Show, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
2002 - Peep - Fine Art Degree Show, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds
Live/Performance
2012 - United Voids - Film 'Composition' (5:00 mins: Super 8 transferred to DV: 2012),', 1 in 12 Club, 21-23 Albion St, Bradford
2011 - Cinéma Corporel, Arch Z, Granary Wharf, Leeds
2010 - and...CUT!, The Common Place, Leeds
2010 - C I N E M A P O V E R A - 'The Waste Land' Expanded cinema performance, Art in unusual spaces, Former TK Maxx unit, Leeds Shopping Plaza
2009 - Short Films of Chris Hall presented by Architects of Harmonic Rooms, Victoria Hotel, Leeds
2008 - EXP24 Re-form[at] screening, 'Transmission' multi projection performance, Victoria Hotel, Leeds 2008 - KiNETIKA! presents EXP24 - 'Reflections on the Brave New World' Live multi-projection durational piece using 16mm and Super 8, 22nd Leeds International Film Festival, Upstairs@the Adelphi, Leeds
2007 - KINETIKA! Super8 and 16mm Film Salon, Leeds International Film Festival, Upstairs at the Adelphi, Leeds
2007 - Ladyfest Leeds 2007 - Film 'Target:Market' (12mins: Super 8 transferred to VHS: 2007), Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds
2006 - EXP24 - Film 'colleague #1' (5:50 mins: VHS: 2006), Brudenell Social Club, Hyde Park, Leeds
2006 - Light Night presents EXP24, The Dark Arches, Granary Wharf, Leeds
2004 - Fuse Festival Fringe Night, Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds
Workshops
2009 - EXP24 Introduction to Super 8 Film Workshop, East Street Arts, Patrick Studios, Leeds
2009 - EXP24-3 Day Introduction to Super 8 Workshop, Leeds University, Fine Art Department
2008 - EXP24 Camera-less 16mm Film Workshop , Leeds Central Library, 3rd Floor meeting room
2008 - EXP24 Introduction to Super 8 Workshop, East Street Arts, Patrick Studios, Leeds
2008 - EXP24 Introduction to Super 8 Workshop, Leeds College of Art, Blenheim Walk
2008 - EXP24-Re-form[at] Introduction to Super 8 Workshop, East Street Arts, Patrick Studios
2008 - KiNETIKA! Super 8 Workshop, Leeds International Film Festival, The Wardrobe, Leeds
Site specific
2009 - Trial by Fire screened as part of EXP24 presents RECLAIMED, Former Royal Park School, Leeds
