Approved: 10.06.2015

Ed Saye

Artist

Approved: 10.06.2015

Realitopia. These are contemporary visions of paradise lost. Yesterday’s utopias viewed through the prism of the twentieth century’s alternative cultures. It’s what became of the great modernist project or a big hippie trip gone wierd.

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    Artist Statement

    Realitopia. These are contemporary visions of paradise lost. Yesterday’s utopias viewed through the prism of the twentieth century’s alternative cultures. It’s what became of the great modernist project or a big hippie trip gone wierd.

    These otherworldly landscapes and settings have a magical atmosphere and are populated by characters that lounge, flop, idle, dance and bathe against a psychedelic backdrop. Spectral hues infuse the paintings and the balance between light and dark is carefully poised. There is both a sense of hope and of melancholy – all is not lost but things didn’t quite work out as they were meant to.

    CV & Education

    Lives and works in London

     

    2007-2009            Slade School of Fine Art, London, MFA Painting

    2005-2007            Central Saint Martins, London, Foundation Diploma

    1996-2000            Durham University, BA Hons Modern Languages

     

    Exhibitions

    2018        The SOLO Award, Chiara Williams Contemporary Art, The Cello Factory, London

    2018        Beautiful Monsters, The Portico Library, Manchester

    2018        Reconstructing Reality, 20:20 Iconic Art Vision at D10 Art Space, Geneva

    2018        The Landscape of Time, Contemporary British Painting, St Marylebone Crypt, London

    2017        Virtuality Mortality, XAP at Ugly Duck, London

    2017        The Ruth Borchard Portrait Prize, Piano Nobile Gallery, London

    2016        No Promised Land, The Foundry Gallery, London

    2016        The Runaway Fingers, Pushkin House, London

    2016        Daylight Saving, Geddes Gallery, London

    2013        Isolation Room, curated by Daniel McGrath, Copenhagen

    2013        This Glitch, curated by Lee marshall, Blythe Gallery, London

    2013        Creekside Open selected by Paul Noble, A.P.T. Gallery, London

    2013        The Big Egg Hunt for Action for Children, London and UK touring

    2012        The Other Art Fair, Ambika P3, London

    2010        Grammar See, Rod Barton Gallery, London

    2009        Lead Slugs and Blank Spaces, Museum 52, London

                    Graduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London

                    Anger Management, Will Alsop Space, Battersea, London

    2008        Interim Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London

                    Edge to Edge, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London

     

    Residencies

     

    2008                      Poznan Academy of Fine Arts, Skoki, Poland

     

    Publications

     

    2011                      Studio Paintings, 2011, Self-published, UK

    2010                      Furniture Drawings, 2010, Self-published, UK

    2009                      Sheraton Sofa, 2009, Self-published, UK

                                  Slade Painting 2008, Slade Publication, UK

    2008                      Look Book, 2008, Self-published, UK

                                  Edge to Edge, 2008, Slade Publication, UK

                                  Rhubarb, 2008, Slade Publication, UK

                                  Paint to Print, 2008, Slade Publication, UK

    2007                      20 Hoxton Square Newspaper, 2007, UK