resumé

gordon FAULDS

Born 1957. Paisley, Scotland

Home & Studio : Somerset UK

exhibitions | open & group

2023

Spotlight 3 | Modern & Contemporary Art from the Collection, Chippenham Museum

2022

Head to Head | GBS Gallery, Wells Somerset

Somerset Art Weeks | The Old Brick Works, Wellington Somerset

2019

Miniscule Venice | Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Miniscule Part II | Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, Cumbria

2017

Recall | The Storey, Lancaster

Empire II | London - Brussels - Venice Biennale - Berlin

2016

Big Deal No7 | Q Park Whitcombe Street, London

ING Discerning Eye | Mall Galleries, London

Green Creates | Hoxton Arches, London

Remarkable Everyday | The Old Brick Works, Wellington Somerset

2015

Kith & Kin | Crescent Contemporary, Taunton, Somerset

Perfectense | Crescent Contemporary, Taunton, Somerset

Fall Of The Rebel Angels | Venice Biennalle, Venice, Italy

2014

Unlikely Union | World Rugby Museum, Twickenham, Middlesex

2013

Small Is Beautiful XXXI | Flowers Gallery, London

Drawing The Line | Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

Big Deal No5 | Q Park -3, London

2012

National Open Art | The Prince's Foundation, London

National Open Art | The Minerva Theatre, Chichester

Plate | Herrick Gallery, London E1

2011

National Open Art | The Minerva Theatre, Chichester

159th Autumn Exhibition | RWA, Bristol

ING Discerning Eye | Mall Galleries, London

Chymistry | Crescent Contemporary, Taunton, Somerset

Summer Show | Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset

2010

National Open Art | The Minerva Theatre, Chichester

East End Promise | London-Newcastle Project Space, London E2

The Art of Giving | Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea, London

The House of Fairy Tales Exhibition | Salisbury Arts Centre,

Salisbury, Wiltshire

Exquisite Trove | Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall

Miniscule | Oblong Gallery, London N1

Open Painting | RWA, Bristol

The House of Fairy Tales Exhibition | Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

2009

Horn Of Plenty | Victor Wynd Fine Art, London

National Open Art | The Minerva Theatre, Chichester

Exquisite Trove | New Art Gallery, Walsall

Something I Don't Do | Flowers East, London

RA Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy, London

Summer Show | Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset

2008

RA Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy, London

National Open Art | The Minerva Theatre, Chichester

Figuratively Speaking | Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset

156th Autumn Exhibition | RWA, Bristol

2007

Jerwood Drawing Prize | Jerwood Space and Touring

2006

154th Autumn Exhibition | RWA, Bristol

selected earlier exhibitions

1994

Shoreditch Portraits | The Tramshed, Hoxton, London EC2

1990

Portobello Art Festival | No Name Gallery, Portobello Road, London

1986

Camden Annual | Camden Art Centre, London

1984

Midland View 3 | Midland Group, Nottingham and Touring

1983

Camden Annual | Camden Art Centre, London

1980

The First Picture Show | Sainsbury Centre, Norfolk

solo exhibitions

2015

fem|mas | 75A Upper Gloucester Road, Brighton

2011

Consequences & Clusters | Crescent Contemporary, Taunton,Somerset

2006

Hestercombe Paintings | Lutyens Gallery, Hestercombe

1990

Recent Work | Wilson Hale, London

1989

Follies | Wilson Hale, London

prizes & awards

2012

National Open Art Competition & www.pictureframes.co.uk | Emerging Artist Award

2008

RBSA Imaginative Portrait Prize, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists

artist residencies

2006-07

Hestercombe Gardens, Somerset

collections

Chippenham Museum Collection, Wiltshire

Hestercombe Gardens, Somerset UK

BBC The Open University, Buckinghamshire UK

Private Collections USA, Japan, ROI and UK

press

Open Studios, Feature, Proof Magazine | E5-2008

Art That Puts Real People Delicately In The Picture, Terry Grimley, The Birmingham Post | 15.07.08

education

2022-23

Turps MASS Correspondence

1977-80

Preston Polytechnic, Lancaster. BA(Hons) Fine Art

1976-77

Bath Academy of Art, Corsham