Curriculum Vitae - Stuart Pearson Wright

Born 1975, Northampton

Education

BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London 1995-1999

Solo Shows

  • 2007 A Hole in the Bucket, Galerie Huebner, Frankfurt
  • 2007 Most People are Other People, University of Wales Art Gallery, Aberystwyth
  • 2006 Most People are Other People, National Portrait Gallery/ National Theatre
  • 1999 National Portrait Gallery (BP Travel Award)

Group Exhibitions

  • 2008/2009 John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
  • 2007/8 Home and Garden, The Geffrye Museum, London
  • 2007 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London
  • 2006 God Bless Our Home, Mall Gallery, London
  • 2006 Things Standing Still, Browse & Darby, London
  • 2005 Garrick/Milne Prize, Christies, London
  • 2005 Hunting Prize
  • 2004 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times
  • 2004 Being Present, Jerwood Space, London
  • 2004 Originals 04
  • 2004 Hunting Prize
  • 2001 BP Portrait Award
  • 2000 Garrick/Milne Prize
  • 2000 BP Portrait Award
  • 2000 Hunting Prize
  • 1999 BP Portrait Award
  • 1999 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times
  • 1999 Hunting Art Prize
  • 1998 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times
  • 1998 BP Portrait Award
  • 1998 Hunting Art Prize
  • 1998 Royal Academy Summer Show

Awards

  • 2007 Shortlist, Jerwood Drawing Prize
  • 2005 First Prize, Garrick/Milne Prize
  • 2004 First Prize, Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour competition
  • 2004 Purchase Prize, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
  • 2004 Printmaking Award, Joseph Webb Commemorative Fund
  • 2003 Travel Award, Discerning Eye (Sri Lanka)
  • 2001 First prize, BP Portrait Award
  • 2000 Third Prize, Garrick/Milne Prize
  • 2000 Grant Award, Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation
  • 2000 British Finalist, Windsor & Newton Millennium Competition
  • 1999 Third Prize, Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour competition
  • 1998 Travel Award, BP Portrait Award

Lectures

  • 2008 In Conversation with Judy Batalion, The Geffrye Museum, London
  • 2006 Cheltenham Literature Festival
  • 2006 Westminster School
  • 2005 Contemporary Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery
  • 2003 Life after the BP Award, National Portrait Gallery
  • 2002 Realism and Artifice in Portraiture, British Museum, London

Collections

  • Aberdeen Art Gallery
  • Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  • British Academy
  • British Museum
  • Garrick Club, London
  • Government Art collection, House of Commons
  • ING Barings Bank, Brussels
  • National Portrait Gallery, London
  • Rhode Island School of Design Museum, USA
  • School of Art Gallery & Museum, Aberystwyth , Wales
  • Singer and Friedlander Bank
  • Singer and Friedlander PLC
  • Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
  • Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Select Bibliography

  • Gadzooks! Prince Philip is not amused by portrait with a 'great schonk', Daily Telegraph 30.04.04
  • Prince Philip arrested after attempting to shoot artist http://www.deadbrain.co.uk/news/article_2004_04_30_0250.php
  • Royal Flush Prince Philip balks at Portrait, The Guardian 25.07.03
  • Bravo! Go Hang the Prince of Misery, Janet Street-Porter, Independent on Sunday 27.07.03
  • The New Face of Painting, The Times 23.06.01
  • All the Canvas is a Stage, The Times 12.09.00
  • Class A Chicken, The Daily Telegraph 05.08.99
  • Pick of the Bunch, Art Review 01.07.01
  • Picture this Dead Chicken Then Ponder a Fine Artistic Tradition, The Independent 22.06.01
  • My Week - Stuart Pearson Wright, The Independent 23.06.01
  • A Hogarth for our Times, Evening Standard 26.07.99