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Martin Kerrison: Artist

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Martin Kerrison

Martin Kerrison: Artist

Martin Kerrison graduated from the University of Northumbria: BA Hons Fine Art (Painting). He completed a PGCE course at Oxford in Art/ Design/German, and has combined a career as a senior school teacher in south/west London with furthering his development as an artist. Figurative painting, theatre-design, portraiture and landscape were initially areas of interest before the current catalogue of work emerged from 2009. His work features in private collections in the UK, Europe and Australia. Kerrison has undertaken private commissions of a variety of subjects and invitations are welcomed for consideration by the artist.

He completed an MA in History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London in 2014, passing with ‘Distinction’. Areas of expertise include: Modern and Contemporary Painting; Scottish Figurative Art of the 1980’s/90’s; North European Realism; Postmodern Figurative Painting; English Caricature: Hogarth to Giles; The Rhetoric of Advertising; Smoking in Visual Culture; Early Royal Academy Exhibitions; “Raeburn’s” Skating Minister; The Contemporary Sublime; Museums, Memory and National Identity; Memorialisation and 9/11; The Politics of Memorialisation: Stanley Spencer’s Sandham Memorial Chapel: Then and Now.

Summary of Exhibitions

Royal Academy Summer Shows, London 2015, 2020

‘Visually Literate2’ Menier Gallery, London

‘Visually Literate’ Fitzrovia Gallery, London

‘Visually Literate’ Fitzrovia Gallery, London

‘Reinventing the Selfie’ Stables Gallery, Orleans House, Richmond

‘Anagrams’ Kingston Museum

‘Joi de Vivre’ Cobham

‘Joi de Vivre’ Hampton Court

HIVE 2015, Harrogate Expo

‘Under the Radar’ Oil and Water Gallery, London

Orso Major Gallery, London

‘Outside In’ Kingston Grammar School

‘Topographies’ Orso Major Gallery, London

Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London

‘Utopia/Dystopia’ Riverside Gallery, Richmond

Platform 1 Gallery, London (Solo Show)

Riverside Gallery, Barnes

FAB Kingston University

FAB Michigan University USA

Castlegate Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

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