Louis Appleby

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• School

  School of Arts & Humanities

  Programme

  MA Painting

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• My practice is built around meta-real representation of ambiguous domestic images. In some of the paintings, I want to depict a still life set in a futuristic era; scenes that hark back to a nostalgic time where nature still existed, or scenes from a dystopian digitally-constructed reality. There are sterile, nuclear landscapes glimpsed through windows hung with plastic blinds. TV screens that once played programmes now only show static – the afterglow of the Big Bang.

• Previous degrees

• BA Painting, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, 2014

• Exhibitions

• 'There's Something About Painting', Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, 2019; 'Made in Britain', National Museum of Poland, Gdansk, 2019; 'British Art Fair – Saatchi Gallery', with Castlegate House Gallery, London, 2019; 'London Art Fair', Castlegate House Gallery, London, 2017, 2018 & 2019; 'Nostalgia 2.0', Red Door Projects, London, 2019; College, House of Vans, London, 2019; 'Living Room', Safehouse 1&2, London, 2019; 'Contemporary Masters from Britain', Yantai Art Museum, Yantai, China, 2017; 'Contemporary Masters from Britain 2', Artall Gallery, Nanjing, China, 2017; 'Contemporary Masters from Britain', Jiangsu Arts Museum, Nanjing, China, 2017; Prism Contemporary Gallery, Blackburn, 2017; Contemporary British Painting Prize, London & Huddersfield, 2017; NOA '15, Mall Gallery, London, 2015; Lynn Painter Stainer's Prize, Mall Gallery, London, 2015

• Publications

• Jamie Holman, Art & Music Saatchi Gallery Magazine, Planet of The Apps, Issue 32, Winter 2015, pp.26–8

• Awards

• Young Artist Prize, Lynn Painter Stainer's Prize, 2015; NOA Cass Art Award, 2015; Shortlisted, Contemporary British Painting Prize, 2016