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Born in Garstang, Lancashire in 1973 Adrian Pritchard first started exhibiting in Cornwall where studied at Falmouth College of Arts. It was in Cornwall Adrian developed the language for the organic fluid elements in his work and subsequently was awarded a travel bursary to Japan in 1997 where he eventually became artist in residence to the plateau of a Volcano Asama Yama. Returning in 1999 to London to complete his Masters at the Slade School of Art his work appears in numerous collections including the One Aldwych Collection and the British Embassy in Tokyo. 2009 Solo Exhibitions include: Unstrung Theory at Hive Gallery Yorkshire and Superfluous at the Storey Creative Industries Centre Lancaster. 2010 saw Adrian curate a series of exhibitions for BADept Studios Gallery Blackpool as well as actively produce installations for Shops funded by the Arts Council England." I make work that attempts to redefine our relationship with matter by using gravity, the very force that universally dictates form. By working with the tensions between friction and fluidity, the dynamic and the static, the imposed geometry of the support/venue and the inherent viscosity of commercial substances, I explore the on-going visual aesthetic. Just as a research scientist sets up the parameters of an experiment, I set up the ground upon which the interaction of self-regarding man and nature can take place, and the resulting work moves from matter to metaphor.” Adrian Pritchard
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1973 Born Garstang Lancashire, England
1997 Ferdynand Zweig Travel Award Japan
2007 Founded BADept projects Blackpool
Education
1998-2001 Slade School of Fine Art UCL London
1995-1998 Falmouth College of Arts UCF Cornwall
Adrian Pritchard Solo Exhibitions
2010 Unsteady States Culture Shops Project Blackpool
2009 Superfluous Storey Creative Industries Centre Lancaster
Un-Strung Theory Hive Gallery Yorkshire
2008 String Theory Un-Made Fest International Gallery Liverpool
2007 eu-sta-cy Comme Ca Art / Lowry Hotel Manchester
2003 Flux & Fusion Catto Contemporary London
2002 Cubes Glaxo Smith Kline Harlow
1999 Mirror of Self Ginza Gallery House Tokyo
1997 Here and Now Miki Gallery Ginza Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 11:11 Bricklane London
2010 Culture Shops 2nd round Blackpool
Visual Arts & Business Salford
Art 2010 London
2009 Visual Arts & Business London
Fylde Creatives FYC Gallery Blackpool
2008 Hive Gallery Yorkshire
Un-Made Liverpool Biennial
Chocolate Factory London
Miniature Focus Newcastle
BUY ART ibis Manchester
Timescapes, BADept Blackpool
Art 2008 London
2007 WesterGasFabriek, Amsterdam
Grundy Gallery Blackpool
Grand Designs, NEC Birmingham
2006 Red Wire Gallery Liverpool Biennial
Grundy Gallery Blackpool
Round One Way Wolstenholme Liverpool Biennial
New Trends in Painting Leicester City Gallery
Comme Ca Artists Lowry Hotel Manchester
2005 North West Prize Art Gene Gallery Cumbria
Comme Ca Artists Lowry Hotel Manchester
Sefton Open Atkinson Gallery Southport
Naked Wall Westbourne Studios London
2004 Big Art Challenge Lowry Museum
Line and Form Stephen Lacey Gallery London
Blackhorse Studios London
2003 Art 2003 London
Blackhorse Studios London
2002 F-EST London
Art 2002 London
Catto Contemporary London
Blackhorse Studios London
2001 International Omori Bellport Japan
Lift Off Catto Contemporary London
New Convertible Kinnijoespace Hamburg Germany
Pentagon Award Beatrice Royal Gallery East Leigh
New Bloomsbury’s Scarlet Maguire Gallery London
Paton World Paton Gallery London
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show London
Art Factory Tokyo
Slade School of Fine Art Grad Show
2000 Tyohu International Tokyo
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show London
NAU Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
Slade School of Fine Art Interim show
1999 Come Hell or High Water Penzance
1998 Falmouth College of Arts Grad Show
1997 Quality of Light St Ives
Recent Press Publications include
2010 Lancashire Arts Network Maintaining the Momentum
Creative Times Blackpool Rock and an Art Place
BBC Lancashire BADept Gallery
Blank pages issue 29. Hive gallery
Blackpool Gazette Art works for Empty shops
2009 Lancaster Guardian “Superfluous”
Blackpool Gazette “Superfluous”
South lakes “Lunacy Review”
Grazia magazine Lauren Laverne BBC Culture Show
British Architects Journal “Un Strung Theory”
Sheffield Telegraph “Unstrung Theory”
Barnsley Chronicle “Gloopiest Show”
Visual Arts and Business / Arts Council England
Collections
International Art Consultancies London
University College Falmouth Cornwall
One Aldwych London
Asahi Photographic News Tokyo
Charle More Fashion Tokyo
British Embassy Tokyo
Chiswick Moran London
Tag Fine Arts London
Unique Interiors Blackpool
plus private collections around the world.