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Born in Garstang, Lancashire in 1973 Adrian Pritchard first started exhibiting in Cornwall where he obtained a 1st Class BA Hons from Falmouth College of Arts. It was in Cornwall Adrian developed a language for natural organic elements in his work. Later he incorporated Japanese aesthetics and was awarded a travel bursary to Japan in1997. There he discovered the Japanese Craft as a high art form and started to explore Lacquer and textile designs. In 2001 while doing his MA at the Slade School of art Adrian’s work developed more methodically exploring the human condition and it’s relative to the behavior of matter, Resulting in 2003 with a major solo show in London “Flux & Fusion”. His work appears in numerous collections in London and Tokyo including the One Aldwych and the British Embassy.
" 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 |
Education
1998-2001 Slade School of Fine Art (M.F.A University College London)
1995-1998 University College Falmouth (BA Hons Fine Art First Class)
1992-1995 Blackpool and Fylde College ( Diploma Distinction’s in Art & Design& Illustration)
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Thomas Storey Room Lancaster
Un-Strung Theory Hive Gallery Yorkshire
2008 String Theory International Gallery Liverpool
2007 Comme Ca Art / Lowry Hotel Manchester
Kiln House gallery, Thornton Windmill
2003 Flux & Fusion Catto Contemporary London
2002 Glaxo Smith Kline Harlow Essex
1999 President Hotel Tsumagoi Japan
Ginza Gallery House Tokyo
1997 Miki Gallery Ginza Tokyo
Falmouth College of Art Gallery Cornwall
Group Exhibitions
2009 Visual Arts & Business London
FYCreatives Launch Fylde Coast
2008 Hive Gallery Yorkshire
TAO Un-Made Liverpool Biennial
Chocolate Factory London
Miniature Focus Newcastle
Buy Art Urbis Centre Manchester
Timescapes, BADept Blackpool
Art 2008 London
2007 WesterGasFabriek, Amsterdam
Grundy Gallery Blackpool
Grand Designs, NEC Birmingham
2006 Grundy Gallery Blackpool
Red Wire Liverpool Biennial
Wolstenholme Liverpool Biennial
New Trends in Painting Leicester City Gallery
Comme Ca Art / Lowry Hotel Manchester
2005 North West Prize Art Gene Gallery Cumbria
Comme Ca Art / Lowry Manchester
Westbourne Studios London
Atkinson Gallery Southport
2004 Big Art Challenge Lowry Museum
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
Catto Contemporary London
Kinnijoespace Hamburg Germany
Beatrice Royal Gallery East Leigh
Scarlet Maguire Gallery London
Paton Gallery London
Slade School of Fine Art London
Royal Academy of Arts London
Art Factory Tokyo
2000 Tyohu International Tokyo
Royal Academy of Arts London
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum NAU
Slade School of Fine Art
1999 Come Hell or High Water Penzance Cornwall
Studio Nope Tokyo
1998 Falmouth College of Arts Cornwall
1997 Quality of light St Ives Cornwall
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.