Biography
| EDUCATION | ||
| 1989 | BA Hons Fine Art | Newcastle upon Tyne University |
| 2013 | MA Fine Art | Kingston University |
| 2013 | PGCert with Teaching and Learning in Higher Education | Kingston University |
| ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2017 | Purifications | AEROPLASTICS Brussels |
| 2017 | Silvering | FINE ART SOCIETY London |
| 2015 | What do you want..? | LAWRENCE ALKIN GALLERY London |
| 2014 | Fine Art Society | Fine Art Society, London |
| 2014 | Fred London | London |
| 2009 | No ID Gallery | Whitechapel, London |
| 2007 | Squeeze-Box | L-13, London |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2019 | Telescope | JERWOOD Hastings |
| 2019 | Total Eclipse of the Heart | Watson Farley and Williams, London |
| 2018 | Royal Academy Summer Show (prize winner) | RA London |
| 2018 | Silence, Violence | CELLO FACTORY London |
| 2018 | Women Can’t Paint | TURPS AND ASC GALLERIES London |
| 2018 | Turps Cloud | London Art Fair and Turps Gallery |
| 2017 | Small is Beautiful | FLOWERS EAST London |
| 2017 | PIY Paintlounge | SLUICE BIENALE London |
| 2017 | By the Sea | GALLERY 64A Whitstable |
| 2017 | Summer Show | ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART London |
| 2017 | Women Artists a Conversation | FINE ART SOCIETY London |
| 2016 | Summer Show | ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART London |
| 2016 | Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am | CHARLIE DUTTON Beijing |
| 2015 | English Magic | NEW ART PROJECTS London |
| 2015 | Fall of the Rebel Angels | VENICE BIENNALE 56 Venice |
| 2015 | Sunday in the Park with Ed | DISPLAY GALLERY London |
| 2015 | What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me | FINE ART SOCIETY London |
| 2014 | Idolatry | Charlie Smith London, London |
| 2014 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2014 | Suspicion | Jerwood Space, London |
| 2014 | I'm Still Here | Magasin 3 Museum, Sweden |
| 2014 | This is our music/ This is our art | David Risley Gallery, Denmark |
| 2013 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | London |
| 2013 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2013 | **** | Neue Kunst Froth Kunsthalle, Brighton |
| 2013 | Soul Meat | Lion and Lamb Gallery, London |
| 2012 | Plate | Herrick Gallery, London |
| 2011 | Performance and Live Painting Show | Contemporary Fine Art, Germany |
| 2011 | Group Show | Charlie Dutton Gallery, London |
| 2011 | Glitterbug | Victor Wynd Gallery, London |
| 2011 | Closer To Something | Four Corners Gallery, London |
| 2010 | John Moore Painting Prize | Walker Gallery Liverpool, UK |
| 2010 | Fresh Cream, Frieze week | Redchurch Gallery, London |
| 2009 | Faust | Wrexner Centre, USA |
| PUBLICATIONS | ||
| 2015 Geraldine Swayne "What do you want…?" Wall Street International | ||
| 2014 "Top ten Crossover Artists" - Dazed Magazine | ||
| 2014 "Geraldine Swayne interviews Lee Maelzer" - Turps Banana | ||
| 2012 "Geraldine Swayne" feature - Candid Magazine | ||
| 2010 FAD Magazine http://www.fadwebsite.com/2012/04/23/geraldine-swayne-answers-fads-questions-toaffad- eight/ | ||
| 2010 Harry Pye, Billy Childish and Geraldine Swayne interview - Rebel Magazine | ||
| 2010 Faust - Rolling Stone Magazine | ||
| 2009 "Harry Pye's 15 Future Art Stars" - Saatchi Magazine | ||
| 2009 Faust - Wire Magazine | ||
| 2009 "Intimate Strangers" - Saatchi Magazine | ||
| 2008 Douglas Park essay commissioned for “Fresh Air Machine” exhibition at Calvert22 Gallery | ||
| 2007 "Bid for Ken" - Guardian Newspaper | ||
Press Release
| Geraldine Swayne | Annunciation |
| Preview: Thursday 17 September 5:00-9:00pm |
| Exhibition Dates: Friday 18 September – Saturday 17 October 2020 |
| Gallery Open Hours: Wednesday-Saturday 11-6pm or by appointment |
| CHARLIE SMITH LONDON is delighted to present Geraldine Swayne in her first solo exhibition at the gallery. Swayne is well known for her intimate portrait and figure paintings in enamel on copper or aluminium. Her subjects engage in everyday activities – listening to music; sewing; putting on lipstick; drinking. Sometimes they are clothed, and often they are unclothed – sitting, lying, having sex, or being spanked. Engaging in everyday activities. In this exhibition, recalling earlier work, Swayne effortlessly scales up to combine small paintings with larger paintings. Her subjects are derived from various sources, including 18th century ceramics; anonymous vintage photographs; a cache of photographs found in a serial killer’s lock up; and her own iPhone pictures. The identity of the subject, therefore, is often unimportant, or at least less important than the feeling conveyed. It is the emotional and psychological register to which Swayne responds, and then mediates. As she has previously stated: “I paint atmospheres. The insinuated, unspoken and unspeakable evidence of the human personality. The bodies and faces of the subjects I choose reflect an interior mystery, and I try to amplify this riddle in the rendition of the subject.” Technically, Swayne’s style is uniquely fluid and transfers expertly from miniature through to monumental. And her approach to her practice as a whole is instinctive. Underlying her work is an ongoing exploration of humanity, subtly played by presenting us with, at face value, the familiar. But Swayne loads the unfamiliar into the familiar; and extraordinary into the ordinary, as if conveying messages or annunciations from elsewhere that are channelled from the macro, via the micro, and vice versa. Geraldine Swayne graduated from Newcastle University in 1989. She won the Northern Arts Travel Award in 1989, going to New Orleans to make paintings and super-8 films; she moved to France where she made portraits and large outdoor paintings for the Marie of St Jean de Fos, Languedoc; became a pioneer digital special-effects designer, working for over a decade at CFC/Framestore in London and Los Angeles; has made numerous experimental films including the world’s first super-8 to Imax film ‘East End’, narrated by Miriam Margolyes with music by Nick Cave. After leaving the film industry in 2004 she worked as an assistant for Jake and Dinos Chapman rebuilding 'Hell' at White Cube. Swayne became a member of seminal ‘krautrock’ group ‘Faust’ with whom she has made various studio albums and tours. Swayne has had solo exhibitions including Aeroplastics, Brussels; Fine Art Society, London; and Fred, London. She has been in group exhibitions including Jerwood, Hastings; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Jerwood Space, London; David Risley, Copenhagen; Magasin3 Museum, Stockholm; and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. She won the Dupree Family Award for a female artist at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2018. Please contact gallery for images and further information |