Richard Whadcock
RICHARD WHADCOCK
“I don't think they are immediate paintings. The images enveloped in light and air reveal themselves the more you stand in front of them, if you are willing to let them, in the same way that a real landscape is taken in as you walk through it.”
Richard studied fine art painting and printmaking at Bristol Polytechnic and went on to complete his Masters at the Royal College of Art in 1989-91. He moved to Brighton in 1991 and continues to live and work in the city.
A residency at Lowick House Print Workshop in Cumbria in 1996 further developed his printmaking but also led to painting coming more to the fore and becoming his main area of development. The methods and qualities of printmaking have continued to filter into his way of working through a painting's development.
From the many layers of re-drawn etching plates and velvety line of a dry point to the direct mark making that appealed in lithography. These all work together to form the painting's feeling, atmosphere and presence.
EDUCATION
1989 Royal College of Art, MA Printmaking
1986 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Bristol Polytechnic
1986 Art & Design Foundation Wolverhampton Polytechnic
SOLO SHOWS
2022 Cadogan Contemporary, London
2021 Northcote Gallery, London
2020 Julia Campbell Carter, London
2020 Julia Campbell Carter, London
2016 /2017 Northcote Gallery, London. UK
2016 Wychwood Art, Stow on the Wold, UK
2015 Northcote Gallery London
2014 Northcote Gallery London
2014 Affordable Art Fair Battersea, 2014.
2013 Northcote Gallery, London
2012 Gallery, London
2011 Northcote Gallery, London
2010 Northcote Gallery, London
2009 Northcote Gallery, London
2008 Northcote Gallery London
2007 Northcote Gallery, London
2006 Adam Gallery, London
2005 Northcote Gallery, London
2004 Adam Gallery, London
2004 Northcote Gallery, London
2003 Gallery One, London
2004 Vertigo Gallery, London
2002 Northcote Gallery, London
2001 White Gallery, Brighton
2000 E1 Gallery, London
1998 E1 Gallery, London
1997 Zella Gallery, London
group EXHIBITIONS
2016 - 2023 Cameron Contemporary Art
2015 The Discerning Eye, London
2015 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2013 National Open Art Competition, RCA, London
2013 Starta Art fair, Saatchi Gallery
2013 32 Paintings, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2012 AAF Battersea.
2011 ArtLondon
2011 Art Hamptons, New York
2010 Art London
2010 Brussels Art Fair
2009 National Open Art Competition, Chichester
2008 Art 2008, Adam Gallery, London
2007 Art 2007, Adam Gallery, London
2017 21/20 British Art fair, London
2006 Art 2006, Adam Gallery, London
2005 Art 2005, Adam Gallery, London
2004 Art 2004, Adam Gallery, London
2004 Art London, Northcote Gallery, London
2003 Art 2003, Adam Gallery, London
2003 Art London, Northcote Gallery, London
2003 Art London 2003, Vertigo Gallery, London
2003 Palm Beach Art Fair, Adam Gallery, USA
2003 Vertigo Gallery, Gallery Artists, London
2002 Adam Gallery, New Contemporaries, London
2002 Gallery One, London
2002 Art 2002, Adam Gallery, London
2002 Art First, Starting A Collection, London
2002 Affordable Art fair, Northcote Gallery
2002 Vertigo Gallery, Gallery Artists, London
2002 Gallery One, Drawings, London
2001 Vertigo Gallery, London
2001 Art 2001, London Art Show
2001 Fresh Art, London
2001 Starting a Collection, Art First, London
2001 Affordable Art Fair, Northcote Gallery
2000 Art Paris, Carrousel du Louvre
2000 Affordable Art Fair London, Northcote Gallery
2000 New Elemental Aesthetic, E1 Gallery
2000 Starting A Collection 2000, Art First, London
2000 Art London, Chelsea
1999 Starting A Collection, Art First, London
1999 Affordable Art Fair, London. Northcote Gallery
1999 Mind the Gap, Utah University, USA Touring
1999 London Art Show, London
1999 Vital Art, Cowcross Gallery, London
1999 Group Show, Work Place Arts
AWARDS
1996 Robert Horne Paper Award
1996 Princes Trust/Sports Council
1991 Daler Rowney Award
COLLECTIONS
Robert Horne Collection
Lowick House Collection
Gulbenkian Collection
Southern Illinois Collection
Private collections worldwide
RESIDENCIES
1996 Lowick House Print Workshop
1995 Cheltenham College of Art