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Arron Kuiper

Llangollen
Arron has spent over a decade developing a completely unique and original method of sculptural painting free from surface and indeed gravity.

Arrons practice is characterised by his singular technique of sculptural oil painting which allows the paint to exist in and of itself free from the constraints of surface and gravity. It is NOT resin; forget about anything to do with resin immediately.
In place of brushes he uses syringes to implant and manipulate oil paint inside a transparent gel which, due to chemical repulsion, keeps the paint static and suspended seemingly in space, rather like art has mugged some passing science and is now out enjoying itself on the proceeds.
Though the work is undoubtedly sculptural it still operates a great deal like painting, and so this is the dimension the artist is interested in exploring by (obviously) making a sh*t-load of it, then looking at/reading/listening to the results.
Themes, styles, and ideas come and go, producing a diverse body of work with an almost Scillerian approach to aesthetic communication and highlighting the unlimited potential of painting in ‘the other’….or gel.
Arron continues to think inside the box, in a shed, in the woods, in North Wales.

 

 

Arron Kuiper, b.1984 Wrexham,                                                                               arronkuiper@gmail.com                                                                                                        01691718230

Exhibitions

2020

BEEP Painting Biennial, Elysium Gallery, Swansea

2019

Uncommon Ground, Undegun Gallery, Wrexham

Ceiriog Valley Art Show, Dolywern

2017

Wandering, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk

Works of Barefoot Rascals, Sho Gallery, Cardiff

Erwood Station Gallery (Ongoing), Builth

Spring Open, Willow Gallery, Oswestry

Album Launch, Seamus Fogarty, London

2016

Beep International Painting Prize, Elysium Gallery, Swansea; Undegun Gallery, Wrexham

Beep International, This is the place I never wanted to leave, Arcade Gallery, Cardiff

Erwood Station Gallery, Builth

Christmas/New Year, M.A.D.E Gallery, Cardiff

2015

Made in Roath; Cafe Collisions, M.A.D.E, Cardiff

MADE from the Museum, M.A.D.E, Cardiff

Haye Festival Show, Lion Street Gallery, Haye on Wye

Grand Opening, Erwood Station Gallery, Erwood

Cardiff Open, Project 10, Cardiff

2014 

(solo exhibition) Terra Infirma, Modern Alchemists Gallery, Cardiff

Undetermined Paths, Abacus, Cardiff

Summer Exhibition, M.A.D.E, Cardiff

Half Bound, Abacus Gallery, Cardiff

Trash, Rich Mix, London

Primavera, M.A.D.E, Cardiff

2013 

Hand of Roath, Modern Alchemists Gallery, Cardiff

Outside in: West, Museum of Somerset, Taunton

2012 

Outside in: National, Pallent House Gallery, Sussex

Cardiff Open, Project 10, Cardiff

Citizen III, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff

2011

 I.N.G. Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London

Moist, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff 

CSAD BA Fine Art Degree Show,  Howard Gardens, Cardiff 

2010

 Mapping Out - Death of a Discipline,  Bay Art, Cardiff

2007 

Art Mart, St Martens Square, Leicester

2006 

New Trends in Painting Since 2000, LCB Depot, Leicester

Secrets of Frog Island,  Elvis’s Pad, Leicester

S(l)ideshow, LCB Depot, Leicester     

 

Online Publications

2015 

VICE The Creators Project, Oil injected Gel makes incredible 3D paintings

Business Insder, These surreal 3D paintings were created by injecting oil paint into gel

AD.nl, Olieverfschilderingen in 3D

Creative Life cz, Malby uvnitr nabob

Invisible, Naturelza y Simulacro

2011

AN Magazine, Online Interface BA Review

 

Print Publications

2011 

AN Magazine, Cover Image and Artist Feature, September issue

2008 

Gorge Magazine, "Hierarchy in Art and Fashion"

 

Prizes

2011

Meynell Fenton Prize, Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London

Solo Exhibitions

2014 Terra Infirma - Modern Alchemists Gallery, Cardiff

 

Education

2011 Cardiff School of Art and Design BAHons Fine Art

2006 Leicester De Montfort HND Fine Art

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