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
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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