Ed Saye
London
Painter who lives and works in Hampshire and London.
Realitopia. These are contemporary visions of paradise lost. Yesterday’s utopias viewed through the prism of the twentieth century’s alternative cultures. It’s what became of the great modernist project or a big hippie trip gone wierd.
These otherworldly landscapes and settings have a magical atmosphere and are populated by characters that lounge, flop, idle, dance and bathe against a psychedelic backdrop. Spectral hues infuse the paintings and the balance between light and dark is carefully poised. There is both a sense of hope and of melancholy – all is not lost but things didn’t quite work out as they were meant to.
Lives and works in London
2007-2009 Slade School of Fine Art, London, MFA Painting
2005-2007 Central Saint Martins, London, Foundation Diploma
1996-2000 Durham University, BA Hons Modern Languages
Exhibitions
2018 The SOLO Award, Chiara Williams Contemporary Art, The Cello Factory, London
2018 Beautiful Monsters, The Portico Library, Manchester
2018 Reconstructing Reality, 20:20 Iconic Art Vision at D10 Art Space, Geneva
2018 The Landscape of Time, Contemporary British Painting, St Marylebone Crypt, London
2017 Virtuality Mortality, XAP at Ugly Duck, London
2017 The Ruth Borchard Portrait Prize, Piano Nobile Gallery, London
2016 No Promised Land, The Foundry Gallery, London
2016 The Runaway Fingers, Pushkin House, London
2016 Daylight Saving, Geddes Gallery, London
2013 Isolation Room, curated by Daniel McGrath, Copenhagen
2013 This Glitch, curated by Lee marshall, Blythe Gallery, London
2013 Creekside Open selected by Paul Noble, A.P.T. Gallery, London
2013 The Big Egg Hunt for Action for Children, London and UK touring
2012 The Other Art Fair, Ambika P3, London
2010 Grammar See, Rod Barton Gallery, London
2009 Lead Slugs and Blank Spaces, Museum 52, London
Graduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
Anger Management, Will Alsop Space, Battersea, London
2008 Interim Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
Edge to Edge, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London
Residencies
2008 Poznan Academy of Fine Arts, Skoki, Poland
Publications
2011 Studio Paintings, 2011, Self-published, UK
2010 Furniture Drawings, 2010, Self-published, UK
2009 Sheraton Sofa, 2009, Self-published, UK
Slade Painting 2008, Slade Publication, UK
2008 Look Book, 2008, Self-published, UK
Edge to Edge, 2008, Slade Publication, UK
Rhubarb, 2008, Slade Publication, UK
Paint to Print, 2008, Slade Publication, UK
2007 20 Hoxton Square Newspaper, 2007, UK
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