PERSONAL :
Born in London
Living and working in Milton Keynes
Member of Market Projects – www.marketproject.org.uk
EDUCATION :
2001 MA Fine Art
1998 Post Grad Dip. Birmingham City Uni.
1992 BA Fine Art 2.1 Staffs University
Exhibitions
2018
AAF Battersea (Autumn) Eclectic Gallery
Fold Show Sanctuary Gallery Space Northampton
Vitamin Sea (Summer)Eclectic Gallery London
Edge of the Ocean (Summer)New Ashgate Gallery Farnham
AAF Battersea (Spring) Wychwood Gallery March
2017
Caudwell Snyder San Francisco
Summer Show Sarah Wiseman Gallery Oxford Wrexham Open Show 2017 Wales MKAC Studio Show 3 Milton Keynes Art Centre March/April 17 MK Calling 2017 Milton Keynes Gallery April 17 |
2016
Milton Keynes Art Centre Collective Show June 2016
Peterborough Open 2016 March – June selected piece
2015
The Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition 2015 The Mall Galleries London 14th – 19th September and then tours to Guildford House Art Gallery, Guildford 21 November – 2 January 2016.
The Discerning Eye 2015 Selected Artist The Mall Galleries 12th Nov – 22nd November
MK Calling 2015 MK Gallery Summer Exhibition Milton Keynes
The Striped Van Snakes and Ladders Launch exhibition Arts Council
Commission Aluminium drawing for Digby Art Consultancy Feb
‘Detail’ Usher Gallery Lincoln until April
2014 :
The Jam Factory Oxford Solo Show – November 2014
Artist Bursary assisted place Camino de compestela Spain May 2014
‘Tri’ Galleria 3b Wrexham Wales Collaborative show March – April 2014
Oxford Hospitals Commission for Whiteleaf Hospital Aylesbury Art Collection Feb 14
Participating artist in Andrew Bracey Collage Project in Bangkok, London and USA 2014
2013 :
Neo: ArtPrize 2013 Exhibition, Bolton Manchester – Awarded in June 2nd Prize Winner 2013.
Made in MK – Site Specific Commission for MK Summer Festival – Large hybrid projector installed in MK library
MK Calling Milton Keynes Gallery June 2013
April Galleray P.O.P. IN PROGRESS (Prevalence Offering Potentialities) New York City
Corte Real Gallery Summer Show, Paderne, Portugal
Summer Salon, Rarity Gallery, Mykonos Greece
Serena Hall Gallery, Southwold, East Anglia. UK
Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2012 :
Bedford Street Gallery, Woburn, Bedfordshire May
Market Project Publication launch April
Sarah Wiseman Gallery Oxford, Battersea Arts Fair, London Oct.
2011 :
Rarity Gallery 2011 Summer Salon, Mykonos Greece
Art Beat 2011 – Bedford Street Gallery, UK
Chapter Gallery – Cardiff, Wales, Art in the Bar – Assembly– Selection
2010 :
Writings Published Reviews on Gareth Jones/Darren Banks – Artist Newsletter June and July 2011
John Moores Painting Prize – Liverpool, UK
Aberystwyth Art Centre Gallery – 5 Selected Show July 2010
Woburn ArtBeat 2010 – Selection of work @ Woburn Abbey and town sites. April 2010
Wysing Arts Centre, Presents: Market Project April – May (Alternative Art Fair Initiative)
Aberystwyth Art Centre, Aberystwyth University, Wales – Artist Residency June–Aug 2010
Rarity Gallery, Summer Salon, Greece Works in Exhibition
2009 :
Escalator Retreat: The Economics of the Art System Wysing Arts Centre Cambridge – 4 day programmed event.
A.N.Publication- ‘Quiet Revolution’ MKG Show – Review by Annabelle Shelton / October Ed.
MK Community Foundation Arts Bursary 2009 – Shortlisted Artist Sept.09
Rarity Gallery Greece – Summer Salon Show 2009
Milton Keynes Painting Prize – Exhibition Catalogue Inclusion Sept 09
On the Verge – Public art Banner for inner city estate. April 09
MK Contemporary CMK ‘Shoreline’ – August 09 Solo Show of works
The Diffusion of Useful Knowledge – July 09 National Artists Project Curated
Annabelle Shelton MK Fringe Wall Exhibition –
‘101 Watercolours of Ayers Rock’ Midsummer Place Milton Keynes, March
R-H-G Art Fairs London Art Fair – Islington Business Centre Jan 09
2008 :
Salon 08 dec-Jan 09 Northampton Fishmarket Galllery.
Raymond Blanc Restaurant – July 08 CMK
Rebecca Hossack Gallery Art Fairs London Art Fair, Watercolours & Drawings Royal College, Form Fair,
20/21 International Art Fair AAF Battersea 2008,. ArtLondon 08 @ Chelsea Hospital Oct 08
A full CV can be obtained on request beyond this point.
STATEMENT :
Shelton creates paintings on Aluminium, which are extractions of people in place and figures floating in a white space to create semi-abstracted circles, clusters and lines when bunched together. More recently she has been working with landscapes that are only partially revealed whilst still composed in negative space.