Solo Exhibitions
- Beaux Arts, Bath. 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023
Awards
- Discerning Eye 2017, Invited artist and regional prize, Mall Galleries, London.
- Art in Action, Best of the Best - 2nd prize 2015, 1st prize 2014
- National Art Open 2013, Towry regional prize, London and Chichester.
- BP Portrait Awards 2011, visitors choice 2nd prize, National Portrait Gallery, London.
- The Contemporary Arts Society of Wales, selection 2010
- Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London: 1st prize: 2001, 2003, 2010, 2nd prize: 1999, 2000, Commendation: 2004
- Arts Council of Wales Project Grant. 2008
- Royal Society of British Artists, Gordon Hulson Memorial Prize, Mall Galleries, London. 2001
- Royal West of England Academy, Commendation. 2001
- Young Artists' Britain, The Prince of Wales's Young Artists' Award, Hampton Court Palace, London. 1999
- The Worshipful Company of Painter - Stainers bursary in painting, London. 1998
- Full scholarship to study at Byam Shaw School of Art, London. 1997 - 2000
Essays
Catalogue essay 2023 ~ Aidan Quinn
No decree or creed can outlaw you
As you take every living thing apart. Little
Master of earth, no one gets to heaven
Without going through you first. ~ Ode to the Maggot
~ Yusef Komunyakaa
Catalogue essay 2021 ~ Aidan Quinn
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the
philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which
does not bow before children.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Catalogue essay 2019 ~ Aidan Quinn
Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty
will never get old.
~ Franz Kafka
Catalogue essay 2017 ~ Aidan Quinn
Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write,
compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness,
melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a
human situation.
~ Graham Greene
Catalogue essay 2015 ~ Aidan Quinn
What will survive of us is love.
~ Philip Larkin
Catalogue essay 2013 ~ Aidan Quinn
My child could do that.
~ [anonymous]
Catalogue essay 2011 ~ Aidan Quinn
If you dig deep enough, all of our dreams are the same.
~ Amos Oz
Catalogue essay 2009 ~ Aidan Quinn
It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black
once, when I was poor.
~ Larry Holmes
Group Exhibitions
- The London Art Fair, London. 2006 - 2024
- British Art Fair, London. 2007 - 2015, 2022, 2023
- Ffin y Parc Gallery, Conwy. 2021
- BP Awards, National Portrait Gallery, London. 2000, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2018
- Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, Piano Nobile, London. 2017
- Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London. 1997, 2003, 2011, 2017
- The Ruskin Prize, Walsall and London. 2016
- Artist in Residence at The International School of Zug and Lucerne, Switzerland. 2015
- Art in Action, Waterperry House, Oxford. 2014, 2015, 2016
- Unfurl, Gallery 1261, Denver. 2015
- National Art Open, London and Chichester. 2013, 2015
- Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London. 2013
- Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, London. 2013, 2015
- Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, London. 2012
- Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London. 1999, 2007, 2008, 2012
- Holbourne Portrait Prize, Bath. 2012
- Art London. 2007 - 2011
- Eisteddfod, Cardiff. 2008
- Lilly Zeligman Gallery, The Netherlands. 2009 - 2013
- Victor Felix Gallery, London. 2006 - 2013
- Bossanova, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff. 2008
- Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff. 2005 - 2012
- Fairfax Gallery, London/Tunbridge Wells. 2002 - 2008
- Face Value, Chelsea Art Gallery, San Francisco. 2005
- Slice 1, Jacob's Market, Cardiff. 2003
- Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London. 1999 - 2012
- Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London. 2001, 2002, 2012
- Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. 2001
- The Prince's Foundation, London. 2001
- New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London. 2000
- Young Artists' Britain, Hampton Court Palace, London. 1999
- Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, Livery Hall, London. 1998