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About Arron

Arron Kuiper was born in 1984 in rural North Wales where he grew up and has lived for most of his life. He studied Fine Art at Licester De Montfort University before transferring to Cardiff School of Art and Design. He graduated in 2011.

 

He is best known for the creation of sculptural oil painting, a technique which he has been developing and refining for over a decade. Despite ongoing struggles with funding, exposure, and even opportunity, he has experienced some success, including a Prize in the ING Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall galleries London in 2011, a front cover of A.N. Magazine, his solo show Terra Infirma in 2014, and an article in Vice: The Creators Project in 2015.

Arron moved back home to North Wales in 2016 where he continues to work in a shed in the middle of the woods.

Exhibitions

2020

Ty Pawb Open, Ty Pawb, Wrexham

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 Insider, 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/Awards

2020

Glyn Viviann Gallery Award, Beep Painting Biennial, Elysium Gallery, Swansea

2011

Meynell Fenton Prize, Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London

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