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
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