Brian Bishop

"My work is an attempt to explore painting by removing pictorial narrative and moving wholly into pictorial space, visited not only by the painter, but also the architect, sculptor, composer and dance choreographer.

My paintings are works that demonstrate the breadth of engagement with colour and structure of a non-narrative nature. They do not inform with text or images drawn from the world about us, thus allowing imagination to explore the visual and making fresh interpretations to discover a world of colour and structure in the same way that you would listen to a piece of music."

Brian studied at Bournemouth College of Art and at the Royal College of Art, London. He has taught art in a number of art colleges from the mid 1960's till the present day. His list of awards, prizes and bursaries is considerable and includes a Young Contemporaries Award for Sculpture, a Royal College of Art Travelling Scholarship, a British Council Travel Grant (to Norway), and a Prix de la Chambre de Metiers de la Haute-Garonne, France.

Solo Exhibitions

Galerie Ellison-Marshall, Bordeaux
Anatol Orient, London
Rituals, Galerie Le Duplex, Le Havre
Oxford Gallery, Oxford

Group Exhibitions

Head To Head, Queen Street Gallery, Emsworth
Bournemouth University Loan Collection
Fifty Wessex Artists, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
Fifty Wessex Artists, Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton
Dorset Colourists, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth
Euroart, Barbizon
In Transit, University of Derby
Galerie Im Studentwerk, Universitat Osnabruck
British Contemporary Art, Kunstcentrum Haaqweq, Leiden
Artistes Vos Papiers, Parc des Expositions, Toulouse
Galerie Ellison-Marshall, Bordeaux
Anderson O'Day Fine Art, London
Under The Eye Of Saturn, Oriel Mostyn, Gwynedd
London Group 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Royal College of Art
Galerie Der Kunstandwerker, Hamburg
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim
The Spirit Of London, Royal Festival Hall, London
Keramiek 6 X Engels, Studio 40 Den Haag
Art? Artisanat?, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rouen