Artworks by Mark Fairnington at Galerie Peter Zimmermann on artnet

Mark Fairnington

(British, born 1956)

Mark Fairnington

Face Monkey, 2012

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Mark Fairnington

Dead Leaf Plant, 2011

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Mark Fairnington

Ten Days That Shook The World, 2017

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Mark Fairnington

This Dene, 2018

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Mark Fairnington

Aira Force, 2019

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Biography

Timeline

1957: Born in London
1979 - 1981: St. Martin's School of Art, London, UK
1987 - 1989: Goldsmith's College, London, UK
1997 - 1998: Imperial War Museum, London
1999 - 2002: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK
: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK
1999: Sargant Fellowship, British School at Rome, UK
2003 - 2005: Natural History Museum, London, UK
: 1989 British Council - Exhibition Award
: London Arts Board - Individual Artists Award
: 1993 Arthur Anderson Award - Figurative Painting Award
: 1995 British Council - Exhibition Award
: Awards
: 2003 London Arts - Individual Artists Award
: 2003 AHRB - Research Leave Award
: 1986 Greater London Arts - Individual Artists Award
: 2001 sciart consortium - Research Award
: Lives and works in London

Exhibitions

2014: Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany (solo)
: Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
2013: Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
2012: Unnatural History, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany (solo)
2011: Flora, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
: London Calling, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
2010: Bull Market, Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk, UK (solo)
: miscellaneous, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim Germany
2009: Private Collection, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany (solo)
: Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
2008: Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany (solo)
2007: Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
: Dynasty, Art Agents, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
: DC Dusseldorf Contemporary 2007, (Fred) London showing Abetz/Drescher, Nayland Blake, Simon English and Mark Fairnington
: London Assembly, Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
: Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria curated by Jasper Sharp
: Galerie Moncada, Rome, Italy
: Galerie Jiri Svestka, Prague, Czech Republic
: VOLTA 02, Basel, Fred (London), UK (solo)
: The Raft, Fred (London), UK (solo)
: Art Basel 06, Liste, FRED (London), UK
: Pulse NY, New York, FRED (London), UK
: Royal Academy Summer Show, London, UK
: Art Berlin, FRED (London), UK
2006: Zoo Art Fair, London, UK
: Art Rotterdam, Holland, FRED (London), UK
: A history of flower painting including James Ensor, Claude Monet, Marc Quinn, Fiona Rae, Gerhard Richter
: Infallible in Search of the Real George Eliot, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK
: Young Masters, 148a John Street, London, UK
: Blumenstück.Künstlers Glück, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
: Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
2005: Medieval Modern, London, UK (solo)
: Pulse, Miami, FRED (London), UK
: Wunderkammer II, Wunderkammer I, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (solo)
2004: John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
: Fabulous Beasts, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
: The Goat, Medieval Modern, with Olivier Richon
: Transmission Portfolio, Domo Baal Gallery, London, UK
: Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany (solo)
: Artlab, Imperial College, London, UK (solo)
: Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, UK
: Chockerfuckingblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London, UK
: Infallible in Search of the Real George Eliot APT Gallery, London, UK
2003: Mobile Home Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Transmission Portfolio, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
: The Human Zoo, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK
: Dead or Alive, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK(solo)
: Intimacy, Russel-Cotes Museum, Bournmouth, UK
: No One Begins a Lunatic, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London, UK
: Dead or Alive, Harewood House, UK (solo)
: Alessandra Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy
2002: Like gold dust, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
: History Revision, Plymouth Arts Centre, UK
2001: Staying Alive, Mobile Home, London, UK (solo)
: Intimacy, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales
: Bittersweet, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, UK
: Foil, The Gallery, Falmouth College of Arts and The Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK
: Gallery Axel Thieme, Germany (solo)
: Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
: Mantidae, Oxford University Museum, UK (solo)
: The Wreck of Hope, The Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
: Staying Alive, Mobile Home, London, UK (solo)
: British School at Rome
: Green Green Grass, Mobile Home
2000: Foil, Gallery Westland Place, London, UK
: The Saatchi Gift, Art Institute, the gallery, Bournemouth, UK
1999: Peepshow, Mobile Home, London, UK (solo)
: Gallery Axel Thieme, Germany
: Saatchi in Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, UK
: The Flower Show, Harewood House, England
: Wigmore Fine Art, Mark Fairnington and Sharon Kivland, London, UK
: Relative Values, Harris Museum, Preston, touring to The Rangers House, London, UK
: Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
: Postcards on Photography, Cambridge Darkroom, touring to John Hansard Gallery, Camerawork and Stills Gallery
1998: Gallery Axel Thieme, Germany (solo)
: Heavier Than Air, Imperial War Museum, London, UK (solo)
: Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, USA
1997: WHAT, Trinity Bouy Wharf, London, UK
: Todd Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Connaught Brown Gallery, London, UK
1995: Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
: London Stories, Galerie Edition Marie-Louise Wirth, Switzerland

Literature

2012: Mark Fairnington. Unnatural History, Texts in German and English by Martin Stather, Darian Leader und Mary Madden. Mannheimer Kunstvereins and Galerie Peter Zimmermann, 2012.
2006: Bethnal Green Boogie, Sarah Kent, Time Out, No. 1883
: Death Becomes Him, Jane Neal, The Independent on Sunday, ABC, 27.08.06
: Experience and Experiment, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
2005: Insect Poetics,edited by Eric Brown, University of Minnesota Art and Science, Sian Ede, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
: Blumenstück.Künstlers Glück, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Infallible, In Search of the Real George Eliot, ARTicle Press
: Mark Fairnington: Staying Alive, Jane Neal, Contemporary No.59
: Olivier Richon, Mark Fairnington, Sara Harrison, Time Out, No.1752
: The Natural Gallery, Sebastian Smee,The Daily Telegraph, May 1, 2004 Unstuffed Animals, Jane Neal,Art Review, May 2004
: Bitten by the science bug, Charlotte Cripps, The Independent Review, May 4, 2004
: Fabulous Beasts, Jessica Lack, The Guardian Guide, May 8, 2004
: Interview on the Robert Elms Show, BBC Radio London, 11/05/04
: Creatures Small and Great, John Russell Taylor, The Times Review, 19/05/04
: Gross Anatomy, Callum McGeoch, Dazed and Confused, June
2004: John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery
: Revive, Tank, Volume 3, Issue 8
: The Human Zoo, Hatton Gallery
: Like gold dust, Angel Row Gallery
: Experiment:conversations in art and science, The Wellcome Trust Dog Publishing
: Transmission Portfolio, Sheffield Hallam University
2003: London News, Richard Dyer, Contemporary, November
: Transmission: Speaking and Listening Volume 2, Sheffield Hallam University/ Site Gallery
2002: Like Gold Dust, Contemporary, November
: Dead or Alive,The Art Newspaper No. 126
: Dead or Alive, Rich Jevans ,The Leeds Guide, June
2001: Audio Arts Magazine, November 2001
: Game Boy’s Animal Magic, Helen Sumpter, The Big Issue, No. 456
: Staying Alive, Sally O’Reilly, Time Out, No.1627 (review)
: Mark Fairnington, Duncan Mclaren, Art Review, October 2001
: The Reality Bug, Charlotte Mullins, World of Art Newspaper, Thames and Hudson
: Foil 3, Eugene Tan, Art Review, March 2001
: Foil (catalogue), Michael Phillipson, Dr Jim Mooney
: The British Journal of Photography, Mantidae
: Realism in 20th Century Painting, Brendan Prendeville
: The Guardian Guide, Robert Clark, Mantidae
: Darmstadter Kulturnachrichten (October and November) Galerie Thieme
: Oculus Imaginations From the Photograph to the Real, Mark Gisbourne
: FAZ (December) Katherina Deschka, Insekten aus der Schublade
: Contemporary Visual A rts (issue31)
: Main-Echo (26 October) Horst Roland, Mark Fairnington bei Galerie Axel Thieme
2000: Mark Fairnington (catalogue) Galerie Axel Thieme
: The Flower Show (catalogue), Jane Sellars
: The Independent on Sunday, 14/11/99 (review)
: Mattresses, Monros and the story of an eye, Duncan Maclaren
: The Wreck of Hope, Studio Magazine (Israel), May 2000
: The Wreck of Hope, Stuart Glass, Artist Newsletter, May 2000
: The Wreck of Hope, Neal Brown, Independent on Sunday, 26/03/00
: The Wreck of Hope, Izi Glover, Time Out, 05/04/00
: Fine Arts 1999-2000, The British School at Rome
1999: nu critiques painting, Rachel Withers, nu Art Magazine, May 2000
: The Wreck of Hope, Andrew Wilson, Art Monthly, May 2000
: Whitechapel Open, Sotiris Kyriacou, Art Monthly No. 216 (review)
: Postcards on Photography – photorealism and the reproduction Cambridge Darkroom Gallery
: Whitechapel Open, Martin Coomer, Time Out No. 1431 (review)
: Whitechapel Open, Marina Benjamin, Evening Standard 9/4/98
: Relative Values (catalogue), James Green, Richard Kirwan
1998: Postcards from the Edge, Chris Townsend, Ronnie Simpson, Naomi Salaman
: Postcards on Photography (catalogue), Transparency Transposed, Naomi Salaman
: Postcards on Photography, Valerie Reardon, Art Monthly, No. 223 (review)
: Hotshoe International, No. 101
: Infiziert von YBA, Dorothee Baer-Bogenschutz, Kunstzeitung 26/1 Heavier than Air (catalogue), The Surrealist War, Simon Morely
1997: WHAT, Martin Coomer, Time Out 23/4/97 (review)
: WHAT (catalogue), Mark Gisbourne
: Sacha Craddock, The Times 30/12/97
: Whitechapel Open, Martin Coomer, Time Out 7/8/96 (review)
1996: Peter Schauer, Art Review, Autumn 1996
: Close the door on the Open, Brian Sewell, Evening Standard 1/8/96 (review)

Mark Fairnington

(British, born 1956)

Mark Fairnington

Mark Fairnington

Mark Fairnington

Mark Fairnington

Mark Fairnington

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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