Past
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Flickering Light
Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome 20 April - 31 May 2023 Painting and Nature by Antonello Tolve In all of Sue Arrowsmith’s work, nature and painting share a relationship of subtle mutual influence, a (radiant) secret agreement that turns the fragment into a precious wholeness, underlying the idea of blurring the line between canvas and space to give rise to precise... Read more -
Light Up My Sky
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London 11 November 2022 - 21 January 2023 Read more -
BVLGARI
Andres Thalmann Gallery, Zürich 27 November - 16 December 2021 Read more -
Natura Naturans
Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan 16 September - 31 October 2020 The Possibility of Nature by Stefano Castelli The concept of nature has for some time now - and by force of circumstances - come to be both indirect and mediated. Not only as the result of the difficulty of coming to terms with 'authentic' nature due to a process of... Read more
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Let The Wind Blow Through Your Heart
Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zürich 7 June - 13 July 2019 The glow of soft sunlight filtering through leafy trees. The constant, yet ever changing play of light and shade in a gentle breeze: brief moments like these may induce powerful feelings of being alive, of happiness. It is such moments that Sue Arrowsmith captures in her paintings. Light is love,... Read more -
We Could Dream This Night Away
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London 12 April - 7 May 2018 Sue Arrowsmith's work has long been rooted in the formal qualities of abstraction and temporality, refracted throught the natural worls. However, in her new body of work there's another force at play. Her source material remains photographic - images she has taken of tree forms and leaf clusters, branches of... Read more -
Waiting for the moon
Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich 18 November 2016 - 14 January 2017 Natural forms and the exploration of the relationship between light and darkness are the main characteristics of British artist Sue Arrowsmith's artworks. Using acrylic or watercolour she creates mesmerising marks that cross the surface of her paintings, these twist and intertwine, creating energetic compositions. During her education at Goldsmiths College,... Read more -
Nature Morte
Bohuslans Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden 7 May - 28 August 2016 In Nature Morte, the Art Gallery´s major summer exhibition, we encounter a large number of international and Nordic contemporary artists showing works that relate to a still life tradition. Still life Still life as a genre is often associated with works from artists of the 1500s and 1600s, but is... Read more
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Whisper from the shadows
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London 2 - 31 October 2015 The Innocence of Trees by Sarah Shalgosky Light reverberates through Sue Arrowsmith’s studio. It pours through the roof lights and fills the white walled space with its energy. On the walls, her paintings shimmer. White on black, black on white, black on black; they are the colours of the presence... Read more -
Nature Morte, Ha gamle prestgard
Stravanger, Norway 6 June - 30 August 2015 Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Nature Morte - the exhibition - is based on Michael Petry's recent book of the same name for Thames & Hudson. It brings together historic still-life paintings and contemporary art works that use the language of the past for modern concerns. The show seeks... Read more -
Natural Order
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London 6 June - 5 July 2014 Natural Order The environment appears to have been monopolised, probably understandably, by ecologists, but this has often obscured other environmental issues. The artists in this exhibition question the relation between man and his environment. In his 'Imaginary Homecoming' series Jorma Puranen recalls how the Samis' very natural relationship with the... Read more -
Studio Show
London 8 - 22 October 2013 Sue Arrowsmith - Studio Show Silhouettes of interlocking branches arch across white ground; watercolour leaves ebb and flow on large sheets of paper. A willow's weeping branches; canopies of leaves; dense foliage with the colour drained out, the fleshiness of leaf and branch suppressed. Are we looking up or out,... Read more
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Plus Art Projects
The Mayor's Parlour, London 10 October - 10 November 2012 The fifth annual Frieze Week exhibition from Plus Art Projects at the Mayor's Parlour showcases bold and unconventional works by 67 artists, straight from their studios. The Mayor's Parlour is a new arts club situated in the 1930s old Bow Town Hall in East London. Established and converted to a... Read more -
Sweethearts
Houldsworth Gallery, London 21 March - 21 April 2012 Pippy Houldsworth Gallery Sweethearts - Artist Couples 21 March - 21 April 2012 Ian Davenport/Sue Arrowsmith, Ray Barrie/Mary Kelly, Sam Durant/Ana Prvacki, Antony Gormley/Vicken Parsons, Dan Graham/Mieko Meguro, Kelly Barrie/Sherin Guirguis, Gary Hume/Georgie Hopton, Rem Koolhaas/Madelon Vriesendorp, Neo Rauch/Rosa Loy, Richard Wentworth /Jane Wentworth Sweethearts: Artist Couples 21 March -... Read more -
Courtyard Gallery, The National Botanic Garden of Wales
Carmarthen 4 June - 31 July 2011 Artist Sue Arrowsmith is a perfect fit for the National Botanic Garden of Wales - as well as a rather exciting coup for the venue's Courtyard Gallery. In her latest exhibition - on show at the Garden from June 4 - Sue uses natural forms as motifs through which to... Read more -
Galerie AllerArt
Bludenz, Austria 23 January - 1 March 2009 My works begin with a photograph that is projected and traced. I draw onto paper or canvas, carefully following and deciphering the projected image that is in front.The images are taken from varied figurative sources, usually natural phenomena. The finished drawings are composed of delicate marks, they are rich in... Read more
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Into The Light Of Things
Angel Row, Nottingham 8 July - 2 September 2006 Angel Row Gallery Into The Light Of Things Sue Arrowsmith, Roy Brown, Samantha Clark, Neeta Madahar, Carole Romaya, Barry Thompson. Curated by Helen Jones 7th July - 2nd September Nature is more accessible today, to more of us, than ever before- yet at the same time can seem further away.... Read more -
Galerie Fahnemann
Berlin 15 June - 16 July 2001 'Arrowsmith covers the whole surface, ruling lines with marker pen, in a back to front activity which involves both cancellation and creation. this complsive activity much closer to drawing than painting, creates a quiet sense of reading, a negative notation of subtle bumps and shifts that disrupt the evenness'. Sacha... Read more -
Galerie Frahm
Copenhagen 23 January - 28 February 1999 Read more -
Cold Spring
Entwistle Gallery, London 14 February - 15 March 1997 Sue Arrowsmith: Cold Spring 14 February - 15 March 1997 In this exhibition the British artist Sue Arrowsmith is showing recent work, including a group of six foot square panels as well as smaller works on paper. All of these pieces are comprised of dense sets of parallel line, and... Read more
