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| Robert Priseman - Biography |
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(03 Sep 2005) |
Robert Priseman was born in Derbyshire, United Kingdom. The son of a train driver, he showed an early interest in art and studied photography and graphic design before reading Aesthetics and Art Theory at the University of Essex. He subsequently worked as a book designer. While working at Longman publishers, he began painting portraits in oils and went on to develop a successful career working to commission. Sitters included His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Cardinal Basil Hume and work from this period is held in numerous public and private collections including the Royal Collection.
Alongside portraiture, Priseman began painting people-less landscapes and in a decisive break gave up commissioned work in 2003 to develop a more personal agenda. Increasingly drawn to interior spaces, in 2005 he began working with the Goldmark Gallery, producing the ‘Hospital’, ‘Subterraneans’, and ‘Francis Bacon Interiors’ series of paintings. In 2007 he developed his first series of etchings entitled ‘Modern Means of Execution’ with Goldmark Atelier and this project led into the series of large scale paintings, ‘American Execution’.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2000 Paintings: The Curwen Gallery, London
2006 The Haunted Self: The European Commission Gallery, London
2007 Transcience: Derby Museums and Art Gallery
The Francis Bacon Interiors: The University of Essex Art Gallery
2008 American Execution: The Dazed Gallery, London
Modern Means of Execution: The University of San Francisco |
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