CV (Extensive)
Past Shows
2025 The Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, Jul-Oct
2025 Hampstead Art Society Summer Exhibition, London St James’, Jul
2025 Contemporary British Portrait Painters, London, Brixton Department Store, June
2025 Through the Looking Glass, JD Malat Gallery, London, Feb-Mar
2025 Hampstead Art Society Winter Exhibition, London, Jan
2024 Hampstead Art Society, London, July
2024 New English Art Club Drawing Bursary, Mall Galleries, London, June
2024 Royal Society of British Artists Rising Stars, Royal Over-seas League, London, April
2024 Royal Society of Portrait Painters , Mall galleries, London, May
2023 Semi-Conscious, Islington Arts Factory, London, Nov
2023 The Wells Contemporary – Wells Cathedral, Wells, Aug
2023 The Green and Stone Summer Exhibition – The Gallery at Green and Stone, London, Aug
2023 Royal Society of British Artists Rising Stars, Royal Over-seas League, London, April – June
2022 New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London, June
2022 Contemporary British Portrait Painters, Brixton Department Store, London, June
2022 The Sequested Prize
2022 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London, May
2021 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, Nov
2021 116th Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Oct-Nov
2021 Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, http://www.ruthborchard.org.uk, May-Sep
2021 Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries, Jul-Sep
2021 New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London, Jun-Jul
2021 Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London, April
2020 RWA 168th Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, TBC
2020 New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London, TBC
2020 Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, Dec
2020 Isolation, Virtual Group Show, Blanco Gallery, Apr (Accessible via: http://www.blancogallery.com)
2020 Castlegate Prize, Castlegate House Gallery, Cumbria, Sep
2020 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London, Sept
2020 Contemporary British Portrait Painters Inaugural Exhibition ‘Perceptions’, Cass Art, Islington, London, Mar
2020 Solo Show – Title TBC, Cass Art, Bristol, Mar
2020 Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London, Feb
2020 Sky Portrait Artist of Year, Battersea Arts Centre, London, Feb
2020 The Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London, Feb
2019 Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, Nov-Dec
2019 RWA 167th Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, Sep-Dec
2019 Wales Contemporary, Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven, Oct, Mall Galleries, London, Nov
2019 In The Studio, Mall Galleries, London, Aug
2019 Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London, July
2019 A Series of Portraits, Cass Art, Bristol, July
2019 114th Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, May – June
2019 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London, May
2019 Royal Society of British Artists Rising Stars, Royal Over-seas League, London, April – June
2018 Cass Art Openwalls Exhibition, Cass Art Bristol, Dec – Jan
Awards
2023 The Michael Harding Award for the Most Distinguished Oil Painting – The Green and Stone Summer Exhibition
2021 The Sequested Prize Finalist
2021 The John Lynn Commemorative Award for a Young Artist – Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition
2021 Longlisted for The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize
2020 The ROI Emerging Artist Prize – Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition
2020 Shortlisted for The Castlegate Prize 2020
2019 The Geoffrey Vivis Memorial Award – Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition
2019 Minerva Portrait Prize – 114th Bath Society of Artists Annual Exhibition
2019 Shortlisted for RBA Rome Scholarship
2018-19 Selected as one of 20 ‘emerging talents’ to exhibit at the Mall Galleries ‘In The Studio’, project.
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