Geraldine Swayne
Artist / Musician CV
SOLO SHOWS
2023 'The Multiple Lives of Geraldine Swayne' Project 78, Sussex (upcoming Sept 2023)
2020 'Annunciation' Solo show of new large paintings, and new small enamel paintings CHARLIE SMITH London
2019 'Geraldine Swayne' VOLTA GALLERY, Languedoc France
2017 ‘Purifications’ AEROPLASTICS Brussels
2017 ‘Silvering’ FINE ART SOCIETY London
2015 ‘What do you want..?’ LAWRENCE ALKIN GALLERY London
2014 ‘How Are You..?’ FINE ART SOCIETY London
2013 ‘Geraldine Swayne’ FRED LONDON London
2009 ‘Squeeze-Box' NO:ID GALLERY London
2007 'Cracks in Time' L-13 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL GALLERY London
ART FAIRS
2016 - 17 ‘Art Car Boot Fair’ London and Folkestone
2013 - 16 Volta NY, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Athens and Volta Miami with New Art Projects.
2009 'Free Art Fair' BARBICAN GALLERY London
COLLECTIONS
Magazine3 Stockholm
Damian Hurst
Oxford University
The Labour Party
GROUP SHOWS
2023 Magasin3 Museum Stockholm Group show for Museum re-opening
2023 'Man Digging' Exeter Phoenix Art Gallery group show by Dan Howard-Birt
2023 'It's Coming from Inside' Group Show curated by Sarah Sparkes
and Jane Milar
2023 'Always On My Mind' Fitzrovia Gallery Harry Pye and Friends including Jeremy
Deller, Bruce McLean and Lee Maelzer
2023 ‘Small is Beautiful’ FLOWERS GALLERY Cork St, London, November
2022 'Kunsty and Friends' GALLERY 46, Whitechapeln London, March
2022 ’Two Doors’ group show House of St Barnabas, Soho, London
2021 ‘Small is Beautiful’ FLOWERS GALLERY Cork St, London November
2021 ‘The First Batch Of Tarts’ Grand Union Studios, London December
2021 Burra and Friends curated by David Lock RYE ART GALLERY August 2021
2020 'Studio Confetti' curated by Karl Bielik TERRACE GALLERY July 2021
2020 'Self' group show of self-portraits ONLINE EXHIBITION CURATED BY
SEAN WORREL February 2020
2020 'Small is beautiful' 38th edition FLOWERS GALLERY EAST October
2019 ‘Telescope’ with Nigel Cooke JERWOOD Hastings
2019 ’Total Eclipse of the Heart' Watson Farley and Williams, London
2018 ‘Royal Academy Summer Show' (prize-winner) RA London
2018 ‘Silence, Violence' CELLO FACTORY London
2018 ‘Women Can’t Paint’ TURPS AND ASC GALLERIES London
2018 ‘Turps Cloud’ London Art Fair and Turps Gallery
2017 ’Small is Beautiful’ FLOWERS EAST London
2017 ‘PIY Paintlounge’ SLUICE BIENALE London
2017 ‘By the Sea’ GALLERY 64A Whitstable
2017 ‘Summer Show' ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART London
2017 ‘Women Artists a Conversation' FINE ART SOCIETY London
2016 ‘Summer Show’ ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART London
2016 ‘Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am’ CHARLIE DUTTON Beijing
2015 ‘English Magic’ NEW ART PROJECTS London
2015 ‘Fall of the Rebel Angels' VENICE BIENNALE 56 Venice
2015 'Sunday in the Park with Ed' DISPLAY GALLERY London
2015 'What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me' FINE ART SOCIETY London
2014 ‘Idolatry' CHARLIE SMITH GALLERY LONDON
2014 ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being' AEROPLASTICS CONTEMPORARY Brussels
2014 'Suspicion' JERWOOD SPACE London
2013 & 14 'The Future Can Wait' B1 London
2014 ‘It's our Music/It's our Art' DAVID RISLEY Copenhagen
2014 ‘We're Still Here' MAGASIN3 MUSEUM Stockholm
2013 'Summer Exhibition' ROYAL ACADEMY London
2013 ‘****’ NEUE KUNST FROTH KUNSTHALLE Brighton
2013 ‘Soul Meat' LION AND LAMB GALLERY London
2012 ‘Plate’ HERRICK GALLERY London
2011 ‘Crash’ CHARLIE DUTTON GALLERY London
2011 'Glitterbug' VICTOR WYND GALLERY London
2011 ‘Closer to Something' FOUR CORNERS GALLERY London
2010 'John Moores Painting Prize' WALKER GALLERY LIVERPOOL Liverpool
2009 ‘Ghost 2' ST JOHN'S CHURCH Bethnal Green London
2009 ‘Con-fig-ur-ation' COLLYER BRISTOW GALLERY London
2008 ‘Fresh Air Machine' CALVERT22 GALLERY London
SELECTED LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES 2005-2017
2023 Performance with Faust Jazz Cafe
2022 Performance with Faust for classic album Faust IV
2005 - 17 AVANT GUARD FESTIVAL Schiphorst, Germany
2017 RAW POWER FESTIVAL London, UK
2016 - 17 ROCK IN OPPOSITION Nr. Toulouse, France
2016 ART CAR BOOT FAIR London, UK
2015 BAD VIBES FESTIVAL London, UK
2012 CAL ARTS, Los Angeles, USA
2011 EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS Wroclaw, Poland
2011 CONTEMPORARY FINE ART, Berlin, Germany
2011 CENTRO CULTURAL Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009 WREXNER CENTRE, Ohio, USA
2009 DETROIT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Detroit, USA
2009 L-13 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL GALLERY London, UK
2008 LIQUIDROOM and SUPERDELUXE Tokyo, Japan
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Cover and Featured Artist Rosa Magazine (upcoming Sept 2023)
2017 Artlyst ‘Is Geraldine Swayne The Best Portrait Painter In Britain Today?’
2017 ’Silvering’ Catalogue Publication with essay by Rowena Morgan-Cox (ISBN978-1-907052-81-1)
2017 Wire Magazine
2015 Geraldine Swayne "What do you want…?" Wall Street International
2014 ‘Top ten Crossover Artists’ - Dazed Magazine
2014 ‘I’m Still Here’ Catalogue Publication Magazine Museum Stockholm
2014 ‘Geraldine Swayne interviews Lee Maelzer’ - Turps Banana
2012 ‘Geraldine Swayne’ feature - Candid Magazine
2010 FAD Magazine
2010 Harry Pye, Billy Childish and Geraldine Swayne interview - Rebel Magazine
2010 Faust - Rolling Stone Magazine
2009 ‘Harry Pye's 15 Future Art Stars’ - Saatchi Magazine
2009 Faust - Wire Magazine
2009 ‘Intimate Strangers’ - Saatchi Magazine
2008 Douglas Park essay commissioned for ‘Fresh Air Machine’ exhibition at Calvert22 Gallery
2007 ‘Bid for Ken’ - Guardian Newspaper
AWARDS
1989 Travel Award NORTHERN ARTS
2014 Five Year Residency ACME FIRE-STATION
2019 Dupree Family Award for Best Female Artist ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION
TEACHING
2016 - 23 Turps Art School, visiting lecturer, mentor.
2014 & 15 Fine-Art Department University of East London, AL
2009 - 14 Workshops and Performances at CalArts, Werner Centre, European
Cultural Congress, Wroclaw
2014 Fine-Art Department Leeds University, visiting lecturer.
2008-2013 UCA Rochester, BA Fashion Film, associate lecturer.
2008-2010 London College of Fashion, BA Creative Direction for Fashion
and Fashion Illustration, associate lecturer.