London based Artist Guy Allott was born in the market town of Hexham Northumberland in 1972, a graduate of Central Saint Martins (1999) and the Royal College of Art (2002), Guy is a versatile artist who works across several disciplines from painting to printmaking to sculpture and woodcuts.
As a young painter and sculptor Guy made playful cardboard maquettes of spaceships and paintings of surrealistic landscapes, sometimes combining the two in painted depictions of what he called Landscape Spaceships¹. By 2009 Guy work was exploring and subverting traditional representations of landscape in relation to man’s desire to explore and control nature²; his paintings and sculptures present a fantastical merging of the philosophies of science and culture, offering a critique of historic social beliefs alongside an investigation into the contemporary³.
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Today Guy’s work appears in private and public collections in Europe, The United States and Asia including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Royal Society, The British Library Collection, Fidelity and the UBS Art Collection.
Guy is the recipient of the First Base Award from ACAVA (2003) and is one of the founders of IntoArts a charity that teaches painting and the arts to students with learning disabilities.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS and AWARDS
2015 ‘Experiments’ Grey Area Paris
2014 ‘Aliens’ Grey Area Paris
2013 ‘Robots’ Grey Area Paris
2011 ‘Always the Sun’ Reception Berlin. ‘Magic & Loss’ Kunstverein, Springhornhof Germany.
2010 ‘Recent Wreck’ Reception Berlin
2009 ‘How Things Change Stay the Same’ Reception Berlin
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2008 ‘Falling Forwards’ City Art Gallery Leicester
2007 ‘Unfortunately the World Is Perfect’ Chung King Project Los Angeles, California
2006 ‘Journeys End In Meeting’ AMT Gallery Milan. ‘The Space Race’ FA Projects London.
2001 ‘Summerpaintings’ The Miracle Agency London
2000 ‘Ein Tag Stüle’ Luna International Berlin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 ‘Cristallo’ Reception Berlin. ‘Dienstag Nachmittag’ Anna Klinkhammer Gallerie Düsseldorf.
‘Picaresque’ Hå gamle prestagard Nærbø Norway.
2013 ‘Verstand und Gefühl Landschaft und der ZeitgenössischeRomantik’ Kunstverein Springhornhof, Germany.
2012 ‘Reason and Emotion’ Barionet Rosendal Norway.
2011 ‘Belvedere’ Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandsek Germany. Guy Allott & Matt Calderwood Grey Area Paris
2010 ‘Outer Worlds’ Contemporary Arts Society and Deloitte Luxembourg. ‘The Library of Babel/ In and Out of Place’ 176 Zabludowizc Collection London.
2009 ‘Pretty Baa Lambs’ Madder 139 London. ‘East End Academy’ Whitechapel Art Gallery London. ‘Weltraum als Fluchtlinie’ Kunstverin Wolfsburg Germany.
2007 ‘What Can a Desert Island Do’ Seventeen London. ‘Stardust ou la derniere frontiere’ Musee D’Art Contemporain Du Val-de-Marne France. ‘Jardins D’Amis’ Immanence , Paris.
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2006 ‘John Moores 24′ Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. ‘Icons’ Chung King Project Los Angeles. ‘Merry Echo Cooling Spot’ One In The Other, London. ‘Mystic Shit’ Three Colts Lane Gallery, London. ‘Jagdsalon’ Kreuzberg Kunstraum/Bethanien, Berlin.
2005 ‘Jagdsalon’ Kunstverein Ettlingen, Germany. ‘Summer Exhibition’ Royal Academy London. ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor’ Gallery17, London
2004 ‘Guy Allott Neil Hamon Claire Pestaille/The Great Unsigned’ IZO, London. ‘XS’ Fa Projects London. ‘The Temple Of Multi-Faith’ Century Gallery London.
2003 ‘The Physical World’ APT Gallery London. ‘Thy Neighbours Ox’ Space Station 65 London. ‘Vice’ Henry Peacock Gallery London. ‘The Lost Collection of an Invisible Man’ Laing City Art Gallery Newcastle.
PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
2012 Topman Generation Magazine
2011 ‘Always the Sun’ a book project, Site 23, London including an essay by Simon Watney
2010 Art in America, How things Change & Stay the Same
2009 ‘In the Studio’, Time Out magazine
Boarhunt Spaceship
2007 ‘London Calling’ October issue Artnet.com
2006 Saatchi Online (Jane Neal), The Art Newspaper, Frieze Art Fair (Ossian Ward), Modern Painters, ‘Hunting Salon’ (Dean Kenning) Epifiano 3, edited by August Kunnapu, Tallin, Estonia
2005 Night on Earth, Harry Pye, London Epifiano 1&2, edited by August Kunnapu, Tallin, Estonia
2004 Laburnum Pilot, edited by Amy Plant & Ella Gibbs, London
2003 Vice, Henry Peacock Press, edited by Benedict Carpenter, London
2002 Royal Academy magazine ‘Grasping at glory’ (Morgan Falconer)
2000 ‘ Flock’, onedaymagazine supplement, edited by Guy Allott & Lenka Clayton, Berlin
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ¹ Art in America Guy Allott Berlin at Reception by by David Ulrichs
- ² Time Out London – In Studio with Guy Allot by Helen Sumpter
- ³ http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/artist-members/guy-allott/
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