Edwin Aitken - Noon 2025 Acrylic on canvas 21cm X 31cm
Noon 2025 Acrylic on canvas 21cm X 31cm
Edwin Aitken
In Edwin Aitken’s paintings, images based upon anatomy and the natural world are generated via an expressive and intuitive approach to mark making and a subjective interpretation of the landscape. Distanced from the desire to present an immediately recognisable view of a specific, exterior location or place, Aitken’s paintings move closer to a condition that is more representative of an interior, metaphysical territory where imagination and improvisation have a great deal of autonomy and importance. The paintings frequently engage with aspects of pareidolia and within this context, they make a connection to the idea that we often shape, influence and interpret the landscape as a metaphor for human thoughts, feelings and relationships. The images in his paintings - and the visual and emotive connections they have to the landscape and the body are held in a fluid state - poised between a sense of resolution and disintegration that conflates the prosaic with something more abstract, mysterious and coded.
Born in Manchester, Edwin Aitken studied Painting at the Royal College of Art MA(RCA) and Fine Art Painting at Loughborough College of Art and Design BA(Hons). Upon his graduation from the Royal College of Art he was awarded the Susan Kasen Summers Studio Fellowship USA. His work has been included in exhibitions in the UK and abroad including The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022 and 2024, the Wells Art Contemporary in 2018, 2022 and 2025, the BEEP Painting Prize in 2012 and 2020, the Jackson’s Painting Prize 2021 and the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2021. Recent exhibitions include: Newiera Gallery, London, ‘Auto Amor Vol 3”, Terrace Gallery, London, ‘Irving Open’, Irving Gallery, Oxford, ‘Patterns in Chaos’ Lea Bridge Gallery, London, ‘On Beauty’ Pictorem gallery, London, ‘Back To My Trees’, Terrace Gallery London, ‘It’s in the Trees, It’s Coming’, Prosaic Mosaic Projects Gallery, Sheffield, ‘It Rose and It Fell’ Terrace Gallery London, Wales Contemporary, Wales, ‘Three Movements Of A Longer Work’, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, ‘Contrafibularities’, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, ‘From the Dark Soil’, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London, ‘Think Of Me With Kindness’, Gage Gallery, Sheffield, ‘Tooth and Claw’, Birdbox, Cambridge, ‘The Scent of Wild Roses’, Prosaic Projects Gallery, Sheffield, ‘Silent Disco’ Greystone Industries, Suffolk, ‘Flirting with the Border Guards’ Terrace Gallery, London, ‘your FOOT in my FACE and other tectonic strategies’ Kingsgate Project Space, London, ‘Without Borders’ Elysium Gallery, Swansea, ‘Prosaic Mosaic’ Bloc Projects, Sheffield, ‘Archipelago’, Walthamstow Wetlands, London, ‘Flat + Earth’ Sidney + Matilda, Sheffield and ‘Silent Green’ King's College, Cambridge.
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