Art on a Postcard for War Child UK

About 

Craig Wylie is a highly accomplished British/Zimbabwean figurative and portrait painter. He lives in Norfolk, UK. He has exhibited widely with exhibitions in the UK, Europe, USA and Hong Kong. As well as being collected extensively in private collections, his work is also represented in several public collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow and the Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenberg, Germany. 

Education 

BFA Rhodes University, South Africa 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

BP Portrait Award 2008, National Portrait Gallery, London  

Threadneedle Prize 2014 - Shortlisted, Mall Galleries, London  

Lynn Painters-Stainers Prize 2014 - Runner-Up, Mall Galleries, London  

Hunting Prize - London Region Prize, RCA  

Daler-Rowney Prize for top graduate student  

‘MEN - The Male Body in Robert Runtak’s Collection’, AJG Galerie, Hlubocka nad Vltavou, Czech Republic 22.5-2.10.2022  

‘Contemporary Models of Realism’, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, 12.5-12.8 2020  

‘50 Years of Realism - Photorealism to Virtual Reality’, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo; Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, 2020  

‘Disruptive Imagination - Making Windows Where There Were Once Walls - Contemporary European Painting from The Collection of Robert Runtak’, curated by Jane Neal, Gallery of Fine Arts, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 26.1-26.3 2017  

‘Paul Smith to J.K Rowling: BP Portrait Award Commissions from the National Portrait Gallery, Brummer Jones Library, University of Hull, 29.3-11.6 2017  

Gallery Representation 

Plus One Gallery, London Jonathan Cooper Gallery, London 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork   

From Wylie’s on going series of figure/object paintings, this study for a larger painting depicts a man beneath a suitcase. Effectively a torso study concerned with skin pulled tight over bones, it is a work of human contrasts - in extremis and repose; intimacy and exposure, banality and beauty. 

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