Art on a Postcard Mini Auction Curated by Jack Trodd

About 

Lara Cobden is a figurative painter living and working in Norfolk. Following a degree in Painting at the University of Brighton, Lara spent 11 years in Ireland before relocating to East Anglia. Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally. 

Education 

1992-95 BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting - University of Brighton 
2019-20 Turps Correspondence Course - Turps Banana 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

SELECTED AWARDS 
2021 John Moores Painting Prize - Finalist Walker Gallery Liverpool 
2020 Castlegate Painting Prize - Finalist - Castlegate House Gallery  
2020 BEEP Biennial 2020 - Exhibited Shortlist - Elysium Gallery 
2019 ING Discerning Eye - Chairman’s Purchase Prize 
2019 Westmorland Landscape Prize - Exhibited Shortlist  
2019 2nd Prize Winner - Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 
2018 Wells Arts Contemporary - Recipient of Parker Harris Mentoring Award 
2017 ING Discerning Eye - Exhibited Shortlist  
2017 RWA - Shortlist 165th Annual Summer Exhibition  
2017 Recipient The Artist Editor’s Choice Award - SWA Annual Summer Exhibition  
2016 ING Discerning Eye - Exhibited Shortlist  
2016 1st Prize winner - Sir John Hurt Art Prize 
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS  
2022 Incantations of Light Irving Contemporary Oxford 
2022 Falling Without Ever Landing Liliya Art Gallery London 
2022 The Shadows Inbetween Cane & Davis London 
 
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 
2023 London Trees The Arborealists and Urban Contemporaries  
2022 Visions of Healing Hallam Conference Centre 
2022 Weary Harold ASC Gallery London 
2022 Trees and the Sacred The Hostry Norwich Cathedral 
2021 Incandescent Irving Gallery Oxford 
2021 Petrichor Liliya Gallery Putney London 
2021 Silent Disco curated by Graham Crowley Suffolk 
2021 Works on Paper Blue Shop Cottage Gallery London 
2020 Trees & Woodland of Dartmoor & Exmoor - The Arborealists Somerset Museum 
2019 The Arborealists - National Arboretum Staffordshire 
2019 “If we opened people up we’d find landscapes” Curated Show Fairhurst Gallery 2019 Arborealists at Musee Collégiale Sainte-Croix de Loudun France 
2018 Arborealists and Guests – featuring Paul Nash - Black Swan Frome Somerset 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork   

Flesh and the Answer is taken from the poem Elegy in Joy by Muriel Rukeyser - this in turn inspired these four apple tree ink drawings. 

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