Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part II

Education
2009: PhD (practice-led), Goldsmith College, University of London 
2001/02: MA fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1993-96: BA, first class, Byam Shaw (now part of Central St. Martin's UCL), London
1992-93: Foundation, Heatherleys School ofFine Art, London
1981-89: Lic. Phil. Hist., University of Bern, Switzerland

Select Exhibitions/Awards
2024: In Pursuit of Slowness, Duflon&Racz, CH
2020-21: Union Gallery, London, UK
2020: Common Thread, Visarte Kabinett Zürich, CH
2019: Resurfacing, Duflon&Racz, CH
2018: Labour of Love, Duflon&Racz, Brussels, BE
2015: New Age Modernism, Duflon&Racz, CH
2015: Laced, C&C Gallery, London, UK
Recent group shows (selection):
2023/24: Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
2023: The Goddesses, Lido Stores Margate, UK
2023: Maffioli Art Group, The Morrison Foerster Art Prize, London, UK
2023: 20 years Union Gallery, Union Gallery, London, UK
2022/23: Cantonale, Museum Franz Gertsch, CH
2022: Selects; Vol. 2, Londonpaintclub, UK
2022: Patternicity, ExeterPhoenix Gallery, UK
2022: Selects: Vol. 1, Londonpaintclub, UK
2022: Contemporary British Painting Prize (CBP), Unit 1, London, UK
Awards:
2021: Shortlist, CBP
2013: Shortlist, 100 painters of Tomorrow
2004-06: A.H.R.C. award
2001-02: A.H.R.B. award
2002:Goldsmiths' Warden Purchase Prize

Gallery Representation
Galerie Duflon&Racz (Switzerland and Belgium)

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 
I am interested in the language of painting, how this language has been framed by its cultural conditions, art history and traditional notions of the masculine and feminine. Previously I have explored these interests by 'translating' modernist stylistic devices into an illusionistic mark making which mimics embroidery/textiles. These paintings evoke the spheres of craft and design whilst their formal characteristics and rendition in oils allude to the domain of fine art. Recently, rather than reworking modernism into paintings that look like textiles, I started to remake textile designs by women-mainly from the Bauhaus weaving workshop-as paintings. I also began inventing my own designs which I render in the language of weaving or traditional embroidery stitches. 

Borrowing from both the vocabulary of modernism and of textile art, my painterly 'translations' from one visual language to another, can be read as hybrid texts engaged in a process of interpretation between languages and cultures, between modernism and contemporary art, between painting and textile as well as between a culture dominated by masculinity and a feminist perspective.

For more info to my shows and background visit www.niederberger-paint.ch


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