Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part II

About
David Ryan is a painter based in London. He has exhibited internationally and been the recipient of numerous awards throughout his career. His work is abstract and based around the interaction of numerous simple forms within the picture plane/format. He is also active as a musician and the paintings have a connection with notation and resonance.

Education
1978. BA Hons Fine Art Coventry Polytechnic
1986. PGCE in Higher Education, Garnet College, London
2010 PhD by publication 'Open Form in Music and the Visual Arts'

Select Exhibitions/Awards
2023 Recent Paintings, Museo Civico, Pescia, Italy (one person)
2021 Shelagh Cluett Trust Award
2020 'The Undersides of Practice' APT Gallery
2019Variations and Echoes, Kapil Jariwala, London (one person)
2018 David Ryan, Recent Paintings, Classroom, Coventry (one Person)
2018 ‘Fully Awake’–Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
2018Imagining Architecture, Palais des Art, Toulouse, France
2018 ‘Granular’–Materialism and New Media, University of Greenwich
2017 ‘Fully Awake’, Painting Exhibition; House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
2017‘In Nomine Lucis’–Museale Complesso Santa Maria della Scala, Siena
2017 ‘Ex-Roma’–Abbey Awards, APT Gallery, London
2016 June Mostra, British School at Rome
2016 Spazio Aperti, Accademia di Romania in Rome

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
These small works explore a kind of notation existing somewhere between a diagram and free drawing. Generally, the works explore a dynamic between stasis and movement, and colour and line. Each work can be seen as setting up its own world of interactions


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