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Hen Coleman is an artist based in London. She is a masters graduate of the Royal College of Art and former printmaking tutor at The Royal Academy Schools. Her work has been shown in various London galleries and is included in private and public collections in the UK and the USA.
Her drawings depict altered territories informed by landscape in which the protagonist’s role is carried by recurring motifs of vessels as containers and layered natural forms in transformed states. ‘The contrast between a terrain of ‘chaotic and abundant nature’ and the more measured environment of our ideas and behaviour presents itself as a dialectic which it feels interesting to deal with. It’s a third territory, not necessarily geographical or historical but as an unfolding space or stage for playing out memories, responses and reactions.’
Recent Exhibitions & Residencies
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2020 / 2021
ISLAND Group Show / Candida Stevens Gallery / June 2019
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019
DRAW ART FAIR LONDON / May 2019 / Candida Stevens Gallery
BLACKWOOD / Dorich House Museum Artist-in-Residence 2019
YONDER Solo Show / Candida Stevens Gallery / April 28 - May 26 2018
Affordable Art Fair / Hampstead, London / May 10-13 2018 / Candida Stevens Gallery
Affordable Art Fair / Battersea, London 19-22 Oct 2017 / Candida Stevens Gallery
Good Nature / 31 Contemporary British Artists / Candida Stevens Gallery / September 2017
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2017
The Alibi / Solo show / Old Fire Station Gallery, Henley-on-Thames / May 2017
Course Leaders / Clifford Chance London / March 2017
Monochrome / Jagged Art, London / Jan Feb 2017
Bijou / Candida Stevens Fine Art, Chichester / Dec 2016
Manchester Art Fair / Platform X @ Old Granada Studios 22-25 Sept 2016
The Terrarium Drawn @ Jagged Art London 15 Sept to 7 Oct 2016
Surface Cutting @ Royal Academy of Arts curated by Eileen Cooper RA Sept 2016 - Feb 2017
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016
London Original Print Fair 2016 - May 5-8th, launch of new work 'The Falling' for RA Editions
Group Show @ Candida Stevens Fine Art, Chichester 20 Feb - 2 April 2016
Residents show for Art Print Residence Al Mon @ Fundacio Iluro, Barcelona - Jan/Feb 2016
Di Carta / Works on Paper @ Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio, Italy Dec 2015 - March 2016
Ghost(ed.) @ Kettering Museum, 6 January to 3 February 2016, Alfred East Art Gallery, Kettering
Crown Point Press, San Francisco June 2015
Physics of Departure, Solo Show @ 15 Bateman St, London 12/13 May 2015
Barcelona Print Residency, Art Print Residence / Murtra Edicions March 2015
2014 Exhibitions & Residencies
Barcelona Print Residency, Art Print Residence / Murtra Edicions March 2014
The Drawing Room @ The Old Cycle Club, London, April 2014
Solo Show ‘The Wonders’ Soho, London, May 2014
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2014
Conscientia, The Lloyds Club, London, August 2014
Istanbul / Bodrum Painting Residency, September 2014
Ghost(ed.) Curated Collaborative Lithography Project · ongoing
Multiplied Contemporary Editions, Christie’s London, October 2014
Other Selected Exhibitions
2013 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2013 Herrick Gallery / AVM Curiosities
2011, Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries
2011, Royal Academy of Art, Summer Exhibition
2010, E17 Arts / Walthamstow / Beyca Retro
2010, Royal Academy of Art, Summer Ehibition
2010, Off The Wall, Dreamspace Gallery, London
2009, Eleven / ELP Bankside Gallery, London, Group Show
2006, Clifford Chance, 2006 Graduate Printmakers,
Selected Show, Canary Wharf
2006, Applied Evolution, SOS, London
2006, Zenith06, Nomoregrey Gallery, London
2006, ‘Generation’, The Show, RCA, London
2006, Platform Art, South Kensington/Earls Court/Charing Cross Tunnel
2006, ‘Let’s Riot’, Cafe Gallery Projects, London
2005, Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2005, Group Show – The Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London
2004, Group Show – The Hockney Gallery, RCA, London
2004, Group Show – The Chambers Gallery, London
2003, Group Show – The Nunnery, Beaux Arts, London
Publications
2009 Curwen Print Studio 50th Anniversary Portfolio
Royal College of Art Print Portfolio 2005
Royal College of Art Print Portfolio 2004