I am an Artist working between the mediums of painting and drawing. I am interested in the material qualities of my chosen medium and how they can work with and against my ideas and the surprises that can occur when one surrenders to the unconscious.
My work is autobiographical in that it deals with the frustrations, pleasures, the isolation and peaks and troughs of being a Painter, of being poor, of making mistakes and healing trauma, of sometimes wondering what I am doing and other time being overwhelmed by the sublime of the everyday. I have always worked on the spectrum between abstraction and figuration and one of the important tensions in my work is where I am at any given time. Figuration being more about being in the world, while abstraction about the interior landscape.
My imagery is populated by my fascination for strong women, for dance, for ecstatic and abysmal states of being. I am a reader of folklore and fairy tale, hard science, bad poetry, the fetishistic, the medieval mindset. I am not afraid to deal with the darker themes of humanity and art is in a sense a therapeutic tool on my personal journey of being human as much as a means of trying to convey feeling to others. I am a a firm believer that the viewer completes the work and that an artwork only truly lives when a pair of eyes and other senses confront the artwork in reality, not through a screen.
Exhibition History
2026
Newhaven Open, Newhaven Arts Projects, E.Sussex
2025
Afterglow, HAF Gallery, St Leonards, E Sussex
Zuckertüte, St Margaret’s Gallery, Norwich
Le Rat Mort Safehouse 2, London
Turps Hastings 2025, Rye Creative Centre, Rye
2024
I Santa: Contemporary representations of St Nicholas, Studio1.1, London
Sussex Contemporary 2024, Marine Buildings, Newhaven
What’s Going On?, Prosaic Projects Gallery, Sheffield
It Rose and it Fell, Terrace Gallery, London
Au Lapin Agile- a painting show, Safe House, London & Bay Art, Cardiff
Phony Open Call, Gallery Lock In, Brighton
2023
Paper Cuts, 50_mv, Liverpool
A Slash of Blue, Gerald Moore Gallery, London
2022
Oxmarket Open 2022, Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
Brian Cheeswright (solo show), Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
2021
A Generous Space, Hastings Contemporary, East Sussex
2020
Beep Painting Prize, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2019
Spokes (solo show), Whitechapel Ideas Store, London
The Free Personality Test (solo show), Fine Art Library, Edinburgh
Ether Ore (with IR11), Tollbooth Market, Edinburgh
2017
Painting [Now], Studio One Gallery, London
Bio Mass (solo show), Studio One Gallery, London
2016
The Focus Groop (solo show), Newington Library, Edinburgh
The Names, Transition Gallery, London
2015
Departure, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh
Sluice Art Fair (with Interview Room 11), London
Cure, Transition Gallery, London
On fun and friction, SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow
Foul Parliament, Electro Studios Project Space, East Sussex
Supermarket Art Fair (with Interview Room 11), Stockholm
2014
Wash: Watercolour in Contemporary Art, Resort Gallery, Margate
The Trouble with Painting Today, Pump House Gallery, London
Brian Cheeswright and Ed Hill: Two Painters, Whitechapel Ideas Centre, London
Brian Cheeswright: 36 Years of Brain Feed, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh
Artworks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
Paint like you mean it, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh
Salonely, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2013
Pent Wait, Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
Marmite Painting Prize IV ( travelling show, venues throughout UK)
2012
On A Small Scale, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2011
Thresh Hold, SuperClub, Edinburgh
Hodge Podge, Edinburgh Fine Art Library, Edinburgh
White Lines, WhiteSpace, Edinburgh
2010
Please Assume the Crash Position, TotalKunst Gallery, Edinburgh
2009
Big Wow, Oslo House, Hackney Wick, London
Tales That Witness Madnes, Elevator Gallery, London
The Shoe Horn, CrimesTown Gallery, London
Drawings with Dolphins, CrimesTown Gallery, London
2008
Hackney Wick(ed):Museum of Revised History, Residence Gallery, London
Pure Painting, Ferreira Projects, London