Brian Cheeswright is a contemporary Artist working between the mediums of painting and drawing. His work shifts easily between figurative and abstract subjects while his focus is within the ongoing, endless possibilities of picture making afforded by the end of history. His work is rooted in the autobiographical and the very questioning of the concept of the isolated, struggling Artist. Cheeswright is also deeply interested in the possibilities of the unconscious as first put forward by Jung and Freud and seeks through his creative action to both understand and invent himself over and over.
Exhibition History
2025
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