Jeffrey Dennis
recent projects & archive
Works included in 252nd Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 6 Oct 2020 – 3 Jan 2021
Colour by Numbers an article written for The Fine Art Collective pub. 21 May 2020
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The Spiritual Exercises: an online group exhibition hosted by the Arts London Chaplaincy. |
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Group Exhibition: It's Gonna Rain: Contemporary Landscape Painting |
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Group exhibition: SEER – European Painting and Drawing |
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Talk chaired by Jeffrey Dennis: |
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Work included in 251st Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 10 June – 12 Aug 2019
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Featured in Documentary film: |
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Group exhibition: A New Vision of Printmaking, Chelsea College of Arts, 12 – 18 Oct 2018; Universidad Complutense Madrid, 16 Oct – 8 Nov 2018 |
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Group Exhibition + Book: C. R. McBerny, organised by Andrew Hunt and artist Veit Laurent Kurz |
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The Luton Host |
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Participating in the DACS pilot project Art360, developing and sustaining the archives of 100 leading modern and contemporary artists |
Group exhibition: A New Vision of Printmaking, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan, 21 Jul – 24 Sep 2017
Atoms and Speech Bubbles at the ICA, London
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NGCA and Slimvolume published Ringbinder in May 2017. This book comes after the exhibition Jeffrey Dennis: Ringbinder at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, 2015. Edited by Andrew Hunt and George Vasey, and designed by James Langdon. |
Contemporary Masters from Britain, a group exhibition travelling to the Yantai Art Museum, Yantai, China, 11 Jul – 3 Aug; Artall Gallery, Nanjing, 10 - 27 Oct; Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, 29 Oct – 16 Nov 2017; Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum, 1 Dec 2017 – 10 Jan 2018
Contemporary Masters from the East of England, a group exhibition at The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk, 25 Apr – 27 May 2017
View catalogue
Fully Awake, a group exhibition at blip blip blip, East Street Arts, Leeds, 6 – 21 Apr 2017; curated by Ian Hartshorne & Sean Kaye
Work included in the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, The Mall Galleries 17 - 27 Nov 2016
In This Soup We Swim, a group exhibition at Kingsgate Workshops, London, 18 June – 2 July 2016
Guest selector of paintings by members of 'Paint Club East' for PING, a group exhibition at the Minories, Colchester, 14 May - Sat 9 July 2016
Artist in Residence at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 28 Mar – 18 Apr 2016 (with accompanying exhibition until 1 May)
The Green Ray: A group exhibition curated by Andrew Hunt at Wilkinson, London, 27 Feb – 10 Apr 2016
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Discussing the work recently on show in Ringbinder: A solo exhibition at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, 25 July – 17 Oct 2015 |
The Masterwork of the Cheese Orpheus, pub. Akerman Daly 2015 in an edition of 500 as part of Flash500 ISBN 978 0 9930181 2 1 (previously published online and in poster form, summer 2013)
Home and the World at the Holburne Museum, Bath: a group exhibition of work from the Swindon City Art collection tracing both the national and international influences on Modern British art in the twentieth century, curated by artist Dexter Dalwood, 28 Feb - 7 June 2015...read Dalwood's introduction to the show
Included in the group show Starter at L'Escargot Restaurant, Soho, London, curated by artist Andrew Stahl, 18 Oct – 29 Nov 2014
My top ten London paintings (part of TimeOut London's Top 100 London Paintings 14 Oct 2014 )
Helping Alastair Sooke 'paint like Jackson Pollock' for the BBC's iWonder series of web guides to everything
East Contemporary Art: Place and Landscape Waterfront Gallery UCS Ipswich (1 Oct – 13 Nov 2014)
Taking part in the symposium: Painting as Commitment at Firstsite, Colchester 21st June 2014
'7 @ 10', London (Nov 22 – Dec 1
2013) Vivien Blackett, Chris Christophorou, Jocelyn Clarke,
Jeffrey Dennis, Jefford Horrigan, Rosemary Phelps, Peter
Smithson
The
Masterwork of the Cheese Orpheus pub. Akerman Daly summer 2013 online and as poster edition as part of Flash500 (pub. 2015 in book form as an edition of 500: ISBN 978 0 9930181 2 1)
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they look, and deeply: A summer show of painting at
Satis House, Belfast (5th – 27th July 2013)
Camp & Company: Art Space Gallery London (28 June – 26 Jul 2013)
In conversation with William Feaver at the Royal Drawing School, 1st May 2013
Discernible
- 2013 Group Exhibition at ZeitgeistArtsProjects, London
(Apr 24 – 11 May 2013)
The
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 at Jerwood Space,
London (12 Sep – 28 Oct); Jerwood Gallery, Hastings (8
Dec – 6 Jan); mac, Birmingham, (12 Jan – 3 Mar13); The
Arts University College at Bournemouth (22 Mar – 26 Apr)
Painting's Sites
and Processes Symposium, Chelsea College of Art
& Design, London, 30 Nov 2012
Temples
2 the Domestic, curated by David Ben White and
Justin Hibbs at Clifford Chance, London (19 Sep – 9 Nov
2012)
Doubt;
Contemporary Art Space, Riverside, California USA (8 –
29 Oct 2012)
Summer Exhibition 2012 at the Royal Academy of
Arts, London (4 Jun – 12 Aug 2012)
Luna
Park: curated by Jake Clark, at Lion & Lamb
Gallery, London (16 Jul – 28 Aug 2012)
Dear Lynda at Chelsea Space (4 Jul – 4 Sep 2012)
8+1=16
at Chelsea Futurespace (26 June – 23 Sep 2012)
The
Perfect Nude at Charlie Smith Gallery, London (6
Jul – 28 Jul 2012); previously at Wimbledon Space,
Wimbledon College of Art, London (13 Jan – 9 Mar) and
Phoenix Gallery, Exeter (29 Mar –12 May)
Summer Exhibition 2011 at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (7 Jun – 15 Aug 2012)
Misfits: 7
British Painters abroad: GalerieDS, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium, 8 – 30 May 2010
The Northern Print Biennale: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 4 Jul – 4 Oct 2009
Solo exhibition: Extracts from the Log, Art Space Gallery, London, 24 Oct - 22
Nov 2008
Precious Things: Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland, 25 Sep – 12 Nov 2008
EASTInternational: Norwich, 13 Jul – 22 Aug 2007
Drawing from Turner: Tate Britain 6 Nov 2006 – 20 May 2007
Solo exhibition: New Paintings, Art Space Gallery, London, 5 May – 3 June 2006
Short Stories
about Painting: Art Space Gallery, London, 9 Sep – 15 Oct 2005 (accompanied by a book and symposium)
Solo exhibition: A Crisis of Connections, Art Space Gallery, London, 4 Jul – 2 Aug 2003
The Siege of Birmingrad: Ikon, Birmingham, 2000
Notable exhibitions and projects before 2000 include:
Secret Victorians: An exhibition touring UK and USA, 1998 – 2001
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Jeffrey Dennis discusses his work included in 'Secret Victorians'. |
New Voices: A British Council exhibition touring worldwide, 1992 – 1998
The John Moores Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool: 1999, 1997 and 1993
Drawing Distinctions A British Council exhibition touring
worldwide, 1997 -2003
Home and Away: Internationalism and British Art 1900 – 1990: Tate Liverpool, 5 Nov 95 – 30 Apr 97
Gas Station: Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art
Oxford 1996
New Acquisitions: Tate London, 1992
The British Art Show 3: McLellan Galleries Glasgow, Leeds City Art Gallery and Hayward Gallery London, 1990
Solo exhibitions at Anderson O'Day London in 1994, Orchard Gallery Derry in 1993 (view catalogue), Whitechapel Art Gallery London in 1986 (view exhibition pamphlet) and eight solo exhibitions at Salvatore Ala New York & Milan between 1984 and 1993 (view 1988 catalogue).
Dreams and False Alarms, Riverside Studios, London, 30 May – 24 June 1984
- listen to an extract from Critics' Forum, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 9 June 1984:
First solo exhibitions were at Essex University and the 5 Dryden Street Gallery London in 1979.
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