Ryan mosley biography

Ryan Mosley (b.
Ryan Mosley, 1980 born in Chesterfield, UK lives and works in London, Sheffield, UK. 2000 - 2003 Bachelor of Arts, Drawing and Painting, Huddersfield.
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Ryan Mosley - Why I Paint

Exploring the creative processes of tomorrow's artists today - as featured in Vitamin P3

Ryan Mosley paints freely and unabashedly from his imagination, eschewing preparatory drawings or sketches in favour of a more spontaneous approach. Accordingly, his brushstrokes are expressiveand gestural, giving the feeling that the fantastical characters that parade across his paintings have simply stepped out of their very own psychedelic world and onto the canvas. His technicoloured palette only adds to this hallucinatory effect; bright stains of neon pink or incandescent orange often pulsate beside shadowy swathes of aubergine purples.

Art historical and literary motifs frequently inform the merry assortment of characters threaded through Mosley’s paintings. A closer look at the artist’s painting method reveals that his exuberant oils are born from overlaying thin washes of colour until the oily, slippery surface almost glows. There is clearly an interest in the line between figuration and abst

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Ryan Mosley (b. Chesterfield, UK, 1980) trained at the University of Huddersfield and Royal College of Art, London; the artist lives and works in Sheffield, UK.

Mosley’s visual universe is populated by an array of fantastical characters from harlequins and cabaret dancers, bearded musicians to unknown travellers. These oddball protagonists come together in delightfully inexplicable narratives that evoke a carnival world of surreal nightlife and macabre theatre. Although many of these characters are rooted in every day observation each one springs from the artists own imagination with many appearing recursively throughout Mosley’s work and thus taking on a lived quality. Verses in Time presents an artist continuing to push the notion of what figurative painting can be and contributing to its increasing relevance in the 21st century.

Ryan Mosley (b. 1980, Chesterfield, UK) Selected solo exhibitions include A Planets Revolution, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin, Germany (2019); Rival Poets, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark (2019); Under Moon, Tim Va

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2025
(Upcoming) A Room Hung with Thoughts: British Painting Now, The Green
Family Art Foundation, Dallas

2023-24
Conversations: Contemporary and Historical Masters in Dialogue
Museum Mayer Van den Bergh, Antwerp

2022
The Kingfisher’s Wing, curated by Tom Morton, GRIMM, New York

2021
Everyday Heroes, Hayward Gallery and Southbank Centre, London

2020
Enjoy and Take Care!, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2019
Gifts for you, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin
GMA XXX AAR, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Drawing Biennial 2019, London
The Last Waltz (For Leon), Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp

2018
Heads Roll, Graves Gallery, Sheffield
The Wall Have Ears, Aston Hall Museum, Birmingham
Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking, Paul Morrison's Studio, Sheffield
Apartment of Mr. Reverend, Regina Gallery, Moskow
Always Trust The Artist, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp

2017
A New kitchen Sink, Josh Lilly, London
JUMP BALL, Dio Horia, Mykonos, Greece
Everything Flows, Millennium Gallery, Shef