Nicholas Byrne

Untitled

Year 2024
Medium Oil and tempera on paper
Dimensions 29.7 x 21 cm
Top pick Selected by Fatos Ustek, curator & writer

About the work

This is a test for a large-scale work. The lines in oil are drawn with a sign-writing brush over tempera. Three figures of different scales and orientations together in a kind of squeeze. The different colour grounds reach around to an image on the back of the page.

Date and country of birth

1979, GB

Career Highlights

Solo and two-person exhibitions include: Liver of Sulphur (2016-2022), VI, VII, Oslo, (2022) Fumes, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Milan (2018) Finish your sentence, Vilma Gold, London (2015); Gib’s Mir, with Gili Tal, OUTPOST, Norwich (2013); Faces, with Nora Schultz, dépendance, Brussels (2011) Divider, Studio Voltaire, London (2008)

Group Exhibitions: Salome del Mobile, Loewe Foundation, Milan (2024) Death, Volcano Extravaganza, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli (2019); Burning Down the House, (with Anthea Hamilton), 10th Gwangju Biennale (2014); Several Species of… Veneklasen Werner, Berlin (2013); Public Private Paintings, Kunstmuseum Ann Zee, Oostende (2010), The Dark Monarch, Tate St Ives (2009)