Chris Pig
Born 23rd March 1965
Education:
Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, (foundation course)
Exeter College of Art and Design – BA(Hons) Art and Design 2:1
Winchester College of Art – MA (Soton)
Selected Exhibitions:
2013
The 75th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers
2012
75th Annual Exhibition of the society of Wood Engravers, Victoria Gallery Bath
74th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers Bankside Gallery
Linoleum: the cutting edge. Hemingway Art, Oxford
2011
Press Freedom, The Station, Richmond, Yorkshire
Society of Wood Engravers Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London Dreams, FreudMuseum, London
Big Ass Linocuts and Linomations, Pushing Print Festival, Margate
Atlanta Print Biennale
Third Annual Printmaking Open, Chengdong, Quijiang Province, China
2010
Stephen Mumberson and Chris Pig, Art at Wharepuke, New Zealand
Ambit covers. The Originals Gallery, Hornsey Library, London
David Hockney, Ralph Steadman, Edward Paolozzi, Mike Foreman, Peter Blake, Ron Sandford, Posy Simmonds and Chris Pig
International Printmaking 1, Art at Wharepuke, New Zealand
72nd Society of Wood Engravers annual exhibition
2009
The Print Collective, “For One Night Only” group show, ShoreditchTown hall
Second Annual Printmaking Open, Chengdong, Qijiang province, China. Winner of the Guangdong Museum of Art purchase prize.
RoyalWesternAcademy Open Print Exhibition, Bristol
Smokey’s Tangle Expo, OaklandCaliforniaUSA. Group print show.
Society of Wood Engravers 71st annual show
Originals 09, joint winner of the Society of Wood Engravers’ award along with Hilary Paynter.
2008
Winner, “Drawing the City” open exhibition for the residents of Hackney
2007
IMPRESSED – group show of original prints with M.C. Escher, Anne Desmet, Fernando Feijoo and Chris Pig, Vinson Gallery
Workshop at the Atlanta Printmaker’s Studio
Lecture: The Life of a Printmaker at SCAD Atlanta
2005
Jealousy a one-man show of engravings, etchings and linocuts, Vinson Gallery
2004
Made in England: 4 British Printmakers, Vinson Gallery
ATLart[04], Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
2001
National Print Open, Mall Galleries, London
Show with Julius Breeze, Fitzroy Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Atrophy, group show, The Forge, Shoreditch, London
2000
National Print Open, Mall Galleries, London
Cumberland Paper Mills Award for a Printmaker of Outstanding Merit
B&Wx3YBA, group show, Vinson Gallery
1999
Group Show, Start Gallery, Fulham, London
National Print Open, Mall Galleries, London
1998
Group Show, Start Gallery, Fulham, London
Empty Bottles, Full Ashtrays, Solo Show, Sussex Arts Club, Brighton
Solo Show, The Rosemary Branch, Islington, London
1997
Group Show, Sussex Arts Club, Brighton
1996
Show with Julie Bennett, VincentGallery, Exeter
1995
Stoke Newington Festival, Solo Show and Group Show
1994
“Artists in Spain”, Stormont Studio, Rye, East Sussex
1993
Open Studios, Barcelona, Spain
MA Group Show, British Institute, Barcelona, Spain
MA Final Show, Winchester School of Art
1992
“Low Life”, Solo Show, VincentGallery, Exeter
1990
Show with Julie Bennett, Harlequins Centre, Exeter
Publications:
Ambit Magazine, contributing illustrator every issue from 2007 to the present
Printmaking Today, Kip Gresham, October 2011
Non-toxic printmaking by Mark Graver, contributing artist, Jan 2011
Printmaking Today, Art at Wharepuke, December 2010
I couldn’t Paint Golden Angels, autobiography of Albert Meltzer
Despite Anything, short stories and other writings by Mark Whittaker
Printmaking Today, featured in Bringing Print to Atlanta, winter 2006
Printmaking Today Starting From Scratch, Article about setting-up a studio in Spain, Summer 2005
Creative Loafing, Atlanta Making His Mark, review by Felicia Feaster, Culture Surfing, interview, Creative Loafing, Atlanta
Atlanta Journal Beautifully Revealing, Concealing, by Jerry Cullum.
Ambit Magazine, summer 2006, front cover and five-page spread
Ambit Magazine, autumn 2006, five page spread
Atlanta Journal, Outcasts come out of the dark Review by Catherine Fox