CV
b. 1969
Harry Chrystall is a multi disciplinary artist and designer with work encompassing both figurative and abstract themes, which he explores with a variety of materials in two and three dimensions.
His current work focuses on the relationship between artwork and spectator and how the universal and abstract principles that pervade our daily experience are mirrored in this uncertain relationship.
Education
Fine Art Foundation course – Chelsea School of Art – 1988-1989
BA Fine Art Degree – Goldsmiths College – 1989-1992
MA Fine Art Degree – Chelsea School of Art – 2008-2009
Upcoming Exhibitions and Events
2022 26th October - 22nd January – Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition 2022. Willis Museum and Sainsburys Gallery, Basingstoke, Hants
2022 15th - 20th December – Solo exhibition of current work including Inklings and Barrow. Courtyard Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Group Shows and Awards
2022 – 'Travelling man unaware of danger' Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition 2022
2022 – Hampshire Open Studios
2022 – 'Barrow' Raveningham Sculpture Trail
2022 – 'Barrow' Waveney & Blyth Arts Sculpture trail. Potton Hall
2021 – 'Once when the world turned old, Bell, Pyre and Divider' & 'Figures in Ink' Raveningham Sculpture Trail
2021 – 'Inkling' Trinity Buoy Wharf (Shortlisted)
2021 – 'Inkling' Ghost Writer Zine. S.H.A.P.E. Gallery, London
2020 – 'All things being equal' Raveningham Sculpture Trail
2019 – 'Cathedra' Hartlebury Castle
2018 – 'Ouroboros' John Moores Painting Prize (Shortlisted)
2018 – 'Surface Paintings' S.H.A.P.E. Gallery, London
2017 – 'Trivial Things' S.H.A.P.E. Gallery, London
2016 – 'Limelight' S.H.A.P.E. Gallery, London
2015 – 'Hiding Drugs In Trees' S.H.A.P.E. Gallery, London
2013 – 'Transparent Things' Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2013 – 'White Spirits' S.H.A.P.E. Gallery, London
2012 – 'White Spirits' Acava Hetley Road Open Studios, London
2012 – 'Transparent Things' John Moores Painting Prize (Shortlisted)
2012 – 'Bronze in the Breath' Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize Exhibition, W.H.Paterson Gallery, London
2012 – 'Bronze in the Breath' Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize Exhibition, Mall Gallery, London
2011 – 'Bronze in the Breath' Threadneedle Prize for Painting (Shortlisted)
2011 – 'Morning Song' Park House, London
2010 – The Whitechapel Gallery East End Academy Studio Prize
2010 – 'Fragments, Places and Fantasies' Prop, Whitechapel East End Academy Studio Prize, London
2008 – 'Not a Place' MA Final Show, Chelsea School of Art
2008 – Bloomberg New Contemporaries (Shortlisted)
2008 – Future Map (Shortlisted)
2006 – 'Little Deaths' Tabooboo Gallery, London
2005 – Westminster Arts Council Photography Scholarship
2005 – 'Park Pictures' The Curzon Cinema, London
2005 – 'Primitive States' Oxo Gallery, London