Bio
Geoff Diego Litherland was born in Mexico and is currently based in Wirksworth, Derbyshire. In 2012 he completed an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London, he is an artist with a considerable exhibition profile, a part-time lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and co-director of Haarlem Artspace.
Artist Statement
Litherland explores our relationship to the natural world through an engagement with the materials and processes involved in painting, including the collaborative production of hand woven linen canvas.
Contact Details
Studio: Haarlem Artspace, Derby Road, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, DE4 4BG
Email: geoffdiegolitherland@gmail.com
Awards and Achievements
2017 Awarded Material Seedcorn Research funding from Nottingham Trent University
2016 Selected for Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands’ Document project
2016 Awarded – Arts Council Grant to support Nature: Here and Now, Wirksworth Festival
2016 D-Lab Digital Arts Commission – Collaboration with sound artist Andrew Brown
2015 Selected as a Master Artist for Kunstpodium – T’s European wide project, Apprentice/Master
2014 Featured in the Bonhams auction A Contemporary Edge
2013 Selected for the Summer Exhibition at the RA
2013 Selected for the 2013 Catlin Guide
2012 Winner of the Surreal Saatchi Online Showdown
2012 Awarded the Wardens Purchase Prize from Goldsmiths College
2012 Selected for the Oriel Davies Open 2012
2011 Shortlisted for the Attenborough Prize at the Leicester Open 23
2011 Selected for the Salon Art Prize
2010 Selected for the FringeMK Painting Prize
2008 Winner of the Nottingham Castle Open
2008 Selected for the John Moores 25 Painting Prize
2007 Awarded - Arts Council Grant, Research and Development of fine art studio practice
2004 Luxa - Awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Arizona Film Festival
2001 Sail Loft Bursary Awarded by Falmouth College of Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Catching Matter, Beam, Nottingham
2020 Woven / Ground, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth
2018 Beyond This Moment, New Court Gallery, Repton
2017 The Other Side of the Sky, 60 TNS, London
2016 Opening the Gates, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington
2015 Infinite Summer, Lacey Contemporary, London
2015 Venture in the Slipstream, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham
2013 We Were Never Here, BEARSPACE, London
2013 We Will Say Goodbye to Everything Nancy Victor Gallery, London
2012 Flat Like the Old Days, Watergate Gallery, Hay on Wye
2012 Geoff Diego Litherland New Paintings, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington
2011 Collisions, Art Work Space, London
2009 Conjuntos, Nottingham Castle Galleries
2009 Multiverses, Wallner Gallery, Lakeside Art Centre, Nottingham
2008 Goldfactory Research Space Residency, Egerton Studios, Nottingham
2007 Falling Awake (joint show with Michael Bowdidge) 1851 Gallery, Nottingham
2002 Esperar, Falmouth College of Arts Degree Show, Falmouth College of Arts
2001 long5º29ºwlat50º14ºn, Spring Gallery, Falmouth Arts Centre
Jury Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Beep Painting Prize, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2020 The Harley Open, Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire
2019 Contemporary Art Auction, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham
2014 Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Galleries
2013 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2012 Oriel Davies Open, Newtown, Wales
2011 Open 23, Leicester New Walk Gallery and Museum
2011 Salon Art Prize, Matt Roberts Arts, London
2011 Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Galleries
2011 Colour, Beldam Gallery, Brunel University, Uxbridge
2010 Crash, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
2010 Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Galleries
2008 Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Galleries
2008 John Moores 25 Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2008 Muse, Edgar Modern, Bath
2008 Spring Exhibition, J-Gallery, Northampton
Group Exhibitions
2019 Winter Exhibition, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth
2019 Made in Wirksworth, Wirksworth Festival
2019 Enough is Definitely Enough, General Practice, Lincoln
2018 Winter Exhibition, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth
2018 On Being an Artist, Artcore, Derby
2017 Relics From The De-Crypt, Gossamer Fog, London
2017 AAF Battersea, showing with The Contemporary London gallery
2016 Petrichor, Bo Lee Gallery @ 19 Greek Street, London
2016 Nature: Here and Now, Wirksworth Festival, Wirksworth
2016 Perpetual Dawn, Lacey Contemporary, London
2016 Eminent Domain, South Kiosk, London
2016 Salon 8, The Old Lock Up, Cromford
2016 AAF Battersea, showing with The Contemporary London gallery
2015 A Year in Review, Lacey Contemporary, London
2015 Wirksworth Festival, Selected Artist, Wirksworth
2015 Salon 7, The Old Lock Up, Cromford
2015 AAF Battersea, showing with Antlers gallery
2015 Five Points of Connection, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham
2015 The Tragedy of Landscape, The Griffin Gallery, London
2015 Collection of Small Paintings, The Contemporary London at Space W10, London
2015 The London Art Fair, showing with Antlers Gallery
2014 The Contemporary London at Space W10, London
2014 50 x 50 x50, Syson Gallery, Nottingham
2014 Processed Space, Lacey Contemporary, London
2014 Manchester Contemporary, showing with Syson Gallery
2014 Buy Art Fair, showing with Antlers gallery
2014 AAF Bristol, showing with Antlers Gallery
2014 Exploration, Antlers gallery, Bristol
2014 A Contemporary Edge, Bonhams, London
2014 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea London, showing with the Contemporary London
2014 The London Art Fair, showing with Bearspace, London
2013 Refresh, Bearspace, London
2013 Spatial, Antlers Gallery Bristol
2013 An Undelivered Postcard from the Edge of the World, Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London.
2013 Out of This World Part 1, Syson Gallery, Nottingham
2013 Burning Bright, Saatchi Online Artists, Hyatt Hotel London, Selected by Rebecca Wilson
2013 The London Art Fair, showing with Bearspace, London
2012 The Aftermath, Bearspace, London
2012 Flatland, Blyth Gallery, London
2012 Cluster II, SW1 Gallery, London
2012 Diamond Armour, ARTicle Gallery, Birmingham
2012 Be Real, Hamni Gallery, London
2012 Preposterous, La Scatola Gallery, London
2012 MA Final Show, Goldsmiths College, London
2011 MA Interim Exhibition, Goldsmiths College, London
2011 The Bookmark Project, Nottingham Contemporary
2010 Relay, Core Gallery, Deptford, London
2010 Closely Held Secrets, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
2010 Race for The Prize, Tether, Nottingham
2010 Group Exhibition, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington
2010 A Moment before Decadence, CoExist, Southend
2010 Group exhibition, Hart Gallery, Islington
2009 New Artists, Modern Artists Gallery, Whitchurch on Thames
2008 Gold Soundz, (currated by Geoff Diego Litherland) Southwell Artspace
2008 Drawing Out, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University
2007 Summer Show, Friar Lane Gallery, Nottingham
2007 Anon, Southwell Artspace
2007 Town and Country, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
2006 Process, Southwell Artspace
2004 the premier of Luxa and the other Echoes films at the Arizona Film Festival
2003 BAC! Contemporary art in the Raval (group show), Tallers Mina, Barcelona
2003 Tots els Continents a Gracia (group show), La Cafetera, Gracia, Barcelona
2003 Salamander Gallery Westerham, Kent
2002 Lights, Crescent Arts, Scarborough
2002 Fresh Air, Studio 95, Brick Lane, London
2001 St. Ives Open Studios Cornwall