Abigail Box’s paintings are based on collages that she constructs using found imagery. In painting these strange and sometimes unsettling scenarios with an increasingly experimental approach to the manipulation of colour, space and composition, Box strives to highlight the wondrous ability that paint has to describe, suggest and invent whilst establishing an ambiguous narrative that she hopes will evoke curiosity in the viewer.
Her recent work forms part of an ongoing exploration into the curiousness about existence and toys with the contradiction involved in feeling both a sense of belonging and feeling displaced. Wild animals are introduced into a series of human environments to provoke a fresh and inquisitive perspective onto something familiar. In attempting to reflect upon everyday surroundings along with conventions and behaviour that in part create a feeling of being an ‘outsider’, Box questions the parameters of individual space and the associated difficulties with confronting and comprehending our own reality.
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EDUCATION
2005 - 08 Camberwell College of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting)
2004 - 05 Camberwell College of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture)
2003 - 04 Glasgow School of Art, Diploma in Fine Art Studies (Sculpture and Environmental)
CURRENT/FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2011 oneforone, London View Tube, Puddle Mill Lane (DLR), London, April 07th - 30th
2011 Painting, Sarah Reynolds, London, April
EXHIBITIONS
2011 A Reality of their Own, Degree Art Gallery, Vyner Street, London, March 03rd - 31st
2011 Pop Up Spaces, ArtBeat Gallery, Covent Garden, London, Dec – Jan
2010 La Braderie de l'Art, La Condition Publique, Roubaix, France, 11 – 12 Dec
2010 Auction East, Five Hundred Dollars Gallery, London, 16 – 18 Nov
2010 Q-art, APT Gallery, London, 18 – 28 Nov
2010 Art for Youth, Royal College of Art, London, 13 – 14 Oct
2010 Spit 'n' Scrub, Open Studios, Untit 3 Empson Street, London, 17 – 19 Sept
2010 Signature Awards, DegreeArt.com Vyner Street, London, 05 – 15 Sept
2010 Into the Wilde, Trafalgar Hotel, London, 27 May – Aug
2010 Abigail Box: My Life In Art Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, London, 12 – 15 Mar
2009 Urban Rococo, Dare To Joust Gallery, London, 14 Nov – 4 Jan
2009 Abigail Box: Exchange Tower, London, 5 Aug – 5 Nov
2009 Showroom, La Fresh Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 17 Dec
2008 Degree Show, Camberwell College, London, 17 – 21 June
2007 Shedworks, Dulwich Park, London, Jun
2007 Shedworks, Regents Park, London, 21 – 22 Apr
2007 Cornered, Foyer Gallery, London, Jan
2006 Solitaire, Nolia’s Gallery, London, 13 – 17 May
AWARDS
2010 The Signature Awards - The DegreeArt.com Gallery, Shortlisted finalist
COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
University of the Arts London Collection
2008 Art House, portrait commission
2006 BBC2 Drama Series ‘Party Animals’, portraits of politicians
PUBLICATIONS
2010 This is London | A Reality Of Their Own (March)
2010 Colourful Radio | Interview (March)
2010 Let'sMotiv | Interview on La Braderie de l'art (Dec)
2010 August-Us | Interview by Rae-Leen Herrera (Nov)
2010 Little London Observationist, Interview by Stephanie Sadler (July)
2010 Into the Wilde, One to Watch | Interview by Catherine Hewett (May)
2008 Featured Artist | Jotta.com
2008 Camberwell Degree Show Review by Imogen Welch | Comment Art