Overview
British artist Ged Quinn is renowned for his densely layered paintings that combine symbolic and surreal elements and transform art historical references into contemporary experience.
British artist Ged Quinn is renowned for his densely layered paintings that combine symbolic and surreal elements and transform art historical references into contemporary experience.
Ged Quinn was born in 1963 in Liverpool, UK. He now lives and works in Cornwall.
Rich with meaning and symbolism, Quinn’s works combine complex histories and mythological references with the traditions of landscape, still-life and genre painting. Themes of religion, politics, literature and film permeate his practice. There has been a decisive shift in the artist’s practice towards a more poetic and abstract style in recent years. Inspired by André Derain’s Fauvist techniques and the emotional currents of abstract expressionism, Quinn's work becomes a playground for the unfettered freedom of mark-making, his paintings resisting straightforward interpretation.
Notable solo and two-person exhibitions include: ‘Ged Quinn’, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (2019–2020); ‘Richard Patterson | Ged Quinn', Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome (2018); ‘Rose, Cherry, Iron Rust, Flamingo’, Pearl Lam Gallery, Hong Kong, (2017); ‘Ged Quinn’, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (2014); ‘Ged Quinn', New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands, England (2013-2014); ‘Endless Renaissance’, Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida (2012-2013); FOCUS,’ Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA (2012); ‘Ged Quinn,’ Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (2010); ‘The Heavenly Machine’, Spike Island, Bristol, England (2005) and ‘Utopia Dystopia,’ Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK (2004).
