Alex Farrar
Born 1986, Leeds
Lives and works in Amsterdam and London
- news
- ☞ 20.11.19 [book launch] ‘Wimper’, Page Not Found, The Hague
- ☟ 28.9.19 [press] interview with Allan Gardner, published on The Quietus
- ☟ 27.9.19 – 26.10.19 [solo exhibition] ‘Faltering, light under two screw holes, with 999 Red, shadows, screws and drilled holes, flushed, then glimmer over pieces of masking tape, with screws, drilled holes and Cherry Bomb’, SE8 Gallery, London
✳︎ Supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands
⤷ private view on 27.9.19
⤷ finissage/book launch on 26.10.19 - old news
- ☜ 13.9.19 – 12.10.19 [solo exhibition] ‘Fall, slump, drop on a bedside cabinet in water with behavioural residue (painted violet) and collapse, slide, bottom-out beside low on a bookshelf, with sag on a folding table and slip on a bedside —both- in water, before behavioural residue (painted chartreuse), downswing under a broken curtain rail, and dip, crash, flat on a chest of drawers partially in water’, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
⤷ private view 13.9.19
⤷ in conversation on 2.10.19
⤷ [press] Our Favourite Places, this is tomorrow, Corridor8 - ☜ 5.7.19 - 21.7.19 [residency] Walk&Talk, São Miguel, Azores
- ☜ 1.5.17 – 1.5.19 [award/grant] For two years my work is generously supported by a grant for established artists from the Mondriaan Fund
- ☜ 15.2.19 – 31.3.19 [solo exhibition] ‘Ecstatic, darkling with lofty, fumble/ Reverie, angst, bumble and grumble/ Lucid, limned with Rubin’s cornice and fifteen-odd semblable stumps’, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
- ☜ 5.3.19 – 31.3.19 [group exhibition] Double Negative, @ChaShaMa, NYC, New York, curated by Darling Green
- ☜︎ 7.2.19 – 10.2.19 [solo presentation] Art Rotterdam w/Dürst Britt & Mayhew, Rotterdam
- ☜︎ 11.9.18 – 14.3.19 [guest artist-teacher] Fine Art Department, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
- ☜︎ 25.8.18 – 28.10.18 [residency/duo exhibition] Being as Becoming, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, with Philippine Hoegen, curated by Freek Lomme
- ☜︎ 10.5.18 – 23.6.18 [group exhibition] ‘British Summer Time’, Copperfield, London with Larry Achiampong, Ewa Axelrad, Joe Fletcher Orr, Rowena Harris, Jasleen Kaur, littlewhitehead
- PDFs
- exhibitions (2015–2019)
- works (2015–2019)
- cv
- Recent writings on my work
- by David Price
- by Nicolas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley
- by George Vasey
- by Josh Plough
- by Steven ten Thije
- by Laura van Grinsven
- email me
- alex.farrar@hotmail.co.uk
- @alexrfarrar
- gallery
- Dürst Britt & Mayhew
- info@durstbrittmayhew.com
- colophon
- aaaeflrrrx.eu was built with the ingenuity and patience of DisplayHooray.
- The typeface used throughout is Maria Pro, created by Phil Baber, whose 2010 design for the Index book reappears here in the work pages.
- Credit also goes to Qubik for my original website (2010–2014), which lives on in the icon based home page.