Alex Farrar
Born 1986, Leeds
Lives and works in Amsterdam and London
- 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 [solo exhibition], Bloc Projects, Sheffield
⤷ private view 13.9.19
⤷ in conversation on 2.10.19
⤷ press: Our Favourite Places - ☞ 27.9.19 – 2.11.19 [solo exhibition] The exhibition will be titled after its installation, SE8 Gallery, London
⤷ private view on 27.9.19
⤷ finissage/book launch on 2.11.19 - ☞ 9.7.20 - 19.7.20 [exhibition/commission] Walk&Talk, São Miguel, Azores
- old news
- ☜ 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
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- exhibitions (2015–2019)
- works (2015–2019)
- cv
- Texts written recently about my work
- 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.