Sholto Blissett
Overview
"My paintings aren't pictures of landscapes; they're paintings of the history of landscape painting, and a mirror held up to our damaging assumptions inherited from that history." - Sholto Blissett, Floorr Magazine
Sholto Blissett constructs surreal landscapes, perfectly fabricated with symmetrical topiary and classically inspired columns. Blissett’s paintings are manicured to perfection. Eerily quiet, his scenes are often set amongst vast mountain-scapes, immediately enveloping the viewer in a meditative and transformative universe. His paintings are suffused with the tension between human attempts to modify nature, and nature’s resistance to these contortions.
Biography
Sholto Blissett (b. 1996) received an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Geography from Durham University. He currently lives and works in London and is represented by Hannah Barry Gallery, London and Alexander Berggruen, New York.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Sholto Blissett: Rubicon, (Alexander Berggruen, New York, 2023) and Ship of Fools, (Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2022). Recent group exhibitions include: Lost at Sea, (The Artist Room, London, 2022), The Natural World: Part II, (Alexander Berggruen, New York, 2022), Sholto Blissett, Emma Fineman, Madeline Peckenpaugh, (Alexander Berggruen, New York, 2021), Utopia, (Peres Projects, Berlin, 2021), Tree and Leaf, (Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2021), The Reality in Whytch You Create, (STUDIO WEST, London, 2022), Down in Albion, (L.U.P.O, Milan, 2021), The Earth, That is Sufficient, (Nicola Vassell, New York, 2021), Rites of Passage, (Unit London, London, 2021), Tomorrow: London, (White Cube, London, 2020), London Grads Now, (Saatchi Gallery, London, 2020), CIRCA 2020, (Piccadilly Circus, London, 2020) and IRL, (Unit London, London, 2020).
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