See some of Alsn Salisbury's work in public collections on the Art UK website.

 

Alan Salisbury was born in Preston, Lancashire and studied painting at Manchester and Liverpool Colleges of Art and the Royal College of Art, London.

 

He has lived in Wales since 1974 working at the University of Glamorgan where he was Principal Lecturer in Painting and Field Leader in Arts and Media. He has now left to concentrate on his own artistic practice although he maintains contact with the University as an External Fellow.

 

He has exhibited widely throughout the UK, in Europe and the USA. In 2005 he was awarded Joint First Prize in the Liverpool School of Art Alumni Open Competition. In 2008 he was awarded First Prize  in the Wales Portrait Award 2 Competition.

 

Alan is a painter who works within the conventions of narrative representation and the images shown here are representative of work that he has completed over the last few years He uses historical sources from within the canon of European figurative painting which are then subverted in various ways. The paintings employ trompe l’oeil devices, humour and irony and as such utilize contemporary post modern concepts of which appropriation of art from the past is a familiar element.

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Recent work has seen a return to the genre Landscape incorporating dried flora and fauna into the images embedded within layers of resin. 

Born: Preston, Lancashire, England.

Lives: Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

 

Education:

1967-1970 Dip A.D (Fine Art), Liverpool College of Art.

1973 M.A (R.C.A.) Painting, Royal College of Art.

1973-1974 A.T.C. Cardiff College of Art.

2010 -  R.C.A (Royal Cambrian Academy).

 

Solo exhibitions (from 2010):

2010:  Joint  One Person Show Alan Salisbury & Steve West. Bay Arts Cardiff

2010:  ‘Altered Images’ Duckett and Jeffries Gallery. Malton N. Yorkshire.

2011:  Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff. June 16th to July 10th

2011:  ‘Things are not what they seem’ Alan Salisbury & Neil Chard. Rhondda Heritage Centre (Sept/Oct)

2012:  ‘Revisiting Traditions’  Oriel Gallery, Theatr Clywd’, Mold. March 10th to April 21st

2012:  ‘Y Galeri’ Caerphilly Profile artist October 9th to November 10th

2012:  Glasbury Arts Festival, Glasbury, Powys. 4th – 6th November.

2014:  Kooywood Gallery Cardiff  Oct 9th to Nov 1st

2015:  Art Central Gallery, Barry, November 7th – January 2nd

2016:  Oriel/Y Bont Gallery, University of South Wales. February 25th -  April 25th

2016:  Royal Cambrian Academy Gallery. Conwy May 14th – June 11th

2016:  Tenby Museum and Art Gallery, September 23rd – November 5th

2017:  The Sennedd. Cardiff. ‘Journeys’ with Heather Eastes and Gustavious Payne. April 2nd – April 20th

2018:  Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff. ‘Best Bits’ November 8th

2020:  RedHouse  Merthyr Tydfil Past and Present Feb 29th – March 26th 

2021:  Alan Salisbury & Sue Shields.. Cardiff Business and Technology Centre. Oct. 21st to May 1st 2022

2024:  Alan Salisbury Recent Landscapes St Alphans Church and Arts Centre May/June 2024

2025: Alan Salisbury and Philippa Robbins. West Wharf Gallery Cardiff. 4th of Oct to 26th of October

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For Joint and Group Exhibitions please see Website.

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Prizes and Awards

1972:  Stowells Young Contemporaries Gold Medal winner Mall Galleries London

1983:  The New look in British Portraiture (Prizewinner)  National Portrait Gallery London

2005:  John Moores University ‘Liverpool School of Art ‘Alumni’ Open Competition. University of Liverpool (Joint First Prizewinner)

2008:  ‘Wales Portrait Award 2 (First Prizewinner)

2012:  BP Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery, London (Short listed for Travel Award)

2020:  First Prize Wales Contemporary Waterfront Gallery. Milford Haven. and Gallery Oxo. London (2021)