I work with the intention of going beyond myself and the narrative of my everyday life. I make work with the intention of dissolving boundaries, working with my shadow and creating a little more beauty in the world. I am interested in the human figure but my work also reaches into abstraction and I am interested in work which bridges such cultural binaries. I am not interested in conducting fixed narratives, but more in how pictures can survive without the Artist- how they are adopted or coerced by others and how their meaning changes in different arrangements and as they grow further away from the moment of their conception. Sometimes the work I make does not fit with other things I am working on, but much later I will see why it was necessary. Other times I might outgrow a particular subject and then later it demands my attention. My work also attends to the good and bad weather of the emotions that come from the precarious life of being an artist where we both ask ourselves to remain open and vulnerable, but also hardened to the hard capitalism of the art market and the weirdness of making art at all in a world that is already full of too much stuff.
Exhibition History
2024
Phony Open Call, Gallery Lock In, Brighton
2023
Paper Cuts, 50_mv, Liverpool
A Slash of Blue, Gerald Moore Gallery, London
2022
Oxmarket Open 2022, Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
Brian Cheeswright (solo show), Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
2021
A Generous Space, Hastings Contemporary, East Sussex
2020
Beep Painting Prize, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2019
Spokes (solo show), Whitechapel Ideas Store, London
The Free Personality Test (solo show), Fine Art Library, Edinburgh
Ether Ore (with IR11), Tollbooth Market, Edinburgh
2017
Painting [Now], Studio One Gallery, London
Bio Mass (solo show), Studio One Gallery, London
2016
The Focus Groop (solo show), Newington Library, Edinburgh
The Names, Transition Gallery, London
2015
Departure, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh
Sluice Art Fair (with Interview Room 11), London
Cure, Transition Gallery, London
On fun and friction, SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow
Foul Parliament, Electro Studios Project Space, East Sussex
Supermarket Art Fair (with Interview Room 11), Stockholm
2014
Wash: Watercolour in Contemporary Art, Resort Gallery, Margate
The Trouble with Painting Today, Pump House Gallery, London
Brian Cheeswright and Ed Hill: Two Painters, Whitechapel Ideas Centre, London
Brian Cheeswright: 36 Years of Brain Feed, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh
Artworks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
Paint like you mean it, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh
Salonely, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2013
Pent Wait, Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
Marmite Painting Prize IV ( travelling show, venues throughout UK)
2012
On A Small Scale, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2011
Thresh Hold, SuperClub, Edinburgh
Hodge Podge, Edinburgh Fine Art Library, Edinburgh
White Lines, WhiteSpace, Edinburgh
2010
Please Assume the Crash Position, TotalKunst Gallery, Edinburgh
2009
Big Wow, Oslo House, Hackney Wick, London
Tales That Witness Madnes, Elevator Gallery, London
The Shoe Horn, CrimesTown Gallery, London
Drawings with Dolphins, CrimesTown Gallery, London
2008
Hackney Wick(ed):Museum of Revised History, Residence Gallery, London
Pure Painting, Ferreira Projects, London