About
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Statement
Edwin Aitken’s paintings explore the intersection of landscape, anatomy, and perception. Through an intuitive and expressive painting process, forms emerge, dissolve, and evolve, shaped as much by memory and sensation as by observation.
Rather than depicting specific places, the paintings investigate the ways we experience and internalise the natural world. Fragments of landscape and bodily forms intertwine, creating images that occupy a space between external reality and inner consciousness.
Balancing the physical and the psychological, these paintings evoke states of transformation, ambiguity, and reflection. They invite viewers into environments where body, mind, and landscape become inseparable, and where meaning remains fluid, open, and continually unfolding.
Exhibitions and events
Recent exhibitions include: Newiera Gallery, London, ‘Auto Amor Vol 3”, Terrace Gallery, London, ‘Irving Open’, Irving Gallery, Oxford, ‘Patterns in Chaos’ Lea Bridge Gallery, London, ‘On Beauty’ Pictorem Gallery, London, ‘Back To My Trees’, Terrace Gallery London, ‘It’s in the Trees, It’s Coming’, Prosaic Mosaic Projects Gallery, Sheffield, ‘It Rose and It Fell’ Terrace Gallery, London, ‘Summer Exhibition 2024’ Royal Academy of Arts, London, ‘Summer Exhibition’ The Minories, Colchester, ‘Fronteer Open’, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, ‘Wales Contemporary’, Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven, ‘Three Movements of a Longer Work’ Prosaic Projects Gallery, Sheffield, ‘Contrafibularities’, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, ‘From the Dark Soil’, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London, ‘Think Of Me With Kindness’, Gage Gallery, Sheffield, ‘Tooth and Claw’, Birdbox, Cambridge, ‘The Smell of Wild Roses’, Prosaic Projects, Sheffield, ‘Silent Disco’ Greystone Industries, Suffolk, ‘Flirting with the Border Guards’ Terrace, London, ‘your FOOT in my FACE and other tectonic strategies’ Kingsgate Project Space, London, ‘Without Borders’ Elysium Gallery, Swansea, ‘Prosaic Mosaic’ Bloc Projects, Sheffield, ‘Archipelago’, Walthamstow Wetlands, London, ‘Flat + Earth’ Sidney + Matilda, Sheffield, ‘WAC Awards’ Wells UK (2018 & 2020) and ‘Silent Green’ King's College, Cambridge.
Biography
Born in Manchester, Edwin Aitken studied Painting at the Royal College of Art MA (RCA) and Fine Art Painting at Loughborough College of Art and Design BA (Hons).
His work is held in private collections in England and the USA. It has been included in exhibitions in the UK and abroad as well as the BEEP Painting Prize in 2012, 2020 and 2022, the Jackson’s Painting Prize 2021 and he was also longlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2021. Upon his graduation from the Royal College of Art he was awarded the Susan Summers Studio Fellowship USA. He currently lives and works in London.