Covell, Don Voisine, Tiberiy Szilvashi, Kazimir Malevich, KNO.Lab, Mikhail Bulgakov, Museum, Kiev (UA) Painting Black, Raum Schroth, Museum Wilhelm Morgner (DE)

DEB COVELL

EDUCATION

2002 MA Fine Art University of East London

1989 BA (hons) Fine Art Liverpool Polytechnic

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 Here And Now, OBJECT / A, Manchester (UK) Real Lines, Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX

2014 From Nowt to Summat, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough (UK) Absolute Zero, PS2 Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough (UK)

2013 Zero, Untitled Gallery, Manchester (UK)

2005 Recent Paintings, Redbox Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)

2004 Nuance, Saltburn Artists Projects, Teesside (UK) GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 The Skin of Painting, Ya Gallery Kiev, Ukraine (UA) Unfinished Business, Exlibris Gallery, Newcastle (UK) Century, drj - dr. Julius | ap, Berlin, Germany (DE)

2018 Monochrome: Empty & Full, The VCA, Melbourne (AUS) Shaping, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY After the Act, Golden Thread Gallery. Belfast, Ireland (IE) The White Sheet Project, Cross Gallery, Australia ( AUS) New Work for a New System, RNOP, Cincinnati, OH Stockton Contemporary Inaugural exhibition, Stockton on Tees ( UK) Secret, Royal College of Art, London( UK) End of the Beginning Queensland, WEST PI & RAYGUN Projects, Australia (AUS) White Angles, Deb Covell & David Goerk, Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX INOC 24 - Collective Painting, National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture, Kiev, Ukraine (UA) Hellenikon; Assemblage no.7, RNOP & IS-Projects, Beton 7 Gallery, Athens, Greece (GR) The London Works, Cross Gallery, Australia (AUS) MIMA Collection, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough (UK) New Modern 2, Saturation Point Projects, London (UK) Crossings, Southwell Minster, Nottingham (UK) Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) v2, The Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH Structures, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance (UK) Icons/Objects, Deb Covell, Don Voisine, Tiberiy Szilvashi, Kazimir Malevich, KNO.lab, Mikhail Bulgakov, Museum, Kiev (UA) Painting Black, Raum Schroth, Museum Wilhelm Morgner (DE)

2017 Land/Line/Sea, Cross Gallery at Artlacuna Space, London (UK) Painting Black, Raum Schroth, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany, (DE) Assemblage No.4 Van Doseburg FC, AGNS at Concrete Store, Amsterdam (NL) New Modern, RPNG, Saturation Point Projects, London (UK) 0/1, Kiev Non Objective, Inaugural Exhibition, National Art Museum, Kiev (Ukraine) Glitch - The Aesthetics of Failure, The Isherwood gallery, Wigan (UK) Painting, Installations, Objects, Gallery Kierat, Szczecin, Poland Black Box, Künstlerhaus Saar, Saarbrücken (Germany) Black Box, Faux Mouvement Centre De-Art Contemporain, Metz (France) Postcards to Alaska, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK Extended Process, Saturation Point Projects, London (UK) Off the Wall, Raumx London Projectspace, London, (UK) Eccentric Geometric, Arthouse 1, London (UK) Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) v2, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA Combined, Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX

2016 The Fold, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London (UK) Kunst utenfor Kunsten, Beat Art Collection, Agder Gamle Teater (Norway) Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) v.2, Divisible, Dayton, OH Bauhaus Babies, Odetta, Bushwick , NY Secret, Royal college of Art, London (UK) Sixty, Lubomirov/ Angus Hughes, London (UK) Transparent Things, Vane, Newcastle (UK) 2015 We Insist, Biennale of Non Objective Art, Pont de Claix, Grenoble (France) imima, Gallery Number Three Carlisle (UK) Summer Salon, Angus Hughes Gallery, London (UK) Real Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (UK) Fall of the Rebel Angels, Riva Dei Sette Martiri, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice (Italy) Fools Gold, CNB Gallery, London (UK) Secret, Royal college of Art, London (UK)

2014 Sha Boogie Bop, Anonymous Gallery, Soho, NY Inside Out, Surface 2 Air, Soho, NY A5, Lubomirov-Easton, Platform Projects @ Art-Athina, Athens (Greece) Aesthetica Art Prize, York St. Marys, York Arts Trust (UK) Secret, Royal College of Art, London (UK)

2013 Dimensions Variable, Deb Covell, DJ Simpson & Tony Charles. Manchester Contemporary (UK) North South Divine, WW Gallery, London & Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough (UK) Secret, Royal College of Art, London (UK) Station to Station, Scope Art Show, New York, NY

2012 OWWO, Summerhall, Edinburgh (UK) Diamond Geezer, WW Gallery, London (UK) This, That and The Other, Deb Covell, Keith Coventry & Barry Flanagan. Platform A Gallery (UK) Drawing Show, Constantine Gallery, Middlesbrough (UK)

2011 Secret, Royal College of Art, London (UK) Fuze, Inaugural Show, Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough (UK) We Are All In This Together, Bureau, Manchester (UK) Afternoon Tea, WW Gallery, Quaffers Pavillion, 54th Venice Biennale (Italy) Dander, Art Projects, London Art Fair (UK)

2010 Secret, Royal College of Art, London (UK)

2008 Prelude, Saltburn Artists Projects, Teesside (UK) Monochrome Excellence in Greyscale, Lund Gallery York (UK)

2006 Glide, hosted at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (UK) Off The Shelf, Saltburn Artists Projects, Teesside (UK)

2005 Location, The Crypt, Middlesbrough (UK) A Common Cause, Christchurch, Redcar, Teesside (UK)

2004 Loveletter, Arts Council England, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)

2003 Muel, Docklands, UEL, East London (UK) Mythic, Sheridan Russell Gallery, London W1 (UK)

2002 Made in England, Vortex Gallery, London (UK)

2001 Stranded, Old Aldwych station London, curated by Grenville Davey (UK) Glimpse, Stockton Visual Arts Festival, Teesside (UK) Onto Land Into Light, Arc, Stockton on Tees (UK)

SYMPOSIA/ DEBATES/ JUDGING PANELS

2018 Structures Residency; Participated with 25 artists from the UK, Europe, and the US whose practice is informed by networks, frameworks and systems, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance 2015 Participatory Judge for The Nottingham Castle Open Competition Mentor for Mima's Creative Exchange Programme, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

2014 Artists Open Studio, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets, Artists Rooms, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

2012 JParticipatory Judge for the annual Solo Award, WW Gallery, London

2011 - 2014 Desired futures, Organised and implemented a series of discussions about artists working in the North of England, funded by Turning Point Northeast Baltic, hosted by Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and Platform A Gallery

2007 Draw Symposium, hosted contemporary drawing debate with Gavin Turk, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

2006 Seeds of Change, Institute of Contemporary Art, London Road Show, East Street Arts, Leeds

AWARDS AND BURSARIES

2018 Seedbed Trust Bursary, Navigator North, Middlesbrough

2014 Mima Bursary for Artists Open Studio Finalist for the Aesthetica Art Prize

2009 NAN Bursary, CSDI Professional Practice Award with Simon Grennan

2007/2008 Arts council England Professional Practice Award DJ Simpson, Art Lab, Brighid Lowe, Mike Stubbs, Richard Forster

2001 Northern Arts, Research & Travel Bursary REVIEWS/ ARTICLES

2018 http://www.kno.org.ua/home/kno-lab/kno-lab001

2017 http://www.saturationpoint.org.uk/Eccentric_Geometric.html https://www.drlauragray.com/single-post/2017/08/17/On-British-Minimalism-for- SATURATION-POINT http://www.cedra.kiev.ua/2017/10/02/kyiv-non-objective-the-floor-is-given-to- ukraine/ http://creativedarlington.org.uk/conversations-in-painting-if-it-fits-in-the-fiesta- youre-in-present-an-exhibition-of-new-and-recent-paintings/

2016 https://www.papercitymag.com/arts/changing-art-game-young-lion-takes-prime- shuttered-gallery-space-uses-power-facebook/ http://www.saturationpoint.org.uk/Deb_Covell.html https://www.getintonewcastle.co.uk/whats-on/vane/transparent-things-deb- covell-leo-fitzmaurice-lee-machell-jo-mcgonigal https://www.a-n.co.uk/reviews/here-and-now https://www.fresharts.org/events/john-tallman-not-pleasure-alone- objects-2007-2015-deb-covell-real-lines https://patternsthatconnext.wordpress.com/2016/04/15/gesso-and-acrylic-paint- on-nothing-deb-covells-new-painting-at-object-a/ http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/interview-with-deb-covell-previous- shortlisted-artist-in-the-aesthetica-art-prize/

2015 http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/real-painting http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2015/06/paint-activated-castlefield- gallerys-real-painting-reviewed/ www.aestheticamagazine.com/aesthetica-art-prize-finalist-deb-covell-real- painting-castlefield-gallery/ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/12/this-weeks-new-exhibitions www.allarthistoryiscontemporary.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/paint-for-paints- sake-a-dual-review-of-real-painting-at-castlefield-gallery/ www.a-n.co.uk/news/now-showing-100-the-weeks-top-exhibitions www.creativetourist.com/articles/art/manchester/real-painting-at-castlefield- gallery-in-pictures/ www.pftpftpftpftpft.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/real-painting-castlefield.html?m=1

2014 Art Monthly, Northwest Round Up, Bob Dickinson 2013 Guardian Guide Corridor 8 Magazine North South Divine : Keeping It Real in Teesside and East London, Kate Brindley Contemporary Art Society, Hobson's Choice, North South Divine, WW Gallery

2012 The Independent, Picture Preview, Diamond Geezer, WW Gallery FAD Magazine, This That and The Other - Deb Covell, Keith Coventry, Barry Flanagan, Platform A Gallery

2011 FAD Magazine

COLLECTIONS

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (UK) Paintings in Hospitals (UK) Beat Art Collection (NO) Norway (UA) Private Collections