Edgington
Edgington (b.1991) is an emerging British artist working with self portraiture across mixed media, monoprint and photography to explore trauma and self image.
Edgington lives and works in Birmingham. He has work featured in New Art Gallery Walsall's 'Twenty Twenty' collection and a is member of West Midlands Artist Advisory Group.
Edgington lives and works in Birmingham. He has work featured in New Art Gallery Walsall's 'Twenty Twenty' collection and a is member of West Midlands Artist Advisory Group.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Mixtape No. 8, Cultivate/Organ Thing (virtual)
October 2024
ThreeXThree, Cultivate/Organ Thing (virtual)
October 2024
Capturing Creativity, Bromsgrove School, Bromsgrove
October 2024
Black and White, Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket
October 2024
Secret Salon; Emerging Artists, Hackney
August 2024
Art As A Response To Mental Health, Doncaster (virtual)
June 2024
Mixtape No.7, Cultivate/Organ Thing (virtual) May 2024
Fringe Arts, Bath
May 2024
Tea and Friendship, Pop-Up SPACE, Hackney
April 2024
Art On Loop: London-Athens, The Holy Art
December 2023
Art On Loop: Berlin, The Holy Art
December 2023
Shades of Red, Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket, Suffolk
August 2023
Mixtape No.4, Cultivate/Organ Thing (virtual)
March 2023
Mixtape No.3, Cultivate/Organ Thing (virtual) February 2023
Humanity (Outside In)
Sotheby’s, London, January 2023;
Project Ability, Glasgow, August 2023;
Hove Museum of Creativity, November 2023
Buy Art, Aire Studios, Leeds
November 2022
Sexuality, Gender, Identity, LTB, Coventry
August 2022
Pause For Thought, The Shoe Factory, Norwich
May 2022
Burst, Cultivate/Organ Thing (virtual) May 2022
West Midlands Open, New Art Gallery Walsall
May 2022
Print It!, Aire Place Studios, Leeds
April 2022
Twenty Twenty Collection Display, New Art Gallery Walsall January 2022
Contemporary Portraiture, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
November 2021
2021 Exhibition, Supporting the Arts (virtual)
August 2021
Birmingham Artists, Ikon Gallery
May 2021
Spring 2021, Absent Gallery, Somerset (virtual) March 2021
To Portray or To Portrait, Rooftop Arts Centre, Corby (virtual)
February 2021
Self Portraits, Quad Gallery, Derby (virtual)
September 2020
On Point, Surface Gallery, Nottingham (virtual)
August 2020
Self, Isolated, GAP Arts Project, Birmingham
August 2020
Artefact Winter Exhibition 2019, Stirchley, Birmingham
December 2019
FEATURES
Swordplay Zine 5: Brave, May 2024
Organ Thing 13 Questions, February 2023
Sumy Nona Zine, April 2022
Interim Arts, August 2021
Haus a Rest, Issue 16 – The Underrepresented; We Will Not Be Silent, August 2021
Working Artist 2, March 2021
ArtHole; Issue 7, February 2021
ArtHole; Issue 5, October 2020
Wot Is Art? December 2019
Wot Is Art? September 2019
EDUCATION
MA Art History, Open University
2017 - 2019
Dissertation title: 'In what ways and to what ends has New British Art been engaging with political and working-class issues since the turn of the millennium? An investigation using case studies of Jeremy Deller, Mark McGowan and We Fail.'
BA (HONS) Fashion, Kingston University
2011 - 2015
Final collection entitled 'Strangeways' which sought to reflect my experience while at Kingston through inspiration from The Smiths
