Artist's Statement
I am interested in how painting can tap into the poetics of time and place. I make paintings of places and things of significance in my life, alongside places born from memories or daydreams. The surfaces of my paintings shift from dense and clotted to washy and ethereal, capturing the fluctuating clarity of a remembered place.
Bio
Pavel Isupov is a painter born in Exeter, England, in 1996. He graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2018 and has sustained a studio practice since graduating, with exhibitions including the RSA New Contemporaries 2019 and his first solo exhibition at the Plough Art Centre, Devon in 2021.
Study
BA (Hons) Painting at Edinburgh College of Art 2015 – 2018
UAL Diploma in Art and Design (Foundation Studies) at Exeter College 2014-2015
Exeter College 2012-2014
Exhibitions & Awards
Longlisted for the Jackson's Art Prize 2024
Preselection / Online Show - Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, May - June 2024
Guildford House Open - November - January 2023 / 2024, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford
Shortlisted for VAA Exhibition & Scholarship Prize 2024
Solo Show (Reopening), October 2021, Plough Arts Centre, Torrington, Devon
Solo Show, March - April 2020 (Closed for Covid), Plough Arts Centre, Torrington, Devon
RSA New Contemporaries 2019, March - April 2019, Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound,
Edinburgh
RSA Ages of Wonder - Touring Exhibition 2018-2019
Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show, June 2018, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
Hix Award Shortlist Exhibition, September -November 2017, Hix Art Gallery, Shoreditch, London
Hix Award Continued Show, January - February, 2018 Coutts Bank, The Strand, London
Foreshadow, Collaborative Exhibition with Nancy Nightingale, March 2018, Tent Gallery, West Port, Edinburgh
The Salon, April 2018 Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
Build Up, December 2017. Gallery 23, Edinburgh.
After the Storm, April – May 2017. John Hope Gateway, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh