Richard Forster

Born 1970, Saltburn-by-the Sea, Cleveland

Education
1993-1995 MA Visual Theories, University of East London
1989-1992 BA(Hons) Fine Art, Manchester Polytechnic
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Untitled 9-64 (Seascapes),Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Open Space, Art Cologne, Germany
MOT International, London
2006 Jerwood Artists’ Platform, Cell Project Space, London
Group Exhibitions
2008 Second Northern Art Prize Leeds Art Gallery
Monochrome Spike Print @ Rabley Drawing Centre
2007 Richard Artschwager, Richard Forster Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
The End Begins (from the Lodeveans collection), The Hospital, London (curated by Gill Hedley)
Working Things Out Spike Island, Bristol (curated by Marie-Anne McQuay)
Opposite of vertigo Drawing Room, London
2006 Gail Wigley Window Box New Art Gallery, Walsall
Opposite of vertigo Burren Annual, Ireland (curated by Locus +)
Daisychain MOT, London (curated by Bruce Haines)
Blue Star, Red Wedge Glasgow International, Glasgow
The space between.... Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2005 Lounge II Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (curated by Judith Winter)
The space between the sole and the heel Globe Hub, North Shields (curated by Matt Hearn)
Yes,No (Richard Forster, Eva Weinmayr) Vane, Newcastle
2004 Practice High Bridge House, Newcastle (curated by Matt Hearn)
Triangles Workplace@ Psyche, Middlesbrough
Some Versions of Light The Telephone Repeater Station, North Yorkshire (curated by Greville Worthington)
A Thing About Painting Platform, London (curated by Sheila Lawson)
2003 Look to this Day Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Vacant Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland
2002 Gatsby The New Lansdowne Club, London (curated by Lali Chetwynd)
Matt Calderwood, Richard Forster, Alexis Harding, Peter Harris Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2001 Richard Forster, Richard Woods Waygood Gallery, Newcastle
The (Ideal) Home Show Gimpel Fils Gallery, London (curated by Jackie Halliday)
2000 Paint Too Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland (curated by Elle Carpenter)
Bibliography
2008 Wall Street Journal (Jan 11) ‘Why I buy art, art collectors reveal what drives them’ Helen Chang
White Hot Magazine.com (February) ‘Richard Forster; Interview with Becky Hunter’
PhillipsArtExpert.com (March) ‘Hot topics, Richard Forster @ MOT’ Rebecca Geldard
Richard Forster, Michael Bracewell Ingleby Gallery
The Scotsman (Oct 17) ‘Richard Forster, Ruth Claxton’
The Metro (Edinburgh) (Oct 16) ‘Richard Forster’ Leon McDermott
Scotland on Sunday (Oct 19) ‘The scalpel and the deep blue sea’ Moira Jeffrey
The Herald (Nov 7) ‘Drawn to admire a shore thing’ Jack Mottram
The Skinny (Nov 3) ‘Richard Forster’ Rosamund West
The List (Nov 13, Issue 617) ‘Richard Forster’ Paul Dale
Northern Art PrizeCatalogue ‘Richard Forster’ Rahila Haque
2007 Financial Times (July 25) ‘Working Things Out’ Richard Cork
2006 Dazed & Confused (February) Hung & Drawn ‘Northern Lights’ Nick Hackworth
Unpublished review ‘Blue Star, Red Wedge’ Matt Hearn
Art Monthly (June)‘Glasgow International’ Martin Vincent
The Scotsman (May 2)‘Flourishing festival, a sign of things to come’ Susan Mansfield
Jerwood Artists Platform publication ‘Richard Forster’ Sally O’Reilly
Guardian Guide (May 20-26) ‘Richard Forster’ Jessica Lack
Metro (London) (May 24) ‘Richard Forster’ Fisun Guner
Time Out (June 2) ‘Richard Forster’ Martin Herbert
2005 Unpublished review ‘Yes, no...perhaps, maybe’ Lisa leFeuvre
Metro (Newcastle) (1 August) Christopher Collett
A-N Magazine (August) ‘Openings (Vane)’ Stephen Palmer
2004 Time Out (February 18-25) ‘A Thing About Painting’ Martin Coomer
Some Versions of Light Catalogue, text by Greville Worthington
Guardian Guide (May 15-21) ‘Some Versions of Light’ Robert Clark
Workplace (Cornerhouse) ‘Richard Forster’ JJ Charlesworth
Unpublished review ‘Triangles’ Matt Hearn
2003 Guardian Guide (23 August) ‘Vacant’ Robert Clark
City Life (Manchester) (12-20 November) ‘Look to this Day’ Tim Birc
Flux (Issue 39) ‘Look to this Day’ Robert Cattelan
Metro Life (Manchester) (3 October) ‘Look to this Day’ Helen Duff
2002 Contemporary (Summer 2002) ‘Gatsby’ JJ Charlesworth
Flux (Issue34) ‘Feature 18, Norwegian Lady’ Swapne Tamhane
2001 Evening Standard (30August) ‘The Ideal Home Show’ Nick Hackworth
Time Out (August 22-29)‘The Ideal Home Show’ Martin Coomer
Richard Forster, Richard Woods Catalogue, text by JJ Charlesworth
2000 Unpublished Cataloguetext ‘Paint Too’ by Keith Patrick
Guardian Guide (6 May) ‘Paint Too’ Robert Clark