Amrit Row's Study Of Nature/ Nurture Using Mixed Media

Artist’s Biography:

Born 1957 in Ilford, Essex
Education: 1976-1977 St Martin's School of Art 1977-1980 Chelsea School of Art Exhibitions
1980 Amrit's First Picture show - Sainsbury's Art Centre in Norwich
1982 South Bank show at South London Art Gallery, Coracle and Morley College Gallery - Festival of artists working in South London.
1983 Paintings exhibited at Minories gallery, Colchester
1983 Group of Four English artists - Kruithuis, s'Hertogenbosch, Holland with Shelagh Cluett, Kay Mclauren and Tony Hayward
1984 Various madness, a group show curated by Sarah Kent at Ian Birksted Gallery, London
1984 Two new painters at Ian Birksted Gallery, London
1986 South London Open at South London Art Gallery
1987 Whitechapel Open at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1987 Royal Overseas League Open at Royal Overseas League House, London
1989 Black Art: New Directions at Stoke on Trent City Museum and Art Gallery
1989 Paintings and drawings at Minories Gallery, Colchester
2003 A Place to Stand at Watershed Arts Centre, Bristol - digital photographs
2005 Universal Photography at Galeriazero Barcelona, Spain - digital photographs
2006 Another place to stand at Galeriazero Barcelona, Spain - digital photographs
2007 [Identity] Fringe Arts Bath - digital photographs
2007 Museum of Domestic Architecture, London - installation

In 1990 I stopped making work to start a landscape design and build the company. In 2002 I closed my London company and moved to Bradford on Avon to resume my Art career and re-launch the landscape business as Spacemagic Garden Design.

Awards & Reviews:

1983- The British Council award for the Dutch exhibition
1989- The Greater London Arts Award for Stoke on Trent and Minories shows.

My work has been reviewed in many periodicals:
Artscribe, Art Monthly, Time Out, Guardian, Dutch newspapers and radio.

Teaching at the Slade School painting department and drawing workshop at Stoke on Trent.

Artist’s Statement:

The loss of habitat and biodiversity threatens the basis of humanity's relationship with the 'natural' world. I present images which explore this relationship by contrasting an idea of untouched nature with what we do as humans.