Derek Curtis is an artist who explores the way nature and the natural world is represented in today’s society. The ideas for his paintings and sculptures evolve from the use of everyday materials in conjunction with cultural, political and art historical references. This is emphasised through a playfulness, that approaches the seriousness of the subject matter with a gentle humour which under pins his work.

In the exhibition “ The Hunt “ at Charlie Dutton Gallery, Curtis produces a series of new works which play and respond to the traditional sport of hunting. The interpretations and observations the artist makes of the protagonists in these events unfold like picture stories, with the characters and there surroundings forming contemporary narratives rendered in glorious Technicolor.

Biographical Details:

Derek Curtis was born in Slough, England in 1967. He completed his BA(Hons) Fine Art at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design in 2000. Curtis then spent 2 years as a guest student at Kunstakademie Munster in Germany. In 2002 he was awarded a Woo Foundation Graduate Bursary.

Curtis exhibits regularly internationally. With recent solo exhibitions at Galerie Ruth Leuchter, Dusseldorf (2009) and Kunst Raum, Essen, Germany (2009). With group shows including Royal Academy of Art, London (2007), Jill George Gallery, London (2009) and Nave Gallery, Turin, Italy (2009).

This is Derek Curtis’s first solo show in UK.