Piers Clemett
I am a painter and printmaker living and working in Gloucestershire in the UK. I graduated from Central St. Martins in 1988. Paintings are done primarily in oil or watercolour. Observation and drawing are important to my practice and I work directly from life. I am drawn to the iconography of still life but also landscape and the figure.
Between 1992 and 1993 I, along with fellow assistant Karl Lydon, assisted the late artist, filmmaker and gay rights activist Derek Jarman create a series of large scale paintings documenting his outrage at the victimisation of the gay community by the tabloid press for the AIDS outbreak, and his response to the disease. In 1992 the paintings were exhibited in the show QUEER at the City Art Gallery, Manchester, and Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, and EVIL QUEEN, at the Whitworth Art Gallery, 1994.
Painting with Derek Jarman, 1992. Photo courtesy of Pia Goddard, 1992
Photo © Piers Clemett, 1992
Photo © Piers Clemett, 1992
Contact
Contact:
email: studio@piersclemett.com
telephone: 07932 677 183
instagram: piersclemettpainting
EXHIBITIONS
2019 Open Studios, Delta House Studios, Riverside Road, London SW17 0BA
www.deltahousestudios.co.uk2018 Wimbledon Art Fair, Wimbledon Art Studios, 10 Riverside Yard, SW17 0BB
2018 Wandsworth Artists Open House www.wandsworthart.com
2017 Artists Proof, Sprout Arts, 74 Moyser Road, Streatham www.sproutarts.com
2005 Revolution - Group Show, Trailer, Mare Street, Hackney www.trailerart.net
1993 150th Anniversary Exhibition, Marlborough College Art and Design, Smith's Gallery, Covent Garden
1993 Art Exhibition '93, Edwin Coe, Lincoln's Inn
1990 One man show, Dance Attic, Putney
BIOGRAPHY
1994-2018 - Creative services and marketing
1990-1993 - Painting assistant to artist and film maker Derek Jarman. Assisted on large-scale oil paintings for the exhibition 'Queer' at the City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1992, and Karsten Schubert Limited, 1993.
1985-1988 - Central St. Martin's, University of the Arts, London