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Painting live at Childwickbury Arts Fair 2022
oil on board
Exhibited at Lakeside Arts Centre, University of Nottingham Summer 2022

"I have been exploring various methods of mark making and media over the last 10 years. I currently work in oils on board or plywood but archive paintings can be viewed in the PAINTINGS section. My paintings represent a continuation of location drawings from my sketchbooks. These images are usually figures observed from places like cafes and pubs. Often a single figure will be an amalgamation of several - people sometimes don't give me much time to draw them."

Exhibitions and Events 2025:


Event:

Melbourne Festival Art & Architecture Trail 2025
Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st September

10am to 5pm both days
Venue to be announced
Melbourne, Derbyshire


Event:

Wirksorth Festival Art Trail 2025
13th and 14th September

10am to 5pm both days
Venue to be announced
Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Wirksworth Festival Website


Event:

ABC Art Trail 2025
To be announced

Venue details to be announced
Beeston, Nottingham
ABC Website



Event:
Lady Bay Arts Trail 2025
17th and 18th May 2025
100 Holme Road, Lady Bay, Notts
Lady Bay Website


Oliver Lovley is an artist living and working in Nottingham, England. Past exhibitions of his paintings include The National Portrait Gallery in London and the Djanogly Gallery at Nottingham Lakeside Centre.
Film by Parisian Polo Club

Exhibitions:

Creative Melbourne Gallery - Street Life Group Exhibition - Derbyshire 2023

Lakeside Arts Centre - DH Lawrence Pavillion Wallner Gallery - solo exhibition 2022

Blue Owl Art - 'Re-connect' - Exhibition by Oliver Lovley & Carolyn J Roberts, Lincolnshire 2022

Tarpey Open - Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington 2021 and 2022

SGFA Unlocked Exhibition - Mall Galleries, London 2021 & 2022

Contemporary Art Auction - Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham 2019

SGFA Touring Centenary, Bankside Gallery, London and RBSA, Birmingham 2019

Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol - 'Every Kind of People' Exhibition 2019

Bankside Gallery, London - Society of Graphic Fine Art Biennial 2017

The Menier Gallery, London Draw Open Exhibitions with the SGFA 2016 - 2019

Gallery 6, Newark, Notts. - solo exhibition 'Dark Re-forming Shapes' 2017

Shortlisted for 2nd round - The BP Portrait Award 2016

Shortlisted for 2nd round Lynn Painter Stainers Prize 2015

ING Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London 2014

BP Portrait Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London 2002


Live Shows:

Craft Fair Contemporary, Nottingham Contemporary 2023

The Dark Arts Fair, Nottingham 2022 & 2023

Melbourne Arts Festival, Derbyshire 2021, 2022 & 2023

Art in Action, Waterperry, Oxfordshire 2014, 2015 & 2016

Childwickbury Arts Fair, St. Albans 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019,  2021 & 2022

Lady Bay Arts, Nottingham, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022 & 2023

Windsor Contemporary Art Fair 2017

Bath Art Fair, Norton St Philip, Bath 2017

Wirksworth Arts Festival, Derbyshire 2016

Patchings Art Festival, Nottinghamshire 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2017

Art in the Gardens, Sheffield 2016 & 2017

Reading Contemporary Art Fair 2014


Print:

One Hundred Years: The Society of Graphic Fine Art - 2018

Dark Re-forming Shapes - self-published 2017

Unconscious Patterns - self-published 2016

500 Portraits - BP Portrait Award first published by
the National Portrait Gallery London 2011, republished 2015


Residencies and Qualifications:

Shortlisted for Theatre Royal Nottingham Wall Mural Project 2022

Elected full member (SGFA) of The Society of Graphic Fine Art, London 2017

Donation of painting ‘Internal Walls’ to The Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham University 2017

Highly commended award at Art in the Gardens, Sheffield 2016

Artist in Residence at The Malt Cross Henderson Gallery, Nottingham during 2015

BA (Hons) Illustration & Visual Communication - Loughborough University, 2001



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Drawing On Location in Nottinghamshire
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