COVER IMAGE: Onwards as the World Sinks

oil on canvas, 100cm x 130cm, 2012, £3000

8 Clarendon Cross | W11 4APlaceycontemporarygallery.co.uk

GEOFF  DIEGO  LITHERLAND is a Mexican born painter currently living and

working in Nottingham. He graduated in 2002 from Falmouth College of Arts with a BA in Fine art and in 2012 with an MFA

in Fine Art from Goldsmiths.

Geoff describes his work as exploring the tension between the natural world and its grasping appropriation by human

influence. He is inspired by the Hudson River painters, abstract expressionism, and the films of Stanley Kubrick and Christopher

Nolan.

Geoff creates a space where his work can sit between figuration and abstraction. He tears holes in space and other dimensions,

providing sci-fi portals to pull you in or spit you out. Giant expanses of the cosmos compacted into octagonal gates bridge

these spaces together. In his universe, different times and dimensions are woven together. Are these a documentation of a

land from the past or the future?

Space for Geoff has a continuous narrative - every moment accessible, every world in the infinite universe within reach. The

past and future crash into one another with glorious results.

PARALLEL WORLDS

“...I draw from traditional genres of painting together with the rusty surrealism of science

fiction and the fantasia of abstraction to create a parallel world that seeks to not only question

our perception of and relationship to nature, but paintings’ historical and current role in that.”

- Geoff Diego Litherland

Litherland’s foremost concern is to create a space where his paintings can sit between figuration and

abstraction, and where the materials are used as a manifestation of the fragility of a landscape – using

paint in layers to allow the viewer to engage in the act of creation.

Litherland gains a lot of inspiration from literary references and sci-fi imagery. His works often depicts

geometric portals housing Eden like scenes lodged or floating amongst rural and abandoned landscapes.

All is Wild All is Silent

oil on canvas 100cm x 130cm, 2012

Winner of the Wardens Purchase Prize, Goldsmiths University of London 2012

£3000

Ladies and Gentlemen we're Floating in Space

oil on canvas 100cm x 130cm, 2012

Winner of the Saatchi Art Surreal Showdown 2012

£3000

The Future is Blinding

Oil on Canvas, 100x130 cm, 2013

£3000

These Corrosives Do Their Magic Slowly

Oil on Canvas, 100x130 cm, 2013

£3000

Hold us Still While Everything Spins

oil on canvas, 100cm x 140cm, 2013

£3000

OCTAGONAL  SERIES

“I nitially want the viewer to be attracted to the complexity of my work, the aesthetics and the

craftsmanship - the physical marks, I want them to engage in the detail of the painting.

Secondly - I want the sense of a narrative to linger...”

In more recent works, Litherland explores the use of Octagonal canvases which act as ‘Portals’ into

another world. Each of these paintings provide viewers a glimpse at dramatic landscapes filled with

oceans, forests and mountains. The scenes are in a state of flux hovering between solid and liquid,

abstract and figurative, creation and destruction. They are seen through patinas of light and rust, painterly

veils that enhance this sense of ambiguity.

Space Ship Earth (Window no. 5) Let Me Go

Oil and gesso on linen, 98x98cm, 2013, £1800

Space Ship Earth (Window no. 7) Deep Water

Oil and gesso on linen, 98x98cm, 2013

£1800

Space Ship Earth (Window no. 6) Pools of Rust

Oil and gesso on linen, 98x98cm, 2013

£1800

Space Ship Earth (Window no. 13) Everyone is a Burning Sun

oil on canvas, 150cm x 150cm, 2014

£4200

Space Ship Earth (Window no.11) Always Returning

oil on canvas, 150cm x 150cm, 2014

£4200

Adjacent - Universal Sigh

Oil on Canvas, 90x110cm, 2014

£3000

The Adjacent series represent Litherlands most recent exploration in 2014. These works seek to further

question and disrupt the narrative element in the work, unlike the Octagons which allude to being portals

into another dimension or space.

The Adjacent paintings show our world being occupied by hovering and shimmering portals much larger

in scale than their counterpoint Octagonal pieces. Here the portals are gigantic, engulfing the picture

plane. They offer an entry point into a mysterious other world.

Litherland’s new Adjacent works will act as opposite pairings to his Octagonal Paintings - each Octagonal

eventually having an Adjacent.

ADJACENT

Adjacent - Lullaby Machine

Oil and Gesso on Linen, 58x64cm, 2014

£1500

Adjacent - Echo of Tomorrow

Oil and Gesso on Linen, 58x64cm, 2014

£1500

Adjacent - Nothing Inside Something

Oil and Gesso on Linen

58x64cm, 2014

£1500

GEOFF  DIEGO  LITHERLAND    |    CV

EDUCATION:

2010-2012 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University of London

2002 BA Fine Art Painting, 1st Class Honours, Falmouth College of Art

1999 BTEC Diploma Foundation Studies in Art, LUSAD

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

2014 Featured in the Bonhams auction A Contemporary Edge

2013 Selected for the Summer Exhibition at the RA

2013 Chosen for the 2013 Catlin Guide

2012 Winner of the Surreal Saatchi Online Showdown

2012 Awarded the Wardens Purchase Prize from Goldsmiths College

2012 Selected for the Oriel Davies Open 2012

2011 Shortlisted for the Attenborough Prize at the Leicester Open 23

2011 Selected for the Salon Art Prize

2010 Selected for the FringeMK Painting Prize

2008 Winner of the Nottingham Castle Open

2008 Selected for the John Moores 25 Painting Prize

2007 Awarded – Arts Council Grant, Research and Development of fine

art studio practice

2004 Luxa – Awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Arizona Film Festival

2001 Sail Loft Bursary Awarded by Falmouth College of Arts

SOLO SHOWS:

2013 We Were Never Here, BEARSPACE, London

2013 We Will Say Goodbye to Everything, Nancy Victor Gallery, London

2012 Flat Like the Old Days, Watergate Gallery, Hay-on-Wye

2012 Geoff Diego Litherland: New Paintings, Tarpey Gallery,

Castle Donnington

2011 Collisions, Art Work Space Gallery, London

2009 Conjuntos, Nottingham Castle Galleries

2009 Multiverses, Wallner Gallery, Lakeside Art Centre, Nottingham

2008 Goldfactory Research Space Residency, Egerton Studios, Nottingham

2007 Falling Awake (joint show with Michael Bowdidge) 1851 Gallery,

Nottingham

2002 Esperar, Falmouth College of Arts Degree Show

2001 long5º29ºwlat50º14ºn, Spring Gallery, Falmouth Arts Centre

JURY SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2013 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

2012 Oriel Davies Open, Newtown, Wales

2011 Open 23, Leicester New Walk Gallery and Museum

2011 Salon Art Prize, Matt Roberts Arts, London

2011 Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Galleries

2011 Colour, Beldam Gallery, Brunel University, Uxbridge

2010 Crash, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London

2010 Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Galleries

2008 Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Galleries

2008 John Moores 25 Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

2008 Muse, Edgar Modern, Bath

2008 Spring Exhibition, J-Gallery, Northampton

EXHIBITIONS:

2014 Exploration, Antlers gallery, Bristol

2014 A Contemporary Edge, Bonhams, London

2014 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea London, showing with the

Contemporary London

2014 The London Art Fair, showing with Bearspace, London

2013 Refresh, Bearspace, London

2013 Spatial, Antlers Gallery Bristol

2013 An Undelivered Postcard from the Edge of the World,

Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London.

2013 Out of This World Part 1, Syson Gallery, Nottingham

2013 Burning Bright, Saatchi Online Artists, Hyatt Hotel London,

Selected by Rebecca Wilson

2013 The London Art Fair, showing with Bearspace, London

2012 The Aftermath, Bearspace, London

2012 Flatland, Blyth Gallery, London

2012 Cluster II, SW1 Gallery, London

2012 Diamond Armour, ARTicle Gallery, Birmingham

2012 Be Real, Hamni Gallery, London

2012 Preposterous, La Scatola Gallery, London

2012 MA Final Show, Goldsmiths College, London

2011 MA Interim Exhibition, Goldsmiths College, London

2011 The Bookmark Project, Nottingham Contemporary

2010 Relay, Core Gallery, Deptford, London

2010 Closely Held Secrets, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

2010 Race for The Prize, Tether, Nottingham

2010 Group Exhibition, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington

2010 A Moment before Decadence, CoExist, Southend

2010 Group exhibition, Hart Gallery, Islington

2009 New Artists, Modern Artists Gallery, Whitchurch on Thames

2008 Gold Soundz, (currated by Geoff Diego Litherland) Southwell Artspace

2008 Drawing Out, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University

2007 Summer Show, Friar Lane Gallery, Nottingham

2007 Anon, Southwell Artspace

2007 Town and Country, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

2006 Process, Southwell Artspace

2004 the premier of Luxa and the other Echoes films at the Arizona

Film Festival

2003 BAC! Contemporary art in the Raval (group show), Tallers Mina, Barcelona

2003 Tots els Continents a Gracia (group show), La Cafetera, Gracia, Barcelona

2003 Salamander Gallery Westerham, Kent

2002 Lights, Crescent Arts, Scarborough

2002 Fresh Air, Studio 95, Brick Lane, London

2001 St. Ives Open Studios Cornwall

BACK IMAGE: Something Other than Remaining

oil on canvas, 100cm x 130cm, 2013, £3000