Bruce Russell, Abstract Painter

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Bruce Russell was born in 1946 and is Professor Emeritus of Fine Art at Kingston University London. and Visiting Research Professor at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. He studied at Chelsea School of Art before becoming one of the first Cheltenham Fellows.

Russell has taught at many art schools including Chelsea School of Art and Central St Martins. He established the Polytechnic Gallery at Newcastle Polytechnic (now the University of Northumbria), and the Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University London.

Bruce Russell has been making abstract paintings for forty years, exhibiting in Britain, Europe and the Americas.

He lives in rural Hampshire, creating his paintings in converted stables.

NEWS

Cambridge

Russell will soon be exhibiting his Circle Series at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University.

Kingston upon Thames

In addition to his role as Professor Emeritus at Kingston University, Bruce Russell has recently joined the board of Fusion Arts, a thriving artist-led space; he is also a vice president of the Kingston Theatre Trust.

Fusion Arts
Kingston Theatre Trust



UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

New Paintings in the Squaresites Series

New Orleans, Autumn 2008
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Zip, oil on canvas, 2005

RECENT SHOWS

Squaresites

Solo show, Beardsmore Gallery London

21 March - 21 April 2007

Each painting in Russell's latest series of large-scale paintings draws its title and intent from mythical and fabulous places or domains, such as Atlantis and Shangri-la. They develop the ongoing themes of glyphs and morphs that populated Russell's previous series of circles and diamond format works, recently shown in Dublin and Cambridge.

Squaresites is accompanied by a new and very handsome catalogue with a superb essay by James Faure Walker, discussing Russell's recent work in the context of abstraction and modernism.

GALLERIES

Bruce Russell is represented by

Beardsmore Gallery
22-24 Prince of Wales Rd, London NW5 3LG
Tel: 020 7485 0923
Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10-5.00 / Saturday 12-5.00
www.beardsmoregallery.com/

Leinster Gallery
27 Frederick Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)1 6790834
Hours: Monday - Friday: 10am - 5pm / Saturday: 10.30am - 1.30pm
www.leinstergallery.com/