Rupert Record
Toni Heath Gallery is delighted to present "Freedom: Spartacus & other Portraits", an exhibition of new paintings by Rupert Record.
Record’s starting points for his new series of paintings include Aram Khachaturian's ballet "Spartacus" and the 1960 Stanley Kubrick epic of the same name.
Bending the greed, hate and violence, he uses auras of luminous colour - reminiscent of stained glass - to reflect the deeper emotion and uniqueness within each figure.
The layers within are able to stir the soul: transfiguring the individual's internal pain to investigate "the triumph of the spirit over oppression".
Since graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 1996, Rupert Record has exhibited extensively throughout the UK. He has work in many private and corporate collections in Europe and the US. "Freedom: Spartacus & other Portraits" is his ninth solo show and his third with the Toni Heath Gallery.
Rupert Record was born in Kent in 1969 and is Artistic Director of Light From Africa, based in South Africa, which supports HIV outreach work and education programmes in the Western Cape.
Rupert currently lives and works in London.
Biography
Solo Exhibitions
2006 Freedom: Spartacus & other Portraits, Toni Heath Gallery, London
2006 Dream Warriors, Toni Heath Gallery, London
2005 The Dancer’s Aerial Radiant Dream, Toni Heath Gallery, London
2002 20 Porchester Terrace, solo show
2001 A Slight Touch of Primitive Instinct, solo show, SE1 Gallery, London
1998 Deborah Bates Gallery, London Solo Show
1998 The Lycee, Solo show at Sapcote Lofts, Kennington, London
1997 Proud Galleries, Solo Show
1996 Spencer Landor Show, Solo show
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 Now We Are Two, Toni Heath Gallery, London
2005 Rupert Record & Niki Holmes, Light Gallery, London
2004 Contemporary Painting, Light Gallery, London
2004 Into, Mernier Chocolate Factory, London
2004 Wear the Fox Hat, The Fox Club, London
2003 Rupert Record & James Verner, The Courtyard Gallery, London
2003 New Work, Leisure Pass Group, Oxford Street, London
2002 Abstract, group show, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
2002 Home Metropole Galleries, Folkestone
2000 Rupert Record & Anne Marie Coxon, Alchemy Gallery, London
2000 Seven Paintings on Seven Floors, commission & exhibition, The Hatton, London
1999 Proud Galleries, London, joint show
1999 Royal Academy Past Graduates, Rowe & Maw, London
1999 Metalwork, Zella Gallery, London
1999 Marine House at Bere, Devon
1999 Laing Art Competition & Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
1999 Coombs Contemporary, London
1998 ITN Headquarters show, Grays Inn Road
1998 Proud Galleries, London, Summer Show
1998 Bass Taverns Competition winner with exhibition.
1998 Proud Galleries at the Edinburgh Festival
1998 Proud Galleries Christmas Auction
1997 Elton John Aids Foundation Show, Sotheby’s
1997 Proud Galleries, Physica, with Mike Turner
1997 Collyer Bristow, Group show with Stephen Buckley and Simon Lewty
1997 Modern and Contemporary Painting, Clink Wharf Gallery
Collections
Clive Anderson, Broadcaster & Journalist
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London
The Institute of Human Rights, Lund, Sweden
The Hatton, Hatton Garden, London
Numerous private collections in the UK, USA & Europe
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools, London
BA Fine Art (Painting), Chelsea College of Art, London
Foundation Course in Art & Design, Blackheath College of Art