Barbara Howey

Available Works

Biography

Barbara Howey lives and works in Norwich, UK. Her MA was in Art History at Leeds University in 1992 and she received a PhD in painting and theory from Norwich University of the Arts in 2001. Her current painting practice invites the viewer in- close to fungal, animal and plant subjects. The painting language is gestural and expressionistic using heightened colour and a direct process of working wet into wet in one sitting. Barbara Howey has exhibited nationally and internationally both in group and solo exhibitions and has taken part in major UK painting prizes such as John Moores Painting Prize in 2014.

Education

PhD, Norwich University of the Arts, 2001

MA, University of Leeds, 1992

Private Collections

Madison Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta Georgia, USA
East Contemporary Art UCS
Swindon Art Gallery
Priseman Seabrook Collection
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Exhibitions

2024 A Room of One’s Own, Irving Gallery, Oxford
2024 Assembly – Contemporary British Painting, Rye Creative Centre, East Sussex
2024 It Rose and it Fell, Terrace Gallery, London
2024 Rise Art x Soho Home Kings Road London and Hollywood, LA USA
2024 England is a Forest, Sluice Art, Minories Gallery, Colchester
2024 Cultural Landscapes – Slow painting CBP. Studio.KIND
2024 …adrift…co-curated Painting exhibition with Molly Thomson and original projects, PRIMEYARC, Gt. Yarmouth
2023-2024 Arcadia for All? Contemporary British Landscape Painting, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester.
2023 “X”- Contemporary British Painting, Newcastle Contemporary Art.
2023 Arcadia for All? Contemporary British Landscape Painting, The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds.
2023 Landscape - Group Exhibition, The Lanesborough Hotel, London.
2022-2023 Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery touring to VISUAL ARTS 20-21 Scunthorpe. Curated by Barbara Howey, Judith Tucker and Grant Scanlan
2022 Paint Edgy, CBP, The Ropewalk Barton Upon Humber
2022 Paradoxes, Contemporary British painting, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
2022 Vitalistic Fantasies, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2022 A Generous Space 2, New Art Gallery, Walsall
2021 GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS: Online Exhibition, University of Cambridge, ARB: International open call. CRAASH http://arbart.crassh.cam.ac.uk/
2021 Figurative Painting Now – online exhibition, Mall Galleries
2021 London Paint Club – online exhibition -Together Through Painting
2020 Vitalistic Fantasies, Cello Factory, London. Curator P. McArthur
2020 Beyond Other Horizons, Iași Palace of Culture, Romania
2020 Lessons in the studio – studio in the seminar, Seventy Years of Fine Art at Leeds 1949-2029 curated by Griselda Pollock and Sam Belinfante,
Project Space and The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of
Leeds.
2019 Let’s Talk About The Anthropocene, Gallery, University of Brighton
2019 PS Mirabel Paint Open, Manchester
2019 Dear Christine, Group Show, Touring: Vane Gallery Newcastle, Elysium Gallery Swansea, London
2019 End of the Line, XMARKS The Spot, Great Yarmouth.
2019 Prisman/Seabrook Collection, National Museum of Gdansk, Poland.
2019 Contemporary British Painting, 33 Painters, The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral
2018 Groundwork Gallery, Theories of the Earth - Pattern and Colour in Nature

Group Exhibitions

2018 In The City – Group Painting Exhibition, EAST Gallery (NUA) Tour to University of Greenwich, Stephen Lawrence Gallery
2018 Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2018 PAINT NORTH, Ladybeck Project Space, Leeds
2017 Anything Goes – selected work by Anna McNay from Contemporary British Painting, Bermondsey Art Space, London.
2017 RISE UP! Exhibition of the work of David Mabb with events including
readings of poems by George Szirtees and other guests, Norwich Nunnsyard Gallery
2017 In the Open, Collaborative project with American poet Ann Fisher-Wirth as part of Asle-Uki & Land2 conference 2017: Cross Multi inter Trans. The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam.
2017 China 4 Museum Show. Contemporary British Painting – The Cui Zhen Kuan
Art Museum in Xi’an. The Yantai and the Artall I Nanjing.
2016-2017 Real Lives- Painted Pictures – curated exhibition The Crypt, London touring to The Cut, Suffolk.
2016-2017 Edgelands Touring Exhibition, Crypt, London, APT. Gallery London
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery,
Hartlepool Art Gallery, Beverley Museum and Art Gallery.
2016 plenty of time to lose your balance – group exhibition Barbara Howey, Molly Thomson, Clare Jarrett, Sophie Marritt, Norwich Nunn’s Yard Gallery
2016 Lubomirov/Angus Hughes, Summer Salon 2016
2016 PING Paint Club East Members Show, Minories Gallery, Colchester
2015-2016 Contemporary Watercolour touring exhibition: Maidstone Art Gallery, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby, Northern Ireland
2015 Griffin Gallery Open, London
2015 Painting in the Digital Age, Crypt, London (group exhibition)
2014 Madison Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia Permanent collection,
Summer Show
2014 Of Other Spaces, group show, Sheffield Hallam
2014 John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Gallery, Liverpool.
2014 Turner in the West – Swindon Art Gallery
2014 Places and Landscapes, Waterfront Gallery, University Campus Suffolk
2013 East Contemporary Art, Waterfront Gallery, University Campus Suffolk
2013 Clause Four, Norfolk
2012 Vision and Reality, Norwich Castle Open
2012 Visions of East Anglia, Colchester Fine Art Open, Minories Gallery
2012 Re-Grouping, Bend in the River, Workstation Sheffield
2012 Timeplace, Minories Gallery, Colchester, curated Kaavous Clayton
2012-2013 New East Anglian Painting, The New Ipswich Art School Gallery
2011 MEMORY B(L)ANKS, Manchester Metropolitan University
2011 Wunderland, TactileBosch, Cardiff
2010 Exeter Contemporary, Exeter Phoenix Gallery
2010 Norwich University College of the Fine Art Staff Group Exhibition
2008 Open Exhibition Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich
2007 Solo Show Pearl St Gallery, New York
2006 Solo Show - Offit Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2005 Solo Show - Techniques of Memory,Outpost Gallery - Norwich
2005 Techniques of Memory - Solo Show, Huddersfield Art Gallery
2005 Homelife, Group Show, Stroud House Gallery, Gloucestershire
2004 Max 10 (screening), Newlyn Art Gallery
2004 Solo Show, Screen Memories, Sheffield University
2004 Locus, Group Show, Visions Gallery, Tokyo
2003 Artist Residency Interim Show, Eva Gallery, Mirfield, West Yorkshire
2002 Solo Show, Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton, London
2002 Remnants, Solo Show, Otter Gallery, University College Chichester
2001 Presences/Absences, Solo Show, Norwich Gallery
2001 Eastern Open, Kings Lynn Art Centre
2000 Fabrications - Painting and the Decorative, Worcester City Art Gallery
1999 Fabrications - Painting and the Decorative, Norwich Gallery
1988 Open Exhibition, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge