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BIO
MA Fine Art, Byam Shaw School of Art, (CSM), London, 2008-09
BA Hons, Fine Art, First Class, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, Kent 2001-05
2017 My England, Sid Motion Gllery, London
2016 Laptop and Chips, SE9 Container Gallery, London
2014 Work/Recreation/Freedom, Nunnery Gallery, London
2014 Domestic Realism, Crypt St Marylebone Church, London
2026 The Weight of Being: Vulnerability, Resilience and Mental Health in Art, Two Temple Place, London, UK
2026 Amici × Gertrude: Fall Apart | Come Together, Amici Studio, Hastings, East Sussex, UK
2024 Slow Painting, The Plough Arts Centre, North Devon, UK
2024 Assembly, The Old Gym, Rye Creative Centre, Kent, UK
2023 'X - Contemporary British Painting' Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
2022 Vitalistic Fantasies, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK
2022 'Paradoxes' Contemporary British Painting, Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight
2020 Yes/No: 32 Painters (virtual open studio), Contemporary British Painting
2020 Me, Myself and I, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, UK
2019 Contemporary British Painting, Norwich Cathedral, UK
2019 Made in Britain: 82 Painters of the 21st Century, the National Museum in Gdansk, Poland
2018 New Painting: Contemporary British Painting, Marylebone Church Cyrpt, London
2017 The Long Count, Von Goetz Art, London
2017 Contemporary Masters from Britain, China: Yantai Art Museum / Artall Gallery / Jiangsu Art Gallery / Nanjing / Tianjin Academy of Fine Art
2017 Contemporary Masters form East of England, 36 works, The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk
2017 Silence Un-scene, Arthouse Lewisham, London
2016 Aviary, Transition Gallery, London
2016 Selected Works from the Seabrook Collection, The Minories, Colchester, UK
2015 London Painting Survey, Blackhorse Lane, Studios, London
2015 Anti-Social Realism, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
2015 Documentary Realism: Painting in the Digital Age, The Crypt at St Marylebone, London
2015 Present Tense: The Swindon Collection, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, UK
2014 Contemporary British Painting, the Crypt at St Marylebone, London
2014 @PaintBritain, Ipswich Museum, UK
2014 Priseman-Seabrook Collection, Huddersfield Art Gallery, UK
2014 Towards a New Socio-painting, Transition Gallery, London, UK
2014 The East London Painting Prize, Nunnery Gallery, London (the Inaugural winner)
2014 Signal Over Noise / Don't Split the Focus, Walthamstov, E17, London
2014 This Year's Model, Studio 1.1, Shoreditch, London, E2
2013 Contemporary British Painting, the Crypt at St Marylebone, London
2013 Zwitgeist Arts Project, ASC Studios, London
2013 Threadneedle Prize (finalist), Mall Galleries, London
2013 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2012 The John Moores Painting Prize (finalist), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2012 Occupied Realism, Portman Gallery, London
2011 Platform C's Emergent Art Show, Vyner Street Gallery, Vyner Street, London
2023 X – Contemporary British Painting
2022 Vitalistic Fantasies at Elysium Gallery, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2022 Paradoxes: 52 Painters, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
2019 Contemporary British Painting: An Exhibition of 34 Painters, Norwich Cathedral, UK
2018 New Painting: Contemporary British Painting
2017 Contemporary Masters from the East of England, Priseman-Seabrook Collection
2017 The Yantai Art Museum, Contemporary Masters from Britain
2017 Young Artist to Watch - Nathan Eastwood, By Ben Austin, FAD Magazine
2017 My England, Exhibition Press, Sid Motion Gallery
2015 Nathan Eastwood: A Quiet Revolution, Essey by Robert Priseman, 2015
2014 Contemporary Art’s Hottest Talent, Written by Mark Kebble, The Resident
2014 Work/Recreation/Freedom, The Nunnery, exhibition catalogue
2014 Priseman-Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting
2014 Painting the People, Written by Alex Michon, Garageland Reviews Article: LINK
2014 East London Painting Prize, Exhibition catalogue
2012 John Moores Painting Prize 2012, Exhibition catalogue, National Museums, Liverpool
2026 Artist To Artist: Interviews on Art with Contemporary British Painters. Seabrook Press
2019 Made in Britain, Exhibition catalogue, National Museum, Gdansk, Poland
2018 The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting, edited by Matt Price, Anomie
2015 Documentary Realism: Painting in the Digital Age, Robert Priseman
2015 Contemporary Art’s Hottest Talent, The Angel resident magazine, January Issue 28
2014 Domestic Realism, Garageland 17: Society, Transition Gallery, London, UK
2026 Nathan Eastwood | Fall Apart Come Together – interview by Will Jarvis (Gertrude)
2024 David Sullivan Interviews Nathan Eastwood, Priseman Seabrook Collection
2014 East London Painting Prize, Bow Arts London
2012 Nathan Eastwood interview - "Occupied Realism" Exhibition – interview by Rockyoumentally
Anita Zabludowicz, London, UK
Goldhill Family, London, UK
The Priseman-Sea Brook Collection, UK
Yale Centre of British Art, Texas, US
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon, UK
2021 Priseman Seabrook Prize - Inaugural winner
2014 East London Painting Prize - inaugural winner
2013 The Threadneedle Prize - shortlisted
2012 John Moores Painting Prize - shortlisted.
2008 South Square Trust Scholarship (Masters Scholarship)
2005 Outstanding Achievement in BA Fine Art (HONS)
Nathan Eastwood born into a working-class family, in Barrow-in-Furness, UK
Eastwood is based in Rochester, Kent, UK
Born into a working-class family located in a naval town Barrow-In-Furness during the 1970s Eastwood is a contemporary British artist best known for his obsessive, intensely atmospheric, melancholic, greyscale, photo-based realist paintings. These paintings explore themes of identity and class while celebrating ordinary people - Eastwood calls these works ‘every-day realism’. Painted on primed gesso panels Eastwood’s greyscale, glossy paintings has its origin in snapshot digital photographs taken with his camera-phone. He takes hundreds of photos of ordinary people getting on with daily life, for example: a man eating his dinner in a café, a man reading a book in a launderette, a lady standing at the train station, reading a book, or someone is cooking dinner, or washing up, or standing at the bus stop or a group of people lining up for free meals in the local church. Eastwood state’s, “Whether I was aware of it or not I have always been obsessed with Identity and class. This obsession is rooted in my own personal history…I see my paintings as a democratic approach to representing the ordinary person..”
Nathan Eastwood graduated with a degree in Fine Art (1st) in 2005 from the Kent institute of Art and then completed an MA Fine Art Degree from Byam Shaw School of Art in 2009. Eastwood’s came to public attention when he exhibited his painting titled 'Nico's Cafe' at the East London Painting Prize in 2014 which won him the first prize (inaugural winner). As part of the award, he went on to have his first major solo exhibition at the Nunnery Gallery and he was also awarded a generous sum of money to support him making a new body of paintings for this solo exhibition. NOTABLE SOLO EXHIBITIONS: include ‘My England’, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2017), ‘Laptop and Chips’, SE9 Container Gallery, London (2016), ‘Work/Recreation/Freedom’, Nunnery Gallery, London, (2014), ‘Domestic Realism’, (CBP) Crypt St Marylebone Church, London (2014). Eastwood has shown work in China, Poland, USA, Scotland, England. He has work in the collections of Anita Zabludowicz, (London), The Goldhill Family, (London), Priseman Seabrook Collection, UK, Yale Centre of British Art (USA), Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, (UK)