Geoff Diego Litherland (born 1979 in Tehuacan,

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), the son of the geologist Martin Litherland, is a painter working internationally, based in the UK.

Life and career

Litherland is a Mexican-born artist based in London. Having had a colourful upbringing in Bolivia and Ecuador, he moved to England and graduated from Falmouth College of Arts in 2002. Litherland has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally and recognition to date has included being selected for the 25th

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at the

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in Liverpool which was judged by Sacha Craddock,

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, Paul Morrison and Graham Crowley and in 2008 he won the Nottingham Castle Open. In 2010, Litherland jointly curated the exhibition ''Closely Held Secrets'', which featured Turner Prize winner

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. The exhibition was an artistic collaboration between

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’s Bonington Gallery, nine visual artists and a skilled digital embroidery technician who has translated and transformed a series of original artworks into a collection of digitally embroidered artefacts. In 2011, Litherland was selected by

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to be included in the exhibition ''Crash'' at the Charlie Dutton Gallery. He also had a solo show at Art Work Space within the Hempel Hotel London and was selected by Patricia Bickers, Pippa Hale and Robert Leckie for inclusion in the Salon Art Prize, at the Matt Roberts Arts Project Space on Vyner Street in London. Litherland graduated with an MFA at

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College of Art in 2012 where he was awarded The Warden's Purchase Prize. In 2012 his painting, ''All Animals Lead us to Light'' was picked for the Oriel Davis Open, in Newtown, Wales. In 2013, Litherland was picked by Antlers Gallery,

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, along with five other artists to exhibit his work in their exhibition Spatial. In 2014, Antlers Gallery approached Litherland again to exhibit at their project Exploration. This exhibition was shown at Purifier House by Bristol's Harbourside.

Exhibitions

* 2014 ''Exploration'', Antlers Gallery,

. * 2013 ''Spatial'', Antlers Gallery,

. * 2012 ''MA Show'', Goldsmiths College, London. * 2012 ''Oriel Davis Open'', Newtown, Wales. * 2012 ''Geoff Diego Litherland & Thomas M Wright'', Tarpey Gallery, Derby. * 2011 ''Collisions'', Art Work Space at the Hempel Hotel, London. * 2011 ''The Bookmark Project'', Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham. * 2011 ''Salon Art Prize'', Matt Roberts Art Space, Vyner Street. London. * 2010 ''Crash'', Charlie Dutton Gallery, London. * 2011 ''Open 23'' (shortlisted for the Attenborough Prize), New Walk Museum, Leicester. * 2010 ''Closely Held Secrets'', Bonington Gallery, Nottingham. * 2010 ''Race for the Prize'', Tether, Nottingham. * 2009 ''Conjuntos'', Nottingham Castle Galleries, Nottingham. * 2009 ''Multiverses'', Wallner Gallery, Lakeside Art Centre, Nottingham.Multiverses
Wallner Gallery, Lakeside Art Centre, Nottingham, * 2008 ''Nottingham Castle Open'', Nottingham. * 2008 ''John Moores 25'', Liverpool, UK. * 2004 ''Luxa'', Arizona, USA. * 2003 ''BAC! Contemporary art in the Ravel'', Barcelona, Spain.

References

External links

Axis Web: Geoff Diego Litherland

Saatchi Gallery: Geoff Diego Litherland

Art Review: Geoff Diego Litherland

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