Artist’s Statement
My work explores awareness of impermanence and acceptance of change. The figures in my paintings are always caught in moments of self reflection, when they are teetering on the threshold of something new. I am interested in creating scenes that express some of the anxieties and bitter-sweet feelings of my generation.
Bio
Owen Normand is a contemporary figurative painter who studied at Edinburgh College of Art. He was winner of the prestigious BP Portrait Young Artist Award in 2013 and was named as one of 15 emerging artists of great promise by Rebecca Wilson, Saatchi Art's Chief Curator in 2014. He has had solo exhibitions in Berlin and Lisbon, and has exhibited in group shows in London, New York, Berlin, Edinburgh and Glasgow. His work is held in private collections in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, The Netherlands, USA, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Still Moving, Summerhall, Edinburgh
2022 Sleeper in Metropolis, www.mothflower.com, online
2019 The Cut, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh, UK
2019 Moving On, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh, UK
2017 All Towers Fall, Giftraum, Berlin, Germany
2015 Spuren, Das Badhaus, Kulmbach, Germany
2014 Still Worlds, Adamastor Studios, Lisbon, Portugal
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Character, www.mothflower.com, online
2020 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
2020 Still, High Line Nine Gallery, New York City, USA
2018 Art Now, Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg, Germany
2018 Fleeting Truths, Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2018 Lived on the Bone, GPS, Glasgow, UK
2017 Untitled, Felix and Spear, London, UK,
2017 LSA Art Auction, Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh, UK
2017 Macmillan Art Auction, Bonhams Auction House, Edinburgh, UK
2016 The Royal Society of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2016 Untitled, Felix and Spear, London, UK
2016 The Open Contemporary Portrait Award, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, UK
2014 Leith School of Art Alumni Exhibition, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, UK
2013 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (toured to Aberdeen Art Gallery & Wolverhampton Art Gallery)
2013 No Cash Bar, Fort Gallery, New York, USA
2012 Kunstmarkt, Stadtbad Wedding, Berlin, Germany
2011 Parachute, Whale Arts Centre, Edinburgh, UK
2010 Place Project, Goodstead, Edinburgh, UK
Awards
2016 Nominee, The Open Contemporary Portrait Award
2013 Young Artist Award, BP Portrait Award