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Exhibitions

Solo

'How Can Someone So Young Sing Words So Sad'
Transit, Mechelen, Belgium
15 April - 26 May 2007
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'Who Will Eat My Sadness'
The Agency, London
7 April - 13 May 2006
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'The Beautiful People'
The City Gallery, Leicester
21 January - 5 March 2005
Press Release
'The Beautiful People'
Comme Ca NYC, New York, USA
4 December - 31 January 2004
Press Release
'The Beautiful People'
The Storey Gallery, Lancaster
19 June - 19 September 2003
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'The Beautiful People'
DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China
1 October - 1 November 2002
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Self Curated

Faith
Edwin Aitken/Matthew Burrows/Simon Burton
Sarah Doyle/Dutton & Swindells/David Hancock
Thomas Helyar-Carwell/Cathy Ward/Isabel Young
Dean Clough, Halifax
22 September 2007 - 21 January 2008

Gallery Primo Alonso
February - March 2008
Press Release
I'll Be Your Mirror
Marit Victoria Wulff Andreassen/Jemima & Dolly Brown
Gordon Cheung/Juno Doran/Leo Fitzmaurice
David Hancock/Owen Leong/Andrew Magee
Rui Matsunaga/Richard Meaghan/Stuart Semple
Hannah Wooll/Dawn Woolley/Isabel Young
Gallery Primo Alonso
17 January - 11 March 2007

Liverpool Biennal Independents 06
13 September - 26 November 2006
Press Release
Jerusalem
Gordon Cheung/David Hancock/Beth Harland
Paul Hodgson/Reece Jones/Peter Lamb
Rui Matsunaga/Richard Meaghan/Hugh Mendes
Tamsin Morse/Barry Thompson/Rikki Whitlock
Simon Woolham/Hannah Wooll
Dean Clough, Halifax
21 January - 10 April 2006

Press Release
Le Petit Paysage
James Alridge/Richard Bartle/Gordon Cheung
Ben Deakin/David Hancock/Beth Harland
Roderick Harris/Jorunn Haugse/Reece Jones
Masakatsu Kondo/Peter Lamb/Peter Liversidge
Sue Massey/Rui Matsunaga/Richard Meaghan
Hugh Mendes/James Moore/Tamsin Morse/Tom Palin
David Rankine/Miho Sato/Cherry Tenneson
Simon Woolham/Hannah Wooll
Liverpool Biennal Independents 04
16 September - 28 November 2004
Comme Ca, Manchester
9 December 2004 - 29 January 2005

Press Release
We Didn't Mean to be Bad Kids
TV Made Us Do It

David Hancock/Vincent James/The Little Artists
Jim Medway/Anna Mitchell/Pamela So
Brya Weths/Simon Woolham/Hannah Wooll/Dawn Woolley
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
The Collins Gallery, Glasgow
University of Hertfordshire Gallery, St. Albans

2004-5
Press Release

Group Shows

Teenage Kicks
Jemima Brown/Dean Chalkley/Luc Dondeyne
Erica Eyres/David Hancock/Ivan Jones
Alex McQuilkin/Angie Reed/Ari Versluis
Klaus Wanker/Daniela Wolfer
Curated by Melanie Moreau
Vegas Gallery, London
12 October - 11 November 2007

Press Release
The Future Can Wait
Jennifer Allen/Dylan Atkins/Emma Bennett
Kiera Bennett/Louise Camprass/Julianna Cerqueira-Leitte
Simon Cunningham/Gordon Cheung/Chris Davies
Tessa Farmer/Nadine Feinson/Bettina Graf
Tom Hackney/David Hancock/Matthew Houlding
Sam Jackson/Chia-En Jao/James Jessop
Kounosuke Kawakami/Cathy Lomax/Robin Mason
Rui Matsunaga/Sarah McGinity/Hugn Mendes
Alexis Milne/Richard Moon/Alex Gene Morrison
Rie Nakajima/Gavin Nolan/Margaret O'Brien
Tim Parr/Jamie Pitarch/Emma Puntis
Harry Pye/Miho Sato/Dominic Sheppard/John Stark
Erik Tidemann/Gavin Tremlett//Will Tuck
James Unsworth/Stella Vine/Hannah Wooll
Curated by Ellis & Rumley
Old Truman's Brewery, London
9 October - 14 October 2007

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Art Brussels 2006
Courtesy of The Agency, Brussels Expo
21-25 April 2006
i-POD Killed the Video Star
Alex and Liane/PTR-PlanningtoRock/HK119
Maike Abetz & Oliver Drescher
David Hancock/HuMobisten/Kevin Francis Gray
Jeroen Offerman/Eddie van der Velden/Hannah Holland
Jonny Woo & Peter Podworski/Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
Mario Mentrup & Volker Sattel/Burke Roberts
Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek
Luuk Bode/Christie Wright/Johan Renck/Marcelle Price
Curated by Ken Pratt & Boris van Berkum
Showroommama, Rotherdam, Netherlands
22 January - 3 April 2006

Press Release
Children of the Grave - Masters of Reality
David Hancock/Shay Kun/Ross Sinclair
The Agency
22 October - 3 December 2005

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Young Masters
Oliver Bancroft/Jane Bustin/Nicky Couttes
Daniel Gustav Cramer/Christopher Dobrowolski/Simon Casson
William Daniels/Nogah Engler/Mark Fairnington
Tom Hackney/David Hancock/Paul Hodgson
Juneau Projects/Karen Mirza & Brad Butler/Idris Khan
Rachel Kneebone/Chris Landoni/Liane Lang/Adam Latham
Elizabeth McAlpine/Peter Maltz/Mariele Neudecker
Marilene Oliver/Claire Pestaille/Si Sapsford/Miho Sato
Matthew Stone/Kate Street/Eve Sussman
Cordelia Swann/Julie Warr/Jeffrey T Y Lee
Curated by Flora Fairbairn and Catriona Warren
Art Fortnight London
23 June - 4 July 2005

Press Release
Hand in Hand We Walk Alone
Hannah Conroy/Sam Dargan/Tom Hackney
David Hancock/Sigrid Holmwood/James Jessop
Kristina o'Donnell/Tim Parr/Claire Pestaille
Hannah Plumb/Jo Whittle/Hannah Wooll/Vicky Wright
Curated by Zavier Ellis, Tom Hackney, David Hancock and Claire Pestaille
Clapham Art Gallery
22 June - 30 July 2005

Press Release
Forever Beautiful
Emma Bennett/Luke Caulfield/Kieron Dennis
Juno Doran/Tessa Farmer/Tom Hackney
David Hancock/Elin Melberg/Simon Keenleyside
Penny Neville-Lee/Chris Ofili/Michelle Ollivier
Claire Pestaille/Fiona Rae/Dominic Shepherd/Rosie Snell
Clapham Art Gallery
1 December 2004 - 22 January 2005

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C.V.

Solo Exhibitions:
2011 - Time to Pretend, Hub, Manchester
2010 - Game, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
2010 - The Beautiful People, 1 Threadneedle St, London
2009 - Don't Tell Them to Grow Up & Out of it (with Amanda Spawforth), The Lowry Hotel, Manchester
2008 - 'That's Not My Name', The Agency, London
2007 - 'How Can Someone So Young Sing Words So Sad', Transit Gallery, Mechelen, Belgium
2007 - 'The Beautiful People',Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan
2006 - 'Who Will Eat My Sadness' The Agency, London
2005 - 'The Beautiful People' The City Gallery, Leicester
2004 - 'Jane Says', Cooper Gallery, Barnsley
2003 - 'The Beautiful People' Comme Ca Gallery, New York, USA
2003 - 'The Beautiful People' Kirkby Gallery, Kirkby Liverpool
2003 - 'The Beautiful People' The Storey Gallery, Lancaster
2002 - 'The Beautiful people' DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China
2002 - 'The Beautiful People' Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax
2001 - 'The Beautiful People' View 2 Gallery, Liverpool
2001 - 'The Beautiful People' Chorlton Mill Gallery, Manchester
2000 - 'The Beautiful People' Cartwright Hall, Bradford
2000 - 'The Horrible People' Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1999 - 'The Horrible People' Corner House Cafe Manchester
1999 - 'Something Beautiful, Something Free' Arc, Manchester
1998 - 'The Beautiful People' Living Room Gallery, Lancaster
1998 - 'The Beautiful People' Pannett Art Gallery, Whitby
1998 - 'Princess Leia was my first Kiss' Planet K, Manchester
1998 - 'Princess Leia was my first Kiss' Living Room Gallery, Lancaster
1997 - 'Princess Leia was my first Kiss' Arc, Manchester
1997 - 'Princess Leia was my first Kiss' Phillips Contemporary Art, Manchester
1996 - 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' Kadomah, Manchester
1996 - 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' Generation X, Manchester

Group Exhibitions:
2011 - In Safe Keeping, The New School House Gallery, York
2011 - Grand Opening, Provoke Gallery, Altrincham, Cheshire
2011 - Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA
2011 - Marmite Painting Prize III, The Nunnery, London
2011 - Marmite Painting Prize III, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry
2010 - Marmite Painting Prize III, Central Gallery, Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester
2010 - This is England, Galleria Uno+Uno, Milan, Italy
2010 - This is England, The Aubin Gallery, London & Galleria Uno+Uno, Milan, Italy
2010 - Culture, Alienation, Boredom & Despair, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
2010 - MA Show, Liverpool John Moores University, The Art Academy, Liverpool
2010 - Anti Design Festival, London/Newcastle Space, London
2010 - Salon 8, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2009 - The Lure & the Seducer, Galerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 - Connexions, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark
2009 - Art of Noise, East End Arts Club, London 2009 - Buy Art Fair, Urbis, Manchester (with Comme Ca)
2009 - Karma 1, 44a Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 - Kapellmeister pulls a Doozy, Seven Seven, London
2008 - Painting show, The Lowry Hotel, Manchester
2008 - Buy Art Fair, Urbis, Manchester (with Comme Ca)
2008 - Group Show, Philips Contemporary Art, Manchester
2008 - The Future Can Wait II, Old Truman's Brewery, London
2008 - Kappelmeister Pulls A Dozy, Seven Seven Contemporary, London
2008 - The Past is History, Changing Role Gallery, Rome & Naples, Italy
2008 - The New London School, Mark Moore Gallery, LA, USA
2008 - Faith, Gallery Primo Alonso, London
2007 - 'Teenage Kicks', Vegas Gallery, London
2007 - 'The Future Can Wait', Old Truman's Brewery, London
2007 - 'Faith', Dean Clough, Halifax
2007 - Lowry Hotel, Manchester
2007 - Art Brussels, The Agency, Belgium
2007 - 'I'll Be Your Mirror', Gallery Primo Alonso, London
2006 - 'I'll Be Your Mirror', Liverpool Biennial Independents 06
2006 - '10th Anniversary Exhibition', Philips Art Gallery
2006 - 'Defining Kelly Jones', Hebden Bridge Arts Festival Gallery
2006 - 'I Ain't No Yesterdays News' Gallery Likovni Krug, ExitFest, Serbia
2006 - 'I Ain't No Yesterdays News' Gallery Pavillion, Nis, Serbia
2006 - 'I Ain't No Yesterdays News' Gallery Likovni Susret, Subotica, Serbia
2006 - 'I Ain't No Yesterdays News' S.K.C., Belgrade, Serbia
2006 - 'Curators Choice' Dean Clough, Halifax
2006 - 'smallPOND', Chorlton Mill, Manchester
2006 - 'Portreto Formate' ARKA Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2006 - 'Portreto Formate', Exhibition Holl, Telsiai, Lithuania
2006 - 'Portreto Formate' Exhibition Holl, Juodkrante, Lithuania
2006 - Art Brussels, The Agency, Belgium
2006 - 'Lived In' Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk
2006 - 'Jerusalem' Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax
2006 - 'i-POD Killed the Video Star' Showroomama, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006 - 'Manchester, So Much to Answer For' Warsaw Projects, Manchester
2005 - Group Exhibition, FosterArt, London
2005 200 Postcards, National Portrait Gallery, London
2005 Open05, ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire
2005 MAFA Members Exhibition, Gallery Oldham
2005 'Children of the Grave- Masters of Reality' The Agency London
2005 'Young Masters' Art Fortnight London
2005 'Hand in Hand we Walk Alone' Clapham Art Gallery
2005 Group Exhibition, Philips Contemporary Art, Manchester
2005 Manchester Art Fair, Philips Contemporary Art
2005 Art Frankfurt, Philips Contemporary Art, Germany
2005 'Portreto Formate' Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2005 'We Didn't Mean to be Bad Kids, TV Made Us Do It' Hertfordshire University
2005 'We Didn't Mean to be Bad Kids, TV Made Us Do It' Collins Gallery, Glasgow
2005 'Forever Beautiful' Clapham Art Gallery, London
2005 Art 2005, Clapham Art Gallery, BDC, London
2004 'Le Petit Paysage' Comme Ca, Manchester
2004 'Le Petit Paysage' Liverpool Biennial Independents 04
2004 Manchester Art Fair, Philips Contemporary Art
2004 'We Didn't Mean to be Bad Kids, TV Made Us Do It' Warrington Art Galleries
2004 'Art In the Mental Health' Urbis, Manchester
2004 'Art In the Mental Health' Millennium Gallery, Cardiff
2004 'Art In the Mental Health' Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
2004 'Art In the Mental Health' Royal College of Art, London
2003 'Something Old, Something New' Philips Contemporary Art, Manchester
2003 Thermo 03 The Lowry, Manchester
2003 Art 2003, James Hyman Fine Arts, BDC, London
2002 Affordable Art Fair, Philips Contemporary Art, New York
2002 'Collectors' Timber Wharf, Manchester
2002 'A Word from our Sponsors' Liverpool Biennial
2002 Emerging Artist Award- Shortlisted Artists, BOC Group HQ, Surrey
2002 'Open' Warsaw Projects, Manchester
2002 Le Petit Blanc Exhibition, Manchester
2002 'Perverse Pop' Catto Contemporary, London
2002 'The Battle for Realism' Inside Space, Selfridges, London
2002 Art 2002, James Hyman Fine Arts, BDC, London
2001 'The Builder's Arms' International 3, Manchester
2001 'In Your Face' The Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk, Liverpool
2001 The Opening Exhibition, The View, Liverpool
2001 Affordable Art Fair, Philips Contemporary Art, Battersea, London
2001 Fresh Art, Business Design Centre, London
2001 BP Portrait Award 2001, National Portrait Gallery, London
2001 'Windows' Debenhams, Manchester
2000 'Made in Manchester' The Tea Shop Gallery, Harrogate
2000 Affordable Art Fair, Philips Contemporary Art, Battersea, London
2000 'Inferno' LMN Project, Guildhall, Newcastle
2000 BP Portrait Award 2000, National Portrait Gallery, London
1999 Affordable Art Fair, Philips Contemporary Art, Battersea, London
1999 John Moores 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1998 'Designed to Sell' Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
1997 Seasonal Exhibitions at Philips Contemporary Art
1996 'Graduate UK' Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
1996 'New Year Exhibition' Blackheath Gallery, London
1996 'Northern Graduates' Royal College of Art, London
1996 'Open Exhibition' Manchester City Art Gallery
1995 'Re-assessing Poussin' Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1991 'Open Exhibition' Rochdale Art Gallery



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