info – Adam Crosland

Adam Crosland was born in the Wiltshire town of Swindon. He has exhibited widely in England and has work in private collections nationally as well as overseas.

Adam Crosland was also the guitarist in Le Neon, a band from Stroud, that released an album and single on Fierce Panda records in 2003. Le Neon toured in 2003 and 2004 with acts such as Biffy Clyro, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Raveonettes, The Cribs, The Subways, Seafood and Winnebago Deal. Adam also drew the artwork for the sleeve of Le Neon’s album ‘Luss’.

Adam currently lives in Purton, Wiltshire, where he continues to make art, write music, create books, tend to his tree surgery business and tramp around the woods and meadows looking for mushrooms with his son Finn.

Education

Stroud School Of Art 2000-2001 – Art Foundation

U.W.E Bristol 2001-2003 – BA (Hons) Art and Visual Culture

University Of Bath 2006-2008 – BA (Hons) Drawing for Fine Art practice

Exhibitions

2023

Collaboration with Slart@Artsite, Swindon – What doesn’t kill you maims you in the long run

2018

(Solo show) – New paintings@Number Nine, Swindon

2017

Stuckist show@Quintus Gallery, Watkins Glen, N.Y, U.S.A

Swine art show@Darkroom Expresso, Swindon

The Stuckists at Cass art, Islington, London

Weird Wiltshire@Richard Jeffries museum, Swindon

(Solo show) – Post-Truth @The Bohemian Balcony, Swindon

2016

Art on a postcard@Maddox Gallery, Mayfair, London

Swine art exhibition@Brunel Centre, Swindon

Stuckist’s Art Show@View Two Gallery, Liverpool

(Solo show) – Ponge Life @ The Beehive, Swindon

Art and Books (with Emily Drake) @44AD, Bath

2015

Stuckism: Remodernising the mainstream, Jarman building, University of Kent, Canterbury

Weapons of Mass Distraction @Number Nine, Swindon

(Solo show) – What is life, but a childlike foray into adult exploration @ Number Nine, Swindon

2012

Elizabethan Avant-Garde – Stuckist Show @ The Bermondsey Project, Bermondsey, London

(Solo Show) – Why Did God? – @Artsite & The Post Modern, Swindon

2011

(Solo Show) – ‘Growing Stupid People From Rotten Seeds’ – The Louisiana, Bristol

‘Kunstgäste VI’ – Atelier Klint, Sylt, Germany

2010

(Solo Show) – ‘Rats are Hicks – Artsite & The Post Modern, Swindon

2009

‘Enchantment’ – The Post Modern, Swindon

2008

‘Waking The Dead’ – Walcot Street Mortuary Chapel, Bath

‘S.O.M.A’ – Unit 4, Farrs Lane, Stroud

‘Degree Show’ – Swindon College, Swindon

‘I don’t belong in a sexual society’ – Whitstable Biennale Satellite Program, Whitstable

‘Against The Obviousness Of Obviousness/My Friends And I Couldn’t Do Punk, Somehow’ – Substation, Margate