Mark Surridge was born in 1963; he studied at Maidstone College of Art and gained an MA at Falmouth University, where he was a part-time Senior lecturer on Fine Art BA.
He has established himself as a highly respected abstract artist living and working in Cornwall. Landscape and the elemental forces of nature have been major inspirations in his work, resulting in ambitious large-scale paintings, sculpture and installation.
Surridge's distinctive and individual work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions and has been selected for exhibitions including, the Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall,The Royal Academy, London,The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, Mini-Meta Abstract Painting from mid -generation British Artists, London and Tate St Ives, Cornwall.
1981 – 84 Maidstone College of Art (BA Hons)
2007 – 09 Falmouth University, MA Fine Art
1997 Moved to Cornwall
2012-2017 Senior lecturer (part-time) Fine Art BA at Falmouth University
Solo Exhibitions
2020
Walking the Stone ,Tremenheere Gallery, Cornwall 2018
The Shape of the Walk, Waiheke Art Gallery,Waiheke, Auckland, New Zealand 2017
Way Finder,The Picture Room, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
Millennium Gallery, St.Ives Cornwall 2014, 2012, 2010, 2006, 2004, 2001 Beardsmore Gallery, London 2010, 2008, 2005, 2003, 2000
2017
Selected Group Exhibitions and Residencies
2023
Rapture, curated by Jesse Leroy Smith and Dan Pyne,Tremenheere Art Gallery, Cornwall Unfamiliar Territory, curated by Lizzy Broughton, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
2022
RWA Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
The New Craftsman Gallery, Winter Exhibition, St.Ives, Cornwall
2019
Wells Art Contemporary Exhibition,Wells Cathedral
2018
Waiheke Artist in Residence,Waiheke Community Art Gallery,Waiheke, Auckland New Zealand 2017
'Home' Unruly,Whitechapel, London
VISCERAL Coates and Scarry, London, curated exhibition
2016
The Wells Art Contemporary,The Bishop’s Palace,Wells
The new British Modernists, Moncrief Bray Gallery, West Sussex.
The Wet Auction, Newlyn Art Gallery
Mixed Exhibition, Lynne Strover Gallery,Cambridge
2015
'Serpentine' Falmouth Art Gallery.
Discerning Eye, (Prize Winner)The Mall Galleries, London . Porthmeor Studio Residency, Cornwall.
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens Residency, Cornwall.
RWA Open Exhibition, Royal West 0f England Academy, Bristol.
2014
Unsettled,
Enys House, Cornwall
2012
The National Open Competition, London and Chichester
2009
Mini-Meta,Abstract Painting Survey exhibition, mid generation British Artists, Beardsmore Gallery, London
2007 Art Now Cornwall,Tate St.Ives, Cornwall
2003 Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndbourne, East Sussex
Weather Report 2, Co-curated with Marion Taylor, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2005, 2001, 2000
Hunting Art Prizes, London (prize winner 2001)
2005, 2003, 2002
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Selected Publications
2018 The Shape of the Walk catalogue 2016 Fresh Paint magazine
2000-2014
Solo Exhibition Catalogues, Millennium Gallery and Beardsmore Gallery
2014 Alignments , Millennium Gallery, St.Ives Cornwall
2012 The Three waters, Millennium Gallery, St.Ives Cornwall
Field Lines, Beardsmore Gallery, London 2010 Openings, Millennium Gallery, St.Ives
2007 Art Now Cornwall,
Susan Daniel McElroy,Tate Publications
2005 The Guardian, Living on the Edge, Artist of the Month Private collections in UK, Europe, New Zealand and USA.
