Geoff Diego Litherland

Biography

               

Geoff Diego Litherland is a Mexican born artist based in Nottingham. 

He had a colourful upbringing, spending his formative years in the Bolivian jungle city of Santa Cruz and Ecuador’s Andean capital Quito. His family then moved to the ‘exotic’ town of Loughborough in England. To escape suburbia he was drawn to to the Cornish coast and graduated from Falmouth College of Arts in 2002 with first class honours in Fine Art Painting.

               

He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Recognition to date has included being selected for the John Moores 25 Painting prize at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool and winning the 2008 Nottingham Castle Open.

               

He likes labyrinthine South American novels, turquoise-coloured music, chorizo, and the smell of turpentine in the morning.

Education
2002 BA Fine Art, 1st Class Honours, Falmouth College of Arts
1999 BTEC Diploma Foundation Studies in Art, Loughborough University School of Art and Design

Commissions & Awards
October 2008 Winner of the Nottingham Castle Open
August 2008 Selected for the John Moores 25 Painting Prize.
Jan 2007 Awarded - Arts Council Grant, Research and development
Mar 2004 Luxa - Awarded the Grand Jury Prize for the experimental film category at the Arizona Film Festival.
Aug 2003 Luxa - Film commissioned for the Echoes digital repercussions scheme. Threshold Studios, Northampton and the Arts Council UK (film and music).
June 2001 Sail Loft Bursary Awarded by Falmouth College of Arts.  The award included the use of a studio in the Sail Loft complex in St. Ives, Cornwall for the duration of the summer

Exhibitions
Feb 2009 Multiverses (solo show) Wallner Gallery, Lakeside Art Centre, Nottingham
Oct 2008 Nottingham Castle Open, (group show) Nottingham Castle Galleries, Nottingham
Sep 2008 Gold Soundz (curated) Southwell Artspace,
Sep 2008 John Moores 25 Painting Prize (group show) Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Aug 2008 Muse (group show) Edgar Modern, Bath
Apr 2008 Drawing Out  (group show) Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University
March 2008 Goldfactory Research Space Residency, (solo show) Egerton Studios, Nottingham
March 2008 J-Gallery Spring Exhibition, (group show) Northampton

After several years developing his practice in Europe and the UK. Geoff Litherland was selected for the John Moores 2008 painting prize and included in the exhibition at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool.