1968 Born, Manchester
1984-86 Tameside College of Technology, Ashton-Under-
Lyne (Foundation)
1987-90 Goldsmiths College of Art, London (BA Hons Textiles)
1997 Prizewinner John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 20
1998 Prizewinner Natwest Art Prize, London
2010 Artist in Residence, Josef and Anni Albers
Foundation, Connecticut, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Light Up My Sky, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2021 Sue Arrowsmith - Galerie Andres Thalmann @ BVLGARI, Zurich
2020 Natura Naturans, Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2019 Let the wind blow through your heart, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
2018 We could dream this night away, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2016 Waiting for the Moon, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
2015 Whisper from The Shadows, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2013 Sue Arrowsmith - Studio Show , October, London
2011 Courtyard Gallery, The National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthen
2009 Galerie allerArt, Bludenz
2004 Artist of the Day, Flowers Central, London
Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
2001 Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
1999 Galerie Frahm, Copenhagen
1997 Cold Spring, Entwistle Gallery, London
1994 Entwistle Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Flickering Light, Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome
Winter Collection, Mucciaccia Gallery, Cortina
Snow, Stars and More, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
2022 Eye On Nature, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2021 Artists of the gallery - Christmas Edition, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
2020 Rebooting Nature, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Every day, Terrace Gallery, London
Time, Suspended, The Gallery at Catherine Prevost, London
2019 A Misura D'Uomo, Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan
The Clearing, Celebrating 10 years, Bo-Lee Gallery, London
2018 Nature Morte, Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Transference, with Mathew Weir, MOCA London, London
Arcadian Dreams, CCASM, Jersey Channel Islands
Whispering Colour, Bo Lee Gallery, London
Artists of the Gallery - Part 1, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
2017 Nature Morte, The four Domes Pavillion, National Museum of Wrocław, Poland
Die Wunderkammer, Objects of Virtue, CCASM, Jersey Channel Islands
2016 Nature Morte, Konsthallen-Bohusläns Museum, Sweden
2015 Summer Exhibition, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Nature Morte, Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life,
Ha gamle prestgard, Stavanger
2014 Natural Order, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2012 Sweethearts – Artist Couples, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Plus Art Projects at The Mayor's Parlour, Bow, London
2011 Drawing 2011, Drawing Room, London
2010 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
William Blake and the Naked Tea Party,Ekleksographia, ahadadabooks.com (online),
edited by Philip Davenport
2009 Small is Beautiful XXVI, Flowers East, London
Drawing 2009, Drawing Room, London
Open Impact, Spike Island, Bristol
2008 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
2007 Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg Space, London
Drawing 2007, Drawing Room, London
Force Of Nature, The Gallery@Adventure Ecology HQ, London
Summer Exhibition 2007, Royal Academy, London
British Painting, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart Small Is Beautiful, Flowers`
Central, London
2006 Into The Light Of Things, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Small is Beautiful, Portraits XXIV, Flowers Central, London
2005 Sue Arrowsmith, Claude Heath, Ausstellungsraum, Gallery Hollenbach, Zurich
Drawing Two Hundred, The Drawing Room, London
Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg Space, London
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
2004 Arbeiten Auf Papier, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart Art Futures, Contemporary Art
Society, London
2003 Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, London
About Painting, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
Pictures at an Exhibition, KPMG, London
Drawn 2B Alive, Hales Gallery, London
2002 At Sea, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
Prospects 2002 Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Essor Gallery Project Space,
London
Mapping the Process, Essor Gallery, London
The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002, University of Gloucester, Cheltenham touring:
Jerwood Space, London; mac, Birmingham; Glasgow School of Art; EICH Gallery,
University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, Hull; The Promenade Gallery
The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester
2001 Sue Arrowsmith, Maria Chevska, Alexis Harding,
Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
Tradition and Innovation, British Painting from The Royal Bank of Scotland Art
Collection, York City Art Gallery, York
XS, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London
At Sea, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2001, University of Gloucester, Cheltenham, touring to
The Alberto Vilar Gallery at The Prince’s Foundation, London, EICH Gallery, University
of Lincolnshire and Humberside, Hull
Collection Selection, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough
2000 Y2K Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia
Incorporate 3, Art and Business, London
Cultural Ties, Jariwala Westzone Gallery, London
1999 Galerie Van der Straeten, Amsterdam
Contemporary British Art, Natwest Art Collection,
Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster
1998 The Natwest Art Prize 1998, Lothbury Gallery, London
1997 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 20, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Selected Bibliography
1994 Hubbard, Sue: ‘Sue Arrowsmith - Entwistle’, Time Out
1997 Coomer, Martin: ‘Sue Arrowsmith - Entwistle’, Time Out
1998 Flacon, Genevieve: ‘Is This Art?’, The Independent on Sunday
Cork, Richard: ‘Canvassing Our Brightest Talent’, The Times
MacRitchie, Lynn (intro) : ‘First Eleven’, The Natwest Art Prize 1998 Lothbury Gallery,
London
1999 Green, David: ‘Abstract Paintings’, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 21
Galerie Frahm, Copenhagen, Denmark
Politis, ‘Sue Arrowsmith’, Cyprus
Kent, Sarah (essay): ‘Young British Art - The Saatchi Decade’
2000 ‘Cover Story’, Cyprus
Prinz, Susanne (essay): ‘Abstract Eins’, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
2001 Herbert, Martin: ‘ The Deep Blue Yonder, Art Review
Januszczak, Waldemar: ‘ A Sea of Troubles’, The Sunday Times
Craddock, Sacha (essay): ‘Sue Arrowsmith
Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
Collings, Matthew (essay) ‘British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London
Jariwala, Kapil (essay): ‘Cultural Ties’, Jariwala Westzone Gallery
Cork, Richard (essay): The Jerwood Drawing Prize
2002 Buck, Louisa: ‘ What’s On’, The Art Newspaper, no 127
Livingstone, Marco (essay): The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002
Lubbock, Tom: “ The Five Best Shows in London’ - The Jerwood Drawing Prize
The Information - The Independent
2003 Mullins, Charlotte: ‘From Bee Gees to Brushstrokes', The Financial Times
‘Pictures at an Exhibition’, KPMG, London
2005 Vogt, Rainer: ‘ Auf Umwegen Wahrnehmen’, Stuttgarter Nachrichten
Stuttgarter Zeitung, ‘ Erben der Op Art’ - British Kunst Bei Hollenbach
2006 Jones, Helen (essay): Into The Light Of Things, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Burrows,Wayne: ‘Into The Light Of Things’, Metro
‘Into The Light Of Things’, The Guide, The Guardian
‘Into The Light Of Things’, Exposed Magazine
Walking Into The Light, Nottingham Evening Post
Castle Rocks! Nottingham Evening Post,
2006 ‘Into The Light Of Things’, Exposed Magazine, Hind Sight, 6 August
‘Into The Light Of Things’, FHP Magazine,
2009 'Sue Arrowsmith in der Galerie allerArt'
Heimat : Bludenz,
'Sue Arrowsmith: Grosse und kleine Rasenstucke',
Kultur, Neue Volarlberger Tageszeitung
'Ein Englisches Rasenstuck', Vorarlberger, Nachrichten
2011 'Artists' inspiration now so natural', What's On, South Wales
'Gallery', Carmarthen Journal
'Open frequency', Axis website, selected by Sarah Shalgosky
2012 Alberge, Dalya ,‘Creative encounters of the artistic kind – couples get
together to collaborate’, The Observer
Reimers, Anne, ‘Paartherapeutisches Malen', Frankfurter Allgemeine
Sonntagszeitung
Barnett, Laura, ‘Creative Couples’, Ideastap
2013 Mullins, Charlotte, 'Sue Arrowsmith, Studio Show', London
2015 Shalgosky, Sarah, 'The innocence of trees', Whisper from the Shadows
2016 Chizhova, Polina, 'Waiting for the Moon'
2018 Ekholm, Roberto, 'Transference'
2019 Castelli, Stefano, 'A Misura D'Uomo'
Henkes, Alice, 'Let the wind blow through your heart' Style, Handels Zeitung
2020 Castelli, Stefano, 'Natura Naturans'
2023 Tolve, Antonello, 'Flickering Light'
Public Collections
Fidelity Investments, Boston and London
Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London
Goldman Sachs Collection, London
Kupferstichkabinett of the National Gallery of Berlin
Royal Bank of Scotland Group Art Collection, London
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
The Government Art Collection, London