GEOFF DIEGO LITHERLAND
Within The Surface and Tangle Formations
(in D Major)
Films
VENUE
1. Dawe’s Twineworks, West Coker
Fri 23 – Sat 24 May, 10am – 5pm
Sun 25 May, 10 am – 4pm
Geoff Diego Litherland has been redefining his artistic practice; discontent with simply depicting an idea of nature and landscape within his work, he sought to delve deeper into the interconnected threads between painting and the environment. He has used slow, pre-industrial craft processes to create natural canvas materials grown from the land and explored using traditional lime plasters with earth and cosmic pigments.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Geoff Diego Litherland was born in Mexico and is currently based in Wirksworth, Derbyshire. In 2012 he completed an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London, he is an artist with a considerable exhibition profile, a part-time lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and co-founder of Haarlem Artspace. Litherland explores our relationship to the natural world through an engagement with the materials and processes involved in painting, including the collaborative production of hand woven linen canvas. Awards include the Wardens Purchase Prize from Goldsmiths College 2012 and Material Seedcorn Research funding from Nottingham Trent University 2017. Solo exhibitions include: 2021 Catching Matter, Beam, Nottingham; 2020 Woven / Ground, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth; 2018 Beyond This Moment, New Court Gallery, Repton; 2017 The Other Side of the Sky, 60 TNS, London.