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Born in 1983, Will Kendrick is a graduate of Bath School of Art and Design, and lives and works in Bristol.

Will grew up in the North West of England in the seaside town of Blackpool where his infatuation with colour and light was born. The amusement arcades, casinos, neons and garish illuminations that line Blackpool’s Golden Mile have a powerful impact on his current practice - each of these elements revealed in an eruption of gaudy, kitsch and eccentric display of colour, light and material.

A selection of these works have been exhibited in: The Nature of Change: Hybridity and Mutation at the Truman Brewery London, Constructing Current Painting at the Octagon Bath, 97 Miles West at Free Range London, Rising Stars at the Coombe Gallery in Dartmouth, and also as part of a collaborative project with Alex Cotterell at both the Illuminate Bath festival and Fringe Arts Bath.

Will was also selected for the Tate Modern project organised by Bath, Norwich and Winchester art schools and hosted by Tate Modern.

Will currently lives and works in Bristol.

 

Education

BA (Hons) Fine Art at Bath Spa University, 2010
Blackpool and the Fylde School of Art, Design and Performing Arts, 2007

Group Exhibitions

'Chromadynamics', Walcot Chapel, Wolcot Street, Bath, 18th - 26th October 2011

'System History', MadeScapes Gallery, Redcliffe Hill, Bristol, 8th - 11th September 2011

'We Live in Public', Fringe Arts Bath, Stall Street, Bath, 28th May - 12th June 2011

'The Nature of Change: Hybridity and Mutation', HRL Contemporary, Truman Brewary, London, March 29th - April 17th 2011

'White Colour', View Gallery, Bristol, March 3rd - April 17th, 2011

'These Words I Seek Are Not My Own', Motorcade/Flashparade Gallery, Bristol, February 25th - 27th, 2011

'Oblong Represents', The Oblong Gallery, London, February 9th - 25th, 2011

'Rising Stars', Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth, Devon, October 22nd - November 13th, 2010

'Islington Contemporary Art and Design Fair', Candid Galleries, London, October 1st - 3rd, 2010

'97 Miles West', Free Range, Brick Lane, London, 1st - 5th July 2010

'Constructing Current Painting', The Octagon Gallery, Milsom Place, Bath, 18th January 2010

'Table', Dartmouth Avenue Studios, Bath, 6th November 2009

'Juice', The Octagon Gallery, Milsom Place, Bath, 9th June 2009.

'Wilderness 09', The American Museum in Britain, Bath, 21st May - 22nd June 2009

'No Working Title' Norwich University College of the Arts, 12th May 2009

'No Working Title', Tate Modern Project, 13th March 2009

'One Day, One Night', Dartmouth Avenue Studios, Bath, February 2009

'Momentum', Bath Spa University, Sion Hill, Bath, January 2009