Martin Clarkson CV

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EDUCATION: LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN. 

BA (HONS) FIRST CLASS 2012 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 

2026/27 Nemophilist; Solo Show, Sheffield. TBC 

2026: The Fort William Mountain Festival, The Nevis Centre, Fort William 

Spring Fling Open Studios, Upland, Dumfries & Galloway 

The Woodland Festival, Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire 

2025: Spring Fling Open Studios, Upland, Dumfries & Galloway 

Longlisted for the Scottish Landscape Award, Kirkudbright, Dumfries & Galloway 

The Woodland Festival, Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire 

Upland Made, Easterbrooke Hall, Dumfries and Galloway 

Fronteer Gallery Open 25, Sheffield 

Kind Studios, Christmas Open, Dumfries & Galloway 

2024: In The Braw Midwinter, The Stove Network, Dumfries & Galloway 

Harley Open 24, Harley Foundation, Wellbeck Estate, Nottinghamshire. 

Open 24, Tarpey Gallery, Donington Park, Leicestershire. 

England is a Forest, Small Works Gallery, Sluice Colchester. 

2023: Dara - Tree Of Life, The Old Lock Up Gallery, Derbyshire 

Jacksons Art Prize Longlisted Entry, London. 

2021: Obejvak Project Space, Prague Art Fair, Prague 

2018 Strata: 1, Surface Gallery, Nottingham 

2017 Lady Bay Arts Festival, Lady Bay, Nottingham 

2016 Bohunkydory, Bohunk Institute, Nottingham 

2015 Contemporary Landscape, G1 Art, Windermere 

2014 Breaking the 4th Wall, Byron Cinema, Nottingham 

The Bohunk Open, Bohunk Institute, Nottingham 

5 Squared, Bohunk Institute, Nottingham 

Fresh Meat, Bohunk Institue, Nottingham 

2013 Made in England, Jinji Lake Museum, Suzhou, China 

Biomes, Bohunk Institute, Nottingham 

2012 New Contemporaries, Wirksworth Art Festival, Derbyshire 

Fine Art Graduate Show, Loughborough University, Leicestershire 

2010 Chewable Studios, Leicestershire 

Student Art Network, London 

About 

Martin Clarkson, ( 1988 ) is a British artist living and working in South West Scotland. Clarkson studied fine art painting at Loughborough University, and has painted over the last decade since. He has curated and shown work in numerous group exhibitions around the east midlands, London and overseas. From 2021 to present, Clarkson has shifted his approach from working primarily within a studio context, to painting En Plein Air, focusing first hand on the natural worlds of the British archipelago. Clarkson has paintings in various private collections, including Australia, China, Europe and the UK.