Curriculum Vitae - Stuart Pearson Wright


Personal: Born 1975, Northampton


Education: BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London 1995-1999


Competition Entries and Awards:

Royal Academy Summer Show 1998
Hunting Art Prize 1998
BP Portrait Awards 1998 (Travel Award Winner)
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 1998
Hunting Art Prize 1999
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 1999 (Third Prize)
Winsor & Newton Millennium Competition 2000 (British Finalist)
BP Portrait Awards 1999
BP Portrait Awards 2000
Grant Award from Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation 2000
Garrick/Milne Competition 2000 (Prizewinner)
Royal Society of British Painters 2000 at the Mall Gallery
BP Portrait Awards 2001
BP Portrait Awards 2002 (First prize winner)


Exhibitions:
Group Show 1993 Brighton Arts Centre
Solo Show 1994 Eastbourne Arts Centre
Solo Show 1995 Eastbourne Arts Centre
Group Show Thompsons Art Gallery 1999
Solo Show 1999 National Portrait Gallery (as a result of BP Travel Award)


Noted persons depicted in Paintings:
Group Portrait of the six past-presidents of the British Academy: Sir Tony Wrigley, Lord Randolph Quirk, Sir Anthony Kenney, Sir Kenneth Dover, Sir Keith Thomas and Rev Owen Chadwick OM
Mike Leigh (Film Director)
Brenda Blethyn (Actress)
Richard E. Grant (Actor)
Charles Saumerez Smith - Director of National Gallery, London ( formerly Director of National Portrait Gallery )
Adam Cooper (Ballet dancer)
John Hurt (Actor)
David Thewlis (Actor)