Mary Ramsden creates intimately-scaled abstract compositions in which amoebic forms fuse with bold, gestural mark-making. Delicate in scale, yet raw and ambitious in execution, Ramsden’s works are testament to a commitment to painting as a progressive language that demands our attentive engagement.
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
Royal Academy, London
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
Leith School of Art, Edinburgh
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Pilar Corrias Gallery, London - UK
2010
Atticsalt Gallery, Edinburgh - SCO
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Making Familiar, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin – IR
From New Perspectives, Marcelle Joseph Projects - UK
2011
Laurence Kavanagh, Simon Mathers, Mary Ramsden, Damien Roach, Cally Spooner, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London - UK
2010
The Moving Gallery, Newcastle- UK
Purity is Myth, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London -UK
Future Phase, The Arches, London- UK
Rag Factory, Brick Lane, London – UK
Group show, Open Eye Gallery, London- UK
2009
Kunskog, Five Hundred Dollars, London – UK
Bilateria, Five Hundred Dollars, London – UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London – UK
New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh – SCO
Best of British, Swinton Park, Yorkshire – UK
20 Years, Leith Gallery, Edinburgh – SCO
2008
Student Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh – SCO
Point of Delivery, Slade School of Art, London- UK Ausgang, Edinburgh College of Art- SCO
2007
The Lomellini Family, Minto House, Edinburgh – SCO
Works on Paper, The Prince of Wales Drawing School, London - UK
2006
Patina, Atticsalt Gallery, Edinburgh – SCO
2005
The Art of Care, Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh – SCO
Cornucopia, Atticsalt Gallery, Edinburgh – SCO
Group Show, Red Door Gallery, Edinburgh - SCO
Young Turks, Atticsalt Gallery, Edinburgh – SCO
Awards
2009
Carnegie Travelling Scholarship
2008
Sir William Gillies Bequest Award
The George Jackson Hutchinson Memorial Award
2007
Andrew Grant Bequest Award
Mary Ramsden at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Mary Ramsden is taking part in the group show Making Familiar curated by James Merrigan and Robert Amstrong at the Temple Bar Gallery. The exhibition will feature the work of twelve painters. Its display will be rethought every week over … More
Artissima 17 Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea
Pilar Corrias Gallery is delighted to announce its participation at Artissima 17: Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin The gallery will present new work by: Charles Avery Ulla von Brandenburg Keren Cytter Elizabeth Neel Philippe Parreno Mary Ramsden Mary Reid Kelley … More
Mary Ramsden at Pilar Corrias London, Neon Cactus, 2012 (Download pdf)
Mary Ramsden
Pilar Corrias is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Mary Ramsden. Mary Ramsden’s practice is unapologetically painterly. Strategically refusing referential readings, she makes painted objects whose compositional unity belies the complexity of their making. In Ramsden’s work … More
Group exhibition
Pilar Corrias Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new works by five London-based artists: Laurence Kavanagh, Simon Mathers, Mary Ramsden, Damien Roach, and Cally Spooner. In the main gallery, Laurence Kavanagh presents Dead Matter (mirror fire monkey)Dead Matter … More
Purity is a Myth
Pilar Corrias Gallery is delighted to present Purity is a Myth, an exhibition bringing together new work by Keltie Ferris, Rannv a Kunoy, Elizabeth Neel, Baker Overstreet and Mary Ramsden. Grounded in a rejection of painting as a vehicle for … More