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Richard Kidd
Painter & Printmaker

Richard Kidd is a Newcastle-based artist. Born and brought up in the region, he won a Rome Scholarship immediately following his graduation from Newcastle University.

After spending time in Italy he returned to London, where he exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery and was taken up by the Rowan Gallery in London.

He has lived and worked in both California and New York, assisted by a Harkness Fellowship, and is currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Artist’s Statement 

My paintings are about remote, mountainous landscapes because that’s where I feel most at home. I make them in ways which push my control of materials to the limit because that feels like “being there”.

Georges Braque once said, “Making a painting is like taking a journey”. This seems to me to be a fitting comparison. Sometimes you know where you’re going. The route is planned.

Other times you get lost, perhaps deliberately, and end up somewhere totally unexpected. Both approaches are equally valid. The one quality, common to both, which distinguishes the successful painting from the failure is ‘a sense of place’.

Public Collections include:
Arts council of England, North East
British Council
Belfast Museum
Central Square, Newcastle
Clare College, Cambridge
Coopers Lybrand, London
Directors Institute, London
Glasgow University
Law Courts, Birmingham
Leicestershire Education Authority
MOMA Rio de Janeiro
MOMA San Francisco
MOMA Zurich
Northumbria University
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Warwick University

Represented at the Miami Art Fair 2005

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