[ Mark Fairnington ]

Mark Fairnington is Professor of Painting at the University of the Arts London. His paintings, known for their intense realism and observed detail, vary tremendously in scale from large scale paintings of mounted insects, taxidermy displays of birds, flowers, portraits of prize stud bulls to a series of miniature landscape paintings.

Recent solo exhibitions include Sottobosco: Tales of the Undergrowth, Globe Gallery, North Shields (2024) Wild World, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany (2023) Here’s Looking at You, Robert Upstone Gallery, London (2023) The Landscape Room, Handel Street Projects (2020), Relics at Ushaw Historic House (2020), Unheimliche Pastorale, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany (2018) and Collected and Possessed at the Horniman Museum (2016).

Group exhibitions include Suppose You Are Not, Arter, Istanbul (2024) Reimag(in)ing the Victorians, Djanogly Gallery (2023) Childhood Now, Compton Verney (2019), The Nature of the Beast, New Art Gallery, Walsall (2013) A Duck for Mr Darwin at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (2009) and Fabulous Beasts at the Natural History Museum (2004).