About Arron
Arron Kuiper was born in 1984 in rural North Wales where he grew up and has lived for most of his life. He studied Fine Art at Licester De Montfort University before transferring to Cardiff School of Art and Design. He graduated in 2011.
He is best known for inventing and developing a unique gel-based medium he terms ‘Sculptural Painting,’ which has constituted his main practice for over a decade. Arron’s work has earned multiple national awards, has been widely shown across the U.K., and has also featured in numerous national and international publications.
Arron moved back home to North Wales in 2016 where he continues to work in a shed in the middle of the woods.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Paint³
Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2014
Terra Infirma
Modern Alchemists Gallery, Cardiff
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
2022, 2016
Ty Pawb Open
Ty Pawb, Wrexham
2022, 2021
Royal Cambrian Open
Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy
2021
Beep Painting Biennial
Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2018
Beep International Painting Prize
Elysium Gallery, Swansea; Undegun
Gallery, Wrexham
2011
ING Discerning Eye
Mall Galleries, London
2015
Cardiff Contemporary
Oriel Castell, Cardiff
2012
Cardiff Open
Project 10, Cardiff
AWARDS
2021
Ty Pawb Open
Ty Pawb, Wrexham
Young Person’s Prize
2020
Beep Painting Biennial
Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Glynn Vivian Welsh Artist Award
2011
ING Discerning Eye
Mall Galleries, London
Meynell Fenton Prize
FEATURES AND PUBLICATIONS
2022
Sculptural Painting, Artists Talk
2021
The Paint Sculptor, Artist Talk, Presented by The Friends of Glynn Vivian
2020
Sculptural Painting, Friends of Glynn Vivian Newsletter
2015
VICE The Creators Project, Oil injected Gel makes incredible 3D paintings
Business Insider, These surreal 3D paintings were created by injecting oil paint into gel
2011
AN Magazine, Cover Image and Artist Feature, September issue
PERMANENT DISPLAY
Tides Gallery
Swansea
Drawing Board
Wrexham
OTHER SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Land of Change
Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Uncommon Ground
Undegun Gallery, Wrexham
2017
Wandering
Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk
Works of Barefoot Rascals
Sho Gallery, Cardiff
2016
Beep International: This is the place I never wanted to leave
Arcade Gallery, Cardiff
2015
MADE from the Museum
M.A.D.E Gallery and National Museum, Cardiff
Haye Festival Show
Lion Street Gallery, Haye on Wye
Grand Opening
Erwood Station Gallery, Erwood
2014
Undetermined Paths
Abacus Gallery, Cardiff
Half Bound
Abacus Gallery, Cardiff
Trash
Rich Mix, London
Primavera
M.A.D.E Gallery, Cardiff
2013
Hand of Roath
Modern Alchemists Gallery, Cardiff
Outside in: West
Museum of Somerset, Taunton
2012
Outside in: National
Pallent House Gallery, Sussex
Citizen III
Tactile Bosch, Cardiff
2011
Moist
Tactile Bosch, Cardiff
CSAD BA Fine Art Degree Show
Howard Gardens, Cardiff
2010
Mapping Out - Death of a Discipline
Bay Art, Cardiff
2006
New Trends in Painting Since 2000
LCB Depot, Leicester