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Photo: Terry McGough

Isobel Brigham lives and works in London

EDUCATION, AWARDS, EXHIBITIONS

EDUCATION

1992–1994

Slade School of Fine Art, Masters of Fine Art


1988–1992

Chelsea School of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts


1963

Born Hampshire, UK


AWARDS

2023

Ruth Borchard Prize, Shortlisted Artist


2016

The ING Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary 1st Prize


2001

Awarded Prince of Wales Drawing School Bursary


1998

Awarded Royal Overseas League Travel Scholarship


1995

BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery 2nd Prize


1990

Christie’s Contemporary View, Royal College of Art 2nd Prize


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

“Female Pensée: A Short Film” premiered at The Portobello Film Festival Video Café


2022

Music of The Spheres II, 52 Pembridge Road, London


2021

Music of The Spheres I, 52 Pembridge Road, London


2006

Prints: New Editions, Sims Reed Gallery, London


2004

New work; Browse and Darby, London


1992

Paintings; Romilly Street, Soho, London


MIXED EXHIBITIONS

2024

Art At The Park, Braxted, Essex


2023

“Female Pensée: A Short Film” premiered at The Portobello Film Festival Video Café

Ruth Borchard Prize, Shortlisted Artist, The Atkinson Museum, Southport


2022

A Mosaic design for the Grove Rooftop Garden, Ladbroke Grove, London in collaboration with RBK&C

Drawing at the National Gallery for Waterloo Community Counselling


2021

Contemporary Gallery Artists, Browse & Darby, London


2019

Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London


2018

The John Moores Painting Prize, Liverpool (Stage 2)

Wells Art Contemporary, The Bishop’s Palace, Somerset


2017

Ruth Borchard Prize, Kings Place Gallery, London


2016

The ING Discerning Eye, Drawing Bursary 1st Prize


2014

Mystery Portrait Postcards, National Portrait Gallery, London

The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London


2012

Material, with Duro Olowu a collaboration during New York Fashion Week at Salon 94, New York

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, by Artemis Cooper, Prize Draw at Heywood Hill Books, London

Portobello Film Festival 2012, posters for Barney Platts-Mills


2011

Ruth Borchard Prize, Kings Place Gallery, London

The Moth Magazine, Autumn 2011, Front Cover


2010

The Discerning Eye, (selected by Ishbel Myerscough) Mall Galleries, London


2009

Grove Women, Beverley Knowles Gallery, London


2008

Threadneedle Figurative Prize, Mall Galleries, London


2006

Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, London

The Discerning Eye, (selected by William Feaver / Stuart Pearson Wright) Mall Galleries, London


2005

The Garrick / Milne Prize, Garrick Club, London


2004

Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London


2003

The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London


2001

Awarded Prince of Wales Drawing School Bursary


1999

Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London

The Discerning Eye, (selected by Justin Mortimer) Mall Galleries, London

RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London


1998

RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Awarded Royal Overseas League Travel Scholarship


1997

RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London


1996

Die Kraft Der Biler, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

In The Looking Glass, Contempory Self-Portraits by Women, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

Aberystwyth University, Artist in Residence


1995

BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery 2nd Prize


1992

BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London

Paintings; Romilly Street, Soho, London


1991

The Nat West Prize for Art, London

The Discerning Eye (selected by Gillian Ayres) Mall Galleries, London


1990

Christie’s Contemporary View, Royal College of Art 2nd Prize

The Snow QueenA Pantomime Set Design
Danny Lane Studios, London


With grateful thanks for the support of:

Duro Olowu

Hannah Rothschild

Collection Countess of St Germans

Andrew Yale

David Plante


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Bloomsbury Publishing

Lincolnshire County Council

Sportsman’s Aid Society

Garrick Club