Richard Moon
b. 1971 England; lives and works London
 
 

 
 

 
 
Starlet, 2006, oil on canvas,
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Moon’s work sets out to explore a fascination with the uncanny or a negative aesthetic that inspires both allure and discomfort in equal measure. His arresting portraits of composite people are borne by combining with his own invention long discarded images of folk from early Victorian photographs and old magazine cuttings. As such, the characters portrayed seem to belong eerily to some undefined or illusory era: dislocated beings that hover tantalisingly in the spaces between what the viewer knows to be real and unreal. By reappropriating, reassembling and reinvesting with value what are long discarded images, Moon hints at new narrative possibilities, untold stories and unknown pasts. And it’s precisely this enigmatic quality - what we don’t know about the subjects of Moon’s portraits - that becomes so enticing and, on occasion, so disturbing.

Richard Moon is a graduate of the RA Schools (2005). He was a finalist for John Moores 24 Painting Prize.
 
 
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EDUCATION 2002 - 2005 The Royal Academy, London; Post-Graduate Diploma, Fine Art; 1999 - 2002 Camberwell College of Art, London; BA (Hons) Painting (First Class); 1998 - 1999 Chelsea College of Art and Design; Portfolio Preparation; SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2006 Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Gallerie, Vienna (curated by Jasper Sharp); John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Finalist); New London Kicks, Soho House New York, USA; Celeste Art Prize, Old Truman Brewery, London (Finalist); Richard Moon, Wyer Gallery, London (Solo Show); Concrete Allotment (Curated by Kristen Lovelock), TemporaryContemporary, London 2005 New Paintings: Elinor Evans, Anja Ganster, Richard Moon, Matthew Murphy, Wyer Gallery, London; Post Grad Diploma Exhibition, Royal Academy,
 
London 2004 Premiums: Second Year Post-Graduate Students Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 2003 Sound of the Suburbs, The Woodlands Gallery, London 2002 The Next Big Thing, The Gallery, Cork Street, London; Future Map 02, London Institute Gallery, London; Degree Show, Camberwell College of Art, London; (X)hibit, London Institute Gallery, London; The Worshipful Company of Painter/Stainers, Painters Hall, London 2001 C6: Six Camberwell Artists, The House Gallery, London; Second Year Students Exhibition, Camberwell College of Art, London PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Saatchi Collection, London PROJECTS Assitant Painter to Sol Lewitt on 'Wall Drawing no. 1070 executed on site at Tower Place, London, 2003