ABOUT JEMMA
Appleby's drawings amplify each environment's simplicity and purity with an aim of clarification. These clean minimal spaces offer little information yet have an authority to describe a magnitude. The non-narrative architectural spaces make enquiries of the memory, knowledge and experience of human space.
Jemma Appleby (United Kingdom, 1987) is a graduate of City and Guilds of London Art School. Her works have been showcased in the UK, France, Italy, Spain and Colombia, in exhibitions such as; the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy of Arts; Architecture As Metaphor, with Phyllida Barlow, Rachel Whiteread, and Richard Deacon at the Griffin Gallery; and LA.CU.NA at LAMB Arts. Her works are featured in the permanent collections of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Macaulay Library in Kent and Hartnett Holder & Co restaurant.
She is the recipient of The Arts Club Prize for Finest Drawing at the National Open Art Competition in 2010 and The Haworth Trust Award for Painting. Appleby recently had exhibitions in Gibraltar, Madrid and London, with the critically acclaimed exhibition “The Light in the World is Without a Significant Plan”.
Selected Exhibitions
2023
The London Group Open Exhibition, London
At The Water's Edge, Pie Factory, Margate
170th Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Summer Exhibition curated by David Remfry RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Pastel Society Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
193rd RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin
197th RSA Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
St Barbe Open, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Hampshire
Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Open, Conwy, Wales
2022
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
RWA Annual Open Exhibition, RWA, Bristol
'The Architecture of Trees', Gallery East, Woodbridge Suffolk
'New Mythologies', King & McGaw, OHSH Projects, London
'Regeneration: The Queen’s Green Canopy', Nature in Art Museum and Gallery, Gloucester
2021
Light/Dark, London
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Summer Exhibition curated by Yinka Shonibare RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London
‘Being With Trees’, Gustavo Bacarisas Gallery, Gibraltar
2020
‘Luce’, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London
‘Folding the Visible’, online solo exhibition with Daniel Benjamin Gallery curated by Maria Valeria Biondo
2019
WAC Awards, Wells Cathedral, Somerset
'The Light in the World is Without a Significant Plan', Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London
'Lux Materia', Programa Taide and Daniel Benjamin Gallery, Madrid, Spain
'The Art of The Tree', The Young Gallery, Salisbury
Creekside Open, Selected by Sacha Craddock, APT Gallery, London
2018
The Derwent Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London, touring to Trowbridge Arts, Wiltshire and The Pencil Museum, Cumbria
St Ives Society of Artists, Mariners Gallery, St Ives
‘Making Space’, Kobi & Teal, Frome, Somerset
ArtRooms Roma, Rome
Summer Exhibition curated by Grayson Perry, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2017
‘The Art of Trees’, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London
‘Be Right Back’, Manuel Vason Studio, London
Browns East, Shoreditch, London
‘Four Fingers and a Thumb’, Strand Gallery, London
‘Les Arborealistes - L'art des arbres’, Les Dortoirs des Moines, Poitiers, France
‘Architecture As Metaphor’, Griffin Gallery, London, with Phyllida Barlow and Richard Deacon
‘Peripheries at Lisa Norris Gallery’, London
2016
‘LA.CU.NA’, LAMB Arts, London
Art Bo, LAMB Arts – Bogota, Colombia
‘The Arborealists: The art of the tree’, St Barbe Museum, Lymington
Chicks with Bricks, Cannes
2015
LAPADA, Berkley Square, London
‘Arborealists: The Art of Trees’, Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Royal West of England Academy Secret Postcard Auction, Bristol
Antlers Gallery, London Art Fair, London
2014
‘Arboretum’, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
‘Contemporary and Modern British Drawings’, The Art Stable, Dorset
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Visual Arts, London
‘Perfectionism: A Method of Practice’, Griffin Gallery, London
2013
‘Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British Tree’, St Barbe Museum in association with Southampton City Art Gallery
‘Strange Worlds’, Forum des Arts, Chateau de Blavou, Normandy
‘About Town’, Sarah O’Kane Contemporary Fine Art, Lewes
2012
‘Griffin Art Prize’, Griffin Gallery, London
‘Ludlow Open’, Ludlow
‘Holon 1:14.013’, Meantime, Cheltenham, solo exhibition
‘The Open West 2012’, Gloucester Cathedral
2011
‘Now is my Winter’, Griffin Rayne Gallery, London
‘Outside In’, Store Street Gallery, London
Lisa Sharpe Contemporary Art, One Alfred Place, London
‘Artworks Open 2011’, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
‘Exhausted Colour’, Griffin Rayne Gallery, London
RBA Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2010
‘Intimate Spaces’, Galerie8, London
National Open Art Competition Chichester
‘Along These Lines’, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Romsey
The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
Collections
Permanent collection at the Royal Academy of Engineering
The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
‘Democracy’, site specific drawings for permanent collection, Macaulay Library, Babington House, Kent
Permanent collection at Hartnett Holder & Co, Limewood, Lyndhurst and Whitley Ridge, Brockenhurst
Awards
2023
The Academy Award at Royal West of England Academy
Shortlist Drawing of the Year 2022, ArchiSource
St Barbe Open, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Hampshire - High Commended
Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Open, Conwy, Wales - Highly Commended
2013
Chateau de Blavou Residency - Forum des Arts, Normandy
2012
Meantime Residency in association with The Open West
2010
The Arts Club Prize for Finest Drawing, National Open Art Competition
Royal Society of British Artists residency award at The British School at Rome
2009
The Haworth Trust Award for Painting
Publications
2023
Ideas Pocketbook 2023, ArchiSource
2019
‘Seeing Architecture in a different light’ by Rupert Bickersteth, Architects Journal
2017
The Guardian/The Observer – ‘Into the Woods’ – Exhibition review by Rachel Cooke
‘Trebuchet’ Issue 2, ISSN:1753-030X
‘BE: The journal of the Built Environment Trust’
‘Les Arborealistes: L’art des arbres’ Poitiers, France, ISBN:978-0-9555510-5-5
‘Architecture as Metaphor’, ISBN:978-0-9954639-6-7
2016
Blouin Art Info – ‘What to See, and Buy, Art Bo’, Exhibition review
‘The Arborealists: The art of the tree’ by Angela Summerfield and Peter Davis2016 ISBN 978-1908326867
House & Garden – profile by Emily Tobin
2013
‘Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British Tree from Constable to Kurt Jackson’ by Anne Anderson 2013 ISBN 978-1-908326-30-02
2012
‘Holon | Hutong | Jubilee’, handmade limited edition book
2011
‘Gallery View’, The Market, business investment magazine
2010
‘Press Release’, Threadneedle Prize
2009
The Culture Show Special Edition: The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2009, BBC2
Education
2009
City and Guilds of London Art School
2006
Byam Shaw School of Art