Darren Banks
Biography
Born
1978, Orsett, Essex, UK
1998
- 2002 BA Fine Art (Hons), University of Newcastle upon Tyne
2003
- 2005 MA Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Selected Solo
Exhibitions
2010
Soothsayers,
Sierra
Metro, Edinburgh, UK
2009
Prussian
Projekte,
Nottingham
2007
Goddess,
British & European Legs, CAN07, Norwich
2006
Sci-fi
Looking Thing,
Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
Selected Group
Exhibitions
2010
No
Soul For Sale,
Tate Modern, London, UK
Better
Place Portraiture: Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery
Selected
Video Works
Scratch Nights at Milton Keynes Gallery
2009
Better
Place Portraiture
Auto-Italia southeast, London
Better
Place Portraiture, Summer
Group Show, the Old Police Station, London
Panda
Milan-Head,
Auto-Italia southeast, London
The
Intimate,
The Infinite & The Impossible at Magican, Belgrade
Drawing
2009,
The Drawing Room, London
Yes
Way,
Auto-Italia & UTR, London
The
Golden Record,
Lincoln Museum & BAC London
BCN
Exhibition,
Cooper’s Building, Newcastle
2008
TOMORROW
THE FUTURE, Fishmarket
Gallery, Northampton, UK
"All
My Favourite Singers Couldn't Sing…" Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
The
Golden Record,
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Back
Garden Biennial, curated by Sara Sinclair, Edinburgh
Epic, Auto-Italia, London
King
Fisher's Tales,
Union Gallery, London
Art
Futures,
Bloomberg Space, London
2007
Beacon
Of Hope,
Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
Metteurs
en Scène,
The Embassy, Edinburgh
Drawing
2007,
The Drawing Room, London
DC Workplace Gallery stand, Düsseldorf, Germany
Spook
up I can’t hear you,
The Embassy, ECA, Edinburgh
Comfort
Zones,
Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales, Touring exhibition
Art
Futures,
Bloomberg Space, London
The
Opposite of Vertigo,
The Drawing Room, London
2006
Better
Place Portraiture, MIMA,
Middlesbrough
Electrical
Activity,
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle
The
Opposite of Vertigo,
Burren College of Art, Ireland
Formal
Dining,
Hales Gallery, curated by Workplace
Blue
Star Red Wedge,
Glasgow International, curated by Workplace
The
Space In-Between the Sole and the Heel, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2005
Darren
Banks and Mattias Harenstam, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
The
Space In-Between the Sole and the Heel, Globe Gallery, Newcastle
2004
Windows
Wide Open,
Side Cinema, Newcastle
Practice, Newcastle
2003
Show
2,
Starboard Home, Newcastle upon Tyne
Novotel
Rooms,
Magnifitat, Edinburgh
Film
Screenings
2008
Beyond
Film,
curated by Workplace, Durham, UK
Back
garden Biennial,
curated by Sara Sinclair, Edinburgh
2007
Spook
Up I Can't Hear You,
The Embassy, ECA, Edinburgh
Bibliography
2010
Soothsayers,
Map Magazine- John Beagles
Soothsayers,
The List- Neil Cooper
Soothsayers,
the skinny- Adeline Amar
2009
It’s
not the end of the world, NVA- Jennie Syson
Untitled,
Axis Artist Database- Neil Mulholland
Unpublished
‘Stop, Rewind, Eject’- Benjamin Newell
2007
The
Opposite of Vertigo,
Flash Art magazine - Courtney J. Martain
British
& European Legs,
Artist Newsletter - Stephanie Douet
Domestic
Virtues: Art, Interiority and Domesticity, Chris Townsend
2006
Blue
Star, Red Wedge,
Matt Hearn
Collections
Private
collections, UK / USA
The
Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Commissions
and Awards
2006
Graduates, Axis Artist Database
2003
European
Social Fund Bursary
2002
The
Hatton Gallery Student Prize