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