Linda Schwab lives and works in Yorkshire, UK.
The starting point for her work falls into two categories; ‘recent events’, from life or mobile phone photos and ‘recreated events’, from archive or found photographs.
The paintings capture something mysterious and unknown, someone or something seen at a distance and committed to memory.
She describes the process of painting as starting with an objective record and ending with an attempt to capture what can be sensed at the peripheries of vision.
Public Art catalogue available on request.
For further information, prices and enquiries,
please use the contact form, thanks.
The starting point for her work falls into two categories; ‘recent events’, from life or mobile phone photos and ‘recreated events’, from archive or found photographs.
The paintings capture something mysterious and unknown, someone or something seen at a distance and committed to memory.
She describes the process of painting as starting with an objective record and ending with an attempt to capture what can be sensed at the peripheries of vision.
Public Art catalogue available on request.
For further information, prices and enquiries,
please use the contact form, thanks.
EDUCATION
1979-82 University of Central Lancashire, BA Fine Art
1982-84 Slade School of Art, UCL, MA Painting
COLLECTIONS
Unilever, Calderdale, Dean Clough, Leicestershire,
Absolut Vodka and Private Collections.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
‘Let’s Get Lost’ Lido Stores Margate
British Art Fair
RA Summer Exhibition
London Art Fair
2023 RA Summer Exhibition
2022 RA Summer Exhibition
RWS Open
Group Shows - Contemporary 6 & Old School Gallery
2021 Group Shows - Contemporary 6 & Old School Gallery
2018 ‘Me and You’ Dean Clough Galleries
2005 ‘Situation Leeds’ various venues, Leeds
2000 Lancaster Festival of Digital Arts 2000
1997 ‘Absolut Collection’ Leeds
1994 ‘Wunderkammer’ Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds.
1994 ‘La Poupée’ Bankfield Museum, Halifax
1992 ‘Penumbra’ Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough
1989 ‘An Artist’s Life’ Spink & Son, London
1985 ‘Capital Paintings’ Barbican Gallery
1984 ‘Germinations’ Germany/Edinburgh/London/France
1983 ‘X Preston’ Harris Museum and Art Gallery
1983 ‘Summer Show’ Royal Academy London
1981 ‘Leicestershire Collection’ Beaumanor Hall, Leicester
1981 Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘Lost Domains’ Contemporary Six
2012 ‘Supernova’ Royal Pump Room, Harrogate
2001 ‘War Stories’ Leeds City Art Gallery and Leeds station
1994 ‘Walk on By’ Clough Galleries
1985 Piece Hall Gallery, Halifax & Oldham Art Gallery.
AWARDS
2009 Leeds Architecture Award, Public Realm + Landscape,
2009 BBH - Best Use of Visual Art, Bristol Heart Institute.
2000, 1993, 1992, Yorkshire Arts.
1981 Prize winner Northern Young Contemporaries
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
Newcastle Cathedral, Alder Hey in the Park,
City Care/Hull NHS, Leeds City Council,
Chrysalis Arts, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital,
Peterborough NHS Trust, Leeds Teaching Hospitals,
Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS, Bewley’s Hotel,
Public Art Leicester.
1979-82 University of Central Lancashire, BA Fine Art
1982-84 Slade School of Art, UCL, MA Painting
COLLECTIONS
Unilever, Calderdale, Dean Clough, Leicestershire,
Absolut Vodka and Private Collections.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
‘Let’s Get Lost’ Lido Stores Margate
British Art Fair
RA Summer Exhibition
London Art Fair
2023 RA Summer Exhibition
2022 RA Summer Exhibition
RWS Open
Group Shows - Contemporary 6 & Old School Gallery
2021 Group Shows - Contemporary 6 & Old School Gallery
2018 ‘Me and You’ Dean Clough Galleries
2005 ‘Situation Leeds’ various venues, Leeds
2000 Lancaster Festival of Digital Arts 2000
1997 ‘Absolut Collection’ Leeds
1994 ‘Wunderkammer’ Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds.
1994 ‘La Poupée’ Bankfield Museum, Halifax
1992 ‘Penumbra’ Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough
1989 ‘An Artist’s Life’ Spink & Son, London
1985 ‘Capital Paintings’ Barbican Gallery
1984 ‘Germinations’ Germany/Edinburgh/London/France
1983 ‘X Preston’ Harris Museum and Art Gallery
1983 ‘Summer Show’ Royal Academy London
1981 ‘Leicestershire Collection’ Beaumanor Hall, Leicester
1981 Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘Lost Domains’ Contemporary Six
2012 ‘Supernova’ Royal Pump Room, Harrogate
2001 ‘War Stories’ Leeds City Art Gallery and Leeds station
1994 ‘Walk on By’ Clough Galleries
1985 Piece Hall Gallery, Halifax & Oldham Art Gallery.
AWARDS
2009 Leeds Architecture Award, Public Realm + Landscape,
2009 BBH - Best Use of Visual Art, Bristol Heart Institute.
2000, 1993, 1992, Yorkshire Arts.
1981 Prize winner Northern Young Contemporaries
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
Newcastle Cathedral, Alder Hey in the Park,
City Care/Hull NHS, Leeds City Council,
Chrysalis Arts, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital,
Peterborough NHS Trust, Leeds Teaching Hospitals,
Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS, Bewley’s Hotel,
Public Art Leicester.