Artist CV

Artist's statement

(b 1986GB. Lives and works in Norwich)

Alec Cumming's work unpacks his experiences of living and travelling abroad in places as wide-ranging as India, Sri Lanka and California. Using oil on canvas, Cumming's pan-global visual vocabulary creates a dialogue between West and East through abstracted, semi-recognisable places, forms and images featuring fabrics, snapshots of street views, tyres stacked on the road or a table laden with drinks and paraphernalia. Often his work suggests a narrative, but focuses expressly on the way light enhances the compositions he creates. "This kind of abstraction allows me the pleasure of observing the world and translating it into a visual dialogue,” he says.

Solo exhibitions

2019: ‘Perfect Adventures’, The Edit Gallery, Limasol, Cyprus
2018: ‘Things Apart, an exploration of material memory’, The South Asia Collection, Norwich UK
2017: ‘Dialogues with India’, Dove Street Residency, Norwich, UK; ‘Stripped Bare’, The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi, India
2016: ‘Provenance Norwich’, The Crypt Gallery, Norwich School, Norwich, UK
2015: ‘Art & Soul ‘, Bang & Olufson, Norwich, UK; ‘Alec Cumming; ‘New Painting’, The Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Street, Somerset, UK
2013: 'To Wander, To Lust', The Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
'Earthly Epics, Paradise Spice', Art 1821, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
2012: 'To Wander, to Lust', The Queens Gallery, British Council, New Delhi, India
2011: ‘A language of its own’, Alan Wheatley Art, 22 Masons Yard, Duke Street, St James, London
2010: ‘Forms that Flow’, Alan Wheatley Art, 22 Masons Yard, Duke Street St Jame's, London
2009: Recent Works at Epic, 112-114 Magdelan Street, Norwich, Norfolk
2008: The Swan House, Beccles
2005: Recent Paintings at The Exchange Gallery, Harleston

Group exhibitions

2020: The Other Art Fair LA, Barker Hanger, SM, Los Angeles; The Other Art Fair London, Truman Brewery, London
2019: Another One, The Edit Gallery, Limassol; The Other Art Fair, London; The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles; Summer 19, The Edit Gallery, Limasol; Kunsthalle, Aeroskobing, Denmark; The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA; The Other Art Fair, London, UK; Artists are the new Athletes, The Edit Gallery, Limasol, Cyprus
2018: The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles; The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles
2017: Seeing Things, Nunns Yard Gallery, Norwich
2016: India Art fair 8th Edition, Delhi
2015: India Art Fair 7th Edition, Delhi
2014: Printed Painting, Alec Cumming and Tazelaar Stevenson, 13A, St Augustines Street, Norwich; Holt Festival Art Prize, The Auden Theatre, Holt, Norfolk; India Art Fair 6th Edition, Delhi, India
2013: Mumbai Art Festival, Art and Aesthetic, Mumbai; Own An Original', Art And Aesthetic, Lado Sarai, New Delhi; The Deck Of Cards', Art 1821, Norwich; The Black Frame Project: Your Singapore', Indigo Blue Art, Singapore; Time Will Tell - Forms and Expressions Of Young Contemporaries', Art and Aesthetic, Lado Sarai, New Delhi; Salon de Printempts, Art 18/21, Norwich; India Art Fair 5th Edition, Delhi, India
2012: Mumbai Art Festival, Art and Aesthetic, Mumbai; Summer Bodies, Art 18/21, Tombland, Norwich; Norfolk Contemporary Art Society, NCA 12, The Forum, Norwich; West:East, Exhibition with Mathew Lanyon, Art 18/21, Norwich; Val Baroda, MS University Gallery, Baroda, Gujarat; 4th India Art Fair, New Delhi
2011: Salthouse 11, 'Ad limina', Salthouse, North Norfolk; Summer Exhibition, Art 1821, Norwich; Inspirations, Jarrolds, St James Mill, Norwich; India Art Summit 2011, New Delhi
2010: New Paintings, ICA Gallery, Jaipur; The Touch of Paint, Maggi Hambling, Tory Lawrence, Chris Newson’, Alec Cumming, Art 1821 Gallery, Norwich; Raw Gestures, Art 1821 Gallery, Norwich; Norfolk Artists.' Mandell's Gallery, Norwich.
2009: Target Follow winter art fair, Bally Shoe Factory, Hall Road, Norwich; Exhibition with Jamie Andrews, Stew Gallery, 40 Fishergate, Norwich, NR3 1SL; Norfolk and Norwich Open Studios; Any Day Now, Stew Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
2007: The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth, Suffolk; NSAD Degree Show, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich
2006: Norwich Fringe Festival, Bally Shoe Factory, Norwich

Awards & residencies

2010: ICA Gallery, Jaipur, India
2011-2013: NIV art Centre, Delhi, India
2015-2016: Norwich Cathedral School, Norwich, UK
2017: Goa Chitra Museum, Delhi, India
2017: Dove Street Studios, Norwich, UK
2020: Banditto Residency, Tuscany, Italy.

Education

2002-2004: BTEC National Diploma Fine Art, Norwich City College
2004-2007: BA (hons) Fine Art, Norwich School of Art and Design