Born: Wirral
Lives: Liverpool

Education

Foundation; Art and Design. Wirral Met. College 1992
BA (Hons) History of Art. Staffordshire University 1995
MA Art History, Liverpool University 1998

Solo Exhibitions
Score Draw, recent paintings by Gareth Kemp.
Liverpool Biennial 06
Cube noir gallery, The Albany, Liverpool.

The pictures exhibited are part of a series of paintings inspired by the beautiful game, showing that football, like art, has a knack of imitating and reflecting life and the world it exists in. Some of the photographs used as a starting point for the paintings were chosen because Gareth felt the photograph summed up the decade in which they were taken. Others were chosen due to their homo-eroticness, something very taboo in the world of football. This has been exaggerated by the titles of the pictures. These include; Bend it, Naked flesh painting NoI, Just good friends and Behind


FUTURE EXHIBITIONS

Next Up: Liverpool Art Now
Blucoat Gallery, Liverpool.
December 12, 2008 – February 15, 2009


Recent exhibitions include

Summer exhibition, Karen Taylor Gallery, Twickenham. 2008
The Liverpool Art prize, NCUC, Liverpool. 2008
Deck the Walls. Wills Art Warehouse,Putney common, London. 2007
Open Ex. Cafe Gallery Projects, Centre of Southwark Park. 2007
Sefton Open. The Atkinson Gallery, Southport. 2007
The Affordable Art Fair. New York, 2007
Spring Open. Williamson Art Gallery, 2007
Art for Business at The Albany. Liverpool. 2006
Wirral Open. Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead. 2006
Inaugural. Cube noir, Liverpool Biennial 2006
Score Draw. Cube noir, Liverpool Biennial 2006
Soup versus Gazpacho. Cube noir, Liverpool Biennial 2006

For Liverpool Independents Biennial 06, Gareth curated the following shows at Cube noir:-
Inaugural
Soup versus Gazpacho
Score Draw; recent painting by Gareth Kemp
Half cut for confidence; recent paintings by Tim Ellis
The North West passage

Grants/Awards
Short-listed for Liverpool Art Prize 2008.
www.liverpoolartprize.com

Projects
Through Cube noir, Gareth is planning a number of ambitious exhibitions and projects for Liverpool's capital of culture in 2008. Details to follow. Cube noir website is currently being built. However, you can view the poster and details of the Biennial 06 exhibitions on www.cubenoir.com