Plum Cloutman is a painter and printmaker whose work has been awarded the Catriona White Prize, the Lyon and Turnbull Prize, and was featured in the 2019 Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries exhibition. Taking the still, the ornamental and the static as raw artistic material, she uses her brush, pencil and pastel – in small, deft concentric motions – to animate her subjects. Sharp and deliberate lines differentiate the pools of soft colour characteristics of the scenes she paints: a bricolage of textures, tones and moods that recall the hazy and unreliable dreamscapes of sleep. These images are often fractured between panels, or affixed to the more corporeal textures of steel or metal.
Graduating in 2018 from Edinburgh College of Art, Cloutman has exhibited widely across the UK and internationally, with recent shows in New York, Athens, Los Angeles, Montreal, and Amsterdam.
Education
2014-2018 BA (Hons) First Class from Edinburgh College of Art Painting
Solo Exhibitions
2023
A Wanting Thing, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Remarkably Well Preserved, M+B, Los Angeles, USA
2022
Kennel Cough, Arusha Gallery, London, United Kingdom
I Take What Is Mine, Gallery 9, New York, USA
2021
Space II, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2024
Pluck, Pangée gallery, Montreal, Canada
The Superfluity of Things, James Cohan Gallery, New York City, USA|
2023
Portal, Arusha Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2022
I Take What Is Mine, Gallery 9, New York, USA
2021
Cruel Intentions, Arusha Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Safe As Milk, Arusha Gallery, London, United Kingdom