Her concept driven work has been depicted in paint, installation and digital media. The exploration of ideas is what compels her and she adapts her skills in many processes to convey them. Her work is provocative yet hopeful. Inspired by nature and interrupted by geometry Loz's paintings concern themselves with the human need to conquer and understand the existential mysteries of the universe. Having a distinct eye for detail, light and layering colour, gives her work visual, as well as evocative depth. Gazing into the sky and cosmos, marveling at the vastness, but only for a moment, before a line, an edge or form crashes us back to earth.
Loz has exhibited extensively in the UK, Europe, America and beyond, with one of her Imagined Nebula paintings being digitally 'bounced' off the Moon and another currently traveling through outer space on the NASA probe OSIRIS-REx. Loz has also had projects supported by Arts Council England including 'Expedition JP237' which saw her climb a mountain in Italy to discover the fatal crash site of her great grandfathers WW2 Halifax bomber. Creating work directly into the landscape of the mountain and producing a large body of work influenced by her experiences including a reworked WW2 Bristol Hercules aircraft engine.
Loz has created many pieces for public art events throughout the UK. Including jungle city Edinburgh that featured her work on the front cover of the accompanying art book. 'Deliverance' for Elephant Parade London 2010, sold at auction for £10,000 and 'An Unquenched Defiance To The Stars' for Wild Dolphins Aberdeen 2014 sold at auction for £22,000. To date her work has helped raise nearly £40,000 for various wildlife and children's charities.
Loz Atkinson is a multidisciplinary artist who has been practicing and exhibiting for over 12 years.
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
2022
The Edge Of Forever - Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester.
2020
Finding The Fallen - Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester.
2019
Veneration in Light of our Forebears - LCB Depot, Leicester.
Worlds That Never Were - Cank Street Gallery, Leicester.
2017
Those In Glass Houses - Lightbox Gallery, LCB Depot, Leicester.
2012
it’s all in your head - LCB Depot, Leicester.
Eggclusive Tour - Phoenix Sq, LCB Depot, DMU, Embrace Arts, Town Hall, Leicester.
2008
See you there - Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester.
2021
Rocket Round Leicester - Leicester.
My Love Is Your Love, Every Woman Biennial - Copeland Gallery, London.
The Other Art Fair - West Handyside Canopy, London.
TAE - Cheltenham Racecourse.
TCOA - Leicester Contemporary.
Moor Otters - Dartmoor National Park.
2020
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition.
Leicester Open 31 - Leicester Museum and Art Gallery.
Aesthetica Art Prize - York Art Gallery, York.
2019
Leicester Open 30 - New Walk Museum, Leicester.
LSA Annual Open - New Walk Museum, Leicester.
Affordable Art Fair - Battersea Park, London.
The Butterfly Effect - Semi Skimmed Gallery @ BSMT Space London.
Soft Touch Auction - Mattioi Woods, Leicester.
Spec - LCB Depot, Leicester.
Asylum II Return to the Crypt - The Crypt Gallery, London.
Summer Exhibition - The Dragon Gallery, Petworth.
Sussex Art Fair - Goodwood Racecourse, Chichester.
Opticks - International online performance between the Earth and the Moon.
We Are.. Studioname - We Are Gallery, Leicester.
2018
Black - The Crypt Gallery, London.
Leicester Open29 - New Walk Museum, Leicester.
Art is for life - StudionAme, Leicester.
LSA Annual Exhibition - New Walk Museum, Leicester.
LOVE art - Curve, Leicester.
Affordable Art Fair - Battersea Park, London.
The Other Art Fair - Victoria House, London.
StudionAme Open Studio - StudionAme, Leicester.
50/50 Presented by Artistic - The Crows Nest Gallery, London
Roy’s People Art Fair - OXO Tower Bargehouse, London.
Twitter Art Exhibit - Strathnairn Arts, Canberra, Australia.
The Other Art Fair - Victoria House, London.
Art Lending Library - Walker & Bromwich, The Gallery DMU. Leicester.
Seclusion - David Parkins Delusions of Grandeur, Attenborough AC, Leicester.
2017
Lines Crossed - Lightbox Gallery, LCB Depot, Leicester.
Permanent Fixture - Studioname Gallery, Leicester.
Loogabarooga Festival - Loughborough.
The Other Art Fair - Old Truman Brewery, London.
Stars Art Auction - Soft Touch Arts, Leicester.
The Other Art Fair - Arnolfini, Bristol.
Henson Trail - Ebley Wharf, Stroud.
Open 28 - Old Library Gallery, Leicester.
Steep Learning - Curve Theatre, Leicester.
Art House 2017 - Number 11, Leicester.
Studioname showcase - De Montfort University, Leicester.
Moor Otters - Castle Drogo, Dartmoor National Park.
Twitter Art Exhibit - Stratford Upon Avon, UK
Onwards and Upwards - Watch This Upstairs Space, Leicester.
2016
And The Art Goes On - Watch This Upstairs Space, Leicester.
Watch This Upstairs Space Launch - Watch this Space, Leicester.
Art is Everything (duct taped card) - Ground Zero, Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Good Vibes Dollar - Rum Boogie Cafe, Memphis, Tennessee.
The Debatable Lands - Highgreen, Tarset. Northumberland.
OSIRUS-REx NASA mission to Bennu Asteroid - Asteroid Belt, Solar System.
The Other Art Fair Bristol - Arnolfini, Bristol.
SpaceUp UK - Kings College London.
Open 27 - New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester.
Twitter Art Exhibit - Trygve Lie Gallery, New York.
Oxford International Art Fair - Oxford Town Hall, Oxford.
2015
Watch.This.Space - Leicester.
Loogabarooga Festival - Loughborough.
Headway Bristol's Secret Art Exhibition - OVO Energy’s Amphitheatre, Bristol.
The House of Fairy Tales Matchbox Project - Old Truman Brewery, London.
Art On A Postcard @ Moniker Art Fair - Old Truman Brewery, London.
The Other Art Fair 10th Edition - Old Truman Brewery, London.
The Short Cinema Film Festival - Phoenix, Leicester.
The House of Fairy Tales Time Travellers Ironbridge Quest - Enginuity, Telford.
Dreams: Hurt, Hope & Happiness - Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham.
Holburn Gallery - Aberdeen.
The Other Art Fair Bristol - Arnolfini, Bristol.
Open26 - Newarke Houses Museum, Leicester.
Year of the Bus - Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London.
Contemporary Boom! - Artvera's Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland.
Ugly Weekender - Primary, Nottingham.
Eclectic City - Manhattan 34, Leicester.
Bamboozle - The Silver Arcade, Leicester.
2014
Archie's Art - Wood Group’s Trafalgar House, Altens, Aberdeen.
UK Young Artists, Spilled Screen, The Silver Arcade, Leicester.
Year of the Bus Sculpture Trail - Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London.
Prince's Trust Inspiring Art - Castle Fine Art, Mayfair, London.
The Other Art Fair - Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London.
Aberdeen Art Fair - Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen.
You Are Invited To... - Pedestrian Gallery, Leicester.
Wild Dolphins - Queen's Road, Aberdeen.
Art House - Number 11, Leicester.
TwitterArtExhibit - Magic Gallery, Orlando, Florida, USA.
The Image Is The Servant, Hamson Hall, Leicester.
2013
Kill Your Darlings - Waterloo, Covent Garden, Shoreditch, Camden, London.
Lines Underwater - Undercurrents Gallery The Birds Nest, London.
Poems Underwater - Minesweeper Gallery Deptford, London.
Bright and Bold - Pedestrian Gallery, Leicester.
Image duplicator - Orbital Gallery, London.
14/48 Leicester - The Y Theatre, Leicester.
Watch.this.space - St Martins Square, Leicester.
6x8 Exhibition - Pedestrian Gallery, Leicester.
TwitterArtExhibit - Exhale Unlimited, Los Angeles, USA.
2012
Winter - Pedestrian Gallery, Leicester.
BT ArtBox - Knightsbridge, Trafalgar Sq, Regents Place Plaza, London.
Pigeon-hole Project - Slack Space, Colchester.
TwitterArtExhibit - Moss, Norway.
The Big Egg Hunt - London.
Out of Bounds - Crocus Gallery, Nottingham
2011
Guildhall Christmas - Guildhall, Leicester.
Pedestrian Gallery – EM Homes and Property Show, Loughborough.
Open House - Embrace Arts, Leicester.
Jungle City - Royal botanical gardens, Castle St, Dovecot studio, Edinburgh.
Trans-Siberian Arts Centre - Moscow to Beijing.
2010
Summer and Autumn Showcase - Cavell centre, Peterborough.
SO Festival - Skegness.
Elephant Parade - Southbank, Leicester, Royal Chelsea Hospital, London.
Spring showcase - Cavell centre, Peterborough.
Prince's Trust East Midlands Volunteer Conference - Leicester.
2009 and earlier
Taliswoman - Guildhall, Leicester.
Arts Booter - Curve, Rutland Street, Leicester.
One and other - fourth plinth, Trafalgar square, London.
The Grosvenor Museums 8th Open Art Exhibition – Chester.
One Leicester Open 20 - City Gallery, Leicester.
Fine art degree show - De Montfort University, Leicester.
The show to end all shows - 4 Old Mill, Frog Island, Leicester.
Publications
2022
Future Now 2022 Anthology: 125 Contemporary Artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize
The Edge Of Forever - Accompanying Gallery Catalogue.
2021
Moor Otters commemorative auction catalogue (featured artist)
2020
FlyPast December Issue - Finding The Fallen Exhibition Review
Future Now 2020: 100 Contemporary Artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize
2017
Moor Otters commemorative auction catalogue (featured artist)
2016
Oxford International Art Fair catalogue (featured artist)
2014
Made in Leicestershire Select catalogue (feaured artist)
Prince's Trust Inspiring Art catalogue (listed artist)
2013
Image Duplicator catalogue (featured artist)
2012
BT ArtBox Souvenir Artbook (listed artist)
Independent on Sunday BT ArtBox feature (featured artist)
Telegraph, Fashion section BT Artbox feature (featured artist)
The Big Egg Hunt Souvenir Booklet (listed artist)
2011
Jungle City Edinburgh Artbook (featured artist, front cover)
2010
One and Other, Antony Gormley (listed/photographed participant)
Elephant Parade London Artbook (featured artist)
Arts and Minds, Cavell Centre Gallery catalogue (featured artist)
2008
The Metro, See You There, Solo Exhibition (review)
2004
The House of Osama bin Laden, Langlands and Bell (photography)
Awards
2022
Aesthetica Art Prize (longlisted)
2020
Aesthetica Art Prize (longlisted)
2016
De Montfort Hall Prize - Open 27 New Walk Museum and Art Gallery
2015
Secret Art Prize People's Choice Award (nomination)
2010
LeicestHerDay Jubilee Award (nomination)
Princes Trust Business Start Up Award
2007
Leicester City Gallery Platform Prize
Bio
Loz Atkinson
1984 Born, Inverness, UK
2007 Graduated, Fine Art, De Montfort University, Leicester.
Collections
Space Park, Leicester.
De Montfort University Art Collections.
Private Collections in UK, Belgium, Australia and USA.
Residencies
2016
2 week guest artist on Zoe Childerley residency with Visual Arts in Rural Communities in Northumberland.
Conference/Symposium/Talk
2022
The Edge of Forever Artist Talk - Attenborough Arts Centre - Guest speaker alongside Professor Leigh Fletcher.
Expedition JP237 talk - Leicester Sketch Club.
UKNA Exhibition tour/talk - Leicester Contemporary.
2020
Webinart Online Artist interview with Curator Hugo Worthy.
Legacy of War Roundtable - Aviation crash sites: Archaeology, Art,
Heritage and Research - RAF Museum, London - Guest speaker.
2016
SpaceUp Uk - Kings College London - Guest speaker.
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