Jacob Gourley
Working predominantly in oils and acrylics, Jacob Gourley is a representational painter whose practice explores the boundaries between realism and abstraction. His paintings often have a dream-like quality, whereby figures dissolve into or emerge out of semi-ambiguous backgrounds.
At the heart of Jacob’s practice is keen attention to the artwork’s formal qualities, such as shape, tone, edges, colour, and composition. To date, Gourley has exhibited in a number of group and solo shows and was awarded 1st Prize in the Wirral Society of Arts Open exhibition in 2019 for his painting ‘82 - St John’s to Toxteth’. In 2022, he won first prize in the Belle View Arts Festival for his painting Lotus II and since has acquired gallery representation with the Soden Collection, Shrewsbury.
Currently he is working from his Shropshire home studio and is taking on commissions.
Exhibitions
2023
Feb 2023 - "Involved" Two person exhibition - The Bear Steps Gallery, Shrewsbury
2022
2022 - "Belle Vue Arts Festival" (competition winner) - Soden Collection, Shrewsbury
2022 - "The Landing" Liver Sketching club 150th anniversary, Atkinson Gallery, Southport
2021
2021 - Solo Exhibition - Cass Art, Liverpool
2019
Nov-Dec 2019 The Liverpool Collection, Dot Art, 14 Queen Ave, Castle St, Liverpool
Nov-Dec 2019 Metropolis, 35 Whitechapel, Liverpool
Oct 2019 Studio Shuffle, The Royal Standard, 3 Mann St, Liverpool
Jul-Aug 2019 The WSA Open Exhibition, (£2000 1st Prize) The Williamson Art Gallery, Slatey Road, Birkenhead
Jun-Sep 2019 Liverpool Art Fair, The Metquarter, 35 Whitechapel, Liverpool
Jun 2019 Fleeting (2 person show), Bridewell Studios, 101 Prescott Street, Liverpool
May 2019 Rituals of the Mundane (group show), Northern Lights, 5 Mann Street, Liverpool
May 2019 Painting exhibition (two person show), West Kirby Arts Centre, West Kirby, Merseyside
2018
Sep-Oct 2018 Plein Air in Tuscany (solo show), Art Café Oxford, 14 Bonn Square, Oxford
Apr 2018 Alone in the Woods, I hear a whisper…. (group show), Road Studios, 67-69 Victoria St, Liverpool
Mar 2018 Connection (shop window solo show), 67-69 Victoria St, Liverpool
Feb 2018 Trapped in the Image (two-person show), West Kirby Arts Centre, West Kirby, Merseyside
Jun 2017 Now Us (4 person show), Burt & Co, London, 57-61 Union St, London