Jeremy Dickinson

Jeremy Dickinson (born Halifax, UK, 1963) lives and works in London. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College, London from 1983 to 1986.

He has had numerous domestic and international solo exhibitions since the early 1990s. These include Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco; Lotta Hammer, London; GBS Fine Arts, Somerset, UK;  Galerie Xippas, Paris, Athens & Montevideo; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica; Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York; Nils Staerk, Copenhagen; Seomi Gallery, Seoul. In 2004, a ten year retrospective exhibition was held at Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark. His paintings are held in numerous private and institutional collections across Europe, the USA, Japan and Korea.

He is best known for painting meticulous arrangements of miniature vehicles, always dented and chipped showing evidence of past play by their anonymous previous owners before entering the artist’s studio collection. The most recent works depict the hoods or bonnets of well played with cars found at flea markets and toy fairs. These have often been customised or repainted by previous owners, adding layers of history to these once pristine miniatures.

Another ongoing project, begun during the lockdown months of 2020, takes its inspiration from images of industrial landscapes found on Google Earth such as junkyards, vehicle storage yards and aircraft ‘boneyards’ located around the world. Hovering between abstraction and realism and clearly referencing the issue of human interaction with the landscape, these paintings still revel in the colours and random arrangements that are found at such sites.