Background
Darren Almond was born in August 1971, in Appley Bridge, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
Darren Almond
University of Southampton, Park Ave, Winchester SO23 8DL, United Kingdom
Winchester School of Art where Darren Almond received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1993.
Darren Almond
Darren Almond near one of his artworks.
'Six Months Later' by Darren Almond was purchased in 2007 for $100,669 at Phillips in London.
'Six Months Later' by Darren Almond was purchased in 2007 for $100,669 at Phillips in London.
University of Southampton, Park Ave, Winchester SO23 8DL, United Kingdom
Winchester School of Art where Darren Almond received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1993.
Darren Almond
Darren Almond near one of his artworks.
Darren Almond
Darren Almond was born in August 1971, in Appley Bridge, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
Darren Almond studied at Winchester School of Art. He graduated in 1993 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Darren Almond emerged to the art scene in the middle of the 1990s. In 1995, he presented his installation KN120 in the form of the big ceiling fan placed under London’s Westway and wired to his workshop. It was featured empty with an industrial flip-clock on the wall in his video ‘A Real Time Piece’. Other works of the period were related to moving and included a series of train plaques and a film ‘Schwebebahn’ that featured the Sky Train, Wuppertal's public transport system.
A series of night photographs, ‘Fullmoon’ consisting of full moon shots taken with a long exposure time of fifteen minutes appeared in 1998.
In 2001, the artist traveled to Karaganda, Kazakhstan where he shot his next film entitled ‘Mine’ that showed the everyday working life at the local tin mine. The video consists of two parts, the one in color and the second in black and white. The next Almond’s artistic journey, this time to Tibet resulted in a photo series ‘Infinite Betweens’. Later, in 2006, it was developed into a film ‘In the Between’ telling about the new high-speed train that united China with Tibet. It was the artist’s interpretation of the Buddhist philosophy about the relativity of all beings and things whose ‘in-between’ state is eternal.
In 2018, his work commissioned to decorate the Crossrail’s Bond Street Station was presented to the public for the first time.
Since the debut solo show in 1995, Almond has regularly exhibited nationally and internationally, including the London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, Tate Britain, the Renaissance Society, Chicago, the Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland, and the Biennales in Berlin, Venice, and Moscow.
Nowadays, Darren Almond lives and works in London.
Darren Almond is considered as one of the leading British artists.
Presenting a couple of his works at Charles Saatchi's Sensation show at the age of 26, he became the youngest British artist to participate in it. In 2005, Almond was nominated for the well-known Turner Prize. Four years later, he received the Pictet Prize for his achievements in photography.
Almond’s artworks are acquired by such permanent collections as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, Tate Gallery, and others.
In 2007, ‘Six Months Later’ by Almond was purchased for $100,669 at Phillips in London.
