Bio
Theo Crutchley-Mack is a contemporary British artist whose work appears in private and public collections throughout the UK
As a teenager Theo designed a 50 pence coin that was minted into national circulation with royal approval, sparking a clear artistic direction from a young age.
Since graduating from Falmouth University with a sell-out degree show, he has continued to exhibit successfully throughout Wales and Cornwall for 5 years to date.
In 2018 Theo was invited to the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia where he painted and documented the ruined whaling stations to help fundraise for the South Georgia Heritage Trust, who work to restore the damaged habitats of native wildlife. The ramshackled quality of these ruins had a significant effect on his work and it's progression.
Theo strives to record the obscure landscape, often abandoned and remote. He spends many hours outside making plein air paintings that feed larger abstracted works. His studio paintings start out as wooden panels which are built up with multiple layers of splintered wood. This process forms the foundation for a sculptural approach to painting in which the underlying textures are often more prominent than the paint itself.
AWARDS
2022 Cultivator Cornwall 'Creative Investment Grant' recipient
2016 West Wales Young Artist Award
2015 Tresco Prize for Drawing
2015 Monty Parkin Memorial Prize
2013 Royal Mint, 50 pence design competition, nationally circulated with royal approval
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 A Story of Cornish Trees, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance
2022 Retrospective, Tenby Museum & Art Gallery, Pembrokeshire
2022 'En Plein Airs' Albany Gallery, Cardiff
2021 Weathered Woods, Potager Garden, Cornwall
2021 Welsh Mining Landscapes, Gallery-Yr-Oriel, Newport Pembs
2019 Groundworks, Oriel Mimosa, Llandeilo
2016 Theo Crutchley-Mack, Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire
2015 Late November Gallery, Pembrokeshire
TOURING SOLO SHOW - PAINTING THE WHALING STATIONS OF SOUTH GEORGIA
2019 Dovecot Studios Gallery, Edinburgh
2019 Falkland Islands Museum, Stanley, Falkland Islands
2019 MOMA Machynlleth, Wales
2018 Albany Gallery, Cardiff
2018 Scot Polar Museum, Cambridge University
2018 Grytviken Maritime Museum, South Georgia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Summer Show @ Great Polgrain Farm, Thrown Contemporary
2022 South Georgia Whaling Stations, Gallery Q, Dundee
2022 'En Plein Airs' Albany Gallery, Cardiff
2021 Making It!, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, Devon
2021 Big Freeze Festival, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University
2018 Summer Show, Oriel Plas-Glyn-Weddw
2017 Theo Crutchley-mack & Neil Canning, Late November Gallery, Pembrokeshire
2017 Summer Show, Albany Gallery, Cardiff
2017 August Show, Gallery Tresco, Isles of Scilly
2016 Winter Show, Drang Gallery, Salcombe
2016 Summer Residency Show, Gallery Tresco, Isles of Scilly
2016 Welsh Art Week, Woolff Gallery, London
2015 Tabernacle, MOMA Machynlleth, Wales
2015 Falmouth University Degree Show
COLLECTIONS
MOMA Machynlleth, Tabernacle Collection
South Georgia Heritage Trust
British Antarctic Survey
Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly
RESIDENCIES
2018 South Georgia Heritage Trust, 2 month Sub-Antarctic residency, Grytviken, South Georgia
2015 Tresco Prize for Drawing, Studio Residency and Exhibition
2015 Helford River Oyster Dredgers, Summer Residency
MEDIA
2018 Featured Artist, The Arts Show, BBC Radio Wales
2017 Featured Artist, Landscape Artist of the Year, Sky Arts