This image uses historical sources from within the canon of European figurative painting which I then subvert in various ways; employing trompe l'oeil devices, humour and irony and as such utilize contemporary postmodern concepts of which appropriation of art from the past is a familiar element.

One Person Joint Exhibitions: 2008, Joint One Person Show at the Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff. 2009, Joint One Person Show Alan Salisbury and Steve West, Bay Arts, Cardiff.

Group Exhibitions (selected): 2008, Wales Portrait Award 2 (First Prizewinner). 2008/9, Lynn Painter/Stainer Prize (Selected Finalist).2008, Represented by I-MYU Projects (London) at The Art Deagu Fair Korea.

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Alan Salisbury Dip AD, MA (RCA), ATC