
Currently studying Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School, John was scouted for the debut ‘The Other Art Fair’ which took place on the Southbank at Oxo Tower wharf in 2011, this new fair for emerging artists was a huge success and John sold his first works to a collector from the White Cube Gallery in London. Since then he’s gone on to create more work and to participate in group shows. He’s worked as an artist for TOMS, recently showing work at a Schuh store as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival. A new series of paintings will be shown later this month at at Baku restaurant in Chelsea, in collaboration with the successful classical composer and producer Fabio D’Andrea.
Artist Statement:
Visually chaotic and uneven in form, John’s paintings incorporate ephemeral material, personal information and detritus from everyday life within a city. Using such material from his home city of London, his mixed media paintings are abstract and not always referential in content. His interest lies in the condition of location and the shape of a community. Through collecting paper on journeys through his home city, information is found. Individual pieces of paper begin to show a kind of personality and story that tends to relate to the overall view and opinion that our society casts on particular areas. Paper collected from an affluent area with the highest priced homes is generally of better quality and there is less of it, compared to a smaller environment in the same city with a higher population and crime rate, where waste is much more in abundance.

John also works as an artist’s assistant for some of London’s best new contemporary artists and galleries.
John Bingham – www.john-bingham.com