Piers works across painting, drawing and collage.

His approach sees him use the canvas as an imaginary set, in which he considers humans' intermittent relationship with reality. 

Anonymous figures often populate the compositions that at times border on abstraction. 

Isolated in their surroundings they invite the viewer into their discreet vignettes.

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Embracing ambiguity and rejecting reason, Piers employs a diverse range of symbology pulled from past and present.

 

Frequently punctuated with humour, he offers fragmented narratives that allow for multiple readings. 

A spectrum of realism is on display from flat abstraction to detailed representation, to raking perspective. Sometimes reminiscent of prop facades, the work refers to fictions we hold in our collective conscience. 

 

Piers Tobias Alsop (b.1984, London, UK) lives and works in London. He completed his BA in Painting at UAL: Camberwell College of Arts in 2007. 

In 2023 he was invited to be a visiting tutor at Newcastle University.

 

Selected solo/duo presentations include: Zona Maco, Tsivrikos Shake, CDMX, Mexico (2022), Like an ancient day, Neon Gallery, London, UK (2021) Double Vision, Kribbestraat 3, Brussels, Belgium (2021) Not a Peep, Testbed02, London, UK (2017). 

 

Selected group exhibitions include: Gertrude PRESENTS, Truman brewery, London, UK (2022), Art on a postcard, The Bomb Factory, London, UK (2022) Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2022), Salon 22, Tsivrikos Shake, London, UK (2022) Mythologies, Neon Gallery, London, UK (2021) Kinesis, Neon gallery, London, UK (2020), Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2018), A Dark Moment, Testbed01, London, UK (2015), Birthday, Toy Gallery, London, UK (2009), Bind, Mashed Potato Gallery, London, UK (2007)