Selected Exhibitions/Research Projects
60+10, Group Exhibition,
Whitaker Museum, Rawtenstall, 2022
Beep Painting Biennial
Elysium Gallery, Swansea, 2022
Colour Flex
Curated by Dr Matthew Macauley, Terrace Gallery, London, 2022
Bankley: 30 Years of Artist-Led
Bankley Gallery & Studios, Manchester, 2022
Salford Open 03
Salford Museum & Art Gallery, 2022
Enough is Definitely Enough: Contemporary Artists Respond to Las Meninas,
Oceans Apart Gallery, Salford, January 2020 and Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough, September 2020
Curated by Andrew Bracey, Senior Lecturer University of Lincoln
Contemporary British Painting Prize 2019
Long-listed for the CBP prize announced in October 2019
50 artists selected from 746
Fully Awake 5.6
Freelands Foundation, London, September – November 2019
Curated by Sean Kaye and Ian Hartshorne, Teaching Painting
Homer’s Ghost
Solo exhibition, PAPER Gallery, Manchester, September 2019
Inner Landscapes
HilbertRaum Gallery, Berlin, August 2019
Curated by Lisa Denyer
Inter-Section
Market Gallery, Huddersfield, July/August 2019
Curated by Simon Woolham
Acquired
Salford Museum & Art Gallery, March 2019
Postcard Exhibition
Rochdale Touchstones Art Gallery, February 2019
The Surface of Things
PAPER Gallery Manchester, New Adelphi Building University of Salford
Curated by PAPER Gallery/Durden & Ray Los Angeles for the Manifest Festival, July/August 2017
PreFab
Solo Exhibition
Leeds Metrolpolitan University Gallery, Leeds, 2011
Neither/Nor
Group Exhibition
Arena Gallery, Liverpool, 2010
It Knows Not What It Is
Solo Exhibition
Eagleworks, Wolverhampton, 2009
Conversations in Painting
Group Exhibition
Chapman Gallery, University of Salford, 2009
Leftfield
Group Exhibition
Café Pop, Manchester, 2008
Leftfield
Group Exhibition
Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2008
Painted Into A Corner
Group Exhibition
Arena, Independent, Liverpool Biennale, 2007
Nice To Meet You
Group Exhibition
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, USA, 2005
Terrain: Contemporary British Abstraction
Group Exhibition
Museum of Non Conformist Art, St Petersburg, 2004
Chorus
Installation/Soundscape collaboration with composer Kevin Malone
Gorton Monastery, Manchester, 2004
Eve of Destruction
Group Exhibition
International 3, Manchester, 2003
Thermo
Group Exhibition
The Lowry, Salford, 2003
Living Slavishly
Solo Exhibition
Alsager Arts Centre, 2003
Crime and Disorder
Maggie Ayliffe, Brendan Fletcher
The Gallery, Gateshead, 2002
Fresh Paint
Group Exhibition
Comme Ca/Debenhams, Manchester 2002
Hans Brinker Project Space
Group Exhibition
Hans Brinker Project Space, Amsterdam, 2001
Hart 2001
Paul Collinson, Brendan Fletcher, Jayne Jones, Adam Scott
HartSpace, Hull, 2001
Phenomena
Group Exhibition
Bankley Studios Gallery, Manchester, 2001
The Grammar of Display
Maggie Ayliffe, Emma Bolland, Brendan Fletcher & Geoff Keen
Huddersfield Art Gallery, 2000
Departure Lounge
Maggie Ayliffe, Ben Cook, Rick Copsey, Brendan Fletcher, John Rimmer & Rebecca Sitar
Mart’99, Manchester, 1999
Brendan Fletcher: Paintings
Curator: Comme Ca PR
Selfridges, Trafford Centre, Manchester, 1999
A Formal Engagement
Clare Churchouse, Brendan Fletcher & John Rimmer
Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, 1999
Maggie Ayliffe, Rick Copsey, Brendan Fletcher
Kingsgate Gallery, London, 1999
Maggie Ayliffe, Rick Copsey, Brendan Fletcher
Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, 1998-99
Maggie Ayliffe, Rick Copsey, Brendan Fletcher
Bankley Studios Gallery, Manchester, 1998
Absolut New
Group Exhibition
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 1998
Bankley Open Studios
Bankley Studios Gallery, Manchester, 1998
Brendan Fletcher, New Paintings
Solo Exhibition
Stockport Art Gallery, 1997
Rising Stars
Selected Group Exhibition
London Contemporary Art Fair, Business Design Centre, 1996
Conference/Journal Papers/Writing/Publications
Teaching Painting (Book Chapter)
Due to be published by Cambridge Scholars
Enough is Definitely Enough: Sixty-Two Contemporary Artists Interpret a Postcard of Las Meninas
Andrew Bracey. Beam Editions. 2021. ISBN: 978-1-9162759-9-7.
Abstraction & Semiosis in the Work of Albert Irvin
Abstraction Now Symposium, The Royal West of England Academy in conjunction with the University of Gloucestershire to accompany the exhibition Albert Irvin and Abstract Expressionism, February 2019
Painting, Art School and Class Struggle
Teaching Painting, The Royal Academy of Arts in conjunction with Manchester Metropolitan University, Glasgow School of Art and the University of Brighton, July 2018
Professional Practice: 20 Questions; Interviews with UK Undergraduate Fine Art Staff Exploring How Students are Prepared for Life after Art School
Q Arts, ed Jo Allen & Sarah Rowles, ISBN: 978-0-9564355-8-3 PP. 438, Published November, 2016
Drawing and the Beautiful Game: Transcending Sport
TRACEY, Loughborough University Online Journal, 2012
Golden Venture: New Work by Jill Randall, 2011
Catalogue Essay, National Waterfront Museum, Wales