As a painter, I find relegating paintings to a particular period - a tedious exercise. Paintings that possesses temperament, attitude and gesture seem to me to traverse time. For me, paintings, always seem to exist within the present; its visual, we engage with its surface, we look and somehow it returns our looking - that is why every painting for me exists in the here and now.
Excerpt from Considerations in Painting and Drawing - Nelson Diplexcito
In 2023 the first monograph of Nelson Diplexcito's paintings and drawings, Nelson Diplexcito:Orpheus Street Paintings was launched at TM Gallery in London.
Nelson Diplexcito (b.1966) studied BA Fine Art: Painting and Drawing at Grays School of Art (1984-88),
MA Painting The Royal College of Art (1988-90).
Selected solo and group exhibitions include: Cubitt Invites (2025), I'll Meet You There (2024), A Disappearing moment in Painting (2023), That Island Feeling (2022), Knife Edge, London (2021), The Art of Painting, London (2021), Fully Awake 5.6, London (2019), The Third of May, London (2019), This Instead of That, London (2019), The Inner and the Outer, London (2018), Nacht und Träume, London (2017), Fully Awake 2:5, Glasgow, Scotland (2017), Failed Utopias, Malvern, England (2016), Nanjing International Art Exhibition, Nanjing, China (2014). Painting, Smoking, Eating, London, England (2014), Dirty Pop: Contemporary British Painting, &Model, Leeds, England (2013), Minderwertig Gemälde, Galeria Cadaqués – Huc Malla, Cadaqués, Spain (2012), Half Cut, London, England (2012), London Local, Gallery Stock Berlin, Germany (2012), Nelson Diplexcito: New Paintings, Stockholm, Sweden (2011).
Nelson Diplexcito lives and works in London.
