PANDORA
BUTTERFIELD

CV

Education & Early Life

  • 1995/97: Leeds University MA (Fine Art)
  • 1987: The Royal Academy, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 1985/88: Sunderland University (BA Hons) Fine Art (Mentor: Professor Barry Hirst)
  • 1963: Born, Plymouth, England

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2022: Sunburst Gallery, Ards Art Centre, County Down
  • 2019: Apex Gallery, Suffolk
  • 2014: Aldeburgh Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
  • 2012: Aldeburgh Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
  • 2011: Aldeburgh Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk

Joint Exhibitions

  • 2018: The Sentinel Gallery, Essex
  • 2008: The Gallery, Snape Maltings, Suffolk
  • 2004: The Gallery, Snape Maltings, Suffolk
  • 2002: Thebes Gallery, Sussex
  • 2001: Thebes Gallery, Sussex
  • 2000: The Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk
  • 2000: Elm Hill Contemporary Art, Norwich
  • 1999: Elm Hill Contemporary Art, Norwich
  • 1998: The Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk

Selected Mixed Exhibitions

            2026: Shortlisted Anna Cheyne Visual Arts Award           
            2025: Royal Hibernian Academy 195th Annual Exhibition   

            2024: Creative Peninsula, Georgian Gallery, County Down

  • 2023: Creative Peninsula, Georgian Gallery, County Down
  • 2023: Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Open Exhibition
  • 2021: Creative Peninsula, Georgian Gallery, County Down
  • 2020: "Borders' Firstsite, Colchester"
  • 2018: The Minories Galleries, Essex
  • 2017: “New Paintings” Originals Baker Furniture, New York and San Francisco, Giclee Prints Soicher-Marin; (2016: New English Art Club, London)
  • 2015: New English Art Club, London
  • 2015: Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, London (Shortlisted)
  • 2014: 45th Eastern Open
  • 2014: “Eternal” The Storefront, Chicago, USA
  • 2014: The New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London
  • 2013: Josephine Harpur Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
  • 2013: The New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London
  • 2012: The New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London
  • 2010: Peter Pears Gallery, Suffolk
  • 2010: 41st Eastern Open
  • 2010: Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
  • 2010: John Stevens Fine Art, Suffolk
  • 2010: Colchester Fine Art Open, Colchester Institute
  • 2009: Colchester Fine Art Open, Colchester Institute
  • 2009: Peter Pears Gallery, Suffolk
  • 2009: 40th Eastern Open
  • 2009: John Stevens Fine Art, Suffolk
  • 2009: Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
  • 2007: Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
  • 2005: Buckenham Gallery, Suffolk
  • 2003: Buckenham Gallery, Suffolk
  • 2000: Forefront Gallery, Suffolk University
  • 1997: Victor Pasmore Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
  • 1997: Power House, Wakefield
  • 1996: “Launch” Lawrence Batley Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
  • 1996: York Open, City Gallery, York
  • 1992: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
  • 1991: Leicester Collection for Colleges, City Gallery
  • 1991: Cleveland International Drawing Biennale
  • 1989: Represented British Art Schools in Europe, Antwerp

Awards and Prizes

  • 2013: New English Art Club, Drawing Scholarship, Mall Galleries and Royal Academy Schools, London
  • 1988: The Echo Painting Prize, Sunderland University
  • 1987: Scholarship to Royal Academy, The Hague

Publications

  • 2017: Architectural Digest
  • 2017: "Atlanta Homes and Lifestyle", USA
  • 2010: "Coastlines" Interview by Richard Bryson for Suffolk Life magazine
  • 1988: Cleveland UK International Drawing Biennale (Forward essay by Marina Vaiszey "Drawing on Drawing")
  • Invited artist Claes Oldenburgh – Cleveland County Council Publication
  • 1987: "Bern Porter or Burn Porter" by Pandora Butterfield, Robin Crozier and Bern Porter (Publisher: Sutherland, UK)
  • The Authors, 1987 Book: Visual Poetry, Bowdion College, Maine, USA

Commissions

  • 2024: Hotel aka, Washington DC, USA
  • 2024: Caracole Interiors, Las Vegas, USA
  • 2023: Caracole Interiors, North Carolina, USA
  • 2016: Baker Furniture, USA
  • 2010: Kohler Interiors, Chicago, USA
  • 2006: Smith Wharf, Bankside, London