Jeffrey Dennis

Biography

I am a painter and a senior lecturer on the Fine Art programme at Chelsea College of Arts and supervisor to UAL research students.

In 2021 I was awarded an Abbey Fellowship in Painting at the British School at Rome, making paintings related to the work and ideas of the poet John Keats in the 200th anniversary year of his death, and subsequently exhibited in the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. A major solo exhibition 'Ringbinder' was presented at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK in 2015, with an accompanying monograph published by NGCA and Slimvolume in 2017.

I graduated from the Slade in 1980, and have been exhibiting internationally since the mid-1980s. My paintings are in the collections of Arts Council England; British Council; Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; Italian Government Art Collection; The Keats-Shelley House, Rome; Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei; Leeds Art Gallery; Priseman Seabrook Collection; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Swindon Museum and Art Gallery; Tate; and private collections worldwide.