Molly Brocklehurst
British artist Molly Brocklehurst was born in 1994. Her work is characterised by her use of a limited palette to create nostalgic narratives. Brocklehurst graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Leeds College of Art in 2016 before completing her MFA at Wimbledon College of Art in 2019. Her work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and the USA, recently showing work at the Maddox Gallery in Mayfair. She has had work included in the Wing’s private collection in London and currently has work included in Soho House’s private collection in New York. She was a recipient of the Signature Art Prize in 2020, the Refresh Art Award in 2019 and the Dentons Art Prize in 2018. Molly Brocklehurst now lives and works in Austin, Texas.
At the Nordic Art Agency, we believe in supporting and representing brilliant, young, talented artists. Molly Brocklehurst is an emerging London based figurative painter who captured our attention and intrigue early in 2019 and we have been following her progress ever since. Molly’s paintings are strange fictions that blur the boundary between document and fiction, seeking to create new rituals and new possibilities for our collective histories. Her muted pastel pallets and smoothly contoured figures collide creating uneasy narratives, simultaneously soothing and unsettling.
We are delighted to be representing Molly Brocklehurst’s painting exclusively in the Nordics.
Bathers
Oil on Canvas
100 x 60 cm
34,400 Sek / 3000 €
Pool Side
Oil on Canvas
100 x 60 cm
34,400 Sek / 3000 €
Lady
Oil on Canvas
30 x 30 cm
11,000 Kr / 1000€
Girl
Oil on Canvas
30 x 30 cm
11,000 Kr / 1000€
Eraser
Oil on Canvas
100 x 80 cm
Available 25,000 Sek / 2200 €
Molly Brocklehurst Artist Biography
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Generation Loss: Image Making in an Age of Over-saturation, Cloud Tree Gallery, Austin, Texas
2022
Meat, Lockh.art House, Texas
Small Works, Georgetown Art Centre, Texas
HANSA, Malmo, Sweden
Fashion Fights Cancer and The Camp Gallery - Auction, Miami
2021
HANSA LOVES ART Spring Pop Up, Malmö, Sweden
HANSA, Malmo, Sweden
Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm
2020
FACES//PLACES, Nordic Art Agency, Malmö October - November 2020
Art Nordic, Copenhagen, March
Nordic Art Agency Gallery Exhibition, October- November
Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm, October
2019 Orbit Art Show, The Barge House, OXO Tower Wharf, London
Free Range, Trumans Brewery, London
Wimbledon MFA Fine Art Summer Show, London
Refresh Art Award Exhibition, London
Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London
Postopia, Ugly Duck, London
Utopia Through Nostalgia, Koppel Project Hive, London
Who will provide? The Crypt, St Pancras Church, London
2018 MIAL, ™ Lighting Gallery, London, WC1X 0LN
Beyond the Pale, The Loft, Croydon
Chance, Chelsea College of Art
Netflix and Chill, The Flying Dutchman, London
Conflict, Chelsea College of Art
2017 Parallax Art Fair, London
2016 Free Range, The Old Truman Brewery, London
Art in the Barn, Midnight Gallery, London
Departures, Leeds College of Art, Leeds
2015 I’ll show you mine, Woodhouse, Leeds
Creative Debuts Show Case IV, 74 Rivington Street, London
2014 Beautiful, Beauty, Broken, Broke. St George’s Church, Leeds
Ephemera, Studio 24, Leeds
Trace, Lamberts Yard, Leeds
Private Collections
The Wing, London - October 2020
The Ned Nomad, New York, Soho House
Selected Curatorial Projects
2019 Utopia Through Nostalgia, Koppel Project Hive, London.
Awards and Residencies
2020 Signature Art Prize Finalist
2019 Shortlisted for Signature Art Prize
Saatchi Art Rising Stars
Wimbledon Alumni Professional Award
Shortlisted for Refresh Art Award
2018 Selected for Dentons Art Prize
2017 UAL Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship
2016 Selected for Aon Art Prize
Shortlisted for Woon Foundation Prize
East Street Arts, Leeds
Press and Interviews
‘Top 50 London Artists and their Featured Art', The Art Post, 2022
Introducing: Molly Brocklehurst' Maria Di Giammarco, The Camp Gallery, 2021
https://www.thecampgallery.com/index.php/2021/03/10/introducing-molly-brocklehurst/
‘Molly Brocklehurst - In Conversation' Juliet Nees-Rilsson, Nordic Art Agency, 2020
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/nordic-art-agency-podcast/id1496176352
‘Get some small art by big names in aid of the Hepatitis C Trust' Chris Waywell, Timeout, 2020
https://www.timeout.com/london/news/jake-and-dinos-chapman-julian-opie-and-
‘Molly Brocklehurst - A Private View with Maeve Doyle' Maeve Doyle, Soho Radio, 2020
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-private-view-with-maeve-doyle/id14897
'Women To Watch, Top 10 Emerging Female Artists' Maddox Gallery, 2020
https://maddoxgallery.com/news/36-women-to-watch-top-10-emerging-female-
‘Layered Paintings With A Muted Color Pallet By Molly Brocklehurst' Sarah Mills, Create Magazine, 2020 https://createmagazine.com/read/molly-brocklehurst
'SAATCHI ART’S RISING STARS CLASS OF 2019' Rebecca Wilson, Saatchi Art, 2019
‘Utopia Through Nostalgia The Koppel Project Hive’ Jude Cowan Montague, Artlyst, 2019 https://www.artlyst.com/reviews/utopia-nostalgia-koppel-project-hive-jude-cowan-montague/
Education
2017 - 2019 MFA Fine Art: Wimbledon College of Arts, University of Arts London
2013 - 2016 BA Hons: Leeds College of Art: 1st class BA Honours Degree
2012 - 2013 Foundation Diploma in Art & Design: Leeds College of Art