Wayne Clough was born in Bradford in 1975 and attended Bradford College (BA) and
Wimbledon School of Art London (MA).

Most recent
Arms Around the Child art auction at Christie’s London

Notable exhibitions include:
The Sequested Prize, Unit Gallery London
The Football Art Prize, Rochdale, Sheffield and Sunderland
Chaiya Art Award, London
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition Online
New Light Art Prize, Scarborough Art Gallery and various locations
Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth, Cumbria
Derwent Art Prize 2020 Online Exhibition
IMPACT Online Exhibition as part of Chaiya Art Awards 2020
Made in Britain, National Museum of Gdansk
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
John Moores Painting Prize 2014, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool
BP Portrait Award 2014, National Portrait Gallery London
John Moores Painting Prize 2012, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool.
Other exhibitions include:
MA show Wimbledon School of Art 2005; Painting to Music, The Music Room London 2005;
The Triumph of Panting, The Music room 2006; Whatever happened to the Leipzig Lads?
(Curator with James McMeakin) Waterloo Gallery London 2006; Histories (curator with
James McMeakin), Foss Fine Art London 2008; Rhizomatic Departure Gallery Southall 2010;
Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery London 2011; Creekside Open (selectors
Phyllida Barlow, Dexter Dalwood), APT Gallery London 2011; Group Show Alma Enterprises,
Southwark London 2013; Crash Open Charlie Dutton Gallery 2014; Documentary Realism:
Painting in the Digital Age The Crypt 2015; London 2.0 Galerie Stephane Biesenbach,
Cologne 2015; Contemporary Painting Group Show Blackhorse Road Studios, 2015; Summer
Show, Studio 1.1 2016; Machine Flight, Group Show, Pictorem Gallery 2016; Human Stain,
Studio 1.1 2017; This Year’s Model, Studio 1.1 2019.

Publications:
500 Portraits 25 Years of the BP Portrait Award.