Eric Snell

Eric Snell was born in 1953 in Guernsey, Channel Islands. He studied Fine Art at Hornsey College of Art. Completing his studies in 1976, Snell spent the next nine years working in London. He then moved to Berlin in 1985, where he was invited to represent Britain on the prestigious DAAD International Artist-in-Residence programme. Exhibiting widely in Europe, North America and Japan, Snell has also taught at a number of different art schools and universities. In 1992 he lived in Paris, while a guest of the Cité Internationale des Arts programme, and in 1999 he was based in New Mexico where he was invited to take part in the Roswell Artist in Residence Programme. His Arts Council fellowship took him to Brisbane, where he created an installation linking Guernsey and Brisbane together. ‘View through to the other side of the World’ opened in September 2004, connecting the main gallery at the local art school in Guernsey to the foyer in the Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane. This global project generated media attention in both parts of the world and ran as a temporary installation through the end of 2004.

From his earliest and most delicate magnetic work, through to his huge site specific Burnt Wood wall drawings Eric Snell has over the last three decades been concerned with making work that deals with the immaterial, ethereal, non-physical world.