Pie Herring is a British artist who graduated from The Edinburgh College of Art in 2018 with a First-Class honours degree in painting. Pie’s work has been exhibited in a number of shows. Notable highlights include the Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries Exhibition 2019 where she was awarded the Carnegie scholarship, a group show at The High Line Nine Gallery in New York and in her solo-show Fortitude in Mayfair London in 2022. In November 2022, Pie’s works were exhibited in NDOTO: Under Her Eye, a dual-exhibition at Matbronze Gallery in Nairobi. Most recently, the artist has been living in Morocco as an artist in residence with Riad Alena, Marrakech.
Predominantly working in oils, Pie’s paintings depict tender portrayals and accounts from her travels abroad. Having packed up her London studio three years ago, she is on a journey to discover how different environments and cultures can aesthetically impact the direction of ones painting practice. From living within the oldest Swahili settlement in East Africa to month long stays with the Samburu tribe in the Ndoto Mountains of Northern Kenya, Pie sees painting as an invaluable and beautiful instrument to help foster a greater understanding of the world’s people and cultures.
Education
First Class BA (HONS) ART: Edinburgh College of Art
Awards
2021: Women United Art Prize - 2nd Place
2020: ArtJobs, Artist of the Month -Special Award
2019: RSA Carnegie Scholarship - Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries
2014: The Plaistowe Art Prize
2008: Art Exhibition to Wellington College
Features and Interviews
2022: WHYNOW, Finding Tike: Chloe Keleny and Pie Herring Interview
2022: Vanderohe, The Profile, Pie Herring
2022: Visionary Art Collective, Pie Herring: Intuitive Portraiture
2021: Erik Block, Pie Herring at 94–96 Wigmore Street
2021: NATION, Africa, Pie Herring | Art from Lewa on exhibition in London
2021: WHYNOW, London Meets Kenya in Pie Herring’s Fortitude
2021: The London Magazine, Interview | Pie Herring on Fortitude
2021: Alt Africa, Talking to Pie Herring on first solo exhibit “Fortitude”
2021: Artist Diaries, Piece with Artist
2020: ArtJobs, Artist of the Month
2020: The Evening Standard, Join the Creatives
2020: WhyNow Open House Episode 1: Pie Herring
2020: Takeda, 'IamNumberSeventeen'
2019: Channel 4, 'Flawless'
2019: Hill+Knowlton Strategies, 'Doors of Opportunity'
2018: Hector Campbell, Art Historian 'Young London Painter's Interview'
2018: Bond Street Press, 'See Fashion Celebrate Art- Video Interview with Alice Temperley'
2017: Edinburgh Student Newspaper '50 Hilarious Things to Say to Girls on the Street'
Public Commissions
2019: Doors of Opportunity, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, London
2018: Live Painting in celebration of the Royal Academy's 250th Anniversary, Temperley London, London
