Kirsten van Schreven RBA
Kirsten van Schreven is a printmaker and draughtsperson with a Master’s Degree in Fine Art Printmaking from Chelsea School of Art. She is an elected member of the Royal Society of British Artists and has exhibited internationally and won numerous awards, including the Editorial Prize by ‘Printmaking Today’ at The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition 2017, the Stuart Southall Print Prize at The Royal Society of British Artists 301st Exhibition 2018 and the Artichoke Contemporary Print Prize 2018.
She regularly exhibits at the Mall Galleries, Bankside Gallery and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. She has been longlisted for the Jackson’s Art Prize 2025 and selected for the Derwent Art Prize 2024, The Wells Art Contemporary in 2018 and 2019 and The Discerning Eye in 2014 and 2023.
For many years she worked globally in pre-production and design in both the feature film and computer games industry, notably on Spyro the Dragon.
Kirsten van Schreven est graveuse et dessinatrice, titulaire d’un master en gravure en beaux-arts de la Chelsea School of Art. Elle est membre élue de la Royal Society of British Artists, a exposé à l’international et a remporté de nombreux prix, notamment le Prix Editorial décerné par Printmaking Today lors de l’Exposition Annuelle 2017 de la Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, le Prix Stuart Southall lors de la 301e Exposition 2018 de la Royal Society of British Artists, ainsi que le Prix Artichoke Contemporary Print 2018.
Elle expose régulièrement aux Mall Galleries, à la Bankside Gallery et à l’Exposition d’Été de la Royal Academy. Elle a été présélectionnée pour le Jackson’s Art Prize 2025, et sélectionnée pour le Derwent Art Prize 2024, Le Wells Art Contemporary en 2018 et 2019, ainsi que pour The Discerning Eye en 2014 et 2023.
Pendant de nombreuses années, elle travaillait à l’échelle mondiale en préproduction et en conception dans l’industrie cinématographique et des jeux vidéos, notamment Spyro the Dragon.
Drawings
You can buy original drawings and prints at Rise Art
Prints
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EXHIBITIONS
2025
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition
The New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
Galerie L’Oeil du Prince, Biarritz, France
2024
The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition
The Society of Graphic Fine Art, The Mall Galleries, London
The Derwent Art Prize, Oxo Gallery, London
2023
ING Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
The London Group Open, The Copeland Gallery, London
Minerva, Kyoto to London, The Mall Galleries, London
The New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
The Awagami International Print Exhibition, Yoshinogawa City, Tokushima, Japan
The 200th Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
2022
The Society of Graphic Fine Art 101st Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
The Chianciano Biennale, Siena, Italy
The Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
2021
The Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
The Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
2020
The New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
2019
The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition
The Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition , The Mall Galleries, London
The Wells Art Contemporary Awards, Wells Cathedral
2018
The Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London:
(Awarded The Stuart Southall Print Prize)
The Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral
2017
The Masters : Monoprint, Bankside Gallery, London
The National Original Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery, London :
(Awarded The Editorial Prize by The Journal of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers)
Graphicall 2017 International Print Exhibition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016
The Pastel Society, The Mall Galleries, London
The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition
155th SWA Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
The Original Print Show curated by Norman Ackroyd RA at The Zillah Bell Gallery
The National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
The National Open Art Competition, Mercers’ Hall, London
The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers: The Masters – Etching, Bankside Gallery, London
2015
154th SWA Exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London
2014
153rd SWA Exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London
ING Discerning Eye at The Mall Galleries, London
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
finallyesArtist Statement
I love drawing, whether it be on printmaking plate, paper or canvas. I am inspired by isolated, partly built, and abandoned skeletal structures that intertwine the themes of creation and decay, construction and destruction. These individual, man-made monuments possess unconventional purposes — remnants of industries, archaic sources of power, echoes of wars and tools of navigation and communication from the past.
For me these are haunting places whose original functions are now obscured, eroded, or lost to time. Using layered pencilwork, paint, and collaged paper, I build and unbuild each image, working through a process of construction and deconstruction until the final image emerges. My drypoint plates also mirror this process, with engraved layers that are burnished back, redrawn and refined until the final image emerges. These processes reflect the slow degradation of architecture and memory alike – nothing is ever truly erased, only buried beneath new layers.
Awards
Awarded the Editorial Prize by ‘Printmaking Today’ – the journal of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, 2017.
Awarded The Stuart Southall Print Prize at The Royal Society of British Artists 301st Exhibition, London 2018.
Winner of the Artichoke Contemporary Print Prize 2018.
Finalist, The Neo Print Prize.
Winner of the Baby Forest Print Category award 2018.
PRESS
CONTACT
Kirsten van Schreven
East Sussex and France
Email: kvanschreven@gmail.com