White Burka

Howard Dyke, born 1971 in London. Lives and works in London. Studied MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths and BA Fine Art at Central St Martins College of Art & Design.

Solo exhibitions include: Dance of the Techno Polar Bear, Acme Project Space, London, 2009. Selected group exhibitions include: Law of the Jungle, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA, 2011; The Marmite Prize for Painting, studio 1.1, London, 2008. Dyke was awarded the Jessica Wilkes Award 2008/09.

Dyke works from found images on Getty, Google and Flickr, choosing images intuitively to form paintings that explore a tension between the subject matter and material gesture.

Shortlisted 2011

Dyke