Stewart Geddes is a Bristol-based abstract painter. His current practice involves painterly improvisations in which colour is both the means and the subject of the work. Most recently he has collaborated with Philip Selway of Radiohead, where his work formed a dialogue with Selway’s evolving album Strange Dance (2023). Geddes trained at the Royal College of Art, gaining an MPhil in 2007 under the tutelage of John Stezaker and Martina Margett. He was Head of Painting at Cardiff School of Art and Design until 2010, and has been an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at a number of art schools including, most recently, the Arts University Bournemouth and Cheltenham College of Art (University of Gloucestershire). Geddes was President of the RWA between 2016 and 2019 and is an Honorary Royal Scottish Academician. In 2019, he curated ‘Albert Irvin and Abstract Expressionism’ in conjunction with the Albert Irvin Estate and Tate Gallery at the RWA. The exhibition looked at the impact of the Tate’s 1959 exhibition ‘The New American Painting’ and Albert Irvin’s subsequent conversion to abstraction. As well as being the first full retrospective of Irvin’s work, the exhibition included paintings by Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Barnett Newman, Sandra Blow and Gillian Ayers.