Geoff Diego Litherland
Geoff Diego Litherland (born 1979 in Tehuacan, Mexico), the son of the geologist Martin Litherland, is a painter working internationally, based in the UK. Life and career. Geoff Diego Litherland is a Mexican-born artist based in London. Having had a colourful upbringing in Bolivia and Ecuador he moved to England and graduated from Falmouth College of Arts in 2002. Litherland has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally and recognition to date has included being selected for the 25th John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool which was judged by Sacha Craddock, Jake  and Dinos Chapman, Paul Morrison and Graham Crowley and in 2008 he won the Nottingham Castle Open. In 2011 Litherland was selected by Matthew Collings to be included in the exhibition "Crash" at the Charlie Dutton Gallery. He also had a solo show at Art Work Space within the Hempel Hotel London and was selected by Patricia Bickers, Pippa Hale and Robert Leckie for inclusion in the Salon Art Prize, at the Matt Roberts Arts Project Space on Vyner Street in London. In 2010 Litherland jointly curated the exhibition "Closely Held Secrets", which featured Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry. The  exhibition was an artistic collaboration between Nottingham Trent University’s Bonington Gallery, nine visual artists and a skilled digital embroidery technician who has translated and transformed a series of original artworks into a collection of digitally embroidered artefacts. Litherland graduated with an MFA at Goldsmiths College of Art in 2012 where he was awarded The Warden's Purchase Prize. In 2012 his painting, "All Animals Lead us to Light" was picked for the Oriel Davis Open, in Newtown, Wales. In 2013, Litherland was picked by Antlers Gallery, Bristol, along with five other artists to exhibit his work in their exhibition  Spatial. In 2014, Antlers Gallery approached Litherland again to exhibit at their project Exploration. This exhibition was shown at Purifier House by Bristol's Harbourside.