Cain Casson narrates the hidden absurdity of isolated rural landscapes by exploiting the confines of painting.
Navigating raw, argumentative surfaces with salvaged brushes,
emerging images pulse between feelings of banality and paranoia,
forcibly entrapped within assemblages of found wood, broken furniture and rural detritus.
Casson’s work revisits the non-metropolitan idyll with wide, weary eyes;
dredging its picture-postcard façade for a truthful vision of contemporary countryside life.
The resultant works exist in a state of struggle,
the composure of their visual influence at odds with a heavy-handed approach.
Navigating raw, argumentative surfaces with salvaged brushes,
emerging images pulse between feelings of banality and paranoia,
forcibly entrapped within assemblages of found wood, broken furniture and rural detritus.
Casson’s work revisits the non-metropolitan idyll with wide, weary eyes;
dredging its picture-postcard façade for a truthful vision of contemporary countryside life.
The resultant works exist in a state of struggle,
the composure of their visual influence at odds with a heavy-handed approach.
2022-25 Manchester School of Art, Fine Art BA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Found in Castelo Branco - Fábrica da Criatividade, Portugal
What if? - The Holden Gallery, Manchester
Manchester School of Art Degree Show
a Route of Evenescence - The Slide Gallery, Manchester
2024 Bound Art Book Fair - The Whitworth, Manchester
Under Mercy of Moon and Tide - Seesaw, Manchester
The Yellow Day of Beltane - 1853 Studios, Manchester
Terrain Unravelled Tales - Bankley Gallery, Manchester
AWARDS
Freelands Painting Prize (2025)
Art School Comissions, The Holden Gallery (2025)
RESIDENCIES
Castelo Branco Residency Award (2025)
PRESS
https://degreeshow.mmu.ac.uk/2025/profiles/cain-casson/