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Glen Baxter
Biography
GLEN BAXTER (b 1944)
Glen Baxter was born in Leeds and studied at Leeds College of Art from 1960-5. He has exhibited internationally and his work is in the collections of the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The artist has published numerous books, including Almost Completely Baxter, New and Selected Blurtings in 2016 and Ominous Stains in 2009, and has also appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Elle, and Vogue.
It was at art school, through the work of André Breton, that Baxter first discovered Surrealism, his passion in life. His captioned drawings, rendered in ink and crayon, subvert the visual style of adventure comic series such as Biggles and Dan Dare by the inclusion of unconventional narrative twists.
The artist stages contrived scenes in environments such as art galleries, auction houses and the great outdoors with humorous results. Lampooning the signifiers of taste such as fine dining and connoisseurship, and misplacing icons of high culture such as the paintings of Mondrian and Rothko, Baxter’s work raises questions around the social structures underpinning aesthetic values.
"Mr Baxter betrays all the ominous symptoms of genius" Edward Gorey
"a kind of mad cross between Magritte, S. J. Perelman and Pulp Fiction" Mel Gussons, New York Times
“...achieves a kind of social-surrealist comedy comparable to the achievements of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Vic Reeves” Michael Wilson, Artforum
Selected works
![Glen Baxter, "I'd Just Like to Remind You That We Were Supposed to Share That Last Mondrian, Dirk!" Hissed Julian,...](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/a3ca31dda8342e06bd3373f54dd56780j.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, Jedson was Noted for His Withering Sidelong Glances, 2021](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/13b56a2096b62e70c263c70ea4d74724j.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, It Wasn't too long before the Tulsa Kid Began Taking a Serious Interest in Contemporary Art, 2021](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/ed81d57e792423f7e84c3730c2e14fc2j.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, On Reaching My Ninth Birthday I Was Finally Given My Own Room, 2021](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/3d46f6cdbc13d5efca6a2ffb0122ce16j.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, "It Says... We Are About to Become the Subjects of One of Baxter's Ghastly Drawings...", 2021](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/b2aa2c63e494f860f7ada6d14892b9b4j.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, "Sometimes I Feel I'm Merely Anchored in a Dystopic Understanding of the Present" Explained Trevor, 2021](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/9da938c65754fec2ef47abebfd11e18dj.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, Having a Reliable Bagel Delivery Service Did Make Life a Touch More Tolerable, 2021](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/44df050a90f6eb2b0fd62d5b2fe689ccj.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, Uncle Frank Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Perspective, 2020](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/84f604707095cf9a2e8cfc4a45229e3ej.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, I Thought That Now Might Be a Good Time to Raise the Subject of Social Distrancing, 2020](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/5a639c8c14874d69b8d37cb9550b1298j.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, I Realized It Was Going To Be A Terribly Long Weekend , 2019](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/d1044651b5ad85e0f2b283a99021b642j.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, "Calder Or No Calder - I'm Going In!" Bellowed The Connoisseur, 2019](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/f3aa910bd47a296837efb1a268ed4e78j.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, "The Wearing of Beige in Chelmsford Carries a Three Year Custodial Sentence" Warned Officer Snead, 2018](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/4db6b1b63cd45abf890b6553dc9b73faj.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, At The First Sign Of Summer We Set Off For A Family Picnic On The Moors, 2017](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/b281e2ee3c3180d466d8f8ed880159a0j.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, Daddy seemed to be running a lucrative little sideline churning out Mondrians, 2014](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/0c285ca25bb75b8b29381465939740040aacd2e3.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, "Looks like we got ourselves another Serra, Sheriff" drawled big Jake, 2014](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/0bb6ea7faa0563a87ddea8f68e806c73j.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, The laws of physics were ranged against him but Tex was going ahead…Whilst Daisy Mae began to reflect...](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/c06e8bf24a5f996418d38d220b44786029aa5b57.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, Police are called in to investigate an outbreak of Surrealism in Leeds, 2011](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/95455f3c35ad3f5e01dac43f7090b52997c03fbd.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, 'It reminds me a little of an early Glen Baxter, drawn by a much more sophisticated hand' observed...](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/7ff5ab81eb1d6dab59e95ed702a2d5b48ef63b13.jpg)
![Glen Baxter, The general consensus was that this was an epoch defining major work, 2010](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/736d9603c198073e84946a711a70a01dc4f48a3e.jpg)
Prints
![Glen Baxter 'But I Distinctly Requested a Rothko' barked Big Red, 2017](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/29245da02e7968565f987f695d3cdff8j.jpg)
![Glen Baxter 'We don't hold with no site-specific works round these parts, stranger' warned the curator, 2007-08](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/fc2b50172bdbaa6f363e4010136842903317de32.jpg)
![Glen Baxter Clandestine Meetings of the Jane Austen Society Were Held Every Other Thursday, 2014](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/733763cca86b6d24cfba390b0815dddc4f80b525.jpg)
![Glen Baxter For two years I worked for the Archbishop collating and updating his archive of pornography and railway memorabilia,...](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/9882bec99490da33010e6816f5d2d9c4e4039c68.jpg)
![Glen Baxter I think I prefer the earlier less overtly figurative work, 2009](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/58c9400e2c523dc23bd402a3e430cdcbj.jpg)
![Glen Baxter It was a device for turning school meals back into food, 2012](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/a6cf197f7969a8d2754cdb14fd7678d2cd31538d.jpg)
![Glen Baxter It was the Fourth Time Daddy had fallen for the exploding fork routine- Suite FG 8580, 1984](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/4b89c6901c523a495cfe8c4066483c23307c484f.jpg)
![Glen Baxter Police Investigate An Outbreak Of Surrealism In Leeds, 2019](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/37afc13dc060fec63f09936dd3868027j.jpg)
![Glen Baxter Robin Noticed the Problem Almost Immediately, 2016](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/cd900862e9e130835d5b207b71d28e0f9a0c78b4.jpg)
![Glen Baxter Something was happening over at the old Foucault Place and Zeke didn't care for it one little bit,...](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/a13d5e1568aa18ef66b98e915ddbad246b125145.jpg)
![Glen Baxter The English Twins Had Not Quite Grasped the Concept of Petanque, 2000](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/0e428315f6f7ce36cd9a16593658bba353a526ee.jpg)
![Glen Baxter The Wonder Book of Knowledge - How the Brain Works, 2015](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/00f719d9b83b546336c06a25b4e16afdef7239ce.jpg)
![Glen Baxter Things Were Going Quite Smoothly Until We Hit the Third Giacometti, 2018](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/de71548e1016e36ffc1c02a7739f5bd6j.jpg)
![Glen Baxter Trouble in the Design Museum, 2013](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/artlogicstorage/flowers/images/view/6e1e1c0dbedb63b1c2c83fba9ef8dcaa14f06301.jpg)
Exhibitions
Shop
![New Ways with Vegetables and Other Disasters Glen Baxter](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_800,h_800,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:good/ws-flowers/usr/images/publications/main_image/items/6f/6f44c7e7f05a4cc3ab68eb27a8eb2b47/glen-baxter-new-ways-with-vegetables-1-.jpg)