Biography
Darren Lago (b. Walsall, Staffordshire, UK 1995) studied at Burton on Trent College, Staffordshire (1984); Portsmouth Polytechnic (1985-88); Chelsea School of Art (1989-90). He was awarded the Picker Fellowship at Kingsyon Polytechnic (1990); the Boise Scholarship at the Slade School of Fine Art (1991) and was Artist in Residence at the New Art Gallery, Walsall in 2000 for which the Contemporary Art Society presented his Stilletto Stalacite (1999). Lago group shows have included New Contemporaries, ICA, 1989; Urban Hybrid, Bath Museum, 1993; Pier, Atlantis Gallery, 1994; and Saatchi in Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1999. He also had a series of solo exhibitions,with Mountbatten Gallery, Portsmouth (1987) and later ones including 7 x 5 = Sculptures, Annely Juda Fine Art, 2000 (included witty, colourful hybrids of consumer products, such as a toaster metamorphosed into the façade of the Parthenon and a hair dryer with a briar-wood body).
