John Cake + Darren Neave
Formerly known as The Little Artists
Born 1973
Studied Leeds University

Solo Exhibitions
‘Two of you, among you, with you’ 20-21 Arts Centre, Scunthorpe March 2009
‘Art Crazy Nation’ Auckland Festival, New Zealand March 2009
‘Kippen…Schlumpf Büro’ Galerie Markus Winter, Berlin February 2009
‘Kippen…Schlumpf Büro’ Another Roadside Attraction Gallery, London September 2008
‘Some Little Artists’ Hive Gallery, Elsecar, Yorkshire, June 2008
‘SmurfNet’ Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, April 2008
‘Two of you, among you, with you’ My Life in Art/TAG Fine Arts, London February 2008
‘Bumper Bonanza’ Hedspace Gallery, Brighton May 2006
‘Big Art’ Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, from March 2006
‘Art Crazy Nation’ Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan, February 2006
‘Contemporary Artists Play Pictionary’ Agency Contemporary, London, November 2005
‘Art Craziest Nation’ Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Autumn 2005
‘Lick Your Selves’ Bloc, Sheffield, August 2005
‘Crazius Craftus Creativus’ The Reliance Gallery, London November 2004
‘Taking a line for a drive’ Comme Ca Gallery, Manchester July 2004
‘Art Crazy Nation’ Comme Ca NYC, New York February 2004
‘Art Crazy Nation’ Catto Contemporary, London December 2003
‘This is Modern Art’ Cornerhouse, Manchester June - July 2001
‘Gavin Turk’s Rubbish’ Decima Gallery, London July 1999

Group Exhibitions
‘Britain’s Rubbish’ Art ohne Grenze, Berlin October - November 2009
‘Visiones de Anhelo’ Galería Espacio, Valencia October - November 2009
‘Untitled 2’ Collectors Contemporary, Singapore June - July 2009
‘Parcours St Germain’ Zadig & Voltaire, Paris May - June 2009
‘Inspiration’ Mitchell Library, Glasgow April 2009
‘English Lounge’ Tang Contemporary, Beijing March 2009
‘And the dish ran away with the spoon’ Collectors Contemporary, Singapore November 2008
‘Tatton Park Biennial’ Tatton Park, Cheshire, May - September 2008. Curated by Danielle Arnaud
‘Let’go’ Monster Truck, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, April 2008
‘Deptford X’ Various venues in Deptford, London, September 2007
‘Situation 33’ Bleibtreu Gallery, Berlin, July 2007
‘L’ego’ Space Gallery, Bratislava, April, 2007. Curated by Juraj Carny
‘Jeux de Mains, jeux de vilains’ Good Friday Gallery, Brussels April 2007. Curated by Christophe Veys
‘post_modellismus’ Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, October 2005 and Kunsthall, Bergen, January 2006
‘Didn’t mean to be bad kids’ Warrington Art Gallery, April 2004 and Collins Gallery, Glasgow, May 2005
‘Comme Ca Art Prize North Shortlist’ Comme Ca Gallery, Manchester October 2003
‘Thermo 03’ The Lowry, Salford June 2003
‘The Collection’ Comme Ca Gallery, Manchester October 2002

Collections
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Publications
‘The Little Artists Art Crazy Nation’ Catalogue Published by Kulczyk Foundation. Essays by Piotr Bernatowicz and Urszula Szulakowska. ISBN 83-923177-3-4
‘post_modellismus’ Catalogue Published by Krinzinger Projekte. ISBN 3-200-00541-6

Commissions
‘Big Art’ Childrens’ Art Gallery and activity book for Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
‘High ArtLite’ Julian Stallabrass. Images for cover for 2nd edition, Verso
‘A day in the life of Mother’ for Mother Agency, Advertising Agency of the Year, Creative Review Magazine, June 2003

Articles
‘Miniature Masterpieces’ Annie Bowles, Nude August 2007
‘De l’art en briques’ Dorothee Tramoni, Milk March 2007
‘Lego cenniejsze niz braz’ Eliza Bernatowicz, ArtEon April 2006
‘Its a small (Art) world after all’ Michelle Kung, ArtNews January 2004
‘Build-your-own Brit Art’ Naomi West, Telegraph 22 November 2003
‘Big ideas from the Little Artists’ Rachel Brody, Metro 11 July 2003

Lecturing
Visiting lecturers to:
Leeds College of Art & Design
Goldsmith’s College
University of the Arts, London