Approved: 17.10.2016

Ellie Young

Artist

Approved: 17.10.2016

The root of my enquiry is the interaction between reality and fiction and the interplay between subject and surface within the act of painting. I explore layers of representation through figurative works, most often different kinds of portraits. Inspiration comes from films, real-life and internet image searches. The work comes in series’ where paintings inform and engage each other, I use

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Artist Statement

The root of my enquiry is the interaction between reality and fiction and the interplay between subject and surface within the act of painting. I explore layers of representation through figurative works, most often different kinds of portraits. Inspiration comes from films, real-life and internet image searches. The work comes in series’ where paintings inform and engage each other, I use repetition as an opportunity to play with mark-making and the formal elements of painting. Recent work includes a complete history of space travel in tiny portraits, portraits of every member of the house of lords, cutouts of screaming women, paintings of crowds and cut outs based on real figures from the American west (all ongoing). I think that the challenge with painting people is in the convergence of the dynamic and the static, the fugitive expressions of the face coupled with its more longstanding character. I am increasingly interested in the drawing process and the way use of materials inform an artwork.

CV & Education

Solo Exhibitions

Jan 2018 – Changing Faces – Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan

April 2016 – Frontiers – Arcade Cardiff, Cardiff

September 2013- One Hour Portrait Studio- Residency, Degree Art Execution Room, London

August 2012- Same Place Different Time- ArcadeCardiff, Queens Arcade, Cardiff 

Selected Group Exhibitions

Feb 2019 - Flatten / Score - Curated by Periclo for Shelf @ Spanish City, Whitley Bay

Sept 2018 - Unit(e) 2018 -g39 Cardiff

July 2018 - Night Swimming - Mission Gallery Swansea (with Lle Gallery)

Nov 2017 – NOVA Prize – RCA Conwy

Nov 2017 – People; What are they like? – DÉDA, Derby

Nov 2017 – ING Discerning Eye – Mall Gallery, London

April 2017 – Beyond Likeness – Cardiff MADE

August 2016 – Portrait 16 – Degreeart, London

April 2016 – Oriel Davies Open- Oriel Davies, Newtown

March 2016 – Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition – The Mall, London

April 2015 – Staring at the Sea – Penarth Pier Pavillion, Penarth

November 2014 – Semi Fiction – BayArt, Cardiff with Stephen Young

August 2013- Do What You Will This World Is A Fiction – Oriel Canfas, Cardiff (With James Green and Freya Dooley)

Portrait Painting Projects

Oct 2017 – 15 Minute Portraits – Adnan’s Continental Store, Made in Roath

April 2017 – 15 Minute Portraits – Rhiwgarn Stores, Trebanog Project

June 2016 – Portraits on Plates – Roath Feast, G39 Cardiff

March 2016 – Remarkable Women of Wales Portrait Painting – WOWCaerdydd, Millennium Centre, Cardiff

November 2015 – Beer Mat Portraits – 2 day Residency at The Roath Park Tavern, Made in Roath Festival, Cardiff

October 2014- Beer Mat Portraits – 2 Day Residency at The Roath Park Tavern, Made in Roath Festival, Cardiff

May 2013- 15 Minute Portraits – Made in Spring,  Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff

April 2013- 15 Minute Portraits –  Art Car Bootique, Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff

October 2012 – Street Portraits – Cardiff Contemporary, The Hayes, Cardiff

Talks

March 2013 Artist Talk – Porthcawl Pavilion, Porthcawl

Education

 

BA Hons Fine Art, 1st Class, Cardiff School of Art and Design, 2011

BA Hons Film and American Studies, 2:1, University of East Anglia, 2006