2005

OPEN EXHIBITION, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy ( December- January )

NEW PAINTINGS, The Wyer Gallery, London, ( 6 December- 25 January )

Secrets Exhibition, The Royal College of Art, ( 18-28 November)

Hollow Salon, Hollow Gallery, Islington, London, (15 November -19 January )

Christmas Exhibition, Pen-Y-Fan Gallery, Brecon, (12 November – 18 December)

Art Now, The Milton Gallery, St Paul´s School, London ( 4- 30 November)

Contempoary Welsh Art Fair, The Snowdon Mill Gallery, N, Wales August 17

Like Nowhere Else, The show 2005, Royal College of Art, (26 May- 6 June)

Pen-Y-Fan Gallery, Breckon, (30^th April-8^th may)

London Art Fair, London, ( 19-23 January)

‘A sharp intake of Breath’, Contemporaryartwest, Beldam Gallery, London, (17Jan- 4Febuary)

2004

Atlantic2, Foster Art Gallery, London (25 Nov-19Decmber)

Xmas Tree, 39 Gallery, London ( 16 December)

Waiting Rooms, Palmers Green Station, London, (21-October-21November)

Painting Interim Show 2004, Henry Moore and Entrance Galleries, Royal College of Art, (11-20 October)

Other People, Three Colts Lane Gallery, London, (3-26August )

Visual Arts Exhibition, National Eisteddfod, of Wales Newport, (29 July-2August)

Welsh contemporary art Fair, Snowdon Mill, Porthmadog, (July)

Stereo White, Howie Street, London, (21-30 June)

Guild House curated by Roderic Barton, South Bermondsey, London, (25March-4 April)

Power!Clap Your Hands!Sucker!, The Chambers Gallery, London, (16-21March)

The Spirit of the Llyn, Welsh Elements, Oriel Plas Glyn-Y-Weddw, Llanbedrog, N.Wales (15Feb-30March)

Tenofthebest Art Review’s selected Graduates2003, Deluxe Gallery, Hoxton (22-29Jan)

Miniatures, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, (4Dec-4Jan)

2003

Secrets, Royal College of Art, London (November)

Kyffin Williams, The Chapel, Abersoch, N.Wales (August )

Summer Exhibition, Oriel Plas Glyn-Y-Weddw, Llanbedrog, N. Wales, (16July-16Aug)

Miscellaneous Debris, Century Gallery, Shoreditch,(23 April-04May)

Young Wales6, The Royal Cambrian Academy Gallery, Conwy, (15Feb-16March)

Play and Direct, Century Gallery, Shoreditch (29Jan-9Feb)

2002

Summer Show, Chapel of Art Gallery, Criccieth (August)

Summer2002, Rob Piercy Gallery, Porthmadog (7July-7August)

GroupShow, The Rhythm Factory, Whitechapel, (28March-14April)

Dinge, Bishopsgate, Brick Lane, London (23March)

2001

Kiss My Art, M Gallery,Notting Hill, London (7-12 Dec)

Summer Show, Chapel of Art Gallery, Criccieth, (31 July-14Aug)

2000

Young Wales V, The Royal Cambrian Academy Gallery, Conwy (17Feb-18March)

Group Show, Chapel of Art Gallery, Criccieth, (3-12Sept)

1999

N.S.F, (National Schizophrenia Foundation) The Mill Gallery, Porthmadog, (August 22)

Llanberis Slate Quarry, Educational Department (Jan)

My work is derived from the special relationship that I believe exists between animals and humans.

By drawing attention to the fact that we are part human and part animal, I acknowledge the importance and intelligence of animals.

The significance of the ‘Animal Mask’ in my paintings symbolises the social mask of hypocrisy – the human condition from which animals are free. Hypocrisy is integrated into society and by wearing a mask, man hides from facing this reality. My process involves personally ‘collaborating’ with animals. We work together utilising theatrics to look for and express our relationship and the special communication that exists between man and animal. I am dealing with the animal’s behaviour towards humans.

I make short films to capture this central idea. I then take images from the films to help me play out my ideas and decide on the final images to paint. I have already created my colour compositions before filming by deciding what to wear and which masks enhance the colour of each animal.

Also, I work with artificial and natural light. I look for the most extreme moments to express the shadows and brightness in my paintings. I choose those moments with the most movement expressed between man and animal. Using this movement, mixed with the expressive light, I enjoy painting in oil in a fast and fluid manner, where the white in the painting is the background that remains. This same method applies to drawing.

Through my paintings, I want people to know that a language exists between man and animal: I desire this language to be expressed without hypocrisy.

Elinor Evans (b.1982)

Biography

Welsh-born Elinor Evans, currently living and working in Spain, divides her time between Spain, Wales and London. In 2005 she completed her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, where in 2004 she won the Amlin Prize for the most promising Young artist. In Febuary 2006 she founded/exhibited and curated the Shaman Project, which like the nomads, is a moving, exhibition/event of music, art and performance. Following the great succes of the first show in Salamanca, Spain, she then continued on a larger scale inviting 14 artists to take part in the second Shaman Project in Bilbao, 2006. Where her performance whith a live horse was screaned

Evans has widly exhibited in Wales,Britan, and Europe. Selected for Art Review´s ten of the best B.A Graduates after completing at Chelsea College of Art in 2003, to then winning the Fine Art Award at the National Eisteddfod in Wales.

“Elinor Evans has a confidence of line and form that belie her years. There is a freshness in her work which has an unsettling undercurrent and echoes the American artist Eric Fischl”. Selector Ann F Jones.

In 2006 Evans won the prostgeous Young Wales VII Award held in the Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy, after been selected to exhibit in previous years.

Recently Elinor was selected in second place as one of the Young Masters of Generation Y, Oil is Back written by Freire Barnes in Bon Magazine, 2007. “Evans is what we would call a “painter´s painter” producing canvases at a prolific rate.”

Naked behind the Mask explores further into the special relationship which she believes exists between animals and humans. In this new series of paintings and drawings Elinor Evans disrobes her human models, in poses inspired by the nude paintings of the great masters from the 18^th-century, albeit with tongue in cheek. The caracters are laid bare in all their nakedness, but they are unable to rid themselves of the ubiquitous masks

Evans Sets these stylised scenes, which depict the relationship between the human body, hypocrisy and animals. They are then transposed from digital technology, film and video, in a rapid, enthusiastic application of oil, onto larger canvases. The effect is suprisingly tactile, with furry fabric and heavy furniture and a silky-looking dog.

Evans´s Dalmation dog, Picasso, is her latest muse and embodies the innocence and loyalty of animals.

Elinor Evans. B(1982) Criccieth, North Wales.

Education

MA Painting, Royal College of Art 2003-2005

Chelsea College of Art and Design 2000-2003

1^st Class BA Hons Fine Art, Painting

15% P.G.C.E Teachers Training Status, Pilot scheme, 2003

Parc Menai College, Bangor 1998- 2000

G.N.V.Q Advanced, Destinction

A/S Level Art History

A/S Level Art and Design

Solo Exhibitions

2008

Naked behind the mask, The Apartment, London, (8 Febuary- 30March )

2006

Facing the Mask, The Apartment, London (6 june- October)

2004

Recent Drawings and Paintings, La Choza de Gredos, San Martin del Pimpollar, Avila, Spain, (4-18 August)

Elinor Evans, Recent Paintings, The Aviator Gallery, London, (6-15June)

2003

Drawings and Painting’s which represent Lucy Rees’s philosophy on Horsemanship.Becedas, Spain (29-31 Sep )

2000

Elinor Evans recent paintings, Education Gallery, Oriel Mostyn Llandudno, North Wales (28 Oct-11 November)

Group Shows

2008

Secrets, Gulbenkine Galleries at the RCA, London (November)

Jerwood Contempoary Painters, Aberystwyth Arts Center, Wales

(4 September -20 October)

Christine Aerfeldt and Elinor Evans, Wyer Gallery, London (10 September-15October)

Start your collection@contemporary Art Projects, London, (1August-21September)

Characters: The People behind the Portraits, The Atkinson Gallery, Southport (12 April-7September)

CERDLYN, Oriel Plas Glyn Y Weddw, Wales, July through a glass, darkly, Kenny Schachter ROVE projects, curated by Anabel Emson, London. (25 April-15May)

Jerwood Contemporary Painters, London ( 8 April-23 May)

2007

Nativity, 39, London ( 14 December- 15 January)

Bacchus to Barbie, Signal Gallery, London (16^th November-22 December)

Secrets, Gulbenkine Galleries at the RCA, London (November)

Top Twenty, 39, London ( August-October)

Start your collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London (3 August-30October)

Design + Art, The Apartment a Sant Tropez, Galeria Nathalie Duchayne, France, ( 6July-8 August.)

2006

The 12 days of Xmas, 39, London, ( December-January 2007)

Secrets Exhibition, The Royal College of Art, ( 18-28November

Spirit of the Llyn, Plas Glyn Y Weddw, Wales, (October-December)l

Noise, View2Gallery, Liverpool, (14 Sep-21 October)

The Shaman Project II , Bilbao, Spain, (2-10 September)

Summer Exhibition, Foster Art, London, (17-3 September)

Young Wales 7, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy (27 May-july)

THE SHAMAN PROJECT, Salamanca, Spain, (11 Febuary-18)

Publications

Characters.the people behind the Portraits, Atkinson Gallery, 2008

Bon Magazine, Black Gold, October, The Oil issue, 2007

Time out review of Top Twenty Show. September 2007

Untitled Contemporary Art, number 33 Spring 2005

“Tu ol I’r Masgiau” Non Tudor, Golwg, (September 23, 2004)

Visual Arts Exhibition, Eisteddfod Genedleuthol Cymru, Newport and District (September 2004).

Marmalade Magazine Issue 5, 2003

Interviews

The Shaman Project II, Deia, Bilbao, ( 3^rd September 2006)

The Shaman Project, El ADELANTO de Salamanca ( 8 Febuary 2006)

The Shaman Project, TRIBUNA de Salamanca (9, 11, 12 Febuary 2006)

The SHAMAN Project, TVE1, Spain (11 Febuary 2006)

‘Y Shoe Gelf’, S4C, Wales (8 December 2004)

BBC Wales, (14 July 2004)

Coleg Menai Press, (20Jan2004)

Television Canal Bejar y Comarca, D.Cesar (Sep2003)

Pnawnd Da, TV Welsh Production, (3Feb2003)

Cambrian News (April2003)

Agenda TV-Art, (13July2001)

Agenda TV-Art (29Nov2000)

Cambrian News, (July2000)

Pnawnd Da, TV Welsh Production (July1999)

Radio Cymru, (July 1999)

Awards and Competitions

Jerwood Contempoary Painters, London, Aberystwyth, 2008

1^st Prize, YOUNG WALES 7, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy , 2006

1^st Prize, Amlin Award, Royal College of Art , 2004

Fine Art prize winner at National Eisteddfod Wales, Newport, 2004

Stanley Spencer Award, Royal College of Art , 2004

3^rd Prize Young Wales 6, Royal Cambrian Academy, 20031^st W.J.E.C, Christmas Card Competition, December1999)

Snow Sculpture Competition, Finland, (Febuary1999)

Winner of the Cultural Award (1997-98)

Winner of the Cultural Award (1996-97)

Paintings in private collection

Welsh Museum, Cardiff

National Welsh Assembly, Cardiff

Welsh Portrait Gallery, Conwy

Amlin PLC, London