Elinor Evans®

 

 

Biography

 

 

 

 

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

 

Education

2003-2005 MA Painting, Royal College of Art,London,UK 

2000-2003 1st  Class BA Hons Fine Art, Painting at Chelsea College of Art and Design,    London UK

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

1998-2000 Parc Menai College, Bangor,Wales,UK  G.N.V.Q Advanced, Destinction A/S Level Art History A/S Level Art and Design     

 

Solo Exhibitions

2011  The Cat Princess, Signal Gallery, London, U.K

2010 New Paintings, Sala de Exposiciones, El Tiemblo, C/ Real, 3 , Tiemblo , Avila, Spain

2010 New Paintings Centro Cultural de Cebreros, C/Castillejos, Cebreros, AVILA , Spain

2010 New Paintings, San Martin de Arevalo, Plaza de Villa, Avila Spain.

2009 New Paintings,Las Naves de Marquez, Avila, Spain

2009 New Paintings, Espacio Cultural, El Barco de Avila, Spain

2009 New Paintings  Espacio Cultural, Piedrahita, Spain  

2008 Naked behind the Mask, The Apartment, London, UK

2006 Facing the Mask, The Apartment, London;UK

2004 Drawings and Paintings, La Choza de Gredos, San Martin del Pimpollar, Avila, Spain,  New Paintings, The Aviator Gallery, London,UK

2003 Drawings and Painting’s which represent Lucy Rees’s philosophy on Horsemanship. Becedas, Spain

2000 NEW paintings, Education Gallery, Oriel Mostyn Llandudno, North Wales,UK

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 Secrets, Gulbenkine Galleries at the RCA, London, UK

2010 Secrets, Gulbenkine Galleries at the RCA, London, UK

2009 Secrets, Gulbenkine Galleries at the RCA, London, UK

2009 The Shaman Project III Cymru, Oriel Plas Glyn Y Weddw, Wales, UK

2009 Gelert Performance by Elinor Evans Plas Glyn Y Weddw, Wales, UK

2009 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, UK

2008 Secrets, Gulbenkine Galleries at the RCA, London

2008 Jerwood Contempoary Painters, Aberystwyth Arts Center, Wales

2008 Christine Aerfeldt and Elinor Evans, Wyer Gallery, London, UK

2008 Start your collection@contemporary Art Projects, London, UK

2008 Characters: The People behind the Portraits, The Atkinson Gallery, Southport,UK

2008 CERDLYN, Oriel Plas Glyn Y Weddw, Wales,UK

2008 Through a glass, darkly, Kenny Schachter ROVE projects,London,UK curated by Anabel Emson,       

2008 Jerwood Contemporary Painters, London.

2007 Nativity, 39, London,UK

2007 Bacchus to Barbie, Signal Gallery, London, UK

2007 Secrets, Gulbenkine Galleries at the RCA, London,UK

2007 Top Twenty, 39, London; UK

2007 Start your collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London, UK

2007 Design + Art, The Apartment  a Sant Tropez, Galeria Nathalie Duchayne, France,

2006 The 12 days of Xmas, 39, London,UK

2006 Secrets Exhibition, The Royal College of Art,London, UK

2006 Spirit of the Llyn, Plas Glyn Y Weddw, Wales,UK

2006 Noise,  View2Gallery, Liverpool, UK

2006 The Shaman Project II ,  Bilbao, Spain,       

2006 Summer Exhibition,  Foster Art, London,UK       

2006 Young Wales 7, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy,UK

2006 THE SHAMAN PROJECT, Salamanca, Spain,

2005 OPEN EXHIBITION, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy,UK

2005 NEW PAINTINGS, The Wyer Gallery, London,UK

2005 Secrets, RCA, London, UK

2005 Hollow Salon, Hollow Gallery, Islington, London,UK 

2005 Christmas Exhibition, Pen-Y-Fan Gallery, Brecon,UK

2005 Art Now, The Milton Gallery, St Paul´s School, London 

2005 Contempoary Welsh Art Fair,  The Snowdon Mill Gallery, N, Wales,UK

2005 Like Nowhere Else, The show 2005, Royal College of Art,London,UK

2005 Pen-Y-Fan Gallery, Breckon,UK

2005 London Art Fair, London, UK

2005 A sharp intake of Breath’, Contemporaryartwest, Beldam Gallery, London, UK

2004 Atlantic2, Foster Art Gallery, London,UK

2004 Xmas Tree, 39 Gallery, London,UK

2004 Waiting Rooms, Palmers Green Station, London,UK

2004 Painting Interim Show 2004, Henry Moore and Entrance Galleries, RCA,London UK

2004 Other People, Three Colts Lane Gallery, London,UK

2004 Visual Arts Exhibition, National Eisteddfod, of Wales Newport;UK

2004 Welsh contemporary art Fair, Snowdon Mill, Porthmadog, UK

2004 Stereo White, Howie Street, London,UK

2004 Guild House curated by Roderic Barton, South Bermondsey, London,UK

2004 Power!Clap Your Hands!Sucker!, The Chambers Gallery,London;UK

2004 The Spirit of the Llyn, Welsh Elements, Oriel Plas Glyn-Y-Weddw,, N.WalesUK

2004 Tenofthebest Art Review’s selected Graduates2003,Deluxe Gallery, Hoxton, London UK

2004 Miniatures, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London,UK

2003 Secrets, RCA;London,UK

2003 Kyffin Williams, The Chapel, Abersoch, N.Wales,UK

2003 Summer Exhibition, Oriel Plas Glyn-Y-Weddw, Llanbedrog, N. Wales,UK

2003 Miscellaneous Debris, Century Gallery, Shoreditch, London,UK

2003 Young Wales6, The Royal Cambrian Academy Gallery, Conwy, Wales,UK

2003 Play and Direct, Century Gallery, Shoreditch, London,UK

2002 Summer Show, Chapel of Art Gallery, Cricciet. Wales,UK

2002 Summer2002, Rob Piercy Gallery, Porthmadog. Wales,UK

2002 GroupShow, The Rhythm Factory, Whitechapel, London;UK

2002 Dinge, Bishopsgate, Brick Lane, London,UK

2001 Kiss My Art, M Gallery,Notting Hill, London,UK

2001 Summer Show, Chapel of Art Gallery, Criccieth,UK

2000 Young Wales V, The Royal Cambrian Academy Gallery, Conwy,UK

2000 Group Show, Chapel of Art Gallery, Criccieth,UK

1999 N.S.F, (National Schizophrenia Foundation) The Mill Gallery, Porthmadog,UK

1999 Llanberis Slate Quarry, Educational Department,UK

 

Publications

2009 New Twist on Folk Tale, Cambrian News, 6 August                                                

2009 Interview, Golwg,Issue 40,18thJune Non Tudor                                                                                     

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

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

2007 Time out review of Top Twenty Show. September                                                   

2005 Untitled Contemporary Art, number 33 Spring                                                           

2004 “Tu ol I’r Masgiau” Non Tudor, Golwg,Magazine                                                                           

2003 Marmalade Magazine Issue 5,                                                                                

 

Interviews

2011 Masks, Glasschord Art and Culture magazine, volume 1:6

2006 The Shaman Project II, Deia, Bilbao,                                                                     

2006 Shaman Project, El ADELANTO de Salamanca                                              

2006 The Shaman Project, TRIBUNA de Salamanca,Spain                                                     

2006 The SHAMAN Project, TVE1, Spain                                                                       

2006‘Y Shoe Gelf’, S4C, Wales, UK                                                                                      

2004 BBC Wales, UK                                                                                                          

2004 Coleg Menai Press, UK                                                                                                

2003 Television Canal Bejar y Comarca, D.Cesar Spain                                                         

2003 Pnawnd Da, TV Welsh Production, UK                     

2003 Cambrian News,UK                                                     

2001 Agenda TV-Art,Spain                                                       

2000 Agenda TV-Art,Spain                                                        

2000 Cambrian News,UK                                                     

1999 Pnawnd Da, TV Welsh Production, UK                        

1999 Radio Cymru,UK                                                           

 

Awards and Competitions

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

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

2004 Fine Art Award, National Eisteddfod, Wales,                                              

2004 Stanley Spencer  Award, Royal College of Art                                           

2003 3rd Prize Young Wales 6,  Royal Cambrian Academy,                               

1999 1st W.J.E.C, Christmas Card Competition,                                                 

1999 Snow Sculpture Competition, Finland,                                                       

1997-98 Winner of the Cultural Award                                                                    

1996-97 Winner of the Cultural Award                                                                    

 

Paintings in private collection

 

Welsh Museum, Cardiff

National Welsh Assembly, Cardiff

Welsh Portrait Gallery, Conwy

Amlin PLC, London

 

 

 

 

¨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 from the National Eisteddod

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

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

´Although there is a metaphoric and fantasy element in her work, most of her images have their roots firmly in reality´ Sioe Celf S4C  2005

Naked behind the Mask was her second solo show at the Apartment Gallery in London in 2008 where she explored further  the special relationship which she believes exists between animals and humans. In this series of paintings and drawings Elinor Evans disrobes her human models, in poses inspired by the nude paintings of the great masters from the 18th-century, albeit with tongue in cheek. The characters are laid bare in all their nakedness, but they are unable to rid themselves of the ubiquitous masks.

Evans sets these stylized 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 surprisingly tactile, with furry fabric and heavy furniture and a silky-looking dog.

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

In her latest Solo exhibition at the Signal Gallery, The Masked Princess, ¨Elinor Evans explores the same broad themes but with a difference. Now a mother, living in Spain with her family, she has embraced this new lifestyle and moved away from her flirtatious style. Instead the new series includes children (still hidden behind masks) and the poses have a strange diffident formality about them. The human figures seem to be forced into party frocks and ill-fitting and inappropriate shoes and look distinctively uncomfortable. While the familiar animals characters seem to be their normal relaxed unpretentious superior selves¨ Chris Garlick, Signal Gallery,    

 

 

Elinor Evans (b.1982)

ELINOR EVANS (b.1982)

Welsh-born Elinor Evans, currently living and working in Spain, divides her time between Spain, Wales and London.

In 2003 she gained a 1st Class BA in Fine Art (Painting) from Chelsea School of Art.  In 2005 she completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, where in 2004 she won the Amlin Prize for the most promising young artist.

In February 2006 she founded, exhibited and directed The Shaman Project, which like the nomads, is a moving, exhibition/event of music, art and performance. Following the great success 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 in 2006, where her performance with a live horse was screened.

The third exhibition to date, took place in North Wales, at Oriel Plas Glyn-Y-Weddw.  Elinor Evans participated and directed a performance which related to her surroundings. She brought back the nostalgia of her home land, North Wales, and, using her typical subject matter, she portrayed the well known legend of Gelert. Accompanied by her faithful hound and muse, Picasso, and other animals (including a live horse) she brought the tale to life to the enjoyment of the large audience .  With live flamenco music sung by Javier Santos,  the whole performance was imbued with a Spanish flavour.

 Evans has widely exhibited in Britain and Spain. She was selected for Art Review´s Ten of the Best B.A Graduates after graduating from Chelsea College of Art in 2003. She then won the Fine Art award in the National Eisteddfod in Wales.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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