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BP Portrait Award 2011
Wendy Elia has been selected again this year for the BP National Portrait Gallery award show 2011.
Wendy Elia has made the official selection of the 2011 BP Portrait Awards at the National Portrait Gallery, London, with a naked self portrait entitled 'I could have been a Contender' completed in February 2011. The painting will be on show at the national portrait Gallery from 16th June to the 8th of September 2011, and will then tour the country.
National Portrait Gallery, BP Portrait Awards 2011.
Some details to tempt you to see the whole painting and VOTE FOR IT at the National Portrait gallery as your favourite!
National Portrait Gallery.
June 16 – September –8, 2011
St Martin's Place.
London. WC2H 0HE.
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7306 0055.
Email: dsaywell@npg.org.uk.
Website: http://www.npg.org.uk
Wilson Williams Gallery Showing July 2011
More of Wendy Elia's paintings will be on show in an exhibition entitled 'The MacGuffin' .
The show will be at the Wilson Williams Gallery in Hackney, London,running fromthe 1st -17th July, 2011.
Wilson Williams Gallery
30 Queensdown Rd
London E5 8NN
+44 (0)7531342128
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General enquiries
info@wilsonwilliamsgallery.com
'It Will Happen When You Least Expect it' Series availiable to buy at the London Art Fair 2011
Wendy Elia Original Paintings for sale 19th - 23rd January 2011
Some of Wendy Elia's "It Will Happen When You Least Expect It" series can be viewed, and are for sale at the London Art fair, from the 19th of January until Sunday the 23rd of January 2011.
Wendy will be represented by the WW gallery at stand P9 in the Project Space at the Buisiness Design Centre, Islingtonn, London.
London Art Fair / Art Star Superstore
19 – 23 January 2011
Business Design Centre
52 Upper Street Islington
London N1 0QH WW
Gallery stand P9
www.londonartfair.co.uk
Travel Information
Underground
Angel Station (Northern Line) is a two minute walk from the Business Design Centre. Highbury & Islington Station (Victoria Line) is a fifteen minute walk from the Business Design Centre.
Rail
Euston or Kings Cross Stations are a short distance away.
Buses
The following bus routes all stop near to the Business Design Centre on Upper Street. 19, 30, 73, 43, 38, 56, 341 and 476
Car
Visitors are strongly recommend to use public transport where possible as Upper Street and the surrounding roads are very busy shopping areas and there is limited parking available. There are several NCP car parks within walking distance. Call 0845 050 7080 for further details.
'Elsewhere' selected for the Threadneedle prize 2010
Wendy Elia's painting 'Elsewhere' has been selected for the threadneedle prize exhibition for painting and sculpture.
The Threadneedle Prize exhibition is the UK's leading showcase for contemporary figurative and representational art. Its purpose is to encourage artists with real commitment and vision to submit fresh, powerful and intriguing work created especially for the competition. With over £40,000 to be won, The Threadneedle Prize constitutes one of the largest art prizes in the UK.
"Wendy Elia works in series that explore the futile quest for truth in the digital age. Her interrogation of different modes of representation (from old Master paintings to black and white movies to contemporary images culled from 24-hour news channels) creates disconcerting narratives, loaded with symbols, that problematise a singular viewing position. Through continual shifts in painting language and juxtapositions of imagery, Wendy Eiia's work asks: in the enjoyment of the ironic and in the search for the iconic have we forgotten how to feel? Elsewhere is a painting from the series “It Will Happen When You Least Expect It” which collates some of the images invading our consciousness. Their content appears familiar, its origins less so. Was this once a news report or a scene in a Hollywood movie that recreates or foresees the same event?"
Visit the exhibition this September.
All works are for sale.
Go round the corner to the national portrait gallery to see Wendy Elia's painting 'The Visit V' part of the BP award exhibition - on until september 19th and then touring the country.
The Mall Galleries are on The Mall towards Admiralty Arch by Trafalgar Square.
Dates
2 - 18 September 2010
Opening Times
Daily, Sunday – Saturday, 10am - 5pm
Admission
£2.50, concessions £1.50
(free to FBA Friends, Art Fund
members, Westminster Res-card holders and under 16s)
Getting There
Underground: Charing Cross (2 minutes walk), Piccadilly Circus (5 minutes walk), Embankment (5 minutes walk)
National Rail: Charing Cross
Buses: 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 24, 29, 53, 87, 88, 91, 139, 159, 176, 453
Car: There is pay and display parking in Carlton House Terrace and Waterloo Place (behind the Mall Galleries) and there is a public car park within 50 metres on Cockspur Court (off Spring Gardens).
The Mall Galleries
London SW1Y 5BD
Tel: 44 (0) 20 7930 6844
www.threadneedleprize.com
Email: threadneedleprize@mallgalleries.com
BP Portrait Award News
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'The Visit V' Selected for the BP National Portrait Award shows
The Visit V (Mary) will be on show in the National Portrait Gallery in June as part of the BP portrait Award show. This is a Large Oil Painting on Canvas
The annual BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious portrait competition in the world, promoting the very best in contemporary portrait painting. Open to everyone over 18, this year's exhibition presents fifty-eight selected works from a record 2,177 entrants.
The exhibition will travel to to Lincoln and Aberdeen.
BP Portrait Award 2010 Exhibition Schedule
National Portrait Gallery.
June 24 – September 19, 2010
St Martin's Place.
London. WC2H 0HE.
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7306 0055.
Email: dsaywell@npg.org.uk.
Website: http://www.npg.org.uk
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Usher Gallery, Lincoln.
September – November 2010.
Usher Gallery, Lindum Road, Lincoln.
Lincolnshire.
LN2 1NN.
England
Telephone:01522 527980
Email: usher.gallery@lincolnshire.gov.uk
Website: www.thecollection.lincoln.museum
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Aberdeen Art Gallery.
November 27 – January 22, 2010
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Schoolhill
Aberdeen
AB10 1FQ
Telephone: +44 (0) 1224 523700
Fax: +44 (0) 1224 632133
Email: info@aagm.co.uk
Website: http://www.aagm.co.uk/
Visit the B.P. Portrait Award Website here
National Portrait Gallery Website
© Marie-Anne Mancio 2009
Archive News
It will happen when you least expect it
Wendy Elia works in series that explore the futile quest for truth. It Will Happen When You Least Expect It is both a threat and a promise. Referring equally to meeting one’s soul mate or facing one’s death, it collates some of the images invading our consciousness. Portable paintings are arranged into arbitrary, non-hierarchical groupings: here a triptych, there a solitary canvas. Their content appears familiar, its origins less so. Was this once a news photograph of hostages or a scene in a Hollywood movie that recreates or foresees the same event? Some are iconic - Orson Welles, the Twin Towers - others vie to become so.
In these juxtapositions, they invite us to re-visit postmodernism: Derrida claimed if we had understood we had misunderstood; Baudrillard provoked us with the assertion the gulf war never happened; we were consumed by the society of spectacle where images proliferated virally and news and entertainment disintegrated into infotainment. Nothing was real except the hyperreal. And in this expanding digital and virtual world, we chatted, zipped, downloaded, uploaded, and photoshopped our way into re-negotiating found images and making a production of them. It Will Happen When You Least Expect It asks if, in the enjoyment of the ironic, we have forgotten how to feel.
© Marie-Anne Mancio 2009