Skin Deep
RWA - Kenny Gallery 8th July - 31st August
"Skin Deep": Fierce and complex: Six Female Artists Explore the Body as Storyteller
In a new exhibition at Bristol’s RWA Art Gallery
Skin Deep
RWA - Kenny Gallery 8th July - 31st August Bristol
"Skin Deep": Fierce and complex: Six Female Artists Explore the Body as Storyteller In a new exhibition at Bristol’s RWA Art Gallery
Eileen Cooper RA RWA (Hon) OBE, Valda Jackson MBE RWA , Charmaine Watkiss RWA,
Adelaide Damoah RWA FRSA , Jessa Fairbrother RWA , Wendy Elia RWA, feature in ‘Skin
Deep’, a new multi-media exhibition
Now in its 171st year, the RWA brings you the Annual Open Exhibition, showcasing some of the most exciting artists from across the country and beyond.
The Ceramicist (Lorne Burell)150 x135 cms Has its first showing in a UK gallery
RWA Queens Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1PX
The Ceramicist (Lorne Burell)150 x135 cms oil on canvas
Exhibition Runs: 7 September to 5 October 2024
Opening Preview: Friday 6 September, 6-8pm
In super Bristol again to celebrate the hanging of my large painting ‘ Where Are We Now ‘ oil on canvas 160 x 130 cms …., as part of the 170th Annual Open Exhibition RWA Bristol.
Painted in 2021 full of covid , #metoo and nuff dystopian control. I remain as ever your recalcitrant ‘difficult’ woman.
The show will run from 9 September 2023 to 14 January 2024 RWA, Queen's Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1PX
I am delighted to share that my Lithograph ‘Where Are We Now’ (on somerset soft white 300gsm 60x49cms) is now at the summer show at The Royal Academy in London, in a fab room hung by @eileen_cooper_ra.
The exhibition is open from 13th June – 20th August 2023.
There are a few prints left to buy from a run of 25. Go see go see go see.
Many thanks to the brilliant @catherineadeartist for her patience, printing and plate skills @lemonadelitho in #Bristol.
So here is the story …… The hand printed lithograph (and the large painting of the same name) was inspired and is a homage to #artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Judith and her Maidservant with the head of Holofernes’.c.1625
However Instead of Holofernes head in its wicker basket there is a mix of masks, bread, tampons, books, weapons and vaccines positioned in a supermarket basket: All a girl needs to survive in a ‘toxic’ environment….. eh! Judith and her servant Abra are transformed into Danielle (as Judith) and her friend my daughter Madeleine (as the servant Abra).
‘Where Are We Now’ (lithograph on somerset soft white 300gsm 60x49cms)
Delighted to be part of this Museum show in Berlin with my art collective ‘InFems’ @infems_art collective
My new large painting ‘The Intersection’ (Oil on canvas 180x140cms) will be on show as well as ‘Where are we now’ my homage to #Gentileschi
My new large painting ‘The Intersection’ (Oil on canvas 180x140cms) will be on show as well as ‘Where are we now’ my homage to #Gentileschi
Show continues until Jan 2023
Delighted to announce InFems summer show created by myself and Roxana Halls.
The exhibition features works across media by Infems, Adelaide Damoah | Wendy Elia | Roxana Halls | Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf | Marie-Anne Mancio
‘This Is Me’ exhibition
2 May - 19 Jun 2022
Yes this painting is me indeed in the new Kenny Gallery, RWA, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1PX
And Yes the wonderful @rwabristol RWA is open again and shining bright .
This exhibition runs alongside RWA major exhibition, Me, Myself, I: Artists' Self-Portraits
This is Me is a free exhibition curated by Malcolm Ashman RWA and Stephen Jacobson RWA
Academicians have been invited to show work in any medium that they consider defines them and their practice. The work shown demonstrates a wide set of responses: seminal works that set a path still followed, visions and experiences that helped focus their own ideas, or that resulted in a change of direction .
Delighted to celebrate International Women’s Day by taking part in A Woman's Place Is Everywhere, a fundraiser show in aid of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, Action Aid, Sistah Space and Southall Black Sisters.
‘We Need A God who Bleeds’ will be on show.
As one of the co-founders of InFems, I am delighted to be part of Nightclubbing: Carolina Herrera x INFEMS collection of NFTs in celebration of the strength and spirit of all women in all domains but particularly education and culture, launched on International Women’s Day 2022.
InFems art collective presents ‘No Reserve’ at Leicester Contemporary. Taking its cue from the adrenalin-fuelled atmosphere of the gallery site’s former life as an auction house, No Reserve is about not holding back, about the limitless, the performative and the theatrical, about extravagant gestures and trickster behaviour. It showcases works across media including figurative paintings, film, works on paper, and sculpture.
InFems art collective presents ‘No Reserve’ at Leicester Contemporary. Taking its cue from the adrenalin-fuelled atmosphere of the gallery site’s former life as an auction house, No Reserve is about not holding back, about the limitless, the performative and the theatrical, about extravagant gestures and trickster behaviour. It showcases works across media including figurative paintings, film, works on paper, and sculpture.
InFems - Intersectional Feminist Art Collective comes to Lisbon featuring Portuguese artist Rita GT and Angolan-Dutch artist Keyezua @ PADA with MOVART
InFems Art Collective presents its inaugural exhibition ‘Biting Back and Enjoying the Taste’ at PADA, an artist-led, non-profit arts organisation in Lisbon’s South Bay in collaboration with MOVART.
Solo Show - Where Are We Now
13-17th July 2021 Bermondsey London 11-6pm (closed Mondays n Sundays)
Wendy Elia In conversation Saturday at 3pm
Delighted for my paintings to be shown On BBC Breakfast programme celebrating artist Tom Croft’s initiative ‘portraits for nhs heroes’ and the book just published by bloomsbury press.
RWA Exhibition Selector 2020
Listen up! Absolutely delighted to have been invited to be one of the selectors for this year's @rwabristol 128 Open #exhibition alongside the illustrious @fionaprobinson @ros_ford_printmaker @seyededalatpour @andrewmunozpainter @charliesmithldn @annamcnay
For the first time outside of London, this exhibition brings together key works in Elia’s catalogue that give a sense of the personal and professional journey the artist has undertaken. Key works such as ‘Maxine Spinning’ and ‘The Visit’ series will be on show. Curated by Deanne Tremlett, who has worked with Elia three times before, and in a new and exciting space for Dorset this show promises to both stun and stymie.
For the first time outside of London, this exhibition brings together key works in Elia’s catalogue that give a sense of the personal and professional journey the artist has undertaken. Key works such as ‘Maxine Spinning’ and ‘The Visit’ series will be on show. Curated by Deanne Tremlett, who has worked with Elia three times before, and in a new and exciting space for Dorset this show promises to both stun and stymie.
Bet you wish your girlfriend was hot like me.
Mature lady artist for sale -
Self Portrait in Uplift Bra (intaglio etching, after a photo of Lucian Freud) now on show at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) until 1st December AND some prints available to buy online from RWA 167 Annual Open Exhibition, it’s no 273 (only £265 unframed, bargain!).
Figure This! Exhibition of contemporary figuration showcases a selection of international artists who demonstrate powerful and diverse engagement with both their materials and the universal appeal of the human figure.
'Carmen and Luisa' at the RWA (Royal West of England Academy) Summer Exhibition 2019
Sunday 29th September - Sunday 1st December 2019
Opening times: Tuesday to Saturday 10am-5.30pm, Sunday 11am-5pm. Closed on Mondays.
Address: RWA (Royal West of England Academy) Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1PX
'Made In Britain' at the SWA (Society of Women Artists) - 158th Annual Exhibition. HRH Princess Michael of Kent will be opening the exhibition and presenting awards, for one week only and then 'Figure this!' at Thames-Side Studios Gallery until December.
'A Dance to The music of Time II' will be at the new City Lit Art Gallery, 100 Portraits City Lit Centenary Exhibition. The new gallery will opened by Sadiq Khan.
Monday 16th September - Sunday 15th December 2019
Monday to Friday 09:00-21:30 Saturday 09:00-17:00 Sunday 09:00-17:00
Address: City Lit, 1-10 Keeley St, Holborn, London, WC2B 4BA
Wendy is delighted to have been selected for the Ruth Borchard Prize Exhibition 2019
Exhibition opens 24th May until the end of September 2019
Opening times: Monday - Sunday 9am -8pm. Please check website for times of restricted access.
Address: Piano Nobile Kings Place, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
May 2019
'Made In Britain' at 'Just Saying!' Solo Show @ Someth1ng London
'Just Saying!' Solo Show @ Someth1ng London
15th May - 1st June / Meet the Artist Friday 17th May, 5 - 8pm
Rebecca Hinde at Someth1ng Gallery has chosen a set of paintings from Wendy Elia’s prolific ‘series’ of works, exploring female power, gender identity, ‘femininity’, mixed ethnicities and the state of ‘Britannia’ now. This ‘female gaze’ destabilises and confronts your voyeurism as the protagonists stare right back at you. Showing for he first time in London is the large painting 'Made In Britain' which as well as being a very personal painting of friends and family is also a work about immigration.
March 2019
Wendy Elia is delighted to be elected as an academician at The Royal West of England Academy.
