Nikki Oil on canvas 100 x 70 cm 2008
Artist statement:
British artist Julie Bennett was labelled one of Saatchi’s new stars by The Independent in November 2006 and shown by Saatchi Online Gallery in 2008. The starting point for Julie Bennett’s work is popular culture. Working with oil, gloss and acrylic and gestural brushwork, she creates new identities for the androgynous faces selected from the pages of glossy magazines. Her highly personal interpretations of the human face take the work to a place where paint and subject have equality, and the imagery of superficial mass culture
is transformed into high art.
Genre:
2D: Painting
Contact:
julie[at]juliebennett.co.uk please replace [at] with @
www.juliebennett.co.uk
CV:
Education:
Present Fine Art BA (Hons) Chelsea College Of Art, London SW1P
2007 Fine Art BTEC HNC (Distinction) Kensington & Chelsea College, London SW10
1997 Graphic Design BA (Hons) (2.1) Camberwell College Of Art, London SE5
Group exhibitions:
May 2008 Ode to Sartorial, Sartorial Gallery, London W8
May 2008 Brenda Landon Pye Portrait Award, Chelsea College of Art, London SW1P
Mar 2008 Opening Show, William Angel Gallery, London SE22
Mar 2008 Affordable Art Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London SW11
Feb 2008 FORM Art Fair, Saatchi Online Gallery, London W14
Jan 2008 The Painting Room, Transition Gallery, London E8
Dec 2007 Notting Heaven, Sartorial Gallery, London W8
Nov- Dec 2007 The Christmas Art Show, Scope Gallery, London SE22
Nov 2007 Chichester Open, The Minerva Theatre, Chichester PO19
Aug 2007 Thurston Revival, Sartorial Gallery, London W8
Publications:
Jan 14, 2008 The Independent The best album covers of 2007
Dec 2007 The Rebel – Social Class
Aug 24, 2007 The Evening Standard – Thurston Revival
Aug 12, 2007 The Sunday Times – Thurston Revival
Apr 2007 Artists and Illustrators Magazine – Interview
Nov 30, 2006 The Independent – Saatchi’s new stars
Collections:
In private collections in the UK and Brazil
2008 Exhibitions:
June 26 – July 23 2008 Up Close and Personal (3 person show)
Sartorial Gallery, London W8
www.sartorialart.com
19-26 July 2008 Parallel lives (solo show)
The Sassoon Gallery, London SE15
www.thesassoongallery.co.uk
Further examples of work:
Jo-Lan Oil on canvas 36 x 46 cm 2007
Self Portrait – Slough 7.30am Acrylic on canvas 100 x 70 cm 2006
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