Gillian Carnegie

Gillian Carnegie (born 1971 in Suffolk ) is a British artist. She has a B. A. Hons. in Fine Arts from Camberwell School of Art and a Masters in painting from the Royal College of Art Gillian Carnegie lives and works in London.

2005 Carnegie was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize and was regarded as the favorite. Your nomination has been honored in the British press sometimes with some irony. Turner Prize " shocker: So the headline of the Daily Telegraph, the favorite is a woman who paints flowers. Whatever next? " The price eventually won Simon Starling.

Work

Gillian Carnegie's works are geared to both classical genres such as still life, landscape painting and nude studies, as well as to abstract and monochrome representation techniques. Your images leads Carnegie mainly in oil on partly different image -makers (canvas, wood, paper, linen), and applies, inter alia, the impasto procedures in which multiple layers of ink are placed one above the other so that the paintings very vivid, almost develop three-dimensional effects. In addition to oil Carnegie also works with coal or manufactured to etchings. Many of her works form series, presenting the same or similar motifs in varying views.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection )

• 2013 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, April
• 2011 Andrea Rosen Galley, New York, January 29-March 5
• 2009 Cabinet Gallery, London, September 24-October 31
• 1999 Cabinet Gallery, London

Group exhibitions ( selection)

• 2012 Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria, Francis Bacon to Paula Regio, June 23-September 16
• 2009 Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Slow Paintings, November 24 to February 7
• 2009 Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Collection: The First Thirty Years, November 15, 2009 to May 3, 2010
• 1999 Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Scorpio Rising
• 1997 The Kitchen, London, Honky Tonk