Ella McVeigh
Ella McVeigh’s paintings and drawings are webbed with art history, the role of nature in art-making and the possibilities and meanings of abstract painting today. Starting primarily from found imagery and objects, McVeigh explores painting as a mental performance of visual decision-making. Whereby these images from her personal archive, ranging from studio shots of flower arrangements to encyclopedias on minerals and geology, are the trigger of an array of mental connections to other images and experiences.
McVeigh’s purely abstract work is a persisting interrogation of line, colour and form through paintings and drawings that capture in great detail the complexities of looking at images and objects, while also eluding any efforts to be read as stories. Her works transcend conventional meaning or representation and embrace pure abstraction, blurring the boundaries between the two-dimensional surface of the canvas and the illusion of three-dimensional images rendered within. Somatic gestures and bold mark-making, ideas of spatiality and depth are conveyed in a symphony of colours and contrast of light and dark, further contemplating on scale in abstract
painting.
Ella McVeigh (b. 1992 in London, UK) graduated in 2020 with an MA in Painting from The Royal College Of Art. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Nouvelle Vague, LBF Contemporary, London (2023); Once, Then, Gone, Newchild, Antwerp (2023); NOW (curated by Romero Pimenta),
Museu Inima De Paula, Belo Horizonte (2023); Continuum, Frieze No. 9 Cork Street with Newchild, London (2023); Art Brussels, Newchild, Brussels (2023); Art Antwerp, Newchild, Antwerp (2022); ARTBO, Newchild, Bogotá (2022); Each Glance Branching, Newchild, Antwerp (2021, solo); Seven
Sisters, Chadwell Award, London (2021, solo); Wild Blue Yonder, Newchild, Antwerp (2021); and Tomorrow: London, White Cube, London (2020). McVeigh is a recipient of the Chadwell Award (2020). Her work is part of the University of the Arts London Art Collection and the Collection of
Romero Pimenta. She lives and works in London.
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B. 1992 in London. Lives and works in London, UK
Education
2020 MA, Painting, Royal College of Art, London
2014 BA, Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts, London
2011 Foundation Fine Arts, Byam Shaw UAL, London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 (Forthcoming) Opdahl, Oslo
2021 Each Glance Branching, Newchild, Antwerp
2021 Seven Sisters, Chadwell Award, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Beyond Boundaries, Guts Gallery, London
2023 Nouvelle Vague, LBF Contemporary, London
2023 Once, Then, Gone, Newchild, Antwerp
2023 NOW (curated by Romero Pimenta), Museu Inima De Paula, Belo Horizonte
2023 Continuum, Frieze No. 9 Cork Street with Newchild, London
2023 Art Brussels, Newchild, Brussels
2022 Art Antwerp, Newchild, Antwerp
2022 ARTBO, Newchild, Bogotá
2021 Wild Blue Yonder, Newchild, Antwerp
2020 Tomorrow: London, White Cube, London (online)
2020 50/50, Fold Gallery, London
2020 Josh Lilley- Beacon (online)
2020 Final Not Over, Unit 1 Gallery, London
2019 WIP: Show Royal College of Art, London
Awards
Winner of Chadwell Award, 2020
Public Collections
University of the Arts London Art Collection
Collection Romero Pimenta, Brazil