Ele Pack

made of air

E L E PA C K 5 - 30 September 2020

made of air

E L E PA C K 5 - 30 September 2020

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MADE OF AIR A series of paintings by Ele Pack “My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.”

“Art is a way of recognizing oneself” -Louise Bourgeois With this series of work, Ele Pack wanted to create paintings filled with air, light and life. Intricately drawn marks with broad swathes of intense colour. A clarity of line speaking to directness and powerful intention.

Ele sees her paintings existing in the same space as music or poetry. Experiences to be felt on an emotional level. In the space where words escape us, where visual language becomes more truthful, disclosing our real selves, through mark and metaphor.

We are revealed in the marks we make, through our hands to the canvas. It is either an attempt to say more, to be more truthful or to lay bare things unknown to ourselves.

Ele Pack received her degree from Loughborough College of Art. She now lives and works in Brighton. Ele Pack has worked from her studio in Hove, East Sussex for the past ten years. It used to be an old dairy. It is a light, airy space that is walking distance from the sea.

Made of Air Mixed media on canvas, 120x120cm

Ruby Mixed media on canvas, 75x60cm

Ode to Blue Mixed media on canvas, 75x60cm

Edge of Sky Mixed media on canvas, 100x100cm

I Can See Clearly Mixed media on canvas, 120x100cm

Violet Line Mixed media on canvas, 80x80cm

One Nightingale Singing Mixed media on canvas, 162x100cm

Open Heart I Mixed media on canvas, 100x100cm

Open Heart II Mixed media on canvas, 100x100cm

Map to Stars Mixed media on canvas, 60x60cm

Hummingbird Mixed media on canvas, 60x60cm

Verona Mixed media on canvas, 90x90cm

Morning Song Mixed Media on canvas, 60x60cm

E L E PA C K

B-TEC National Diploma in General Art and Design B.A. (HONS) Degree in Fine Art:Painting Grade 2:1 Loughborough University 2020 Sept

2019 Feb May May Sept Oct

Made of Air, &Gallery, Edinburgh Josie Eastwood Gallery Show Affordable Art Fair Hamsptead, London with FourWalls Spring Collection with Josie Eastwood Fine Art Fresh Art Fair, Ascot, with Lara Bowen Contemporary Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with Lara Bowen Contemporary

2018 Jan Josie Eastwood The Little Picture Show

April May Dec

Holding the Ocean, &Gallery Edinburgh Josie Eastwood Spring Collection Unrestricted, group show at &Gallery Edinburgh

2017

Jan/Feb Josie Eastwood by appointment Feb “Of Form and Colour” at The Stratford Gallery Buy Art Fair Manchester ArtDog London York Art Fair Mar AAF Battersea ArtDog London Mar “Contemplation” exhibition Gallery57 Arundel May Josie Eastwood Spring Collection July Solo show Staithes Gallery Aug Cornwall Contemporary group show Sept Construct, &Gallery Edinburgh Oct Showing a selection of work, White Space Art Devon Gallery 54 Mayfair London, White Space Art AAF Stockholm ArtDog London Nov Josie Eastwood Autumn collection Edinburgh Art Fair, Staithes Gallery Dec Connection, &Gallery Edinburgh White Space Art Winter Collection

2016 Feb

Mar May June Sept

9 commissioned paintings for luxury cruise liner “Ovation of the Seas” in collaboration with Peter Millard ART Consultants London Spring Collection Cornwall Contemporary Studio 106 open studio show Studio 106 Hove Hampstead Affordable Art Fair, ArtDog London Buy Art Fair with ArtDog London

2016 cont...

Sept

Nov

Dec

Show with Melanie Goemans & Melissa Kiernan at Cornwall Contemporary Edinburgh Art Fair, Staithes Studio Stratford Gallery inaugural show, Stratford- upon-Avon The Little Christmas Show, Josie Eastwood Fine Art

2015 Jan Mar Apr May

McAllister Thomas Winter show McAllister Thomas Spring show Chelsea Art Fair. David Stacey Fine Art Studio 106 Open House Four Knoyle Road Open house

Cornwall Contemporary group show Jun Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, Cornwall Contemporary Aug Two-person Show with Alasdair Lindsay, Cornwall Contemporary Sept New York Affordable Art Fair, with ArtDog Sept Exhibiting with Staithes Studio Gallery, Staithes Oct Moniker Art Fair Iaysha Art Consultancy

2014

Four fine art prints published by Rosenstiel’s publishers Group show with Lacy Road Gallery, London Christmas exhibition, McAllister Thomas fine Art, UK “Undercurrents” exhibition, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh Represented by Saatchi Art Studio 106 May Festival open house exhibition Brighton Art Fair Represented by ArTbridge

2013

Represented by Saatchi Art Studio 106 May Festival open house exhibition

2012

Brighton Art Fair Studio 106 May Festival open house exhibition

2008

Interiors exhibition, Will’s Art Warehouse, London Spring Affordable Art Fair, Will’s Art Warehouse, Battersea Glasgow Art Fair, with Will’s Art Warehouse, Glasgow Bristol Art Fair, with Will’s Art Warehouse, Bristol New York Art Fair, with Will’s Art Warehouse, New York Birmingham Art Fair, with Seascape Gallery Group show, Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford

2007

Group show The Fairfax Gallery, Tonbridge Wells Will’s Art Warehouse, London AK Wilson Gallery, Harpenden, Herts East Midlands Contemporary Art Auction, Nottingham

2006

AAF and group shows, Fairfax Gallery, Tonbridge Wells Group show, The Bircham Gallery, Norfolk

2002

Affordable Art Fair, with CCA Galleries Battersea, London Chelsea Art Fair with Lena Boyle Fine Art, London

2001

Paperleaf Art Fair, Battersea Art Centre, London Summer Show, Will’s Art Warehouse, Fulham, London Group show, Museum of the Southwest, Midland Texas, U.S.A Group show, The Art Exchange, Nottingham Group show, Foreningen Norden, Gothenburg, Sweden Neo Art, Nottingham Print Showcase Harley Gallery Notts.

2000

Interiors Exhibition, Ferrers Gallery, Staunton Harold Summer Show, Will’s Art Warehouse, Fulham, London Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London Recent Paintings Castle Museum Nottingham

1992

Painting Today ‘92, Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London Inside and Outside, Ferrers gallery, Staunton Harold, Leics

1991

Group show, Schwabisch Hall, Germany Fresh Art, Business Design Centre, Islington Graduate Show, Hanover Gallery, Liverpool Painting Today ‘91, Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London

AWARDS:

1999 East Midlands Arts New Work & Commission Award 1997 East Midlands Arts Start-Up Grant

PUBLISHING:

2018 Range of paintings published by King&McGaw Fine Art 2014 Four fine art prints published by Rosenstiel’s publishers 2012 Nine fine art prints published by Rosenstiel’s publishers 2002 Three framed prints published by ‘The Art Group Ltd.’

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