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Daisy Billowes

Daisy Billowes s'inspire du destin souvent contraint des femmes dans les récits mythologiques. Circe, Pasiphaé, Pénélope, sont citées dans les titres des œuvres qui les abordent à travers une technique mêlant collage d’images imprimées, peinture et fusain. Les effets plastiques sont très importants dans sa pratique, l'artiste cherche à mettre en valeur les qualités esthétiques des matériaux en s’inscrivant dans une réflexion sur notre manière de regarder les œuvres à l’ère post internet, en mélangeant justement matériaux classiques, écritures et impressions digitales. Le style qui en résulte est ludique et original, à la fois critique et drôle.

Biographie

Daisy Billowes is a London based artist, raised in Athens. She studied at Newcastle University (2015) and the Royal College of Art, London (2017). 

Expositions personnelles

2020
- four disproportionately sized chambers, The Stone Space, Leytonstone, Londres

Expositions Collectives

2023

- Insights Inside, Blossom Art Agency, Annecy, France 

2022
- Fair Art Fair X The Auction Collective, Online Sale
- Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London

2021
- London Creative Network Recipient, SPACE London, London

2019
- Exceptional, The Collyer Bristow Graduate Art Award,
- The London Ultra, Bargehouse, London
- Summer Group Show 2019, The Muse Gallery, London
- Reckless Rawness, Coleman Project Space, London
- Woolwich Contemporary Editions, Always Sunday House, Bath

2018
- Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
- Print Demonstration, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
- Selected Artist for Woolwich Editions, London
- Festival of Print ELP @ 20, The Art Pavilion, Clinton Road, Mile End Park
- Macmillan Charity Silent Auction, The Sea Containers London
- RCA Secret 2018, Courtyard Galleries, RCA, Kensington, London

2016
- Notice: Dyson Building, Battersea, London
- DIS PLAY, CGP Gallery, Southwark Park, London
- WIP Show Open House, RCA Battersea, London

2015
- NCL Degree Show, SCIN Gallery, London
- Newcastle University Degree Show, Newcastle University
- ‘GRABADORAS’, 36 Lime Street
- Utopia, Newcastle

2014
- Proof, XL Gallery, Newcastle
 

2012
- 2D exhibition, Long Gallery, Newcastle

Résidences

August 2022
- Radical Residency VII, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London
2021
- Old Jet Residency, Old Jet, Suffolk

 

Conférences & Workshops

November 2022
- Life Work Art Artists Talk & Crits, Newcastle University
- 2-day master workshop ‘control-c’, Newcastle University
20th November 2018
- Artist’s Talk: East London Printmakers, London,
2017
- Plymouth College of Art: Artist’s Talk Daisy Billowes
2016
- Symposium: The Relevance of Print in Contemporary Art Education. An artist's talk as part of the International Print Biennale, Newcastle

Prix

2019
- Signature Art Prize, Trinity Art Gallery, London
2018
- Signature Art Prize Shortlist Exhibition, Somerset House, London

soaring above only to tumble below

soaring above only to tumble below - K010

the mermaid of gob-ny-ooyl

the mermaid of gob-ny-ooyl - K012

she fled to be free of the darkness

she fled to be free of the darkness - K013

circe vi: starving, hoping she’ll find faith in the stars

circe vi: starving, hoping she’ll find faith in the stars - K002

he comes back to the island (after penelope)

he comes back to the island (after penelope) - K008

between the leaves she lays

between the leaves she lays - K001

Vendu

circe vii: the thing is, mate

circe vii: the thing is, mate - K003

she feared (after pasiphae)

she feared (after pasiphae) - K009

she could smell the city (after penelope)

she could smell the city (after penelope) -

when our most perilous moment is upon us (after pasiphae)

when our most perilous moment is upon us (after pasiphae) - K006

she bit her lip (after medusa)

she bit her lip (after medusa) - K007