Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day Auction - Curated by AOAP
27 FEBRUARY 2024 - 12 MARCH 2024Notes
About
Ellie MacGarry is an artist living and working in London. She has a BA in Fine Art from the University of Leeds and an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art for which she received a Felix Slade scholarship and the Melville Nettleship Prize. Recent exhibitions include Full House at Canopy Collections (2023), Stage Effects at Kate MacGarry (2022), CUBITT 30 at Victoria Miro (2022), Disappearing Act at Steve Turner (2021), Your Hand is a Warm Stone at Steve Turner (2021) and Untitled (But Loved) at Bosse and Baum (2020). She completed a residency in Hong Kong in 2018 at the HKBU.
Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
These works stem from my ongoing series of works on paper 'Hand Inside'. I began the series in 2020, resulting from thinking about touch and connection with one's self. They have become an integral part of my practice since, allowing me to explore colour and form within different always changing configurations of hand in relation to body and clothing. The bow has become a key motif in my work in the last year so I wanted one of the works to include that, with the crossing thumbs echoing the crossing of fabric required to form a bow.
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