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Ellie Young

Cardiff born Ellie Young studied at UWIC Cardiff and gained a BA Fine Art in 2010. She has exhibited widely in the UK since graduating, including solo exhibitions in Cardiff, Cardigan and London. An expressive and humorous figurative painter, Young takes inspiration from cross-genre visual culture - the ‘high’ and the ‘low’, from grand masterpieces to soap operas, pop icons to the historical and ecclesiastical. Young depicts the famous and recognisable, sculpting with air-drying clay and layering with acrylic paint

‘As a, primarily, figurative painter I’ve always been interested in the interaction between the subject of a painting and its surface. I create ways that the surface intrudes upon the image depicted, or forces the decisions in the painting based on the nature of the material rather than its subject. The haphazard nature of my modelling and materials tends to give everything a comical quality.
I like taking an image that is vaunted as a masterpiece and maybe demystifying or humbling it somehow. I kept looking at Italian masterpieces from the renaissance, some a bit earlier and later - mostly from postcards I had in the studio. They all contain narrative around the Greek gods and Ovid’s Metamorphosis or Bible stories. The ubiquitousness of these images and stories render extraordinary, often violent scenes seem benign or at least palatable.’ - Ellie Young

Ganwyd Ellie Young yng Nghaerdydd ac astudiodd yn UWIC Caerdydd gan dderbyn gradd Celf Gain yn 2010. Ers graddio, mae wedi arddangos yn eang o gwmpas yr DU, gan gynnwys arddangosfeydd undyn yng Nghaerdydd, Aberteifi a Llundain. Mae’n baentwraig ffigurol mynegiannol, llawn hiwmor, a cymer ysbrydoliaeth o ystod eang o ddiwylliant gweledol - yr ‘uchel’ a’r ‘isel’, campweithiau i operau sebon, eiconau byd pop i’r hanesyddol crefyddol. Adnabyddus ac enwog yw testunau ei phortraedau sydd wedi’i mowldio o glai a’u paentio â phaent acrylig

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Ellie Young, After Verrocchio: ‘The Virgin and Child and Two Angels’ or Holding the Baby

After Verrocchio: ‘The Virgin and Child and Two Angels’ or Holding the Baby, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 32 x 26cm

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Ellie Young, After Caravaggio: The Incredulity of St Thomas’ or Touching is Believing

After Caravaggio: ‘The Incredulity of St Thomas’ or Touching is Believing, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 16 x 33cm

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Ellie Young, After del Cossa: ‘St Lucy’ or Eyes 4 U

After del Cossa: ‘St Lucy’ or Eyes 4 U, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 23 x 26cm

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Ellie Young, After Solario: ‘Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist’ or Don’t Ask, Don’t Get

After Solario: ‘Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist’ or Don’t Ask, Don’t Get, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 28 x 25cm

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Ellie Young, After Pontormo: ‘The Deposition from the Cross’ or Undone

After Pontormo: ‘The Deposition from the Cross’ or Undone, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 37 x 26cm

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Ellie Young, After del Pollaiuolo ‘Apollo and Daphne’ or Just No

After Pollaiuolo: ‘Apollo and Daphne’ or Just No, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 36 x 26cm

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Ellie Young, After Botticelli: ‘Primavera’ or Festival

After Botticelli: ‘Primavera’ or Festival, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 26 x 37cm

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Ellie Young, After Bronzino: ‘An Allegory with Venus and Cupid’ or Time is a Mother****er

After Bronzino: ‘The Allegory with Venus and Cupid’ or Time is a Mother****er, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 34 x 26cm

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Ellie Young, After Reni: ‘Abduction of Deianira’ or Ride or Die

After Reni: ‘Abduction of Deianira’ or Ride or Die, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 31 x 26cm

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Ellie Young, After Correggio: ‘Jupiter and Io’ or Cloud Lover

After Correggio ‘Jupiter and Io’ or Cloud Lover, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 39 x 21cm

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Ellie Young, After Caravaggio: ‘Testa di Medusa’ or It Me

After Caravaggio: ‘Testa di Medusa’ or It Me, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 27cm diameter

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Ellie Young, After Botticelli: ‘Mary with the Child and Singing Angels’ or Mixed Blessings

After Botticelli: ‘Mary with the Child and Singing Angels’ or Mixed Blessings, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 27cm diameter

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Ellie Young, After Della Francesca: ‘The Baptism of Christ’ or Weird Spa Day

After della Francesca: ‘The Baptism of Christ’ or Weird Spa Day, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 34 x 26cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: The Creation of Adam

After Michelangelo: The Creation of Adam, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 30cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: The Fall and the Expulsion from Paradise

After Michelangelo: The Fall and the Expulsion from Paradise, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 30cm

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After Michelangelo: The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Planets, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 30cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: The Great Flood

After Michelangelo: The Great Flood, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 30cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: Ignudi #1 [Sistine Chapel series]

After Michelangelo: Ignudi #1, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 13cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: Ignudi #2 [Sistine Chapel series]

After Michelangelo: Ignudi #2, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 13cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: Ignudi #3 [Sistine Chapel series]

After Michelangelo: Ignudi #3, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 13cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: Ignudi #4 [Sistine Chapel series]

After Michelangelo: Ignudi #4, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 13cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: Ignudi #5 [Sistine Chapel series]

After Michelangelo: Ignudi #5, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 13cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: Ignudi #6 [Sistine Chapel series]

After Michelangelo: Ignudi #6, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 13cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: Ignudi #7 [Sistine Chapel series]

After Michelangelo: Ignudi #7, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 13cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: Ignudi #8 [Sistine Chapel series]

After Michelangelo: Ignudi #8, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 13cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: Ignudi #9 [Sistine Chapel series]

After Michelangelo: Ignudi #9, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 13cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: Ignudi #10 [Sistine Chapel series]

After Michelangelo: Ignudi #10, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 13cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: Ignudi #12 [Sistine Chapel series]

After Michelangelo: Ignudi #12, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 13cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: Ignudi #13 [Sistine Chapel series]

After Michelangelo: Ignudi #13, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 13cm

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Ellie Young, After Michelangelo: Ignudi #14 [Sistine Chapel series]

After Michelangelo: Ignudi #14, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 15 x 13cm

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Ellie Young, After Titian: ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’ or An Actual Bacchanal

After Titian: ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’ or An Actual Bacchanal, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 26 x 28cm

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Ellie Young, After Tintoretto: ‘The Origin of the Milky Way’ or The Origin of the Milky Way?

After Tintoretto: ‘The Origin of the Milky Way’ or The Origin of the Miky Way?, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 26 x 28cm

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Ellie Young, After Titian: ‘Perseus and Andromeda’ or I’m Not Dancing, I’m Fighting

After Titian: ‘Perseus and Andromeda’ or I’m Not Dancing, I’m Fighting, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 25 x 28cm

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Ellie Young, After Giotto: ‘The Baptism of Christ’ or The Water Rose to Meet Him

After Giotto: ‘The Baptism of Christ’ or The Water Rose to Meet Him, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 26 x 28cm

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Ellie Young, After Cimabue: ‘The Flagellation of Christ’ or Sacrilicious

After Cimabue: ‘The Flagellation of Christ’ or Sacrilicious, 2024, acrylic and air-dry clay, 31 x 25cm

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