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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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

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

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Ellie Young, Intercession #2: Carrie x Julian of Norwich

Intercession #2: Carrie x Julian of Norwich, 2026, mixed media on paper, 38 × 25cm, 47 × 37cm framed

Ellie Young, Intercession #4: Laura x Julian of Norwich

Intercession #4: Laura x Julian of Norwich, 2026, mixed media on paper, 38 × 25cm, 47 × 37cm framed

Ellie Young, Intercession #1: Kat x Margery Kempe

Intercession #1: Kat x Margery Kempe, 2026, mixed media on paper, 38 × 25cm [unframed, soft-mounted, wrapped in cellophane]

Ellie Young, Intercession #3: Dot x Margery Kempe

Intercession #3: Dot x Margery Kempe, 2026, mixed media on paper, 38 × 25cm [unframed, soft-mounted, wrapped in cellophane]

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