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Bio
Ned Elliott (b.1995) is an artist from London. He is a passionate witness of the multiplicity of existence - not just the world we see and touch and are touched by every day but also the intangible feelings that come with it, blowing through our lives and bending us like a grass in the wind. Many of his works take inspiration from the natural world but take off into a world of abstraction but in all his work there is a continuum capturing the the transience of existence and the cycle of life and death.
His subject is nature, and his focus moves from the small to the cosmic. His gaze is drawn to those things which are simultaneously frail and beautiful; a moth, a feather, a flower. He depicts how different elements of existence, sentient, insentient, intersect and coexist in the world, creating pictures which grow out of the confusing and elusive beauty of life. His work is imbued with an agnostic almost animistic spirituality. Ultimately, his field of exploration is how all things – conscious, animate, inanimate - connect in the world, how we experience that and he strives to show how other beings in the world do that too.
Education
2022/2023 - The Drawing Year postgraduate programme, The Royal Drawing School, London
2014-2017 - University of Bristol, History (1st)
Solo Exhibition
‘Something Bigger Than You’, Blue Shop Gallery, London, 2025
Group Exhibitions
London Art Fair, with Blue Shop Gallery, London, 2025
Works on Paper, Hampstead Art Society, London, 2024
Mini Picture Show, Bankside Gallery, London, 2024
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, with Blue Shop Gallery, London, 2024
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Curated Hang, London, 2024
Social Tapestry, Chilli Art Projects, London, 2024
Drawn Together, Royal Drawing School, London, 2024
Works on Paper 6, Blue Shop Gallery, London, 2024
Transparency, Bankside Gallery, London, 2024
A Curious Cloud, Soho Revue, London, 2024
RWS Open, Bankside Gallery, London, 2024
RBSA Print Prize, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, 2024
The Very Hours Pass Unnoticed, Warbling Collective, London, 2024
The Open Studios Exhibition, Space Studios Hackney, London, 2023
The Drawing Year 2022-23 End of Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School, London, 2023
Best of the Drawing Year, Christie’s, London, 2023
Semi-Conscious, Islington Arts Factory, London, 2023
Works on Paper 5, Blue Shop Cottage, London, 2023
Summer Exhibition, PICTURE, London, 2023
Green and Stone Group Exhibition, London, 2022
Curated for Covid, London, 2020
Residencies
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Drawing Marathon, Rhode Island, USA, 2024
Moritz/Heyman Residency, Borgo Pignano, Italy, 2023
Prizes
Royal Watercolour Society Young Artist Award, 2024
The Janie Roberts Prize for Excellence in Drawing, 2023
Collections
The Royal Collection
Moritz/Heyman Collection
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