Jill Iliffe
Wimbledon College of Art (MA Fine Art, 2009 , 2009)
Jill specializes in figurative work with a contemporary feel. The subject matter of the work is wide ranging but revolve around ideas of contemplation, personal histories and memory.
The work based on old photographs investigates the narrative of family, archive and memory. The photograph becomes the memory itself over time, creating in some cases a fictional memory as the true memory of the moment becomes lost. The narrative of the moment can become changed and embellished over time. The creases are carefully recreated in the first paintings and in the second paintings the crux of the photograph is focussed on creating a more graphic and joyful image.
The nude paintings reference old master drawings, which were often in a red chalk. The artist loves the classical skill of life drawing/painting and its long history within art practice. The aim is to bring a three-dimensional value, whilst painting the beauty of the nude form, allowing, in some cases the raw linen to show through. The nudes are isolated, very closely cropped, the faces not visible, showing only the body. These are mysterious nudes.
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Exhibitions
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
May-December 2005: Deutche Postbank Exhibition, London
July 2005: Waterloo Gallery, London
December-May 2006: Deutche Postbank Exhibition, London
March 2006: Niche, Crypt, St Pancras. London
April-May 2006: The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Show, Mall Galleries, London
May 2006: Glimpse, 43 South Molton Street, London
June 2006: Drawing Prize, Wimbledon School of Art Wimbledon, London
June-August 2006: The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition Tour, The Hatton Gallery Exhibition, Newcastle
May-July 2007: Inspired by…, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
November 2007: Process, Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon College of Art
Feb 2008: Works on Paper, Empire Gallery, Vyner St, London
March 2008: Approaches to What?, The Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London
May 2008: Secret Lives, Rivington Gallery, Rivington St, London
February 2009: Intersections, The Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London
October 2009: Society of Graphic Fine Art, Menier Gallery, London
November 2009 – January 2010: Reopen, Lighthouse/KUBE Galleries, Poole, Dorset
January – February 2010: Emergence…, Together Gallery, London
March - April 2011: The Women's Art Show 2011, Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke, Hants
March – Oct 2011: Moving the Goalposts, The Peoples History Museum, Manchester; Rugby Museum; Wembley Stadium
October 2011: Draw 11, Society of Graphic Fine Art, Menier Gallery, London
Feb - March 2012: The Art of 7, Gallery in the Crypt, St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London
Jan - April 2012: Art@Baker Tilly, Guildford
June - July 2012: Dazed and Refused, Arches Gallery, London
July - Aug 2012: Moving the Goalposts, The Lanchester Gallery, Coventry
Sept - Oct 2012: The Black Cube Collective, The Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
Sept 2013: The Black Cube Collective, Whitespace, Edinburgh
Oct 2013: Tokarska Gallery, London
Oct - Nov 2013: Connections 2, Wimbledon Exhibition Gallery, London
Jan - April 2014: Drawn to Abstraction, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham
July 2014: Works on Paper, SGFA, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
September 2013: MAE Wimbledon, London
January 2014: Gallery 200, Milton Keynes
Awards
Rootstein Hopkins Student Award
Press
| Publication Title | Job Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Sky Portrait Artist of the Year | Series 7 | Mon, 11/09/2020 |
| Work included in coverage of Bayern Munich female FC playing Oman on German tv | Sun, 02/09/2020 | |
| Sussex Life | Artist profile | Sat, 11/09/2019 |
| Murze Magazine | Portraiture, Reality and Change | Wed, 10/09/2019 |
| Art Quarterly | Review of Football is Art | Mon, 09/09/2019 |
| The Guardian | Moving the Goalposts | Fri, 04/09/2010 |
