British artist Emily Ponsonby (b.1990) is known for her beeswax work based upon the Ancient Egyptians’ Encaustic process; buffing, brushing and scraping pigment into layers of honeyed wax until forms gently emerge. The rawness and malleability of her materials are in harmony with the bodies she depicts within the swollen, unspooling lanes and pebbly shores of the South West.
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Group Show | Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London. November
Group Print Show | Rhodes Contemporary, London. October - November
Solo: KETTLE OF FISH | J/M Gallery, Portobello Road, London. June
National Portrait Gallery | HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS PORTRAIT AWARD. July 11th - October 27th
Group Print Show | Soho Revue. July
2022
ACT ONE | Noho Studios
FROM LIFE | Sladmore Contemporary
2020
BUCOLIA | Blue Shop Cottage Gallery
Works On Paper | Blue Shop Cottage Gallery
Reaction in Seclusion | Online Exhibition
Sophie Breitmeyer | Pewes Terrace, London
Liberty London | Stocklist
The Summer Show | Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Hampshire
Herstory – Women In Art | Maddox Gallery, London
Solo: BARE | Noho Studios, London
Solo: HUMAN LANDSCAPES | Green & Stone Gallery, London
Solo: The Naked Truth | Villa Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
Tiny Treasures | Group show. Belville, South Africa
Second Nature | Group show. Cape Town, South Africa
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition | Mall Galleries, London.
Solo: SOAK | Avenue Studios, London
The Royal Society of British Artists | Mall Galleries
Royal Society of Oil Painters | Mall Galleries, London
Royal West of England Academy | Bristol
The Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition | Mall Galleries, London
Shortlisted for the BP Portrait Awards | London
VAS, The Royal Scottish Academy | Edinburgh
Artist Residency - Vila Lena, Italy - 2021
- Casa Balandra, Mallorca - 2021
