British artist Emily Ponsonby (b.1990) is a painter and printmaker. She is primarily known for working with beeswax, a technique which builds upon the Ancient Egyptians’ Encaustic process – buffing, binding and scraping pigment into layers of wax. The rawness and malleability of her materials are in harmony with the bodies she depicts amongst the everchanging topography and gnarly shores of the Southwest.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo: Gillian Jason Gallery, London. September
2024
Group Show | Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London.
Group Show | Rhodes Contemporary, London.
Solo: KETTLE OF FISH | J/M Gallery, London.
National Portrait Gallery | HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS PORTRAIT AWARD.
Group Print Show | Soho Revue.
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
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
