Esiri Erheriene-Essi

18/08/1982 London, England

A Leo and Sarf-East Londoner (Lewisham to be exact) who paints all the freaking time (cos she wants to be an 'artiste' when she finally grows up), listens to bad-ass music, reads Nietzsche, Barthes, Foucault, Fanon, Cesaire and Kerouac a lot, loves to stand for hours in front of Lucian Freud's paintings cos he is only one of a handful of painters (others include Basquiat, Chantal Joffe, Walter Sickert, Francis Bacon, Daniel Richter, etc) who can capture her constant distracted mind first with awe, then envy, then hatred... knows quite a fair bit about cinema and weird films, wishes to go back in time and be part of Warhol's factory of misfits, goes weak at the knees for rude pretty boys with anarchistic/marxist pasts - oh and would never say no to a pint of guinness or belgian beer...

Some simple folk mistake me for a man after viewing my work, but I'm actually a LADY, who isn't interested in 'flowers' and apparently paints in a 'masculine' way. Sorry for the confusion in advance...

Identities are nowt but constructions and not fixed so mine is always changing. I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.

I thought I was a real artist b...

EDUCATION
2007 - 2009 De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL

2004-2006 MA Fine Art, University of East London
2001-2004 BA Media Studies, University of East London
2000-2001 Foundation Diploma, Camberwell College of Arts

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2005 - RK Burk Gallery - Works On Paper - London, UK

2006 - APT Gallery - Memory & the Stream of Time - London, UK

2006 - UEL EVA - London, UK

2007 - The Brick Lane Gallery 'Art In Mind' - London, UK

2007 - The Nunnery Gallery, 'Disposable Fetish' - London, UK

2008 - Test - De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL

2009 - Offspring, De Ateliers - Amsterdam, NL
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