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City Girl | Yellow and Pink Painting
United Kingdom
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 16.5 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 D in
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About The Artwork
CITY GIRL is a collection of new paintings by London-based artist Iona Rowland. The series was inspired by a poem of the same name by Twilight Prince - he says “city girl, feel beyond all physical realms and prosper”. The focal point of each painting is a freestyle screenprint of a female figure who Iona felt “encompassed the lyrics of the poem”. The figure - CITY GIRL - is amongst a composite of cascading trees, pelicans in flight and abstract motifs, all set against vibrant blue, green and yellow colour fields. Each work riffs between the seductiveness of city life - fast-paced and hedonistic; and the soft, soothing qualities of the natural world. “Personally I’m drawn to both realms and I wanted to interrogate the relationship between the two - are they conflicting or co-existing and is there potential for them to harmonise?” The artist’s pursuit of an urban utopia emanates from her complex compositions which are meticulously planned out before becoming playgrounds for improvisation. As she works into each layer, Iona allows for chance marks, bleeds and colour gradients to occur. With every unexpected brush stroke, paint drip, overprint or underprint, the composition mutates. “I love how the energy of the work can shift with just one impulsive mark. Sometimes the painting will find its way back to the original idea, and often it will divert away from it entirely. I’m constantly adapting, adjusting, revising and remixing. It’s a dynamic process which relies on spontaneity and control in equal measure.” “For me, city life represents control - it’s a clearly defined space in which we can carefully curate so many aspects of our lives. Nature, conversely, is free, unpredictable and expansive. They are completely interwoven in my mind, on my canvases, and hopefully in the future of the city I call home”.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:16.5 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Iona Rowland was born in Derby in 1990 and studied Fine Art at Kingston University from 2010-2013, before attending Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York in 2015. Since graduating, she has exhibited widely across the UK in both solo and group shows. Key exhibitions include Indelible Traces at Nolias Gallery, London; MMNTM at Bohunk Institute, Nottingham; Regram at Slate London; A Futuristic Woman at Square Gallery, London; T2 Shoreditch, London; ING Discerning Eye 2017 and the Derwent Art Prize 2018, both at London’s Mall Galleries. She has also exhibited regularly at GX Gallery in Camberwell, London. Creating artwork for the public realm continues to be at the core of her practice - the has artist delivered major commissions for Shaftesbury PLC, Boom Cycle, Derby County Football Club, Umbro, House of Vans and Jamaica's Freedom Skatepark. In November 2019 she was shortlisted for Shape Newham, a £1.5 million community art initiative in the London Borough of Newham. She received a commendation for her contribution to the project alongside collaborator and Architect Eleanor Connolly. Iona Rowland’s large scale paintings have been the subject of several feature films including Inspiring People by Beyond Time TV; The Revival, a Mike Rymer film featuring Solomon O.B and sponsored by Weekend Offender; and In/between, a documentary film directed by Phil Cooper. In November 2020, she will release a three part film series called In The Studio with Iona Rowland, supported by Natwest. She is a Prince’s Young Entrepreneur, and her work is held in private collections across the world. Her studio is in the heart of Brixton in South London.
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