Lioda Conrad Fine Art

These are not portraits of people.They are portraits of interior states — the ones that don't have names yet. The weight that sits behind composed eyes. The bruised inner life of someone who has learned to appear fine. The turmoil that never quite surfaces. I work in oil, in fumage — flame held close to paper until the face appears in the soot, not drawn but found — and in the kind of line that confesses rather than constructs. I was born in South Africa. I live in France. My work lives in private collections across four continents, with people who recognised something in it they couldn't find language for the before they saw it. If you recognise something in this work, that recognition is the point.— Lioda Conrad

Lioda Conrad has made the switch from the visual performing arts during childhood
as a prima ballerina trained by renown Ken Yates and Jillian Joubert to study
Graphic design and entered into the filmmaking industry where she has been
working for the last 10 years as both Make-up and hair stylist as well as stylist,
wardrobe mistress or stills director on BBC, Warner Brothers and other productions.
Yearning to fully explore her deepest longing and well of turmoil felt to give outing to
her innermost thought and expressions, she has transitioned to full time artist.She is
a Cape Town based graphically trained Fine Artist with a love for the African
Environment. The bush, the people and the animals contained within, are reflected
clearly in her work. She has very elegant lines and a very personal bold style. Her
work is both sensitive and freely expressive of the beauty
found in Africa. Her work includes highly stylised contemporary portraits in split
contemporary colours as well as incredible charcoal, pastel and conte crayon
portraits both realistic but with a certain quality of elegance of line with sophisticated
and expert handling of a very hard medium to master. She had been described as an
upcoming "force" with substantial val...

4 page Feature Premier Magazine Bidvest International Airport Lounges" March 2018
Harlem Fine Arts Show. New York 2018
Group Exhibition: Artem Gallery Opening
Group Exhibition: Opulent Collector
Group Exhibition: EOS Gallery
Group exhibition : Conte Magazine Inaugural exhibition -44 Stanley
Group Exhibition : Dignity SA Auction for assisted Dying. "The Noble" fetching R100 000
Group Exhibition : Make a Difference Leadership Foundation - Valley Flair Art "Opia" fetching R40 000
Group Exhibition : Make a Difference Leadership Foundation - Valley Flair Art "Opia" fetching
Group Exhibition : Make a Difference Leadership Foundation - ISPS Handa International Invitational - "Untamed Heart" fetching R24 000