Sikelela Owen

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Sikelela Owen

Sikelela Owen’s subjects are images of family and friends, of domestic life, of moments of rest and relaxation. Both in her choice of subject and in her use of paint, Sikelela strips away all external noise and focuses only on what matters in a kind of emotional essentialism. This dedication to intimacy lends her paintings a sense of strength, as if through searching for the precious in the everyday, Sikelela traces the shape of something subtly empowering.

EDUCATION

2009-2012 Postgraduate Diploma In Fine Art Royal Academy Schools, London

2003-2009 BA Hons Fine Art (Painting) Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Together: New Paintings by Sikelela Owen, James Freeman Gallery, London

2020 Supper, Sleep and Sorrow, LdM Gallery, Florence

2019 Sikelela Owen, James Freeman Gallery, London

2017 Love, Eat , Sleep, Repeat , HSBC Canada Place , London

2014 People Everyday NAM Project, Milan

2014 Everyday People Norman Rea Gallery. University of York, York

2006 Nyacomba Vernon Mills, Manchester

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Me, Myself & I, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London

2018 Dentons Art Prize, London

2018 Muse, James Freeman Gallery, London

2015 100 Painters of Tomorrow Beer Gallery, London

2015 Good Figures The Mall Gallery,London;Jerwood Space,West Sussex

2015 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Gesso Arts Space, Vienna, Austria

2014 Portrait Show, curated by Andreas Reiter Gesso Arts Space, Vienna, Austria

2013 Anthology Charlie Smith, London

2013 Young Gods Part 1 curated by Zavier Ellis Griffin Gallery, London

2012 FBA Futures The Mall Gallery, London

2012 Schools Summer Show Royal Academy of the Arts, London

2011 The Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of School, London

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2019 Abbey Fellowship, British School at Rome

2019 Elephant Lab, London

2011 Dover Streets Arts club award, London

2010 Richard Ford Award - Prado Museum travel and drawing award, Madrid

2009-2012 Nichol Young Foundation Awards, London

PRESS AND PUBLICATION

2014 100 Painters of Tomorrow by Thames and Hudson

2013 iBook 100 London Artists Volume 1 by Elizabeth Beecher Publishing

2013 Young Gods 2012, a-n .co.uk review

2011 Arts, The Telegraph, Newspaper and online news

COLLECTIONS

Robert Hiscox, London

HG Capital, London

Sir Richard Heaton KCB

Simmons & Simmons