Lot 300 - Ishbel Myerscough - Me
Oil Paint on Paper
2022
A6 (10x15cm) Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
ARTIST INFO
About
Ishbel Myerscough is recognised for her highly detailed and meticulously observed portrayal of her subject matter, which over the past three decades has primarily included herself, her close friend and fellow artist Chantal Joffe, and their families. Myerscough combines a focused study of youth and coming-of-age with adult experiences of parenthood, desire and bereavement, evoking the complex cycle of human experience.
Myerscough studied at Glasgow and the Slade Schools of Art, and works in London. In 1995 she won the National Portrait Gallery’s annual BP Portrait Award competition and as a result was commissioned to paint Helen Mirren’s portrait for the collection and subsequently Sir Willard White. Her portrait Two Girls (1991), was displayed in the exhibition Self at the Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK in 2015 and at the National Portrait Gallery, London, until November 2016. Her work was presented in a joint display Friendship Portraits: Chantal Joffe and Ishbel Myerscough at the National Portrait Gallery in 2015, capturing their very particular artistic collaboration; and was included in the exhibitions Only Connect, Royal Academy of Arts, Keeper’s House, London; and Relating Narratives – A Common World of Women, The Horse Hospital, London, 2018.
Education
1987-91 Glasgow School of Art
1993-95 Slade School of Art, London
Select Exhibitions/Awards
2020 Grief, Longing and Love, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London
2016 Up Close, Flowers, New York
2011 Life, Flowers Central, London
2000 Drawings, Anthony Mould Contemporary, London Ishbel Myerscough, Anthony Mould, Cork Street, London
1996 A Second View, Anthony Mould Contemporary, London
1992 A First View, Anthony Mould Contemporary, London
1995-6 Robert and Susan Summers Residency, Connecticut, USA
1995 Hopkins Rootstein Foundation Travel Scholarship to New York National Portrait Gallery, BP Portrait Award, First prize
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