KINGA
ELLIOTT
Kinga Elliott is an oil painter graduating with a BA (Hon) Painting first class degree from Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. She is also the recipient of the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy 2020 John Kinross Travel Scholarship to Florence, Italy.
Kinga Elliott holds a Masters Degree in Mathematics and Physics and she often uses forms borrowed from science as a
starting point for her paintings. Her works are abstract, focusing on manifestations of light, colour, dynamism, balance and
interconnectedness.
At times, Kinga Elliott’s paintings explore the connection to mathematical visualisation in the form of underpinning
geometrical structures. At other times, her works are more organic in nature.
Her overarching interest is in the concept of light, let it be optics, theoretical physics, or from a theological aspect. As part of the artistic exploration into the nature of light, she found a very apt process in the making of cyanotypes, where light plays an active part in the creation of the image.
Kinga Elliott has developed a unique way of making her own semitransparent paper transparencies that serve as negatives for the cyanotype process.
The resulting large paper cyanotypes then become starting points for further painterly developments. She uses oil and acrylic paint, ink and various dry mediums in her creative process. Sometimes she mounts the cyanotype onto board first, creating a tough surface that enables her to build up several layers of resin coatings with painting layers in between them.
The titles of her work bear reference to coding systems of online platforms. She creates seemingly random word combinations that evoke a sense of atmosphere and musicality.
AWARDS
July 2020 RGU Arts and Heritage Purchase Prize for Fine Art
July 2020 Winner of the J. Gordon Brown Memorial Painting Prize
July 2020 Selected for the RSA New Contemporaries Exhibition, Edinburgh 2021
May 2020 Received the Royal Scottish Academy 2020 John Kinross Scholarship to Florence, Italy
June 2019 Winner of the SCPN Art & Design Prize for Creative Communication, Scotland 2019
Nov 2018 Shortlisted for SUT Award, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen
June 2015 Selected to the Scotland+Venice Learning Team, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy
EXHIBITIONS
Aug 2020 VISUAL ARTS SCOTLAND Digital GRADUATE SHOWCASE 2020 online
July 2020 Digital DEGREE SHOW, Gray's School of Art
Feb 2020 Interim 4th YEAR PAINTING EXHIBITION Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh
Aug-Sep 2019 A MOMENT IN TIME Solo exhibition Aberdeen Health Village, Aberdeen
August 2019 GRAY'S OUTLET Group exhibition Belmont Filmhouse, Aberdeen
April 2019 MORE CONCRETE! Group performance and exhibition Belmont, Aberdeen
November 2018 BGF & EY Painting exhibition Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen
September 2018 MAVERICS Group exhibition with NEOS Hallgreen Castle, Inverbervie
June 2018 SMORG:ARTS:BORD Painting Exhibition Belmont Filmhouse, Aberdeen
April 2018 SNAP Group exhibition Ruthrierston Centre, Aberdeen
Nov-Dec 2015 The MEFFAN Winter Exhibition The Meffan Museum & Gallery, Forfar
EDUCATION
2016-2020 BA (HONS) Painting, First Class Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen
2012-2015 HNC Contemporary Art Practice Dundee and Angus College, Arbroath
1985-1991 Equivalent to MSc in Mathematics and Physics ELTE University, Budapest