Lily Snowden-Fine is a British/Canadian artist from Vancouver, BC, currently living in London. Her work explores how formal qualities of painting and the symbolic nature of images can capture her emotional attachment to specific moments in time. Collecting her own personal language of iconography inspired by relics, antique objects, cinema, tarot, and tattoo history, she explores our human impulse to make meaning and the significance of what is preserved by painting. While paying close attention to symmetry and surface texture, Snowden-Fine allows the setting, the shape of light, and the arrangement of the body to serve the composition, and for realism to surrender to the accuracy of feeling.
2022-23 The Drawing Year postgraduate program, The Royal Drawing School, London, UK
2015-19 OCAD University, Bachelor of Design, Toronto, ON
Exhibitions
2023 Drawing Year 2023 End of Year Exhibition, group exhibition, Royal Drawing School, London, UK 2023 Open Studios, group exhibition, SPACE Studios Hackney, London, UK
2023 Best of the Drawing Year 2023, group exhibition, Christie’s, London, UK
2023 Two person exhibition, The Cultch Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2022 Winter Auction, group exhibition, Art on a Postcard, Dreweatts, London, UK
2022 Royal Watercolour Society Open 2022, Bankside Gallery, Group exhibition, London, UK
2020 Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Mall Galleries, Group exhibition, London, UK
2019 Open House, 401 Richmond, Group exhibition, Toronto, ON
2019 OCADU Grad Ex 104, Group exhibition, Toronto, ON
2018 House Guests, Group exhibition, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, ON
Awards
2022 Jackson’s Painting Prize, Shortlist
2019 401 Richmond Career Launcher Prize, OCAD University
2019 Project 31 Award, OCAD University
2018 BP Portrait Awards Exhibition, Shortlist, National Portrait Gallery
2018 Nancy Lee Rhodes Roberts Scholarship Award, Society of Illustrators
2018 3×3 Gold Medal
2015 Dogwood Scholarship for Applied Skills
Press
2022 BBC Northern Ireland, Interview
2019 CBC Metro Morning Interview
2017 Format, Spotlight
2017 Mâché Digital, Spotlight
2016 It’s Nice That, Spotlight
2016 TWO: Artist Compilation, Edited by Kendra Yee
2016 FORGE. Art Magazine Issue 9: Distance
