B. 1997 London, UK

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.

Email: lily@snowdenfine.com
Instagram: @lilyfine


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Education

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

       

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