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‘My paintings are large and figurative, often diptychs or a number of canvasses, made without preliminary sketches or any other devices- just using my eyes and a pencil, drawing straight onto the bare canvas. Working on bare canvas means that whatever I paint remains. This gives the process of painting an element of risk, a kind of performance in the making of it. Although areas of my paintings are rendered in great detail I allow unpainted areas to give the viewer room to form a discourse with the image, granting them access to the inner world of the picture, whereby the pictures take on a life in the eyes and mind of the viewer.’
Vita
| 1973 | born in London / UK |
| painter and film-maker who studied at Central St Martins, the London College of Printing, the Hochschule der Künste and the German Film and Television Academy, Berlin |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
| 2017 | Interlude II – Gesine Grundmann & Martha Parsey, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne / D |
| 2013 | If 6 was 9, Eleven Fine Art, London / UK |
| 2012 | Out on a Limb, Die Kunstagentin, Cologne / D |
| 2011 | Chasing the Dragon, Jarmuschek & Partner, Berlin / D |
| 2008 | Milk of Human Kindness, Galerie Jarmuschek, Berlin / D |
| Solid Gold, Eleven Fine Art, London / UK | |
| 2006 | Punch Drunk, Eleven Fine Art, London / UK |
| The Magnificent Seven, Galerie Jarmuschek, Berlin / D | |
| 2005 | She Stoops to Conquer, Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt / D |
| London Calling, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt / D | |
| 2004 | All things bright and beautiful, Galerie Jarmuschek, Berlin / D |
| 2002 | Gone to Tea, London Institute, London / UK |
| Parallel Lines, Galerie Jarmuschek, Berlin / D | |
| 2001 | Galerie Jarmuschek, Berli n/ D (K) |
| 2000 | Shaken and Stirred, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen / D |
| Bang-Bang, Parking Meters, Cologne / D | |
| Up Against the Wall, TZR Galerie, Bochum / D |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
| 2017Chaos und Chancen, KUNSTraum Königsfeld / D | |
| 2016 | ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London / UK |
| Summer Salon>/i>, Lubomirov Angus Hughes Gallery, London / UK | |
| Face to Face, Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury / UK | |
| Bikini Berlin, Berlin / D | |
| Prospect, Galerie Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin/ D | |
| Christmas Fancy Bazaar, Lubomirov / Angus Hughes Gallery, London / UK | |
| 2015 | Christmas Salon, Eleven Fine Art, London / UK |
| Kunst Positionen 015, KUNSTKULTUR Königsfeld e.V. / D | |
| Ten Year Anniversary, Eleven Fine Art, London UK | |
| Menschenrechte, KUNSTKULTUR Königsfeld e.V. / D | |
| 20 Jahre Kunstgruppe, Kunstgruppe, Cologne UK | |
| Sunday in the Park with Ed, Display Gallery, London / UK | |
| 2014 | Salon, Eleven Fine Art, London / UK |
| Moving Canvas Collection, Moving Canvas Gallery, Cologne / UK | |
| 2013 | Sublime- Martha Parsey and Marc Fromm, Wolfgang Hartmann Prize, Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe / D |
| Boisdale’s Canary Wharf London / UK | |
| 2012 | Salon, Eleven Fine Art, London / UK |
| Die Neuen, RKB Kunstverein, Essen / D | |
| Portrait of the artist as…, Courtauld Institute, London / UK | |
| 2011 | Salon, Eleven Fine Art, London / UK |
| Matches, London W1 / UK | |
| Eleven at Eight member’s Club, London EC2 / UK | |
| Crossroads Hyatt Regency Hotel, London / UK | |
| 2010 | Willow weep for me, Eleven Fine Art, London / UK |
| Eleven at 22, London SW1 / UK | |
| Salon, Eleven Fine Art, London / UK | |
| 2009 | Eleven at 100, London W1 / UK |
| Eleven at 42, London SW1 / UK | |
| Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection, ASU Art Museum, Arizona / USA | |
| Sovereign European Art Prize, Bonham’s, London / UK | |
| 2006 | Galerie Naumann, Stuttgart / D |
| Luxury is…, for Financial Times/ Yves Saint Laurent, Berlin / D | |
| Sovereign/City Inn Hotels, London / UK | |
| Salon, Eleven Fine Art, London / UK | |
| 2005 | Quintessenz 5 Galerie Jarmuschek, Berlin / D |
| 2004 | Quintessenz 4, Galerie Jarmuschek, Berlin / D |
| Chockerfuckingblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London / UK | |
| 2003 | Signatures of the Invisible, MOMA PS1, New York / USA |
| 2002 | Home Stories, Deutsche Telekom, Berlin / D |
| New Realism, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt / D | |
| 5 × 5, New Saxon Gallery, Chemnitz / D | |
| Signatures of the Invisible, Centre de edition contemporaine, Geneve and Museu Gulbenkian, Lisbon / P | |
| Reprorealism, Galerie Naumann, Stuttgart / D | |
| 3 Jahre, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne / D | |
| Kunst am Bau, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt / D | |
| Quintessenz 3, Galerie Jarmuschek, Berlin / D | |
| 2001 | Signatures of the Invisible, Truman Old Brewery, London / UK |
| Die Volontaire, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt / D | |
| Quintessenz 2 more than reality, Galerie Jarmuschek, Berlin / D | |
| 2000 | 2K 2K, Jill George Gallery, London / UK |
| Shaken and Stirred, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen / D | |
| Mais, Kultur Bunker, Cologne / D | |
| 1999 | The Figure Show, Jill George Gallery, London / UK |
COLLECTIONS (selected)
Ovitz Family Collection // The Zabludowicz Collection // Musée National d’art Moderne, Paris
FILM/TELEVISION/THEATRE (selected)
| 2000 | Appeared in Ken McMullen’s film Lumien de Lumine at CERN, Geneva, shown at Atlantis Gallery, London; Tshingh University, Beijing; Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Gulbenkian Gallery, Lisbon; and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, N.Y. |
| 1998 | Directed documentary film Francis Bacon in Paris, filmed at the Francis Bacon Retrospective at the Centre Pompidou with critic and curator David Sylvester |
| 1996 | Produced and co-directed documentary film Model and Artist; Henrietta Moraes and Francis Bacon, Premiered at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and screened at the Francis Bacon Retrospective exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Haus der Kunst, Munich, and during the exhibition Francis Bacon; The Human Body at the Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1995 | Directed graduation film Facade, premiered at the Riverside Studios, London, and receiving a ‘special recognition’ at the Ebensee Short Film Festival |
| 1994 | Short film Samsa´s Dream |
| 1993 | Short film Major/Minor |
| 1992 | Animated film Frieze of Life |
| 1987 | Actor in the film CrossbowFrance/UK/USA with Morgan Sheppard and Brian Blessed |
| Actor in the film Still Dark | |
| 1986 | Actor in the Channel 4 film Domestic Bliss |
| Actor in the play The Womenat the Old Vic Theatre, London, with Suzanna York | |
| Actor in the BBC TV series Jury | |
| 1985 | Actor in the TV Series Behind the Bike Sheds, series 1 and 2 for Yorkshire Television |
| 1984 | Actor in The Overgrown Pathwritten by Robert Holman, at the Royal Court Theatre, London |
| Actor in the film Supergirlwith Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Peter O’Toole, Peter Cook and Mia Farrow | |
| Actor in the RSC production ofRichard IIIwith Sir Anthony Sher and Brian Blessed | |
| 1983 | Actor in the film 1984 with John Hurt, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Suzanna Hamilton |
| Actor in the ITV series Partners in Crime | |
| 1981 | Actor in the film Memoirs of a Survivor’ with Julie Christie. |
| 1980 | Actor in the film A Tale of Two Cities with Chris Sarandon, Peter Cushing, Kenneth More, Dame Flora Robson, David Suchet and Nigel Hawthorne |
Martha Parsey
Martha Parsey, Cutting Edge, 2016, Quadriptych, Oil on canvas, 280x160cm
Martha Parsey
Martha Parsey, Out of the Blue, 2010, Oil on canvas, 90 x 60 cm,