bIOGRAPHY & sTATEMENT
Pandora Covell (b. 2000, London) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in London. Painting is at the heart of her process, but she combines a multitude of processes thus refusing to limit herself to any single medium. Her visual language surfaces through a fusion of abstract elements, micro-narratives, and biomorphic forms. Covell creates organised chaos that invites viewers to navigate through a multitude of visual stimuli. Covell earned a Master’s in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2023 after receiving a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts in 2022.
I see each individual element of my practice as a seed with the ability to grow, allowing me to move freely, exist, shift, and transform from one form of expression or object to another. My work is rooted in the digestion of ideas and the creation of a personal cosmology, where my visual language evolves organically from one piece to the next. This holistic approach enables me to create managed entropies of visual interconnectivity.
I see the artist as a ‘gatherer’—one who observes, collects, and discovers connections between objects, materials, form, line, and color. I approach my practice as an investigation, using the process to bring thoughts and ideas to light. Painting, for me, is a vessel for combining and constructing new narratives, allowing meaning to emerge through layers of transformation. I collect and assemble materials, letting them evolve into paintings through a process of exploration, where one work naturally leads to the next.
I want the organic and the artificial to interact in ways that both challenge the viewer and reflect my personal experiences within specific locations. This translation between mediums is central to my process—I move fluidly between painting and sculpture, stacking layers of material and meaning until the work becomes multifaceted and open to interpretation. My practice is a continuous cycle of listening, gathering, and making, where sketchbooks become archives of potential, filled with sparks for the imagination.
2022-23 Royal College of Art, Painting MA
2019-22 Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, Fine Art BA
2018-19 Camberwell College of the Arts, UAL, Foundation
WORKS AVAILABLE
TICK TACK, Antwerp https://ticktack.be/exhibitions/eurostarz
THE TAGLI, London https://www.thetagli.com/artists/50-pandora-covell/works/
VASTO GALLERY, Barcelona https://www.vasto.es/artists/38-pandora-covell/
UPCOMING
March 2025 ‘Unwrapped,’ The Place, 11 Canonbury place, London.March 2025 The Tagli stand, London Design Week, Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour.
AWARDS AND PRESS
Sept 2023 Shortlisted for 2023 Global Design Graduate Show in collaboration with Gucci.
https://www.artsthread.com/portfolios/entropy-montage-installation
March 2023 Longlisted for the Jackson’s 2023 painting prize.
https://www.jacksonsart.com/paintingprize/longlist-2023/page/10
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Jan 2024- June 2024 VASTO, paintings exhibited in Vasto gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
January 2024 ‘Tactically Necessary,’ Blyth Gallery, Level 5 Sherfield Building, London.
December 2023 Paradime Studio, exhibition and event, AMP Studios, Old Kent Road, London.
November 2023 ‘Solo Show,’ Wirth Gallery, Merritt Centre, Sherborne Girls, Dorset.
October 2023 ‘Nemnae,’ End of residency show, Cyprus College of Art, Lempa, Cyprus.
October 2023 ‘The Road of Excess,’ Safehouse 2, 137 Copeland Rd, London.
July 2023 ‘Freckle Collective Launch Event,’ Pickle Factory, 13-14 The Oval, London.
July 2023 ‘Overflow,’ Galleria Objets, 82a Commercial Street, London.
July 2023 ‘RCA 2023 Graduate Show,’
Royal College of Art, Battersea, London.
May 2023 Third Floor Exhibition,’ Photography studios, Woo building, RCA Battersea, London.
April 2023 ‘Moving Through,’ Safehouse 1, 139 Copeland Rd, London.
March 2023 ‘20x20 Vision’, Blue House Yard, Wood Green, London.
Feb 2023 ‘Works on Paper,’ Studio 127, Thames-Side Studios (Unit 7), London.
June 2022 Chelsea College of Arts 2022 Degree show, Chelsea College of Arts UAL, London.
May 2022 ‘Fundraiser for Ukraine,’ Art Auction, Chelsea College of Arts UAL, London.
March 2021 BA University group show in Barnard Park, ‘Underneath the Everyday,’ Copenhagen St, Islington, London.
October 2020 ‘Hampshire Medical Fund Charity Art Show,’ West Stoke Farm Barn, Hampshire.
May 2019 Camberwell 2019 Foundation End of Year Show, Camberwell College of Arts UAL, London.
Contacts: Email: covellpan@outlook.com or Instagram profile
RCA2023: https://2023.rca.ac.uk/students/pandy-covell/
RCA2023: https://2023.rca.ac.uk/students/pandy-covell/