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. Covell’s work aims to continually evolve without constraints. At the heart of her practice she reveals a vast landscape of possibilities, by gathering found objects this expansive investigation into materiality is initiated. 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. Her practice could be likened to painting in space, where she explores transformation, continuously weaving an infinite web of connections between each object and mark. This results in an intricate labyrinth that challenges resolution but invites contemplation. 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 that has the ability to grow, this way of working provides me with the possibility to move freely, exist, shift and transform from one form of expression or given object to another.
I am particularly interested in the digestion of ideas and creating a personal cosmology in which my own visual language feeds organically from one work to the next. This holistic way of working allows me to produce managed entropies of visual interconnectivity.
I see the artist as a ‘gatherer’ – who observes, collects and finds interesting correlations between objects, materials, form, line and colour. I use my practice as a form of investigation which allows my thoughts and ideas to come to light, leading me to see expanded painting as a sort of vessel that has the ability to, combine and create new narratives and hold meaning. My work begins with listening and gathering separate bits of raw material out of which I paint and make. I don't have to know what it is for, I need only fill sketchbooks full of sparks for the imagination. To observe and to collect.
I want the organic and the artificial to interact in such a way to partly challenge the viewer, while simultaneously conveying my personal experiences among specific locations. I attempt to do this by translating work from one media to another. I stack layers, material and meaning on top of each other until the work becomes challenging to interpret.
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/
AWARDS AND PRESS
Germany. https://www.ad-magazin.de/artikel/alexandra-carl-london#intcid=_ad-de-verso-hp-trending_a093cee9-7d0f-4804-a789-0e305dcff128_popular4-1
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.
March 2016 ‘Young artists exhibition 2016,’ Menier Gallery, Southwark, 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/