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.
My work starts with paying attention. I notice patterns, materials, and fragments of the everyday- things that feel charged, even if they’re ordinary. Collecting these pieces is part of the process, but the real work happens when I bring them into conversation with each other.
Painting and sculpture are the main ways I do this. I move between them fluidly, letting one form suggest the next. I like materials that don’t quite match, organic textures against synthetic ones, hand-drawn marks beside industrial surfaces. When they come together, they create frictions and overlaps that open space for new meaning.
I don’t see my work as fixed objects so much as stages in a larger cycle. Sketchbooks, collections, and finished pieces all feed into each other. Each step is both an experiment and a record of where I’ve been.
At its core, my practice is about building connections between what I notice, what I collect, and what I make. The work is open-ended, adapting with my process, but always carrying traces of where it began.
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
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
June 2025 ‘Telepathy and the Unseen,’ The Tagli, 67 Great Titchfield St, London.
March 2025 ‘Unwrapped,’ The Place, 11 Canonbury place, London.
March 2025 The Tagli stand, London Design Week, Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour.
April 2024 ‘EUROSTARZ,’ Tick Tack Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
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/