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Elly Smallwood is a Canadian Artist who is currently based in Toronto, Ontario. Elly Smallwood was born in 1989 in Ottawa, Ontario in Canada. Her given name is Elspeth Smallwood, but she is known by Elly Smallwood as an artist. She is a 21st century artist, who is currently active in her art practice.

Life and Education

Early Personal Life

Elly grew up in Ottawa, attending the all-girls school Elmwood in Rockcliffe Park^[1]. Her parents are Mary Anne Smallwood and Sandy Smallwood, who is a well-known heritage preservationist^[1]. Elly was first introduced to art and painting at age eight when she was given a children’s oil painting kit^[2]. She used acrylic paint for years to follow when she was developing her love for art, and then switched back to oils, which are her predominant medium^[2].

Education

Elly Smallwood moved from Ottawa to Toronto to attend OCADU (Ontario College of Art and Design University), and graduated with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting in 2011^[3].

Artistic Career

Style

Elly Smallwood’s paintings are mainly figurative paintings, of portraits and the human body^[4]. Her paintings are very personal, exploring how she views humanity, herself, and her own body^[3]^[5]. She paints intimate and private moments that capture people when they are vulnerable and raw^[2]. She is influenced by her own experiences of female sexuality, LGBTQ sex and fetishes^[4].

Elly Smallwood primarily works in oil^[2]. Elly Smallwood tends to use lots of soft and pastel colours^[3]. She uses her knowledge of proportion and anatomy with the addition paint smears to make the figures she paints more abstract, twisting how one will view the subject^[3]. Elly uses abstraction to make her portraits less about an individual person, and more about the emotion or feeling^[2].

Elly Smallwood’s art focuses on themes of sexuality, innocence, alienation and intense emotion^[4]^[3]. She includes lots of florals in her artwork^[2]. She uses florals because of their symbolism with femininity, sexuality and women’s roles in society^[2]. Smallwood uses her artwork as representation. Elly thinks it is important to have more depictions of female and LGBTQ sexuality, and her paintings create visibility for this in art and art history^[2].

Influences

Elly Smallwood is influenced by the artist Lucian Freud, and his abstraction of the face and the figure^[4].

Elly Smallwood is influenced by Ron Mueck^[2]. She is fascinated by the vulnerability and size his massive sculptures of bodies^[2]. The emotional impact Mueck’s sculptures have on the viewer influence Smallwood and her paintings to draw an emotional response^[2].

Elly Smallwood is inspired by Michelangelo’s David^[2]. The size of David influenced Smallwood, drawing her towards and interest in large works and the impact of size^[2].

Important Works

Feature in Zella May’s designs in the Mercedes-Benz fashion week in Australia, 2018.

Artistic Involvement

Elly Smallwood has been very involved in the artistic community since her graduation from OCADU in 2011. She has been active both throughout Ontario and Canada, and Internationally. She has appeared in exhibitions and workshops worldwide in America, Russia and Germany.

Achievements

Selected Exhibitions

Selected Workshops

References

1. ^¹{{Cite news|url=https://ottawacitizen.com/life/style/our-ottawa/thirteen-strings-and-two-lovebirds|title=Thirteen Strings and Two Lovebirds|date=2013-01-15|work=Ottawa Citizen|access-date=2018-11-20|language=en-US}}
2. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹¹²{{Cite news|url=https://creators.vice.com/en_au/article/ezwedw/elly-smallwood-mythical-paintings-of-our-most-intimate-moments|title=[NSFW] Mythical Paintings of Our Most Intimate Moments|date=2017-04-07|work=Vice|access-date=2018-11-20|language=en-au}}
3. ^¹²³⁴{{Cite web|url=https://www.benjamineck.com/en/artists/smallwood-elly/#biography|title=Elly Smallwood|last=Eck|first=Benjamin|date=|website=Galerie Benjamin Eck|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
4. ^¹²³{{Cite web|url=https://www.widewalls.ch/artist/elly-smallwood/|title=Elly Smallwood|last=Velimirović|first=Andreja|date=April 27, 2017|website=Widewalls|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=https://ontaponline.com/2018/03/03/back-figure-classic-art-tradition-sees-new-life/|title=Back To The Figure: A Classic Art Tradition Sees New Life - On Tap Magazine|date=2018-03-03|work=On Tap Magazine|access-date=2018-11-20|language=en-US}}
6. ^{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=Fall 2018|title=ARTLIFE|url=|journal=Art Life Moscow|volume=Issue 1|pages=cover|via=}}
7. ^Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, “FDS: The Innovators Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia Resort 19 Collections.” May 2015. Video, at 26:08.
8. ^{{Cite book|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1g69znf|title=Primer|last=SMITH|first=AARON|date=2016-11-18|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|isbn=9780822982302}}
9. ^¹{{Cite web|url=http://www.artbombdaily.com/artbattle/665|title=ARTBOMB: BUY WHAT YOU LOVE|website=www.artbombdaily.com|language=en|access-date=2018-11-20}}