Claerwen James Girl 10, 2010
In this self-portrait, Claerwen James, best known for her portraits of youthful female subjects, paints herself as a young girl. As writer Ruth Scurr observed of James’s work: ‘she prompts her public to look again at the unknowing knowingness of children on the threshold of adult worlds.’
Claerwen James, born in 1970, originally trained as a molecular biologist at Oxford University, University College London and Cold Spring Harbor, NY. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2003. James has won various awards such as the Prince’s Drawing School Graduate Bursary; the Arts Club Excellence in Drawing Award; and most notably the Slade School’s own Melvill Nettleship Prize for Figure Composition - previous winners include Gwen John and Gwen Raverat. She has gone on to have numerous exhibitions in the UK and the US. Her work is included in the collection of Jesus College, Cambridge.
Oil on board
142.2 x 122 cm
56 x 48 1/4 in
56 x 48 1/4 in
AFG 47164
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