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Justin Mortimer
English painter
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Justin Mortimer (born 1970) is an English painter, recognized for his paintings of well known high society including Harold Pinter, Sir Steve Redgrave and Queen Elizabeth II. He won the National Gallery's BP Portrait Award in 1991.
Early life and education
Mortimer was born in 1970 in Cosford,[1]Shropshire, England.[2] His family lived in Somerset and Cornwall and Mortimer went to Wells Cathedral School.[2] He studied at the Slade School of Art from 1988 to 1992.[3]
Career and works
Mortimer came to public attention when he won the National Portrait Gallery's BP Portrait Award in 1991.[4] He subsequently was given a number of important commissions, to paint well-known public figures including Harold Pinter, Queen Elizabeth II, David Bowie and Sir Steve Redgrave.[3]
Mortimer painted Queen Elizabeth II in 1998. The commission marked her 50 years as President of the Royal Society of Arts. Prue Leith, who arra
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Past Exhibitions — 2017
Justin Mortimer (b.1970) lives and works in London. He has won several prestigious awards including the EAST Award (2004), NatWest Art Prize (1996) and the BP National Portrait Award (1991). His work has been included in a number of important recent surveys of contemporary painting, including ‘A Brush With The Real: Figurative Painting Today’ (2014) and ‘Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting’ (2011). Recent solo exhibitions include The Factory, London (2017), Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham (2015), Parafin, London (2015), Future Perfect, Singapore (2015) and Haunch of Venison, London (2012).
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Justin Mortimer
Justin Mortimer is an acclaimed portrait artist with a distinguished career that includes commissioned works for David Bowie, Harold Pinter, and Queen Elizabeth II. Mortimer’s abstracted style of representation recalls that of Francis Bacon; his painting The Queen (1997) caused controversy for its depiction of the monarch with her head separated from her body. After winning the National Gallery’s BP Portrait Award when he was 21, Mortimer exhibited widely throughout the 1990s before taking a hiatus from painting; reemerging in 2008 with a considerably darker palette and subject matter. His newer works are set in post-apocalyptic landscapes and feature ambiguous historical imagery made from digital collages. Mortimer’s works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions around the world. His portraits are held in numerous private and public collections such as the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Portrait Gallery of Canada, and the Bank of America collection.
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