OFF THE WALL GALLERY Josie McCoy - Screen Idols

Charlotte Church, Duffy & Catherine Zeta Jones visit Llandaff gallery.

“Off the Wall”, Wales’ premier gallery in Llandaff, Cardiff will be holding its second show with an exciting and award winning young artist, Josie McCoy.

This is Josie’s first exhibition in Cardiff, another first for gallery “Off the Wall” and Wales. Of the British artists of the younger generation, she is among those who are having an impact on the international art scene: fascinating public and critics with her high-impact, beautiful paintings.

British artist Josie McCoy paints famous actresses, and characters from film and television: personalities who have become icons of the collective imagination in which the fusion between the identity of the artist and the character has become blurred. Working from film stills, McCoy’s portraits beautifully capture fleeting moments and present contemporary icons in a vulnerable, unfamiliar light. Her unique approach entails applying numerous successive layers of oil paint in pastel colours, lending her subjects an ethereal glow reminiscent of TV screen.

Catherine Zeta Jones

“Catherine Zeta Jones, Duffy & Charlotte Church”

Her latest works, which will be showing at Off the Wall for the first time, include Charlotte Church, Duffy & Catherine Zeta Jones.

Josie has exhibited widely across the UK and currently lives and works between London and Valencia. You can find her work in the following collections: BBC, Collection of University of Wales, The Borchard Collection of British Self-Portraits in the 20th Century & the Centre of Attention Permanent Collection

Plymouth born Josie McCoy’s was also commissioned by the BBC last September, to paint Cindy Beale for a storyline in Eastenders and other portraits produced by the artist include well-known stars such as Nicole Kidman, Christina Ricci, Kate Moss, Angelina Jolie and characters from the Royle Family and other Eastenders cast members.

Josie’s work was selected for many awards including the BP Portrait Award 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003, and the Lexmark European Art Prize in 2003. She was commended at the Royal West of England Academy Open Painting Exhibition and won the Centre of Attention Painting Prize in 2001. In 2002, Josie was awarded a Woo Charitable Foundation Arts Bursary

The show launches on Thursday June 4th 2009 with a private viewing, 6-8pm, with cocktails and lasts until July 6th.

Readers are exclusively invited to a Private View on Thursday 4^th June 2009, 6-8pm to include cocktails and meet Josie McCoy. This offer is on a first come first serve basis, or alternatively the Exhibition opens to the general public on Friday 5^th June exclusively until July 6^th.

For further information or to book private view:-

E-mail art@galleryoffthewall.com - Tel: 02920 2055 4469

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Editors Notes

Photographs featured: Catherine Zeta Jones, Duffy & Charlotte Church – new works, oil on canvas

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Tuesday – Friday 9.30 am to 5.30pm

Saturday – 10am to 4pm

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Josie McCoy CV

Education
1998-1999	MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
1995-1997	BA (Hons) Fine Art, Solihull College, Birmingham
Solo Exhibitions
2007 2006 2004 2001 2000	Contemporary Icons, Opus Gallery, Newcastle Las Chicas de Almodóvar, DF Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostella, Spain New work, Opus, 16 Shakespeare Street, Newcastle upon Tyne New work, Eyestorm Gallery, Ipswich New work, Eyestorm Britart Gallery, Exeter New work, Eyestorm Britart Gallery, Milan, Italy New Paintings, Britart/Eyestorm Gallery, London The Royal Variety Show, Notting Hill Arts Club, London EastEnders, The Centre of Attention, London
Exhibitions
2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999	Face Value, Llandudno, Cymru RED DOT with Opus Gallery, London Kounter Kulture, London Siteshow, London Eureka!, London Newcastle Gateshead Art Fair with Opus, The Sage, Gateshead Pulse Art Fair, New York Mothers, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London Suburbia, The Foreign Press Association, London Seduced, The Windows Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London Dorian Gray Project, John Jones, London STONE - PLATE - GREASE - WATER, London, Belfast and MOMA WALES, Machynlleth Inspire, Opus Gallery, Newcastle The Dream of Putrefaction, The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone and The Fieldgate Gallery, London TWO FACED, The Changing Face of Portraiture, book scope LONDON, Truman Brewery, London Sensuous Panorama, Lounge, London Castellon Painting Prize, Municipal Art Centre of Alcorcon, Madrid RCA Secret 2005, Royal College of Art, London II International Painting Prize of the Castellon County Council, Espai D'Art Contemporani De Castello, Spain Art 2005, Eyestorm/Britart at the Business Design Centre, London Bob's Your Uncle, Eyestorm, 547 West 27th Street, New York Vector Vecteur, L'Espace d'animation des Blancs Manteaux, Paris Mothers, Oxford House, London Love N Bullets, Transition, London Reduced, Century Gallery, London London Art Fair, Britart at the Design Centre, London Flinch, Seven Seven Contemporary Art, London Science Fiction: Double Feature, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, Birmingham Josie McCoy and Mimei Thompson, QUODart, Brighton Lexmark European Art Prize, Eyestorm Gallery, London BP Portrait Award 2003, National Portrait Gallery, London, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Pop Culture, Beatrice Royal, Eastleigh Foad Glorious Foad, Wilson Hall, Camberwell Art College, London Don't you forget about me, Studio Voltaire, London New Directions: Art vs Mainstream Visual Culture, New Directions, The Cube, Leeds Selfridges' windows with britart Faces, Mark Jason Fine Art, 71 New Bond Street, London England o England, Artjunky, London Christmas Show, Mark Jason Fine Art, New Bond Street, London The Painting Class, The Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London BP Portrait Award 2002, National Portrait Gallery, London, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Beauty's where you find it, Britart Gallery, London Hunting Art Prize 2002, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London Art 2002, Britart at the Design Centre, London Viva la Republique, The Centre of Attention, London 15, Red Gate Gallery, 209a Coldharbour Lane, London Golden, Britart Gallery, 60-62 Commercial Street, London BP Portrait Award 2001, National Portrait Gallery, London, Sheffield Galleries, Sheffield Art 2001, Britart at the Design Centre, London Salon The Centre of Attention Painting Prize, Identity UK, London 14 x 14, Mafuji Gallery, London Art is Dead, Britart Gallery, London RWA Open Painting Exhibition 2001, RWA, Bristol (commended) BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery and Aberdeen Art Gallery Rowe and Maw, Fleet Place, London Directions 2000, The Lethaby Gallery, London Artfutures, The Barbican Centre, London Mighty Real, Dazed and Confused Gallery, Old Street, London Cable and Wireless Head Office, Theobalds Road, London MA Degree show, Central Saint Martins, London Secret Lives, Axion Arts Centre, Cheltenham Artfutures, Royal Festival Hall, London Marks and Spencers Head Office Figurative Show, Baker Street, London
Events
2003	News BBC2, interviewed by Sean Brickell.16 March 2003.
2002	Dislocation with Notting Hill Arts Club, Victoria and Albert Museum, London Bulls and Bears, ITV, interviewed by Amy Gebler 2 April 2002. Centre of Attention Magazine: The Video Issue, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Galapagos, New York, The Green Room, London
Selected Bibliography
2004	Illera, Lotte. 'Second Glance: Paintings by Josie McCoy' Bolz, Issue 6 2004
2003	Ezzard, John. 'Eyes have it' The Guardian, 2 April 2003.
2002	'Ever-increasing Artistic Circles' The Scotsman, 10 December 2002. Edwards, Charlotte. 'Dalston Underground Studios’ Art Review, July/August 2002. Cooper, John. 'Golden Wonders' Design Week, 30 May 2002. Aitch, Iain. 'Soap on Canvas' Wish, April 2002. Dunning, Matthew. 'A Brush with Fame' Fable, February 2002.
2001	'TV Heaven’ AN for Artists, October 2001. 'As Seen on TV: The eerie paintings of Josie McCoy’ Time Out, 8-15 August 2001. Taylor, Tanis. Review Metro 30 July 2001. Greenstreet, Roseanna. 'Questionnaire - Q & A Josie McCoy’, The Guardian (Weekend magazine), 12 May 2001. 'The Big Britart’ Art Review, April 2001. 'Painting Prize’ Tema Celeste Contemporary Art, March/April 2001. 'More Prizes’ Artnotes Art Monthly, February 2001.
2000	'Mighty Real’ Dazed and Confused, November 2000.
1999	Fletcher, Victoria. 'Bianca’s return as the face of modern art’ Sunday Express, 19 September 1999. Pugh, Simon. 'Eastend Girl’ Review (London Institute), 1999
Prizes and awards
2002	Woo Charitable Foundation Arts Bursary
2001	The Centre of Attention Painting Prize Royal West of England Academy Open Painting Exhibition 2001 - commended
Collections
BBC Collection of University of Wales The Borchard Collection of British Self-Portraits in the 20th Century The Centre of Attention Permanent Collection

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