About Zena Blackwell
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Education
2010 - 2011
Central Saint Martins
1996 - 1999
Wimbledon School of Art
Awards
2022
Shortlisted for the BEEP Painting Prize 2022
2021
Shortlisted for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021
2019
PAINT - PS Mirabel Open Painting Prize
2017
Cardiff MADE Summer Art Prize
Zena Blackwell's solo show 'Seen Not Heard' was a very well received exhibition that took place in November 2018.
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Previous events
Event: A Delicate Balance
Dates: 30 Apr 2022 - 28 May 2022
A solo exhibition of new work.
Event: A Room of her Own
Dates: 10 Mar 2022 - 8 Apr 2022
Group exhibition curated by Vanessa Lacey
Event: A Generous Space
Dates: 25 Nov 2021 - 22 Apr 2022
A group of exhibition of works offered as part of the artist support pledge
Event: Seen Not Heard
Dates: 27 Oct 2018 - 25 Nov 2018
A solo show consisting of over 30 paintings and drawings.
Biography
The domestic setting is beautiful, still, and a touch awkward.'
- Sacha Craddock (art critic, writer, curator)
Zena Blackwell's awarding-winning paintings and drawings investigate the chaos, humour, and beauty of childhood.
Zena Blackwell is a painter based in Cardiff, Wales, UK. She obtained her Masters in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, and degree at Wimbledon School of Art, London. Returning to painting in 2016 following a break from the medium (during which time she explored sculpture, collage, performance and installation), she won first prize at the Cardiff MADE Summer Exhibition in 2017, presenting her first solo show consisting of over 30 paintings and drawings there the year after. The exhibition, ‘Seen Not Heard’, for which she was awarded a £5k production grant from the Arts Council of Wales, was included in a weekly list of the top 5 UK exhibitions by a-n (The Artists Information Company) and Wales Arts Review included it in a top 10 list of the best Welsh Visual Arts for 2018. In 2019 she won 3rd prize at ‘PAINT’, an open painting prize at PS Mirabel in Manchester. Zena was selected for the National Eisteddfod in 2018, 19 and 22 and has exhibited widely. Her work is held in the National Library of Wales’ permanent collection and in private collections around the World.
Zena founded the instagram blog Contemporary Cymru in 2017 and between 2003-2011, she co-founded a critically acclaimed live music event in London and also DJed nationally and internationally.
