Education:
October 2020 - September 2022, MA Painting: Royal College of Art
September 2017 - June 2020, First-Class BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree: University of Suffolk
Solo Exhibitions:
2023- Temporary Sitters, JD Malat Gallery, Mayfair, 15th March- 8th April.
Collaborations:
2023- Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle, Barbican Centre collaboration. What does it mean to paint from life today? Social media campaign.
Residencies:
2023- Daler-Rowney Artist Residency, invited to paint people who worked in the Daler-Rowney paint factory in Bracknell, October 4th-October 17th 2023.
2023- Chargeurs Philanthropies Foundation’s Painting Residency, Marseille, France. July-September 2023.
Awards, Grants, and Nominations:
2023- Shortlisted for the Jacksons’ Painting Prize
2022- Shortlisted for the ACS Studio Prize
2022- The Fribourg Philanthropies Painting Prize Winner 2022, Royal College of Art
2022- Shortlisted for the RBA Rome Scholarship 2022, by the Royal Overseas Leagues Education Committee and the Royal Society of British Artists
2021- Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Second Painting Award, Quebec, Canada
2021- Awarded The de Laszlo Foundation Prize for Excellence and £1,500 awarded to an artist aged 35 or under for the best work from life in the Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition.
2020- Winner of the Global Design Graduate Show 2020 Fine Art People’s Choice Award for Painting
2020- Grantee of the Yorkshire Ladies Educational Society
2020- Shortlisted for The Sequested Prize: A Prize For Self-Portraiture Prize 2020, Tristian Hoare Gallery, Fitzroy Square, Bloomsbury, London
2020- The South Square Trust Fine and Applied Art 2020 Grantee, Lewes, Sussex
2020- Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Painting Award, Quebec, Canada
2020- Nominee for The Freelands Painting Prize, 2020, Regents’ Park, London
2020- Pre-Selected for The National Portrait Gallery BP Portrait Award Exhibition, 2020, Charring Cross, London
2019- University of Suffolk Fine Art Student of the Year 2019, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Ipswich, Suffolk
2018- University of Suffolk Representative at the Art History in Higher Education Conference, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
2018- Gainsborough Landscape Prize Winner, Gainsborough House, Sudbury
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023- Friends and Family, Pí Artworks, London. 5th January-28th January.
2022- Mall Galleries Award Winning Artists 2020-2022, Mall Galleries, London, 27th July-6th August.
2022- Royal College of Art Degree Show, Painting Building, Battersea, 27th July-6th August.
2022 - The Royal Overseas League and Royal Society of British Artists Rising Star Exhibition 2022, Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, 6 Park Place, St James’s Street, London, SW1A 1LR Opening Hours (General Public): Monday to Friday, 10AM – 5PM 29th April- July 3rd.
2021- The Royal Society of British Artists 304th Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London, 14th-24th April
2021- The Human Condition, 54 The Gallery, Mayfair, London, 14th-21st March 2021
2021- The Work-In-Progress Show, Royal College of Art, Battersea. 28th January-4th February
2020- The Society of Women Artists 159th Annual Exhibition 2020, Mall Galleries, London, 22nd September-30th December
2020 - Global Design Graduate Show 2020. Shortlisted for Fine Art, Photography, and Craft Category. In collaboration with Gucci, Artsthread, and ID, Somerset House, London.
2020- An Instagram Aesthetic: To Begin At The Beginning, Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh, 18th-23rd September
2020- Interim Degree Show, The Minories Galleries, Colchester, 6th-15th February
2019- Woodlands Exhibition (invitation to exhibit research proposal of a Patient-Centred-Curational-Practice in collaboration with charity; Hospital Rooms), Waterfront Gallery, Neptune Quay, Ipswich
2019– Inhibition, Group Exhibition, Arlingtons, Ipswich
2018- Responses to The Landscapes of Thomas Gainsborough, Gainsborough House, Sudbury
2018- Simultaneous Mapping, Waterfront Gallery, Neptune Quay, Ipswich
2018- Simultaneous Mapping, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles
2017- Selected Student Portraiture Exhibition, The Apex, Charter Square, Bury Saint Edmunds
2015- Environmental Factoring, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Publications:
2023: The Londonist, Do You Feature In These Paintings? https://londonist.com/london/art-and-photography/emily-gillbanks-tube-commuter-paintings-temporary-sitters
2023: Temporary Sitters featured in WhyNow, The Mundane Made Extraordinary https://whynow.co.uk/read/the-mundane-made-extraordinary-emily-gillbanks-london-underground-paintings
2023: The Gallery Guide https://www.thegalleryguide.co.uk/exhibitions/emily-gillbanks-temporary-sitters
2023: Artnet Article on Collecting Emerging Talents https://news.artnet.com/buyers-guide/7-questions-jean-david-malat-2023-2252038/amp-page
2022: Royal Overseas League https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/business/21262330.suffolk-artists-shortlisted-scholarship-work-showcased-london/
2021- She Magazine, Issue 4, Available at Tate Modern. https://www.shemagazine.co.uk
2021- Royal College of Art, Painting student wins top award at the Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, (April 20th 2021) https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/painting-student-wins-top-award-royal-society-british-artists-annual-exhibition/
2021- The Daily Art Magazine, Gokce Dyson, London Mall Galleries: An Interview on Covid-19 and Reopening, (April 19th 2021) <https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/an-interview-with-mall-galleries/>
2021- Telegraph, Tristram Fane Saunders, Look! A Million-Dollar Pixel. Can any good art come from staring at screens? (April 15th 2021) <http://m.email3.telegraph.co.uk/nl/jsp/m.jsp?c=%40kkZMGAH5vVba1CZEFX4w8PlUaFXm6tE6rDuqOQJ8qq0%3D&WT.mc_id=e_DM1388058&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Cul_NewDesign&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_Cul_NewDesign20210415&utm_campaign=DM1388058>
2021- East Anglian Daily Times, Johnny Griffith, Award-winning artist to have work showcased at Mall Galleries (March 18th 2021) <https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/suffolk-schooled-artist-work-showcased-in-london-7833474>
2021- Royal College of Art, Being together through the screen, https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/rca-stories/work-progress-2021-art-design-post-covid-world/
2020- I-D, See the winners of the ARTSTHREAD x i-D readers vote, (28th September 2020) https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/7kpnmq/see-the-winners-of-the-artsthread-x-i-d-readers-vote
2020-Portraits For NHS Heroes. Bloomsbury Publishing: Bedford.