Details

First Name	Kinga
Last Name	Elliott
Username	kingaelliott
Website	http://www.instagram.com/kingaelliott
Region	Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
Disciplines	Painting
Themes	Abstract, Architecture, Geometric

Statement

My practice concerns complexity, underlying order, and emerging connections within a structure. I am intrigued by complex interconnected shapes, be it in unusual architecture, tiny seed pods, or mathematical geometry.

In my abstract mixed-media works, I utilize the alternative photographic process of cyanotype. I have long been fascinated by light, with its manifold representations and appearances in religions, optics, and theoretical physics. I found the cyanotype process a very apt starting point for my works because light plays an active role in creating the image here.

My cyanotypes are made from her well-defined designs; however, the cyanotype process invariably allows unforeseen marks to appear in the resulting image. I cherish and build on these blemishes, striving to “solve” the picture while building up layers of paint and resin.

Biography

Kinga Elliott is a painter working in the field of visual art and science, using painting, photography, and light art. She is based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree, first class, specialising in Painting, from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, in 2020. Her work has been exhibited at the British Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery (2022), at the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition (2022), and the RSA New Contemporaries in Edinburgh (2022). She has recently completed a year-long Painting Graduate in Residence at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. She was the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Glenesk Folk Museum. Kinga Elliott is a part-time fine art lecturer at Gray’s School of Art.

Elliott won many prestigious national awards, including the Scottish Arts Club Prize (2024), the RSA Patrons Award (2022), the David and June Gordon Memorial Trust Award (2022), the Glasgow Print Studio Publication Prize (2022), the Royal Scottish Academy John Kinross Scholarship to Florence (2020), the J. Gordon Brown Memorial Painting Prize (2020), and the Scottish Cancer Prevention Network Art & Design Prize for Creative Communication, Scotland (2019). She worked on a collaborative project as a supporting painter at the British Art Show 9 (2021) and was Professional Development Ambassador for Scotland + Venice at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Collections, including the Royal Scottish Academy, Glasgow Print Studio, and Robert Gordon University, have acquired her works.

Her paintings are abstract, focusing on manifestations of light, colour, dynamism, balance, and interconnectedness. Kinga studied physics and mathematics in her earlier years, and she often used forms borrowed from science as a starting point for her paintings. Her overarching interest is in the concept of light. As part of the artistic exploration into the nature of light, she found a very apt process in making cyanotypes, where light plays an active part in creating the image. The cyanotypes are starting points for painterly developments, using ink, acrylic paint, and resin. The titles of her work bear reference to coding systems of online platforms. She creates seemingly random word combinations that evoke a sense of atmosphere and musicality.