Elaine Shemilt
- January 6, 2024
- Artist
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Elaine Shemilt Biography
| Name | Elaine Shemilt |
| Birthday | May 7 |
| Birth Year | 1954 |
| Place Of Birth | Edinburgh |
| Birth Country | Scotland |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
Elaine Shemilt is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on May 7, 1954 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Elaine Shemilt (born 7 May 1954) is a British artist and researcher especially known as a fine art printmaker.
In 2002 she was made a Shackleton Scholar and was awarded a Carnegie Scholarship. She is a trustee and vice chair (2002-2020) of the South Georgia Heritage Trust established to promote the environmental protection and habitat restoration of South Georgia Island, a natural wilderness in the Southern Atlantic. In 1998 Shemilt was invited to lead a project to improve the environment of the military base on the Falkland Isles by the then commander, Brigadier David Nicholls. The experiences of the staff and student team she put together led inevitably, to independent artworks by all. Four years later in 2002 this led to the exhibition, “Traces of Conflict, The Falklands Revisited 1982-2002” at the Imperial War Museum. Shemilt’s work in this exhibition was inspired by the abandoned field hospital at Ajax Bay, and according to the Imperial War Museum Keeper Angela Weight, Shemilt “was gripped by the aura of a place where the writ of war did not run and young men were tended irrespective of whether they were friend or foe.”
In 2013 she was awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh Caledonian European Research Fellowship to study and research in Italy, and was chair of the international printmaking conference IMPACT 8 held in Dundee in August.
In 2014 she was awarded £234,872 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to act as principal investigator on the research project European Women’s video art in the 70s and 80s (EWVA). A publication associated with the project was published in May 2019.
Shemilt is a graduate of the Winchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art. She has exhibited internationally including in Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Canada, USA, Australia, Italy and Germany. In Britain she has exhibited at the Hayward Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and at the Edinburgh Festival. She was a pioneer of early feminist video and multi-media installation work alongside her fellow artist and friend Helen Chadwick, who selected her for the Hayward Annual in 1979. Of her early video works, only two have survived: Doppelgänger (1979),, and Women Soldiers (1984), which were recovered and remastered by the REWIND video art project in 2011.
Elaine Shemilt Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Artist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Elaine Shemilt is one of the richest Artist from Scotland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Elaine Shemilt 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Between 1960 and 1972, Shemilt grew up in Craigavad, County Down in Northern Ireland. She attended non-denominational Bloomfield Collegiate School and Victoria College, Belfast during The Troubles where her experiences motivated her to develop the themes of conflict, censorship and psychological constraint in her work.
Shemilt was featured in Gabriel Schor’s book, The Feminist Avant Garde, Art from the 1970s in 2016. In 2018. several of her works from the 1970s were acquired by the SAMMLUNG VERBUND art collection in Vienna, and her work is in a touring exhibition, “The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s”, showing in Stavanger (Norway), Brno (Czech Republic), Barcelona (Spain), and New York City.
Shemilt established the printmaking department of the School of Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (University of Dundee) in 1988 and was course director of printmaking from 1988-2001. She is currently professor of fine art printmaking and a professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists and was its president from March 2007 until 2010. Shemilt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2000 and of the Royal Geographical Society in 2009. She has collaborated with the video artist Stephen Partridge on several installations, including “Rush”, first exhibited at London’s Fieldgate Gallery, and “Quattro Minuti di Mezzogiorno”, a HiDefinition video installation, exhibited in Italy in December 2010-January 2011.
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