Ellie Damant-Artist Statement for The Dubel Art Prize 2025.
Title of painting: Everything Must Go. Date: 2024, Medium: Oil on canvas in handmade frame. Framed Dimensions: 1020 mm x 1020 mm. Description: Jesus appears, his face within the universe’s nebulae. He appears to envisage humanity’s selling of all things but the barcode on his face tells us that the real closing down sale comes at the end of the universe’s being and our own. Wearing Nietzsche’s famous phrase ‘God Is Dead’ like a scar on his forehead, Jesus ironically appears alive, but the meaning of Nietzsche’s phrase remains in the barcode: A fall into nihilism is challenged only by creating our own meaning and authentic value, before our ultimate closing down sale at the end of our lives. © Ellie Damant
Title: B Priceless. Date: 2022. Medium: Oil on canvas in handmade frame. Framed Dimensions: 825 mm x 825mm Description: A female figure belies the branding of a barcode on her face with a seeming exhortation to the viewer and perhaps herself: B Priceless. © Ellie Damant
Title of painting: Gold Kim. Date: 2025 . Medium: 24 Carat gold, Oil on canvas in handmade frame. Dimensions Framed: 825 mm x 825mm. © Ellie Damant
ALDERMAN SHERIFF OF LONDON TIM HAILES FKC JP, oil on canvas, 140 x 120 cm in hand carved 24 carat gold gilded frame with museum grade UV glass. © Ellie Damant
ALDERMAN SHERIFF OF LONDON TIM HAILES FKC JP, oil on canvas, detail of face. © Ellie Damant
ALDERMAN SHERIFF OF LONDON TIM HAILES FKC JP, oil on canvas, detail of sheriff's badge and lace jabot. © Ellie Damant
ALDERMAN SHERIFF OF LONDON TIM HAILES FKC JP, oil on canvas, detail of gloves. © Ellie Damant
ALDERMAN SHERIFF OF LONDON TIM HAILES FKC JP, oil on canvas, detail of waistcoat. © Ellie Damant
ALDERMAN SHERIFF OF LONDON TIM HAILES FKC JP, oil on canvas, detail of hand and fur cuff. © Ellie Damant
ALDERMAN SHERIFF OF LONDON TIM HAILES FKC JP, oil on canvas, detail of hand and fur cuff. © Ellie Damant
ALDERMAN SHERIFF OF LONDON TIM HAILES FKC JP, oil on canvas, detail of sheriff's shoulder jewel. © Ellie Damant
ALDERMAN SHERIFF OF LONDON TIM HAILES FKC JP, oil on canvas, detail of sheriff's shoulder jewel. © Ellie Damant
RODNEY BENNION OBE, MASTER LIGHTMONGER, oil on canvas, 97 x 95 cm, 24 carat gold leaf frame with UV glass. © Ellie Damant
RODNEY BENNION OBE, MASTER LIGHTMONGER, oil on canvas, detail of face. © Ellie Damant
RODNEY BENNION OBE, MASTER LIGHTMONGER, oil on canvas, detail of master's badge and OBE. © Ellie Damant
RODNEY BENNION OBE, MASTER LIGHTMONGER, oil on canvas, detail of master's robe. © Ellie Damant
RODNEY BENNION OBE, MASTER LIGHTMONGER, oil on canvas, detail of master's chair. © Ellie Damant
VIEW FROM RICHMOND HILL, oil on canvas, 40 x 100 cm. © Ellie Damant
DR. DEREK ROSS, MASTER ARBITRATOR, oil on canvas, 60 x 75 cm. © Ellie Damant
PETER WHITE, MASTER FRAMEWORK KNITTER, oil on canvas, 75 x 60 cm. This portrait commission was auctioned at the Lord Mayor's Auction at Ascot and achieved the highest selling lot that year. The artist donated a portion of her commission fee to the Lord Mayor's charity that year. © Ellie Damant
PETER WHITE, MASTER FRAMEWORK KNITTER, oil on canvas, badge detail. © Ellie Damant