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Red self-portrait

JAMES, Shani Rhys

© Shani Rhys James. All Rights Reserved. DACS 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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This large self-portrait captures the artist at work in her studio. As in many of her studio portraits, the room is cluttered with painting materials and there is a recurrent motif of the red beret which she wears while painting. Red self-portrait won first prize in the 1993 Hunting/Observer Art Competition. Shani Rhys-James was born in Australia to Welsh parents in 1953. After attending Loughborough College of Art and St Martins College of Art in London, she moved to Wales in 1984. Taught by Gillian Ayres, amongst others, at St Martins, she absorbed the abstract qualities of paint into her figurative style. She enjoys paint for its texture, colour and energy. In 2003 she won the Jerwood Prize for painting.


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Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 2512

Creation/Production

JAMES, Shani Rhys
Date: 1992

Acquisition

Purchase, 14/6/1993

Measurements

Height (cm): 183.1
Width (cm): 122.2
Height (in): 72
Width (in): 48
(): h(cm) frame:188
(): h(cm)
(): w(cm) frame:127.7
(): w(cm)
(): d(cm) frame:5
(): d(cm)

Techniques

oil on gesso panel
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting

Material

oil
gesso panel

Location

Currently on loan

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  • Art And Design Movements
  • Fine Art
  • Identity
  • James, Shani Rhys
  • Key Design Elements
  • Painting
  • People
  • Post 1945
  • Red
  • Self-Portrait
  • Welsh Connection
  • Woman
  • Woman Artist

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