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“The Other Emily”- Held Over

Elder’s portraits of a young Emily Carr in dialogue with works by Carr, are currently on exhibit at the Royal BC Museum. Curated by Kathryn Bridge, this collaboration between a Curator and an Artist, has been extended to October 16, 2011.

“The Other Emily” is going to Vancouver in 2012

Emily Carr’s works, paired by Curator Kathryn Bridge with portraits of Carr by Manon Elder, will be seen at the Royal BC Museum’s summer satellite location at the Rennie Gallery. Starting next mid-June until September, viewers will see Elder’s paintings inspired by Warhol, Renoir and Manet of the vibrant, youthful Carr.

My Master’s is Underway

This July and August, I started my Master’s in Art Education at the University of Victoria. It is a 3-summer program so that between September to June, I am back working at my art projects. Here is one of my tree paintings.

THE OTHER EMILY on AMAZON.com

Amazon.com reviewed and approved ‘The Other Emily’ as an art ebook and it is now available on their site. ‘The Other Emily’ features all of Manon Elder’s 27 paintings and accompanying text that redefines artist Emily Carr. These works are presently on exhibit at the Royal BC Museum until October 2011.

Victoria News: Early Carr works shed new light on artist’s life

Early Carr works shed new light on artist’s life
By Roszan Holmen

“Artist Manon Elder looks over her paintings that depict a time line of Emily Carr at the Royal British Columbia Museum. The Other Emily, on now through Oct. 10, includes 19 of Carr’s paintings, rarely seen sketches and drawings, numerous manuscripts and handwritten letters, personal diary accounts and archival photos.”

Read the full article at VicNews.com…

‘The Other Emily’ exhibition opens today at the Royal BC Museum

“Honouring the day on which Emily Carr died, the exhibition which redefines Emily Carr opens today on March 2, 2011. Carr’s artworks have been paired by Curator Kathryn Bridge with 27 portraits of Carr by Manon Elder.”

Carr artifacts to enhance museum show

Many rare items will be on display for the first time to the public

By Grania Litwin, Times Colonist

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Biker Chic gets a television audience

Manon Elder’s art is featured on Fox’s Sons of Anarchy
Michael D. Reid, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, September 04, 2008

VICTORIA — When Manon Elder began painting professionally 20 years ago, she never thought she’d become a biker chick.

Then, the Oak Bay artist was best known for her oil-on-canvas portraits of great Canadian women. But she switched gears a few years ago to paint gleaming motorcycles and their leather-clad riders.

Maybe “biker chic” is a more apt description. Elder’s art will be featured on the new FX (Fox-Extended) TV series Sons of Anarchy, which debuted this week on FX stations across the U.S. There is talk of future air dates on a Canadian network.

The 13-part series stars Ron Perlman, Katey Sagal and Charles Hunnam and focuses on an outlaw motorcycle club and its turf war with drug dealers and real estate developers.

Elder, who was born in Ottawa, said the call from the Sons of Anarchy team came out of the blue last May. “They said they were doing a TV show on motorcycles and it would be like The Sopranos but with a motorcycle club as its base,” she said.

The production company came across Elder’s website during a Google search and initially purchased reproductions of three artworks — Open Road and Hear the Roar — to grace the walls of a master bedroom and above the piano in the bikers’ clubhouse, respectively, as well as Spring Snow, featuring a female biker who depicts a younger version of Sagal’s character.

Elder, a married mother of two, was equally stunned a month later when she was vacationing in the Okanagan and got a call from writer and executive producer Kurt Sutter.

He wanted to use another piece, Racing the Train, in the dining room set.

When she explained she didn’t have a reproduction, the producers bought the original.

Elder says she’s still trying to get her head around her unexpected TV debut. “If it was Vancouver you’d be thrilled,” said Elder, who graduated in fine arts from the University of Victoria in 1976. “But the thing about Hollywood is it has that panache that sends it into the ionosphere.”

UVic is now home to Honour the Women, Elder’s 10-part series of large oil paintings of notable Canadian women, including Olympic rowing medallist Silken Laumann, Victoria poet P.K. Page and singer Ann Mortifee.

The National Portrait Gallery also acquired her Mary Pratt portrait from High Tea, her symbolic 22-canvas portrait series of famous women, artfully featured without revealing their faces. The University of Ottawa also acquired the series, which is on permanent display in Tabaret Hall.

Elder says she caught the motorcycle art bug after deciding on a whim to paint Shaw Communications CEO Jim Shaw seated on his Harley for her series Men With Pens.

“On his motorcycle he became so animated. It was one of the truest to his being,” said Elder. “I found out I could paint chrome and from this came the spark. I painted leather and it became a textural feeling. It just hasn’t stopped. Sometimes you choose what you do and other times it chooses you.”

© The Vancouver Sun 2008

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