Gillian Carnegie in-conversation with William Feaver

‘Gillian Carnegie exploits the conventions and genres of academic figurative painting. Working within the traditional categories of landscape, still-life, interior, portraiture and the nude Carnegie investigates the materiality of painting and questions habitual responses to established subject matter. Her highly distinctive paintings mediate her relationship to the world through a controlled sense of realism, grounded in concerns around the act of painting and the physicality of paint itself.’ Clarrie Wallis, Painting Now (2013), Tate

Carnegie studied at Camberwell school of art and the Royal College of Art. She has exhibited internationally since leaving the RCA in 1998 and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2005. She is represented by Cabinet, London and Gisela Capitain, Cologne.