Elsa Dax
| Elsa Dax | |
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| Born |
14 May 1972 Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Sorbonne |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | Venus and Mars |
| Movement | Stuckism |
Elsa Dax (born 14 May 1972) is a French painter and a member of the Stuckists art movement. Major themes in her work are myth, legend and fairytale.
Elsa Dax was born in Paris, and educated at the Sorbonne where she gained an MA in cinema, Russian art studies, Constructivism and Suprematism. In 1994, she worked as a production assistant for the film Beyond the Clouds, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. In 1995 she was a librarian in the Pompidou Centre. In 1996 she was a television production assistant at the Musee D'Orsay for the film Whistler, an American in Paris, directed by Edwige Kertes.
In 1997, she was a production cinema assistant at the Ciné Lumière, French Institute, South Kensington, London, and the following year a television encoder and editor for Xtreme Information Ltd. From 1997 to 1998, she rented a 3 sq metre room in a convent, containing just a bed, a small cupboard and a tap. She spent her time there painting, "and I was very happy". In 1999, she worked as an editor at the Cannes Advertisement Festival.
In 2000, she joined the Stuckists, the anti-conceptual art movement co-founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson. She first exhibited with them in their The Real Turner Prize Show at the Pure Gallery, Shoreditch, London, in that year, and participated in their first demonstration outside Tate Britain against the Turner Prize. She also took part in other demonstrations in subsequent years, and has participated in may international Stuckist shows.
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