PAM GLEW SHORT BIOGRAPHY
BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED SERIES
Pam Glew, born 1978, is a contemporary artist who is best known for her unique
bleaching technique on flags. She uses dye and stitch to paint, deconstruct and
distress vintage materials in her own breed of painting.
Heavily inspired by film, her strong cinematic paintings often use screen stills of
women in film as their starting point. Her current ‘beautiful and damned series’
references the silent movie era to the 1920s and 30s. Using antique fabrics, in
this series the artist uses the oldest and most precious materials that she has
ever used.
As a British artist she has shown widely in the UK and her large-scale work has
been showcased in Paris, Amsterdam, LA, Korea and Sydney in 80 group
exhibitions and 5 major solo shows. She has exhibited in urban, traditional and
site-specific exhibitions, alongside such disparate artists as from Banksy to HRH
the Prince of Wales. Her work is keenly collected and commissioned by
contemporary art buyers worldwide and by musicians, film producers and brands
such as Red Bull and Ralph Lauren.
Pam continues to exhibit in numerous charity exhibitions for causes including
Teenage Cancer Trust, Big Issue and Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund.
Events in 2011 include the ‘Beautiful and Damned’ solo-show in May and a
winter solo in New York.
www.pamglew.co.uk