Josie McCoy is a British arrtist currently based in Valencia, Spain, whose soft-focus portraits of film and television characters attempt to blur the line between reality and fiction.Within her paintings, McCoy examines an artificial version of reality offered through both television and art, inviting the viewer to connect with fictional yet familiar subject matter. ... Read full article >
Josie McCoy is an award winning painter. Most of her portraits are of well known faces from off the telly. She says her work aims to "explore ideas of desire, reality, identity and art's relationship to popular culture imagery."I asked her a few questions about her recent activities ... Read full article >
Desire, identity, authorship and art's relationship to popular culture imagery - Josie McCoy talks about her work.Plymouth-born artist Josie McCoy has a studio in London and Valencia. She talks about her work and creative process. ... Read full article >
Josie McCoy graduated from the MA Fine Art course at Central St Martin's in 1999. Since then she has had solo exhibitions in London, Valencia, Newcastle, Milan and Santiago de Compostela and has exhibited in numerous group shows.Her work has been selected for competitions and awards including the Castellon International Painting Prize, four times for the BP Portrait Award and she received a Woo Charitable Foundation Arts Bursary. In 2001 Josie was awarded first prize for the Centre of Attention Painting Prize. Her paintings are in private and public collections. ... Read full article >
Josie McCoy, 31, was born in Plymouth. She studied Fine Art at Solihull College in Birmingham and at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Famous for her paintings of characters taken from the TV soap EastEnders, she received the Centre of Attention Painting Prize 2001. ... Read full article >
500 Portraits presents a unique selection of some of the most exciting contemporary portraits selected for the National Portrait Gallery's annual competition. The BP Portrait Award is the world's leading showcase for artists working in portraiture. During the past 20 years, over 20,000 artists have entered the prize, which has attracted over 3 million visitors.This book brings together some of these portraits in a celebration of our enduring fascination with different human faces. ... Read full article >
