Madeleine Strindberg (born 1955) is a German-born painter, winner of the 1998

Jerwood Painting Prize The Jerwood Painting Prize was a prize for originality and excellence in painting in the United Kingdom, awarded and funded by the Jerwood Foundation. It was open to all artists born or resident in the UK, regardless of age or reputation. Winner ...

Education

Strindberg graduated from the

Byam Shaw School of Art The Byam Shaw School of Art, often known simply as Byam Shaw, was an independent art school in London, England, which specialised in fine art and offered foundation and degree level courses. It was founded in 1910 by John Liston Byam Shaw and ...

and

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It o ...

in 1985 with a master's degree in painting.

Work

Strindberg won the Barclays Bank Award in 1985. She was the Artist in Residence at the

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in 1989. That same year she also won the GLC Peace Prize. In 1996, she was awarded the Abbey Award in Painting by the British School at Rome. She was one of the artists shortlisted for the

John Moores Painting Prize The John Moores Painting Prize is a biennial award to the best contemporary painting, submission is open to the public. The prize is named for Sir John Moores, noted philanthropist, who established the award in 1957. The winning work and short-li ...

in 1997. In 2000, she was once again on the shortlist for the Charles Wollaston Award. Preferring to be called an artist as opposed to a painter, Strindberg works with various media. She uses 3-dimensional objects, photography and video, as well as the written word to convey her subject matter. Painting remains her most frequent medium. She uses a lot of unusual materials in her work, from newspaper cuttings to pages from scientific textbooks to her own writings.

Exhibitions

Strindberg has held numerous exhibitions. Her exhibitions explored various themes. Her exhibition "Just Look at Yourself!" portrayed the psychologically charged internal world. Another unique work was "Central Nervous System". Her "Among the Believers" was a strong political statement on the occupation of Iraq.

Style

Strindberg's work is somewhere between expressionism and grunge minimalism. Her work is not one that can be seen as belonging to one particular. Rather it is ceaseless striving to attain meaning through unusual and experimental means.

Awards

She was chosen from over 1200 artists to win the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1998, for her delicate paintings which explored aspects of the human body. She has subsequently used

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sections through the human brain to create her abstract works. Four of her oil paintings are in UK public collections (including the Jerwood Collection).

Personal life

In 1980 Strindberg married

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, a poet. Strindberg has lived in London, UK, for most of her life and worked from a studio in Bow for 25 years. She had multiple sclerosis and, in 2011, was forced out of the studio by the landlord for not using it enough.

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