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• Press Release: Anastasia Pollard 'Painting Women' (Nov 2009)
• Anastasia Pollard receives the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture (2009) at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. (Nov 2009)
• Review of Gema Alava's lecture at SUNY Rockland (24 September 2009) (Nov 2009)
• Margulies Art Collection at the Warehouse (Nov 2009)
• Gema Alava: TENSIONS press release Oct-Nov 2009 (Jun 2009)
• Dog Days at the Affordable Art Fair (Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art); featuring KITTY BLANDY (Apr 2009)
• Times article; Top Five Galleries by Rachel Campbell-Johnston (Apr 2009)
• Press Release: Marcus McAllister March-April 2009 (Mar 2009)
• Fringe Report: Poetry Night at the Mumford Gallery (Feb 2009)
• Russian website OpenSpace.ru features an article on Mumford Fine Art (Feb 2009)
• PORTRAITS for a NATION (Nov 2008)
• KITTY BLANDY: (ANIMAL) INSTINCTS (Oct 2008)
• Director Susan Johnson Mumford on Frieze art week Oct 2008 (Oct 2008)
• Financial Times article; The Unknown Frink (Sep 2008)
• THE UNKNOWN FRINK (Sep 2008)
• London Daily Photo: Blog featuring Robert M Swedroe (Sep 2008)
• Style.com: Review of THE CITY exhibition (Jul 2008)
• The City (Jun 2008)
• Marcus McAllister article in Oise Hebdo, part 1 (Apr 2007)
• Marcus McAllister article in Oise Hebdo, part 2 (Apr 2007)
• My Father's Head by Matthew Collings (Apr 2006)
• Art Is Why I Get Up in the Morning (Mar 2006)
• Marcus McAllister features in Artistes Magazine (Oct 2005)

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Press Release: Anastasia Pollard 'Painting Women'

Nov 2009

Mumford Fine Art presents a new body of intimate oil paintings and drawings depicting women by Anastasia Polalrd RP, winner of The Ondaatje Prize Portraiture at The Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2009.

Brian Sewell writes in his BP Portrait Award 2007 review:

"A few unambitious paintings are modest in their honesty... self-portraits by Jaemi Hardy, Ingolf Helland, Jill Hooper, Jason Walker and Paula Wilson... and portraits of friends by Rupert Alexander and Anastasia Pollard, too, seem very able. It is among these that I
would have found at least two winners of the prizes..." (How ugly can the faces get? Brian Sewell, Evening Standard, 25.06.07)

Pollard's work has been exhibited extensively in the UK and USA:

Selected three times for the BP Portrait Award exhibition at the NPG; Shown in annual exhibitions at The Royal Society of Portrait Painters;  Solo exhibition in 2008 at Mumford Fine Art in Soho and several group shows (2007, 2008, 2009); Exhibitions in Cork Street at established galleries; Presented at art fairs in the UK and USA.

Painting Women is Mumford Fine Art's annual exhibition to benefit a charitable cause; one
painting, Sweetheart (Natasha) (2008), will be on display as others, however it will not be available for acquisition. It will be included in Ovarian Cancer Action's online auction, appropriately titled LOVE ART™. Ovarian Cancer Action is committed to improving survival for women with ovarian cancer through Research, Awareness and Giving A Voice. The organisation is a member of the Association of Medical Research Charities (registered charity no. 1109743) - a membership organisation of the
leading medical health and research charities in the UK. Contact the gallery to find out more about this collaboration.

About the artist:
Pollard studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA, from 1996-2000. She then studied at Florence Academy of Arts, Florence, Italy, from 2000-2005; Moved to London, England, in 2005; Elected an RP (Member of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters); A Founder of the London Atelier for Representational Art (LARA) in 2008; Currently on the Council for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2009.

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