Amanda Eliasch
Encyclopedia
Amanda J. Eliasch is the poet, Fashion Editor for Genlux Magazine in Los Angeles, as well as British photographer and writer
for The Collective Review. She has also written a book of poetry called Cloak and Dagger Butterfly.
and Stonar School
, Melksham
, Bath, Amanda was educated at Stonar School
, Melksham Bath. She is a grand daughter of Sidney Gilliat
, film director, script writer and producer of films such as St Trinians, Blue Murder at St Trinians The Lady Vanishes
, Green for Danger
Millions Like Us Waterloo Road
starring John Mills and Stewart Granger The Rake's Progress
starring Rex Harrison
, Jamaica Inn
, Only two can play
and State Secret
, great grand daughter to George Gilliat who was editor for The Evening Standard from 1928 - 1933. Her father Anthony Cave Brown
was writer and Foreign Correspondent for The Daily Mail in Beirut
. He won Journalist of the year in 1958 and was author of Bodyguard of Lies
, Willliam J. Donavan, and wrote about Kim Philby
Treason in the blood and Sir Stewart Menzies.She has two sons with Johan Eliasch
called Charles and Jack.
Amanda then worked for a stamp dealer and Terence Conran
and The Conran Shop, Kenneth Turner Flowers and Tiger Petroleum until she enrolled herself into drama school.
, Academy of Live and Recorded Arts
and then at The Black and White Photography school before embarking on her photographic career. She was the student at the Moscow Arts Theatre.
at L'uomo Vogue photographing people like Ang Lee
for the Cinema Edition.
Amanda is involved in several charities from the British Film Institute, London Symphony Orchestra and a school of children of the Tsunami in Phuket a charity called Phuket has been good to me
Peccadilloes, an exhibition of neon lights based on Kay Saatchi's drawings of Amanda committing the seven deadly sins
at Leadapron Gallery in Melrose
in Los Angeles
.
As I like it a play written by Amanda Eliasch and Lyall Watson
with Justine Glenton. Susan Parkes and Charles Eliasch was performed at the Chelsea Theatre
Kings Road
London
.
In 2009 Chipmunka Publishing published Cloak And Dagger Butterfly, a book of her poetry with photography, written about two simultaneous love stories.
Amanda Eliasch collaborated with Pablo Ganguli
and Liberatum
for the AngloMockBa
British-Russian cultural diplomacy festival in May 2009 featuring Stephen Frears
and milliner Stephen Jones
, composer Michael Nyman
, Martha Fiennes
Film Director, Dylan Jones
with TIME
as the media partner.
Photographer: Made by Indians which included artists such as Subodh Gupta
and Jitish Kallat
.
Photographer: Made by Brazilians with British photographer Jack English
.
Photographer and Writer of British Artists At Work - Assouline, Franca Sozzani
and Italian Vogue
The book commissioned by Franca Sozzani
of Italian Vogue, captures four generations of artists from the established to the emerging. Amanda photographed 46 artists in their studios including Tracey Emin
, Gary Hume
, Gavin Turk
, Fiona Rae
, Sam Taylor-Wood
, Julian Opie
, Martin Maloney
, Tim Noble and Sue Webster
, Michael Craig Martin, Chantal Joffe
, Marc Quinn
, Anish Kapoor
, Rachael Whiteread, Jenny Saville
, Gilbert and George
and 2003 Turner Prize
nominee Grayson Perry
. Amanda’s photographs are set alongside a personal diary of her experiences on each shoot.
http://www.amandaeliasch.com/baw-view.asp
Amanda has exhibited in several London based galleries including The Black and White Gallery, The Cork Street Gallery and the Proud Galleries, where her work was well received by the public and critics.
The Evening Standard said “Her stunning, sexy photographs exude glamour and gusto… She’s at her best with her stylish confident images of nude models”-which was influenced by Bob Carlos Clarke
Michel Comte praised her photographic work and likened her to Man Ray
and Meret Oppenheim
, and Charles Saatchi
proclaimed her to be "The new Cartier-Bresson"
,CEO Head N.V. from 1988 to 2007.
At the beginning of 2009 Amanda Eliasch was attacked by a crazed knifeman in an underpass at the Royal Festival Hall
but she escaped unharmed.
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
for The Collective Review. She has also written a book of poetry called Cloak and Dagger Butterfly.
Early life
She spent her childhood in the Wiltshire Downs with her mother, an opera singer and teacher at Dauntseys School, DevizesDevizes
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The town is about southeast of Chippenham and about east of Trowbridge.Devizes serves as a centre for banks, solicitors and shops, with a large open market place where a market is held once a week...
and Stonar School
Stonar School
Stonar School, founded in 1895, is one of the UK's independent leading day and boarding school, at Cottles Park, Atworth, near in Wiltshire, south-west England...
, Melksham
Melksham
Melksham is a medium-sized English town, lying on the River Avon. It lies in the county of Wiltshire.It is situated southeast of the city of Bath, south of Chippenham, west of Devizes and north of Warminster on the A350 national route. The 2001 UK census cited Melksham as having 20,000...
, Bath, Amanda was educated at Stonar School
Stonar School
Stonar School, founded in 1895, is one of the UK's independent leading day and boarding school, at Cottles Park, Atworth, near in Wiltshire, south-west England...
, Melksham Bath. She is a grand daughter of Sidney Gilliat
Sidney Gilliat
Sidney Gilliat was an English film director, producer and writer.He was born in the district of Edgeley in Stockport, Cheshire. In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably with Frank Launder on The Lady Vanishes for Alfred Hitchcock, and its sequel Night Train to Munich , directed by...
, film director, script writer and producer of films such as St Trinians, Blue Murder at St Trinians The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)
The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder from the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White...
, Green for Danger
Green for Danger
Green for Danger is a popular 1944 detective novel by Christianna Brand, praised for its clever plot, interesting characters, and wartime hospital setting. It was made into a 1946 film which is regarded by film historians as one of the greatest screen adaptations of a Golden Age mystery...
Millions Like Us Waterloo Road
Waterloo Road (film)
Waterloo Road is a 1945 British film based on the Waterloo area of South London. It was directed by Sidney Gilliat.-Plot:John Mills plays an AWOL squaddie who returns to south London to save his wife from the advances of a philandering draft-dodger played by Stewart Granger.-Cast:* John Mills as...
starring John Mills and Stewart Granger The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress is an opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on May 2, 1947, in a Chicago...
starring Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison
Sir Reginald Carey “Rex” Harrison was an English actor of stage and screen. Harrison won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards.-Youth and stage career:...
, Jamaica Inn
Jamaica Inn
The Jamaica Inn, originally a public house and now an inn, is a Grade II listed building in the civil parish of Altarnun, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Located near the middle of Bodmin Moor near the hamlet of Bolventor, it was built as a coaching house in 1750 as a staging post for changing horses...
, Only two can play
Only Two Can Play
Only Two Can Play is a 1962 comedy film based on the novel That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis. Sidney Gilliat directed the film from a screenplay by Bryan Forbes....
and State Secret
State Secret
State Secret is a 1950 British drama film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns and Herbert Lom. It was released in the United States under the title The Great Manhunt.-Cast:...
, great grand daughter to George Gilliat who was editor for The Evening Standard from 1928 - 1933. Her father Anthony Cave Brown
Anthony Cave Brown
Anthony Cave Brown was an English-American journalist, espionage non-fiction writer and historian.-Early years:...
was writer and Foreign Correspondent for The Daily Mail in Beirut
Beirut
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
. He won Journalist of the year in 1958 and was author of Bodyguard of Lies
Bodyguard of Lies
Bodyguard of Lies is a 1975 non-fiction book written by Anthony Cave Brown. His first major work, the book is a narrative account of Operation Bodyguard and the Allied intelligence operations of 1944, leading up to the invasion of Normandy...
, Willliam J. Donavan, and wrote about Kim Philby
Kim Philby
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a spy for and later defected to the Soviet Union...
Treason in the blood and Sir Stewart Menzies.She has two sons with Johan Eliasch
Johan Eliasch
Johan Eliasch, born in Sweden in 1962, is the Chairman and CEO of Head N.V., the global sporting goods group, and is the former Special Representative of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
called Charles and Jack.
Amanda then worked for a stamp dealer and Terence Conran
Terence Conran
Sir Terence Orby Conran, FCSD, is an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.-Early life and education:Terence Conran was born in Kingston upon Thames, the son of Christina Mabel and South African-born Gerard Rupert Conran, a businessman who owned a rubber importation company in East...
and The Conran Shop, Kenneth Turner Flowers and Tiger Petroleum until she enrolled herself into drama school.
Education
Amanda Eliasch studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic ArtRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...
, Academy of Live and Recorded Arts
Academy of Live and Recorded Arts
The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts is a British drama school situated on Wandsworth Common, South West London and in Wigan, Greater Manchester making it the only CDS drama school to offer identical training at two separate institutions across The United Kingdom...
and then at The Black and White Photography school before embarking on her photographic career. She was the student at the Moscow Arts Theatre.
Work
Amanda worked with Rushka BergmanRushka Bergman
Rushka Bergman is a Contributing Fashion Editor for Italian L'Uomo Vogue and Vogue Italia. In addition, she was the Personal Stylist of Michael Jackson and acted as Creative Consultant/Costume Designer for his This Is It concerts in London....
at L'uomo Vogue photographing people like Ang Lee
Ang Lee
Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman , Sense and Sensibility , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Hulk , and Brokeback Mountain , for which he won an Academy...
for the Cinema Edition.
Amanda is involved in several charities from the British Film Institute, London Symphony Orchestra and a school of children of the Tsunami in Phuket a charity called Phuket has been good to me
Peccadilloes, an exhibition of neon lights based on Kay Saatchi's drawings of Amanda committing the seven deadly sins
Seven deadly sins
The 7 Deadly Sins, also known as the Capital Vices or Cardinal Sins, is a classification of objectionable vices that have been used since early Christian times to educate and instruct followers concerning fallen humanity's tendency to sin...
at Leadapron Gallery in Melrose
Melrose
-Scotland:* Melrose, Scotland , a town in the Scottish Borders** Melrose Abbey, ruined monastery** Melrose RFC, rugby club** Melrose Golf Club-Australia:* Melrose, South Australia, a town in the southern Flinders Ranges...
in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
.
As I like it a play written by Amanda Eliasch and Lyall Watson
Lyall Watson
Lyall Watson was a South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many new age books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. Lyall Watson tried to make sense of natural and supernatural phenomena in biological terms...
with Justine Glenton. Susan Parkes and Charles Eliasch was performed at the Chelsea Theatre
Chelsea Theatre
Chelsea Theatre is a studio theatre located on the Kings Road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. It presents, commissions, and produces new work and is the only theatre in London dedicated to Performance Art...
Kings Road
Kings Road
King's Road or Kings Road, known popularly as The King's Road or The KR, is a major, well-known street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both in west London, England...
London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
.
Books
2011. Sins of a butterfly second book of poetryIn 2009 Chipmunka Publishing published Cloak And Dagger Butterfly, a book of her poetry with photography, written about two simultaneous love stories.
Amanda Eliasch collaborated with Pablo Ganguli
Pablo Ganguli
Pablo Ganguli is a cultural entrepreneur and impresario who has created and directed several international festivals of arts, literature, media, film, fashion and culture, through his organisation...
and Liberatum
Liberatum
Liberatum is an international cultural diplomacy festival organisation founded by Pablo Ganguli which mainly focuses on promoting modern British arts, literature and culture worldwide....
for the AngloMockBa
AngloMockBa
AngloMockBa is an international/British-Russian festival of arts, fashion, film, media, music, ideas and literature to be held in Moscow from 1-3 May....
British-Russian cultural diplomacy festival in May 2009 featuring Stephen Frears
Stephen Frears
Stephen Arthur Frears is an English film director.-Early life:Frears was born in Leicester, England to Ruth M., a social worker, and Dr Russell E. Frears, a general practitioner and accountant. He did not find out that his mother was Jewish until he was in his late 20s...
and milliner Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones (milliner)
Stephen Jones OBE is a leading British milliner based in London, who is considered one of the world's most radical and important milliners of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He is also one of the most prolific, having created hats for the catwalk shows of many leading couturiers and...
, composer Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
, Martha Fiennes
Martha Fiennes
Martha Fiennes is a British film director, writer and producer. An award-winning director, Fiennes is best-known for her films Onegin and Chromophobia .-Career:...
Film Director, Dylan Jones
Dylan Jones
Dylan Jones is a journalist who is editor of British GQ. Having won the BSME Editor of the Year Award four times during his tenure at GQ, Jones was also recognised for the Brand Building Initiative of the Year 2007 for the annual GQ Men of the Year Awards.Jones attended Central Saint Martins...
with TIME
Time
Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....
as the media partner.
Photographer: Made by Indians which included artists such as Subodh Gupta
Subodh Gupta
Subodh Gupta is an artist based in New Delhi. He was born in Khagaul,land famous for ancient mathemetician Aryabhatta in Patna. He studied at the College of Art, Patna in 1983 - 1988, before moving to New Delhi where he currently lives and works. Trained as a painter, he went on to experiment...
and Jitish Kallat
Jitish Kallat
Jitish Kallat is an Indian artist who works in varied media. He was born in 1974 in Mumbai . He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Mumbai in 1996....
.
Photographer: Made by Brazilians with British photographer Jack English
Jack English (photographer)
-Early life:Jack English is photographer, known for his work in the film and music industry. The first of two sons born in Leicester to businessman Jack English and Dutch mother Jansje Schoen...
.
Photographer and Writer of British Artists At Work - Assouline, Franca Sozzani
Franca Sozzani
Franca Sozzani is an Italian journalist and the editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia since 1988.Franca has been at the forefront of Fashion since the beginning of her career. Sozzani started her career at Vogue Bambini and directed legendary publications LEI since 1980 and PER LUI since 1982 before...
and Italian Vogue
The book commissioned by Franca Sozzani
Franca Sozzani
Franca Sozzani is an Italian journalist and the editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia since 1988.Franca has been at the forefront of Fashion since the beginning of her career. Sozzani started her career at Vogue Bambini and directed legendary publications LEI since 1980 and PER LUI since 1982 before...
of Italian Vogue, captures four generations of artists from the established to the emerging. Amanda photographed 46 artists in their studios including Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin
Tracey Karima Emin RA is a British artist of English and Turkish Cypriot origin. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs ....
, Gary Hume
Gary Hume
Gary Stewart Hume is an English artist. His work is strongly identified with the YBA artists who came to prominence in the early-1990s. In 1996, Hume was nominated for the Turner Prize, but lost out to Douglas Gordon. Hume was elected a Royal Academician in 2001.-Life and work:Hume was born in...
, Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists . He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people.-Life and work:...
, Fiona Rae
Fiona Rae
Fiona Rae is a British artist. Her work is firmly identified with the Young British Artists who rose to prominence in the 1990s....
, Sam Taylor-Wood
Sam Taylor-Wood
Samantha "Sam" Taylor-Wood OBE , born Samantha Taylor, is an English filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist. Her directorial feature film debut came in 2009 with Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon...
, Julian Opie
Julian Opie
Julian Opie is a visual artist, and one of the New British Sculpture movement.-Life and work:Julian Opie was raised in Oxford, England, where he attended the Dragon School and Magdalen College School. He attended Goldsmith's School of Art in London from 1979-82...
, Martin Maloney
Martin Maloney
Martin Maloney is a contemporary English artist.-Life and work:Martin Maloney was born in London. He attended the University of Sussex 1980–83, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design 1988–91 and Goldsmiths College 1991–93.Martin Maloney practises deliberately "bad"...
, Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Timothy "Tim" Noble and Susan "Sue" Webster , are two British artists who work as a collaborative duo, and are associated with the post-YBA generation of artists.-Early lives and careers:...
, Michael Craig Martin, Chantal Joffe
Chantal Joffe
Chantal Joffe is an English artist based in London. Her often large-scale paintings generally depict women and children. In 2006 she received the prestigious Charles Wollaston Award from the Royal Academy.-Life and education:...
, Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn is a British artist and part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs . He is known for Alison Lapper Pregnant , Self , and Garden .He is one of the Young British...
, Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor CBE RA is a British sculptor of Indian birth. Born in Mumbai , Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice...
, Rachael Whiteread, Jenny Saville
Jenny Saville
Jenny Saville is a contemporary British painter; best known as one of the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of naked women.-Life and career:Saville works and lives in Oxford, England...
, Gilbert and George
Gilbert and George
Gilbert & George are two artists who work together as a collaborative duo. Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore have become famous for their distinctive, highly formal appearance and manner and their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks.-Early life:Gilbert Proesch was...
and 2003 Turner Prize
Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
nominee Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry is an English artist, known mainly for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of...
. Amanda’s photographs are set alongside a personal diary of her experiences on each shoot.
http://www.amandaeliasch.com/baw-view.asp
Amanda has exhibited in several London based galleries including The Black and White Gallery, The Cork Street Gallery and the Proud Galleries, where her work was well received by the public and critics.
The Evening Standard said “Her stunning, sexy photographs exude glamour and gusto… She’s at her best with her stylish confident images of nude models”-which was influenced by Bob Carlos Clarke
Bob Carlos Clarke
Robert Carlos Clarke was an Irish photographer, known for his highly stylised erotic imagery....
Michel Comte praised her photographic work and likened her to Man Ray
Man Ray
Man Ray , born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal...
and Meret Oppenheim
Méret Oppenheim
-External links:**** http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/man_ray.html...
, and Charles Saatchi
Charles Saatchi
Charles Saatchi is the co-founder with his brother Maurice of the global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, and led that business - the world's largest advertising agency in the 1980s - until they were forced out in 1995. In the same year the Saatchi brothers formed a new agency called M&C...
proclaimed her to be "The new Cartier-Bresson"
Personal life
She was married to Johan EliaschJohan Eliasch
Johan Eliasch, born in Sweden in 1962, is the Chairman and CEO of Head N.V., the global sporting goods group, and is the former Special Representative of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
,CEO Head N.V. from 1988 to 2007.
At the beginning of 2009 Amanda Eliasch was attacked by a crazed knifeman in an underpass at the Royal Festival Hall
Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected...
but she escaped unharmed.
External links
- Official Website
- Official Blog
- Amanda online poetry page
- Hi-res pic
- Hi-res pic, At LA home
- Daily Mail article
- Daily Express article
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/7720183/Tracey-Emins-new-fashion-accessory-a-black-eye.html
- http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-amanda-eliasch--belinda-carlisle-1072398.html
- http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/interiors/a-room-of-ones-own-photographer-amanda-eliaschs-home-is-all-about-big-statements-1632136.html?action=Gallery
- http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/interiors/article3697986.ece
- http://www.esadvertising.co.uk/media/images/p13_8004.pdf
- http://thebuigallery.com/blog/index.php?post%2F2011%2F01%2F13%2FDOING-AND-COLLECTING
- http://www.liberatum.org.uk/gallery
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2008136/Socialite-Amanda-Eliasch-cheated-husband-man--years.html?ITO=1490*
- {http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23960495-much-ado-about-amanda-eliasch.do
- http://www.kensingtonreview.co.uk/content/amanda-eliasch-talks-tracey-emin-love-almost-lost-and-why-her-first-play-nothing-vagina
- http://http://amandaeliasch.net/
- http://www.liberatum.org.uk/nggallery/post/gallery/album-all/gallery-16/
