Study for Ondine's Dream
2025, oil paint on printed paper, 21 x 30 cm

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Ilona Szalay was born in 1975 in Beirut and is now based in London. She studied English Literature at the University of Oxford and went on to study at Central St Martins and Byam Shaw School of Art. In 2025 she won the inaugural Women In Art Fair Prize and in 2013 she was the recipient of the ORA Contemporary Art Prize (Italy). She has been a finalist for the Threadneedle Prize' the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, 2018 and long-listed for the Contemporary British Art Prize, 2024.She has shown extensively, including in Islomania, the 2025 Transition Projects x Kavel Rafferty exhibition, at the Post Office Gallery, Margate.

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