Justine Elinor Frischmann is an English artist and former musician, best known for being the lead singer of the Britpop band Elastica.
Background
Justine Frischmann was born in Kensington, London to Wilem Frischmann, a Jewish-Hungarian Holocaust survivor who is the former chairman of the Pell Frischmann company of consulting engineers, and to a Jewish-Russian mother. Frischmann grew up in Twickenham and attended Street Paul"s School, before studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London.
Education
University College London.
Career
She is now pursuing a career as a painter. Art She has exhibited nationally in the United States and is currently represented by the George Lawson Gallery in San Francisco, California. Frischmann has said, "The themes and ideas I am working with are in direct relation to an ongoing personal narrative. The big questions are reflected in the choices I make in my art. my ever-evolving relationship with my spiritual faith.
I think my approach and aesthetics reveal internal struggles and speak to my family origins and history." In 2012 her work was shortlisted for the United Kingdom"s Marmite Prize for painting, and she has been included in 1000 Living Painters.
From March 2-6, 2016, George Lawson Gallery will exhibit six new paintings by Frischmann at Volta New New York The gallery will have a solo show of her paintings April 13–May 28, 2016. In 1995, Elastica was nominated for the Mercury Prize for their album Elastica.
In 2003, Frischmann co-presented a series called Dreamspaces for the British Broadcasting Corporation about modern architecture.