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Amanda Eliasch (born May 13, 1960 to Anthony Cave Brown and Caroline Brown, nee Gilliat, in Beirut, Lebanon) is an artist and photographer of British nationality.

Early life
Eliasch, left Lebanon six weeks after she was born with her mother. She spent her childhood between The Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire and Eaton Place, London. Eliasch lived with her mother and grandparents. Her mother Caroline, was an opera singer who trained at the Paris Conservatoire and later taught at several schools in the Wiltshire area including the local St Mary's School, Calne. Amanda is the only surviving grand daughter of film director, script writer and producer Sidney Gilliat best known for Green for Danger, Night Train to Munich and the original St Trinian's films. Her father was the writer Anthony Cave Brown The author of Bodyguard of Lies and "Treason In The Blood" also winning "Reporter of the year" in 1958, lived in Lebanon and later Washington. Her great grandfather was George Gilliat Editor of The Evening Standard from 1933-1938.

Education
Amanda was first educated at Stonar School, Melksham where she enjoyed singing in Bath Abbey. Afterwards she studied at Winkfield Place, a Cordon Bleu and Constance Spry School in Windsor. Eliasch also studied> at [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and also studied at Academy of Live and Recorded Arts She was also a student at the Moscow Arts Theatre.and then studied black and white photography with the photographer Bob Carlos Clarke before embarking on her artistic career.

Career

 * 1999 "The Three Way Mirror" at the Cork Street Gallery, in London. A black and white study of the female form,Charles Saatchi dubbing Amanda as "the new "Henri Cartier-Bresson". [[//www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-amanda-eliasch--belinda-carlisle-1072398.html]§


 * 2000 "Sundance" She is quoted as saying about this photographic show "Feminity and all it's mysterious dimensions, provocative situations, theatre and fantasy. The body language of woman and the viewer in a mundane world apart" with black and white photographs by artist Cat de Rham, The courtyard, Chelsea, SW3 Together Amanda and Cat explored the female form in different ways, Cat portraying women outside and Amanda women inside.
 * 2001"Peep" A through the keyhole view of large contact sheets of the female form was shown at the Proud Gallery in London.
 * 2009 Anglo Mokba British and Russian cultural exchange supported by Time Magazine organised by Liberatum. A poetry reading and discussion with other artists including Michael Nyman and Stephen Jones
 * 2011 As I like it, a play co written by Amanda Eliasch and playwright Lyall Watson performed by Justine Glenton and Charles Eliasch, London cast . It was performed at the Chelsea Theatre, Kings Road London and at the Macha Theatre in Los Angeles with Lisa Zane, Elizabeth Karr and Charles Eliasch, Los Angeles cast.
 * 2011 Liberatum and Amanda Eliasch hosted the first exhibition, Rebel Vernissage byJames Franco at the 68th Venice Film Festival www.liberatum.org.uk.
 * 2011 Peccadillioes, a neon collection of "The 7 Deadly Sins". Leadapron Gallery.Melrose Place, West Hollywood, Los Angeles. Designed by Amanda Eliasch and drawn by Kay Saatchi, the exhibition  was then transferred to The Doyle Devere Gallery in Notting Hill Gate, London SW11.

At the end of 2012 Eliasch lived in Paris and Los Angeles. Whilst living in Paris she was requested to turn her script, As I like it, into a screenplay. 2008 As a frequent traveller between Paris and Los Angeles she was offered a job as fashion editor at Genlux Magazine, attending all the runway shows.

2013 The organisers of BritWeek approached Amanda Eliasch to create a special evening combining all art forms. A concert with opera, a fashion show and several British Artists work. A visual and performing art show, is an encapsulation of a wider appreciation for all forms of art. With Artists Nigel Daly, Damian Elwes, Duggie Fields, and Yassi Mazandi, opera, Charles Eliasch and Lisa Zane singing Vincenzo Bellini, and a fashion show by the designer  Pam Hogg 2013 The Gun The Cake And The Butterfly, is a documentary drama, about the characters of a woman, with poetry and opera, written and directed by Amanda Eliasch.

2013 Liberatum hosted the film The gun the cake and the butterfly during Art Basel in Miami at the Colony Theatre.

Awards
2013. Amanda was awarded The Lina Wertmuller prize,which Lina set up as a tribute, for her late husband, the Italian theatrical and film designer, Enrico Job The award was for Best Art Film at the Ischia Global Film Festival

2013. The Prize for best Art Film/Documentary drama at the The New York City International Film Festival

2013. The Gun The Cake And The Butterfly was selected for the New Media Film Festival and LA Femme festival

2013. Best edit award at Indie Festival

2013. Most exceptional art documentary, for The gun the cake and the butterfly at La Jolla film festival

2013. Eliasch was nominated for The best films made by a woman at Burbank Film Festival

2013. Eliasch won Best Jury Documentary Film Editing Award and Best Audience Documentary Award at Bel Air Film Festival for the film The gun the cake and the butterfly

Books
2000 'Venus' masterpieces of erotic photography by Michelle Olley for Carlton books. Eliasch's soulful images of the female form were included, along with 150 photographers including Nick Knight and Bob Carlos Clarke

2003. British Artists At Work,photographs by Amanda Eliasch and text by Gemma de Cruz .a book of 46 British Artists, including artists Tracey Emin Mat Collishaw and Marc Quinn with photographs set alongside personal anecdotes of Eliasch's experiences on each shoot. Commissioned by Franca Sozzani, Italian Vogue Editor, published by Assouline.

2007. Eliasch was one of the Photographers for the book Made by Indians with artists Subodh Gupta and Jitish Kallat commissioned by the Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris.

2009. Cloak And Dagger Butterfly, a book of poetry with photography written and photographed by Eliasch published by Chipmunka Publishing.he launch of Cloak and Dagger Butterfly was held in Paris at her house which was once the studio of Tamara de Lempicka. The Los Angeles Launch of Cloak and Dagger Butterfly, was highlighted with the Burlesque Dancer Dita Von Teese performing her display in a giant champagne glass in a house in Beverly Hills designed by the architect Harold Levitt.

2011 "Sins of a Butterfly". A second book of poetry which was self published.

Personal life
Amanda was married to Johan Eliasch,CEO Head N.V.for 19 years, from 1988 to 2007. Amanda has two sons with Johan Eliasch named Charles, an opera singer and Jack an athlete. 2007-2012 Amanda moved to Paris and lived in the artist studio of Tamara de Lempicka, for five years, situated in Montparnasse by the architect,Robert Mallet-Stevens in the 1920's. Eliasch now divides her time between Chelsea in London and the Hollywood Hills, in Los Angeles. In her spare time she supports philanthropy which includes the British Film Institute and The Elephant Family which saves the migration paths of wildlife in India, started by the late Mark Shand. At one auction she supported the charity by buying the White Elephant by Marc Quinn Eliasch has collected numerous works of British art including pieces from Tracey Emin, Mat Collishaw, Marc Quinn,Sir Peter Blake and Polly Morgan.