Gemma Anderson
  2010    
     
'Green Finger’, 2008, etching, Japanese paint  

DRAWINGS AND ETCHING OF EZO BY GEMMA ANDERSON
19 May 2010 - 13 July 2010

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Japan House, 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP


'Anderson exhibits her journey from Ireland to France to Japan in her recording of the people and their natural history, combining botanical and geological studies, portraits and landscapes, which are recorded straight onto her etching plate. During her time in residencies, Anderson created an archive of the natural phenomena of a particular time and place. Her works display a remarkable convergence between “a scientific eye searching to intimately know a face, a leaf, a rock, animal or insect” and “an imagination that plays jovially with the hurdles of reality” (Juliette Giudicelli, Art Writer, Paris 2009). “Gemma Anderson’s work is transparently fabulous - like a good fable, it seems to run through a series of ‘as ifs’: as if we could start again - observing, possessing the world for the first time” (Francisco Lobo, Artist and Writer, London 2007)'

Monday-Friday, 9.30am-5.00pm (closed bank holidays)
Organised by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

Click here to visit the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation website.

 

     
 

WELLCOME COLLECTION 'SKIN'
10 June-26 September

Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE

Following the success of its recent exhibitions, which have looked at mental health and at identity, Wellcome Collection returns to the subject of the human body for its summer exhibition: 'Skin'.

Press preview: Wednesday 9 June, 9.30-13.00. A chance to preview the exhibition and meet with the curators. Contact Mike Findlay for details. Admission is FREE.

Click here to visit the Wellcome Collection SKIN website.


     
Freus Museum  

PATIENTS; PORTRAITS AND PSYCHIATRISTS
Freud Museum London, 20 Maresfield Gardens, NW3 5SX

7 July 2010 - 22 August 2010

Patients, Portraits and Psychiatrists is a series of portraits of psychiatric patients and their doctors. The exhibition forms the culmination of a Wellcome Trust Arts Award winning collaboration between artist Gemma Anderson and forensic psychiatrist Dr Tim McInerny, and is touring various venues in summer 2010 following a launch in June at the Bethlem Archives.

Click here to visit the Freud Museum website.

 

     
Portraits: Patients and Psychiatrists at the Bethlem Gallery May and June 2010  

PORTRAITS; PATIENTS AND PSYCHIATRISTS
Opening event: 19th May, 3 - 6pm

Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, BR3 3BX

On show in the Bethlem Gallery throughout May and June will be a series of portraits of psychiatric patients and their doctors. The exhibition forms the culmination of a Wellcome Trust Arts Award winning collaboration between artist Gemma Anderson and forensic psychiatrist Dr Tim McInerny.

Exhibition continues: 20th May - 18th June
Wednesday - Friday 11am - 6pm, including Saturday 5th June, 11am - 6pm

Travel: Nearest British Rail: Eden Park / East Croydon
Contact: Beth Elliott, Gallery Co-ordinator, 020 3228 4835 / 4101
Email: thebethlemgallery@gmail.com

Click here to visit the Bethlem Gallery website.
Read Gemma Anderson's blog.

 

     
Arts Council Northern Ireland  

FEATURED ARTIST - ARTS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN IRELAND

Gemma is a featured artist for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Click here to visit the Arts Council of Northern Ireland website.

     
Jerwood Visual Arts logo  

JERWOOD FOUNDATION 2010 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Gemma is artist in residence with the Jerwood Foundation during 2010.

Click here to visit the Jerwood Visual Arts website.

     
ACME Studios logo  

ACME FIRESTATION RESIDENCY 2010-2015, SELECTED ARTIST

'Acme's work/live programme at the Fire Station is one of the most directly supportive schemes for artists in the United Kingdom, providing combined studio and living space'

Click here to visit the ACME Studios website.

     
THE IDENTITY PROJECT from Wellcome Trust  

THE IDENTITY PROJECT FROM WELLCOME TRUST

Gemma Andersons' Wellcome Trust Award "Portraits; Patients and Psychiatrists" is part of the Wellcome Trusts Identity Project  

Click here to visit the IDENTIY RPOJECT website.

 

 

     
The Courtauld Institute of Art eastwingnine Exhibitionism logo  

EXHIBITIONISM
Open to the public first weekend of each month from 23 January 2010 to July 2011
East Wing Nine Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, Strand, London

'East Wing Nine presents EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display. The exhibition features works by international artists in an eclectic mixture of media. Admission free and a fully illustrated catalogue will be available.'

Click here to download the press release.
Click here to visit the exhibition website.

     
  2009
   
     
Wellcome Trust logo  

NEW BLOG: "Portraits: Patients and Psychiatrists 2009/2010"

Follow the progress of Gemma Anderons' Wellcome Trust Arts Award project - through the blog, "Portraits: Patients and Psychiatrists 2009/2010".

http://gemmaanderson.wordpress.com/

     
Archipelago solo show at the Whitecross Gallery, 122 Whitecross Street, London  

SOLO SHOW: ARCHIPELAGO
1st May - 6 June 2009 (private show on 30th April, 6-9 PM)

Whitecross Gallery, 122 Whitecross Street, London

In her first solo exhibition at Whitecross Gallery, printmaker Gemma Anderson shows a diverse range of new work. In addition to her spectacular portraits for which she has become recognised, the exhibition will feature a series of new etchings completed during Gemma’s residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.

'The work in question is archival since it not only draws on informal archives but produces them as well, and does so in a way that underscores the nature of all archival materials as found yet constructed, factual yet fictive, public yet private.'
(Hal Foster, An Archival Impulse)

 

Click here to download the exhibition flyer.
Click here to visit the exhibition website.

     
Wellcome Trust logo  

2009 WELLCOME TRUST ARTS AWARD

Gemma's work has been selected for a 2009 Wellcome Trust Arts Award.

'[Wellcome Trust] Arts Awards support imaginative and experimental arts projects that investigate biomedical science. The scheme aims to stimulate interest, excitement and debate about biomedical science through the arts.'


Click here to visit the Wellcome Trust Arts Award website.


 
Isolation show, Golden Thread Gallery  

ISOLATION SHOW
30th Jan - 5th Mar 2009

Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

…'isolation' — the feeling that you are all alone, that our not being understood… nobody understands, that you are outside of your society, you are without a connection, your social network has let you down

Click here to visit the exhibition web site.

  2008
   
     
moss linkage  

FEATURE INTERVIEW WITH MOSS LINKAGE
8 December 2008

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Click here to visit the moss linkage web site.

 

     
 

CCI RESIDENCY
Centre Culturel de Irlandais, Paris

Gemma has been selected to work as CCI resident in 2009.

Click here to visit the CCI web site .

     
Drawing Exo  

DRAWING EZO SHOW
5th - 18th Dec 2008

Nepenthes gallery, Sapporo, Japan

Click here to visit the Nepenthes gallery web site.

     
ICC S-AIR Award  

ICC+S-AIR AWARD 2008

Click here to visit the ICC+AIR website and here to read about Gemma's residency.

     
Jerwood Logo  
     
 

CATLIN ART PRIZE 2008
22nd April 2008
St Lukes, Old Street, London

Gemma's work has been selected for this year's Catlin Art prize.

The Catlin Art Prize recognizes and represents the very best in high quality, visual art by artists with the capacity to make a significant mark in the art world over the next decade.

     
  LONDON ORIGINAL PRINT FAIR 08
25th - 29th April

Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Burlington Gardens, London W1

In this year's London Original Print Fair, Gemma's work will be represented
by Royal College of Art Printmaking (Stand 40)

Click here for more info

     
  LONDON ART FAIR 08
16th January - 20th January

Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London, N1 0QH

In this year's London Art Fair, Gemma's work will be represented
by Waterhouse and Dodd of Cork Street.

www.modbritart.com

     
  GROUP
11th January - 9th February
Whitecross Gallery, 122 Whitecross Street, EC1Y 8PU, London

Whitecross gallery presents the work of Gemma Anderson and other Whitecross Artists

www.whitecrossgallery.com

     
  HOT OFF THE PRESS 08
10th - 26th January
Curwen & New Academy Gallery, 34 Windmill Street, London, W1T 2JR

An exhibition of the work of selected Printmaking Graduates from the London Schools

www.curwengallery.co.uk

 

 

     


  DRAWING PRIZE

Gemma Anderson has been awarded with a Drawing Prize by the Major of Kensington and Chelsea and Cynthia Corbett for her work in the drawing show at City Inn.
  2007
   
     
  POTATO IN BLOOM
20th October - 17th November

Whitecross Gallery, 122 Whitecross Street, EC1Y 8PU, London

Private view 19th October 6-9pm


Gemma Anderson will be exhibiting alongside artist Lia Anna Hennig

www.whitecrossgallery.com
     
    PAINTING AND DRAWING BY RECENT GRADUATES
8th October 2007- 12th January 2008
City Inn - Upstairs, Westminster, London

Private view 9th October, 6-8pm

Curated group show presented by corbettPROJECTS and City Inn

     
 

TAG FINE ARTS at ART LONDON
4th - 8th October
Royal Chelsea Hospital, SW3

In this year's Art London, Gemma's work will be represented
by Tag Fine Arts

www.tagfinearts.com

     
  POSTGRADUATE PRINTMAKING IN LONDON
1st October - 9th November

Clifford Chance LLP, 10 Upper Bank Street. Canary Wharf, E14 5JJ, London

Private view 8th October, 6-8pm

For the last 11 years, Frank/Hindley Art Consultants had the pleasure of selecting the best
printmaking from Postgraduate exhibitions al London's art colleges for exhibition at Clifford
Chance. Gemma's is one of this year's chosen artist .
     
  NATURAL SPECTACLE
6th - 13th October

27B Belfast Road, Stoke Newtington, N16 6UN

Private view 5th October from 7pm

Conventional processes - unexpected outcomes
4 female artist at 27B featuring: Gemma Anderson, Cordelia Cembrowicz, Charlotte Harris and Yasmin Inesson.
     
  RITUAL ABUSE
September 28th - October 7th
The Boys Hall, Dalston

Private View 28th September 6-9pm

RITUAL ABUSE will present 20 artists from four of London’s top art colleges: Goldsmiths, The Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins and The Royal Academy Schools. Curated by Harry Burden and jointly organized by the artists within the show. It includes work that combines a shared interest in themes relating to ritual, myth, symbolism, science and history. It will take place in a grand and previously unused space in East London, a large ex-Boy Scout hall in Dalston.
     
  GREAT EXHIBITION, ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
15th - 28th July
Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, SW7 2EU, London

Private View 14th July 6-9pm

At this exhibition, you will have the opportunity to see Gemma's latest work amongst her RCA colleagues from Printmaking and the rest of Fine Art and Applied Schools.

To celebrate this birthday in style, the RCA is holding an even more spectacular Summer Show than usual. In homage to the original Great Exhibition itself, the RCA has erected a huge, custom-designed tent in Kensington Gardens located near the site of the original exposition.

Across the road, the College galleries will be open as usual, meaning that for the first time in living memory we are showing the work of all our graduating students at the same time. Fine Art and Applied Art postgraduate students are exhibiting with Design, Architecture, Humanities, Communications and Fashion and Textiles – the art and design of the 21st century coming together in a radically contemporary take on the spirit of 1851.

Previous Shows have been described in the press as showcases for ‘the cream of young artists’ and a chance to ‘discover big names of the future’. With 385 students from over 36 countries and 20 courses exhibiting their work, this year promises no less.