Featured Artist
Gemma Anderson
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Artists Biog
Gemma Anderson was born in Belfast in 1981. A former student of the University of Ulster, Anderson went on to graduate with First Class Honours in Fine Art at Falmouth College of Art and then completed an MA at the Royal College of Art, London, graduating in 2007.
Anderson has completed numerous residencies including S-AIR Japan, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris and Poustinia Sculpture Park, Belize. Recent exhibitions include “An Experiment in Collaboration”, Jerwood Space, London, “Drawing Ezo” Sapporo, Japan and “Isolated”, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. Anderson is currently working on a Wellcome Trust Arts Award project entitled “Portraits: Patients and Psychiatrists”. www.gemmaaanderson.wordpress.com
Anderson's work is held in the collection of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, The Wellcome Trust, University College Falmouth and the Braid Museum. She is a member of Queen Street Studios. For more information visit: www.gemma-anderson.co.uk
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Exhibitions
2008-2009
Collecting, The Rooms Musuem, Newfoundland
Archipelago, Solo Show, Whitecross Gallery,London
Isloated, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
Drawing Ezo, Nepenthes Gallery, Sapporo, Japan
An Experiment in Collaboration, Jerwood Space, London July/Aug
PS Squared, Planned Cities, Unplanted Green, Belfast
Catlin Art Prize, St Lukes, Old Street London,
Hot Off The Press, Curwen & New Academy Gallery, London
2005-2007
Potato In Bloom, Whitecross Gallery, London
Ritual Abuse, Boys Hall, Dalston, London
Postgraduate Printmaking in London, Clifford Chance Collection, Canary Wharf, London
Great Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London
Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy, London
Underground, Subway Gallery, Edgware Road, London
Man Group drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, London
Kunst-Wurst,Café Gallery Projects, London
Poustinia Sculpture Park Belize, Central America
Krakow Biennale
Pinnochio, Academia de Belle Arte, Venice
Sancreed House, Cornwall
Fine Things, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Residencies
2009 Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2009 Ballinskelligs, Ireland
2008 ICC Sapporo, S-AIR Japan
2008 St Michaels Printworkshop, St Johns, Newfoundland
2008 Curfew tower, Cushendall, Nothern Ireland
2007 Burren College of Art, Ireland
2006 Poustinia Sculpture Park, Belize
2004 Academia De Belle Arte, Venice
2004 Taicheircha Ba Arts Centre, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
2003 Cork Artists Collective, Ireland
Awards and Prizes
Wellcome Trust Arts Award 2009
RHA Thomas Dummann Award, 2009
Arts Council Individual Artist Award, 2008
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Travel Award 2008
Corbett Projects and Major of Kensington and Chelsea Award for Drawing, Dec 2007
Man Group Drawing Prize Winner, Royal College of Art, 2007
Royal West of England Student Award, 2006
Man Group Drawing Prize Winner, Royal College of Art, 2006
Franz Zweig Foundation Student Award, 2005
Originals Print Exhibition Student Award, 2005
Collections
The Wellcome Trust
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Royal College of Art. London
Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall
Braid Museum and Art Centre, N.Ireland
Education
2005-2007 Royal College of Art, M.A Printmaking
Blog
www.gemmaanderson.wordpress.com
