BIOGRAPHY

PROFILE


A non-figurative sculptor working primarily in cast bronze, stainless steel, silver and fabricated corten; her work comprises both large and small sculptures, site specific commissions, drawings, prints - etchings and photo assemblages. She was elected to the Royal Academy in 1980 and currently lives and works near Bath, UK.


1947 Born Watford, Hertfordshire, UK
1965-66 Harrow School of Art
1966-69 West of England College of Art, Bristol (BA Fine Art)
1968 1st prize in Harrison-Cowley Sculpture Competition
1970 Set up first studio
1971 Prizewinner in Daily Telegraph Magazine, Young Sculptors Competition
Received Peter Stuyvesant Award
First exhibited at the Royal Academy
1973 Received Birds Charity Award
Arts Council Award, Thornton Bequest
1974 Made reconstruction, with Ken Cook, of Jacob Epstein’s Rock Drill
1976 South West Arts Award
1977 Arts Council Grant
1980 Elected to the Royal Academy of Arts (ARA)
1983 Elected to the Royal West of England Academy (RWA)
1989 Elected as a Royal Academician (RA)
Retrospective exhibition Ann Christopher1969-89 at Dorset County Museum
with support from the Henry Moore Foundation
1992 Elected as a Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors (FRBS)
1994 Awarded RBS Silver Medal for Sculpture of Outstanding Merit
1995-97 External assessor of sculpture at City and Guilds Art School, London
1996 Frampton Award for sculpture in a public place
Curated A Sculptors Choice Royal Academy, London
1997 St Cuthbert’s Mill print award
Otto Beit Medal for Sculpture of Outstanding Merit
2001 First studio residency near Cordes, France
2003 Selector – 4th Triennial Sculpture Exhibition RWA
2005 Short listed for the Charles Woollaston Award Royal Academy
2006 Quarter leader in Drawing Quarters practice based Symposium UWE, Bristol
2007 Selector – 5th Triennial Sculpture Exhibition RWA
2009 Senior co-ordinator of Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London



COMMISSIONS INCLUDE

2007/8 BEYOND THE EDGE
46 cm Ed. of 12 bronze sculptures
Parabola Land Ltd
2004 IN THE SKY THERE IS NO EAST OR WEST
medal for BAMS - British Art Medal Society
2001 SHADOW LINE
48 cm bronze
Cass Sculpture Foundation ‘New Concepts’
LINES OF TIME
19 cm st / steel multiple for Wingfield Arts, Suffolk
1995 WHITE LINES
Glass multiple for the Royal Academy of Arts
1985-87 THE LAURENCE OLIVIER AWARD
54 bronze sculptures for the Society of West End Theatre



PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS

2002 THE EDGE OF LIGHT
2.2 m bronze private site nr Albi, France
2000/01 TOWARDS THE SKY
5.5 m corten steel
Port Marine, Portishead for Crest Nicholson (South West)
1999 STILL LINES
2.5 m stone / stainless steel / water sculpture
St Peters Hospital, Bristol for the John Pontin Trust
1998 THE SILENCE OF SHADOWS
3.3 m bronze
private residence Great Barrington, USA
1997 SILENT SHADOW
2.4 m bronze for Linklaters LLP, One Silk St, London
1996 CUTTING LINE
4.9 m corten steel Marsh Mills, Plymouth
1994 BEYOND SILENCE
2.3 m bronze
private site in George Town, Washington DC USA
1993 LINE FROM WITHIN
4.6 m bronze
Castle Park, Bristol funded by the Talboys Bequest, RWA
1989 SQUARE LINE
3.2 m bronze sculpture incorporating water
224/226 Tower Bridge Rd, London for Grosvenor Square Properties



WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

  ATE International, London
Bristol Schools Arts Services
Bristol University
British Museum, London
Cass Sculpture Foundation
Chantrey Bequest, London
City of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Contemporary Arts Society, London
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Granville Holdings Plc, London
Grosvenor Square Properties, London
Gruss & Co, New York, USA
Harrison Weir Collection, London
John Creasey Museum
Linklaters & Paines, London
Nef – Stefansson, Washington DC, USA
Prior’s Court School, Newbury
Royal Academy, London
Royal West of England Academy
Salisbury Art Gallery
Sharjar Art Museum UAE
Talboys Bequest, Bristol
World Wide Business Centers Inc, Philadelphia USA
private collections in Europe and USA.

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