Anna King (artist)

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| field = Painting

| training = Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

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Anna King, is a Scottish landscape artist "who seeks out forgotten spaces and derelict buildings."{{Cite web |url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/visual-arts/Safe-bets-dominate-at-Glasgow.3923660.jp |title=Glasgow Art Fair |access-date=2011-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110181536/https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/safe-bets-dominate-at-glasgow-art-fair-1-1161281 |archive-date=2020-01-10 |url-status=dead }}

She was born in Shetland, spent most of her life in the Scottish Borders, and lives in the village of Greenlaw, near Kelso.

She first came to attention of the general public at her degree show at Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2005.

Awards

In 2017, she won the top prize of £20,000 in the annual Jolomo Award, established by John Lowrie Morrison and awarded to Scottish Landscape Artists.

She also received the Royal Scottish Academy Landscape Award from the RSA Student Exhibition and also received the Ian Eadie Award from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

Exhibitions

She has had solo exhibitions at:

  • Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh[http://www.openeyegallery.co.uk/Open+Eye/Anna+King/ Anna King's paintings at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004080016/http://www.openeyegallery.co.uk/Open%2BEye/Anna%2BKing/ |date=October 4, 2011 }}
  • Beaux Art Gallery Bath [http://www.beauxartsbath.co.uk/King09/Pages/Index.html Beaux Arts Bath Summer Exhibition 2010] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027142946/http://www.beauxartsbath.co.uk/King09/Pages/Index.html |date=October 27, 2010 }}
  • 108 Fine Art, Harrogate [http://www.108fineart.com/artists/Anna_King/AnnaKing2010.htm Anna King at 108 Fineart] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707054549/http://www.108fineart.com/artists/Anna_King/AnnaKing2010.htm |date=July 7, 2011 }}

She has also exhibited at many other art galleries including the Glasgow Art Fair and the Gallery Heinzel.[http://www.galleryheinzel.com/artistarchv.asp?ID=106 Anna King's Second Exhibition at the Heinzel Gallery, Aberdeen]

TV

She featured on the BBC Coast Series,BBC Coast Series 5 Episode 6 Glasgow to Edinburgh via the Caledonian Canal when Alice Roberts visited her during one of her residencies at the Watchie and explored what drew Joan Eardley to Catterline. Also she is the featured artist in a recent Blackberry Ad [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7baP4-Y9Ro Blackberry Ad.] which shows William Ramsay, founder of the Affordable Art Fair,[http://www.affordableartfair.com/portal/home Affordable Art Fair] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202131601/http://www.affordableartfair.com/portal/home |date=February 2, 2011 }} visiting the artist and then using his BlackBerry Torch to share her paintings with his colleagues. She also featured in a BBC program "Making Art Work: First Idea to Final Piece" {{cite web|title=Making Art Work: First Idea to Final Piece - A compilation of short films following six UK-based leading artists as they create new artwork from scratch.|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b044bt6h|website=BBC|date=April 2015}}

Art

She normally works in oil and pencil, on paper and board.[http://www.anna-king.com/ Anna King Official Web Site]

"This gifted young artist has spent the past two winters working at Joan Eardley's clifftop studio at Catterline. The results are very different from Eardley's wild, densely painted seascapes: cooler, more cerebral, with an almost icy range of colours. Yet something of Eardley's response to nature as an untameable force is echoed in King's bleakly attractive images of post-industrial landscapes: empty feral places where nature is slowly reclaiming the land."[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8bc93a8c-082a-11dd-a922-0000779fd2ac.html#axzz1CSlRWJdf Anna King, Wastelands 108 Fine Art, Harrogate], FINANCIAL TIMES REVIEW, 12 April 2008, Jackie Wullschlager mini review (scroll down the page to find) - requires free registration to view the FT articles.

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