ANNABEL MEDNICK
Artist,
performer, instructor
I am a figurative artist, based in
Ipswich, Suffolk, where I make expressive paintings and portraits full of
nuances of light, colour and atmosphere mainly in oil on canvas trying to
capture the intensity and flow of the fleeting moment, the play of the light,
and the pleasures, fears and frustrations of everyday life.
I have exhibited widely and I have
won awards for my portraits, including a prize at the BP Portrait Awards at the
National Portrait Gallery. I regularly exhibit in venues in London, East Anglia
and abroad, and I have my work in numerous private collections.
As a teacher
and art instructor, I have developed a significant body of experience incorporating
both the practice and history of art, having worked in schools and colleges as
well as non-educational settings.
Fortunately I have enjoyed a varied
career that has involved work in theatre, film and television as well as solo
and collaborative work in performance, video and film projects.
Art
experience Includes
Exhibitions:
“Beneath the Skin” Waterfront Gallery, University of Suffolk, Ipswich
“Beneath the Skin” Waterfront Gallery, University of Suffolk, Ipswich
Buckenham
Gallery, Southwold
Byard Art,
Cambridge
Reunion
Gallery, Felixstowe
La Galerie du
Bord de L’Orne, Clécy, Normandy, France
The Pin Mill
Studio, Chelmondiston,
Ipswich
The Frame
Workshop, Ipswich
Hicks Gallery,
Wimbledon, London
Alderburgh
Gallery, Alderburgh
Affordable
Art Fair, Battersea, London
Galerie St
Fiacre, Nantes, France
“Twisted”,
at The Market Cross Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
Le Foyer,
Brussels
The Crypt
Gallery, Marylebone, London
Sternberg
Centre, London
B.P.
Portrait Awards, National Portrait Gallery
Actors
Art Exhibition, National Theatre
Performance:
“Crazy Dog
jumps” video piece,
“Into the
garden” video piece
"Pathways" video piece
“The Maids”
- Workshop of an artist’s version with Giovanna Maria Cassetta
“Frailty
in Thought” Devised and performed promenade performance, Ipswich
“Frailty
of Dreams” Mime performance collaboration Ipswich
“Miss
Haversham Dreams” Mime performance piece, Ipswich
"Underneath
the Skin" demonstration/performance, The Studio, Ipswich
"Underneath
the Skin" demonstration/performance, Warwick University
Awards
B.P. Portrait Award, Commended,
National Portrait Gallery, 1993
Sternberg
Award. Second Prize. Sternberg Centre, London, 1995
Suffolk
College, Commission of portrait of Chair of Governors, 2001
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OTHER
ACTIVITIES, teaching and workshops
As well as running Classes
in Art and life drawing at The Studio Ipswich
I
regularly run art workshops, and give talks and demonstrations to local art
groups. Over the past few years I have run many classes for adults in art and painting at including classes for the Ipswich Institute, Suffolk
College, Pin mill Studio and Life Drawing for the Pacciti Company, Think Tank Ipswich, Inside Out Community
Arts Project, (running art workshops for people recovering from metal
health problems.)
In 2004 I
was part of a film project at a primary school in Leytonstone facilitating
the children in costume design.
Whilst
living in Brussels (1996-1999) I designed theatre sets and oversaw
the construction of them, working with a mixed age group of
volunteers.
For two
years I was chair of Key Arts, an artist-run space in Ipswich,
providing leadership and support for the development of a programme
of events and exhibitions engaging numerous artists in new
projects.
In 2011 and
2012 I designed the set and costumes for a contemporary dance
performance at Hayward’s Heath sixth form College
Training
1970-1975:
CSEs including English, Maths, Art, Sociology, Music, Dance
1975-1977:
Loughton College – Art Foundation
1974-1977:
Mime classes at The Dance Centre, Floral Street
1976:
Summer
contemporary dance course, The Place
1977-1980:
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School – Actor Training
1981:
Mask Work course,
London
1997-1999:
Ecole des Arts, Brussels, Diploma in Fine Art
1999-2001:
Suffolk College, School of Art, BA(Hons) Fine Art
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