Anna Boggon

Anna Boggon is a contemporary British artist and her practice includes painting, sculpture, mixed media and installation. She has shown extensively in the UK and Internationally and was one of twenty-two selected International female artists to be included in the exhibition She Persists during the 58th Venice Biennale 2019. 

In 2021, Anna has been working on a new body of work contemplating how much of our life is real and how much is imagined or remembered. References are made to current situations in contemporary environments and to our commonly used escape routes; fiction, film, dreams, video games, social media, music and recreation. Anna’s oil paintings act like a two-way mirror where fiction mimics reality and reality mimics fiction. 

Anna’s work is investigative in its approach, often playful and at times humorous. It questions the way we see and interpret things by creating alternative and shifting perspectives. Her work is an inquiry into the territory of the real and the imaginary. It often references the past and nostalgia, but in so doing invites us to look more closely and find a poignancy that has a direct relevance to the present. Travel and working Internationally as an artist on residencies and exhibitions has had a major significance on the artwork and continues to influence her practice. She is fascinated with the idea of translation and what is lost and found in the relaying of information across cultures, be it image, text, or the spoken word.

Anna has work in both private and public collections in the UK and Internationally, including the Government Art Collection, British Airways, Maramotti Collection and Hospitalfield Trust. Anna is an International Academic and worked as a Senior Fine Art lecturer at Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon College of Art, London, for 15 years, London. She was part of the organizing committee for Braziers International Artist Workshop between 2000-10, which brought over 400 artists to the UK from 50 different countries. During 2021, Anna is using her Folkestone studio window as part of an evolving artwork as part of #LastFridaysFolk which will be on view through Folkestone Triennial 2021.

Charity Focus | Kent Refugee Action Group (KRAN)

KRAN workS with separated young refugee and asylum seekers also known as UASC’s (unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee minors). These are young people aged 16 to 24 who have arrived in Kent alone and are claiming asylum and need a safe & positive space. Anna Boggon is passionate about KRANs work and the plight of young refugee’s near her studio in Folkestone.