Anna Boggon
“They play on states of mind and flip between something light-hearted and something else we might prefer not to think about.”
- Studio 1.1
Charity: Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN)
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.
Education
Royal College of Art
Grays School of Art
Prizes / Awards
2019 | Lijiang Studio Residency, Lashihai, Yunnan, China
2011 | Sovereign European Art Prize, Public Vote
2009 | British Council A.S.P Residency Jerusalem
2006 | British Council Artists Link Residency, China
2004 | Creative Connections Residency, Whitechapel Art Gallery
2003 | Arts Council of England, Triangle Arts, International Artists Fellowship Paraguay
2002 | Cass Foundation Artist Residency, Camden Arts Centre
2001 | KMO International Artists Taller, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
1994 | Paris Studio Award, Cité Des Arts, Residency, Paris, organised by Royal College of Art, London
1992 | The John Kinross Memorial Scholarship, Florence, Italy
1990 | The Patrick Allan of Hospitalfield Trust Residency, Scotland
Select Exhibitions
2019 | She Persists, Palazzo Benzon, Venice, Heist Gallery, during 58th International Venice Art Biennale
2019 | We are not amused, Baca Art Centre, Beijing
2018 | Take Two, A Seasonal Disorder project, 7 Dials Club, Covent Garden, London
2018 | V&A&A, studio 1.1 Gallery, London
2017 | Who What Where, Studio 13, Kiev, Ukraine All For Show, V22, Louise House, London
2017 | All For Show, V22, Louise House, London
2016 | Glaze my Cave, Studio 1.1 Gallery, London
2014 | VAS:T, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2014 | One Place Two, Chelsea College of Art
2014 | Froward, The Drawing School Gallery, Eton College
2011 | The 2011 Sovereign European Art Prize, Winner of the public vote prize Istanbul
2010 | Future Movement, City States, Liverpool Biennial
2010 | Invisible City, Shanghai South Railway Station, Shanghai
2010 | Flashback, Officina Gallery, Beijing
2009 | The Other Shadow of the City, Jerusalem. Heart of Glass, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2009 | Heart of Glass, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2008 | Map Games, Dynamics of Change, Today Art Museum Beijing, Birmingham Museum and CAOS, Terni, Italy
2007 | Ten, Deutsche Bank, London
2007 | Salon 2007, New British Painting and Works on Paper, Artworks, London
2007 | Hoot, Studio 1.1 gallery, London E2
2006 | Material World, 1918 ArtSPACE, Shanghai, China
2006 | Less Travelled, Island 6 Art Centre, Shanghai, China
2006 | Case Study, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK.
2006 | The wrong end of the telescope, Three Colts Gallery, London
2005 | Little by Little, Studio 1.1 gallery, London. Solo exhibition
2005 | All For Show, New Video Works UK Retrospective, tour: Edgezones World Arts Building Miami, Florida, USA, Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, USA, Mighty Screenland Theatre, Kansas City, USA, Fahrenheit Gallery Kansas City, USA.
2005 | Mementoes and other Curiosities, Familoes Building, London, Architectural Biennale and Art Fortnight London, Curated by Measure and Flora Fairbairn
2005 | Playing Cards, Marine Stewardship Council, London
2004 | Put ‘em up, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London. Solo Exhibition
2004 | Plan B, Drawing Show, Studio 1.1 gallery, London E2
2004 | Pilot:1, Limehouse Town Hall, London. Six Thousand Chairs, Crystal Palace, London
2004 | A Year in the Life, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2004 | Tempered Ground, Museum of Garden History, London, Curated by Danielle Arnaud, Jordan Kaplan, Philip Norman
2003 | Il palazzo delle libertà, Palazzo Delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Italy, curated by Lorenzo Fusi
2003 | Mirrors, Signals, Manoeuvres, Art and New Technology, Swiss Cottage Central Library Gallery, organised by Camden Arts Centre, London