Anna Fairchild Artist and Lecturer

Professional artist lecturer and workshop leader with ten years experience in the UK and abroad


Anna Fairchild’s work explores and investigates themes of fragmented place, time and memory through sculpture, photography and printmaking. In documenting the transitory nature of elements in a given place and time, the essence of an idea or narrative is fleetingly captured.
The work is often graphic in appearance, referencing book pages or film posters. The three-dimensional work appears fragile and presented like museum objects.
Recent prints have explored combinations of print processes and photography combined with existing or found text or imagery. These works explore narratives contrasts within contrasting urban and rural environments; ‘7.Fading Light’ at Pushing print 2010 and ‘Magic, Power, Presence’ 2012; “Palimpsest 3’ Global Village 2012, Alkmaar, Holland; “Wish Tree Hill’ 2011, The Hat Factory, Luton and ‘Glasshouse Stories’ at The Luton Hoo Walled garden Project, 2011. Utilising antique illuminated books pages from the 1950s together with mono-print, collograph hand drawn graphite works on paper and digital print techniques a complex construction of both radial memory over time and various narrative forms are explored.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Anna Fairchild BA (Hons), MA by Research
Studio A
23 Girdle Road
Hitchin
Herts. SG4 0AN
Mob: 07841331137
email: annafairchild@yahoo.com website: annafairchild.com
annafairchildmres.co.uk
Glasshouse Stories
Group shows and Commissions

2012: Eastern Approaches 2012 (Selected), University of Hertfordshire Galleries at the Museum of
St Albans
2012: Artist in Residence ROTW (Selected for Rhythms of the World Music Festival, Hitchin, Herts.)
Unearthed Stories
2012: Cultivate 2; A Gift for Somerset (Invited global participation event, Somerset, UK)
2012: Global Village International exhibition of Global Community art (Selected for Alkmaar, Holland and Copenhagen, Denmark)
2012: ‘Magic, Power, Presence’ (Selected for publishing in Artists book project with Iris Publishing, Edinburgh)
2011: Outside The Frame, Exposition of Master of Arts by Research Degree project, The Hat Factory, Luton, Beds
Outside the Frame
2011: Artist in Residence at Luton Hoo Walled garden Project, Bedfordshire (Selected)
Glasshouse Stories
2010: Pushing Print, Margate, Kent (Selected for theme of work encountering print)
2010: Global Village, Alkmaar, Netherlands (Selected for Small Dreams and Nightmares animated sequence)
http://www.stichtingwhitecube.nl/globalvillage/expoeng.html
2009: Northern Print Biennale 09 (Selected for Land of the Lost film poster)
http://www.northernprint.org.uk/pages/northern-print-biennale/artists/fairchild-anna.php
2009: The Rapt Art Music and Theatre, US (Recent work online retrospective)
2009: Lucid Dream Bath Fringe Arts (Coming soon film posters and Small Dreams film)
http://www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/lucid-dream/
2009: Miniprint 09 The Printamker’s Council (Selected for Keeping Warm 1)
2009: Little Women (Sculpture and drawings for International Women’s Day)
2008: Animal Stroud House Gallery (sewn photographic hangings & sculptures)
2008: Locus Headline show at Fringe Arts Bath curated by Daphne Wright (‘Where did we start, how did we get here, where will it end?’ monoprints)
2008: Inside Out International Women’s show at the Theatre Royal Gallery, Winchester
2008: ARA Commissioned Poster and sculpture for the Turkish film ‘ARA’ (Space Between) by Umit Unal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u717afmm_Ig
2007: Cartoon, Thumbnail, Semantic, Contact, Bozetto, Blueprint, Croquis Artist’s sketchbooks for ‘The work behind the work’ The Pitt Studio and Gallery, Worcester
2006: Artefact. Commissioned website work for Oxford University Museums website. (Science Museum)
www.museums.ox.ac.uk/artefact/museum_mhs_recommended.html
2005: Commissioned public sculpture to enhance the healing environment at The Lister Hospital, Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
2004: White The Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Large scale paper objects & photographs
1997: Cartographers Curated by Zelimir Koscevic at The Museum of Contempory Art
Warsaw, Poland and Zagreb, Croatia (‘Map Memories’. Large scale photographic hangings)
www.csw.art.pl/new/98/kartog.html
1994: Walking East Photo installation performance on 24 hour Anti Corrupt Government protest, Istanbul, Turkey

One Person Shows

2011: Outside the Frame The Hat Factory, Luton
2009: Land of the Lost Hitchin Museum Gallery, Herts
2004: Postcards from the Space Between The New Maynard gallery, Welwyn G. City
2003: Landlines Hitchin Museum Gallery, Herts
1999: Memory Pedlar The British Council Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
1994: Footprints of the Blues Istanbul, Turkey
1991: Tango Stop the Bomb The Sculpture Studio Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

Published Work & Catalogues

2012: Outside the Frame (Research project)
2012: Global Village catalogue
2012: ‘Magic, Power, Presence’ Artists’ book project
2010: Global Village catalogue
2009: Northern Print Biennale
2009: Miniprint 09
1997: Kartografie catalogue and essay Curated by Zelimir Koscevic, Croatia
1997: Cartographers exhibition review Cumhurriyet newspaper, Turkey (Translated by Fatih Ozguven)

View my website http://www.annafairchild.com/