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Jennifer was born in Glasgow and grew up just outside the city, in rural Stirlingshire. She attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, from which she graduated with a first class honours degree in fine art painting at the age of 21. Since then she has returned to Glasgow and is living and working in the city's West End. She has exhibited widely throughout the UK, and has also shown work internationally in New York, Zurich, and Toronto. Recently Jennifer has recieved several awards including the HSBC Investment Managment Award for artists under 35 at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and the David Cargill award at the RGI, and has been invited to exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery, London. |
"Jennifer Anderson combines clear-eyed examination with formidable illusionistic skill, producing sensitive, haunting portraits. Within tightly-cropped compositions, illuminated by unsparing mid-winter light, she conveys the real, weighty physicality of her subjects while at the same time hinting at the inaccessibility of their inner lives. Anderson's subjects seem to balance their own reserve, their self-sufficient presence, against the artist's sustained scrutiny. Surfaces - a creased white shirt, scraped-back jet-black hair, or the slope of a cheek bone - are described fluently, the restrained palette emphasising subtle tonal shifts. These haunting images explore the limits of what we can learn from observation - even observation of those whom we see often and know well - something which gives Anderson's work a universal quality transcending most individual portraiture." Bunny Smedley, critic and historian |
CURRICULUM VITAE
DATE OF BIRTH 24 October 1975
TRAINING 1993-97 Duncan of Jordanstone Collage of Art, Dundee: BA (Hons) Fine Art - First Class
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005 artLondon Art Fair with Maclean Fine Art 2003 artLondon Art Fair with Maclean Fine Art 2000 The Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow 1998 The Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS The Royal Academy Summer Show, Piccadilly, London, 2006 The National Portrait Gallery, London, General Exhibition, 2005 The BP Portrait Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London 2001/04/05 The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London , 2005/06 The Royal Scottish Academy , The Mound, Edinburgh, 1998/00/01 The Royal Glasgow Institute, Maclellan Galleries, Glasgow, 2001/06 The S.A.A.C., The Mound, Edinburgh, 1998, 'Fresh Paint', with Maclean Fine Art at the Arndean Gallery, Cork Street, London, 2001/02 The Last Gallery, Zurich , Switzerland, 2004 The Paisley Art Institute, Paisley, 2001/08 The Noble and Grossart Painting Prize, The Mound, Edinburgh, 1998/00
ART FAIRS artLondon Art Fair, Chelsea , London with Maclean Fine Art,2003/05/07 The London Art Fair, Islington, London with Maclean Fine Art/Flying ColoursGallery, 2002/04/06/07 The British Art Fair, Chelsea , London with Flying Colours Gallery, 2003 Torronto International Art Fair, Toronto with Odon Wagner Fine Art, 2007 The Affordable Art Fair, Manhatten , New York with Flying Colours Gallery,2002 The Affordable Art Fair, Battersey Park , London with The Gatehouse Gallery, 1999/00/04/05 The Glasgow Art Fair, George Square , Glasgow with the Gatehouse Gallery 1998-2006
GALLERIES Maclean Fine Art, London The Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow The Last Gallery, Zurich Odon Wagner Fine Art, Toronto Flying Colours Gallery, London Beaux Arts, Bath The Edinburgh Gallery, Edinburgh Art Exposure, Glasgow Full Circle Gallery, Glasgow The Green Gallery, Aberfoyle
CHARITY EXHIBITIONS C.H.A.S.E. Charity Art Show, The Royal Academy, London The Edinburgh Breast Cancer Foundation, Edinburgh Postcard for Sick Kids, Phillips Auctioneers, Edinburgh Crossroads Charity Art Exhibition, Stirling Artlink Central 'Art On The Rock', Stirling Castle Edinburgh Hospitals Exhibition, Queen Street, Edinburgh
PRIZES The Royal Society of Portrait Painters HSBC Investment Management Award The Royal Glasgow Institute David Cargill Award The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Arts Club Prize The George Duncan of Drumfork Travel Scholarship The Ewan Mitchell Award for Figurative Painting The Royal Glasgow Institute Strathearn Gallery Prize The Paisley Art Institute Miller's Creativity Award The Lady Artist's Club Trust Award
COMMISSIONED PORTRAITS Mr Mervyn Rolfe, Lord Provost of Dundee Mr Wilson Sutherland, Acting Warden, New College, Oxford Dr Ian Graham-Bryce, Principal of Dundee University The Watson and Phillips Annual Commission
PUBLICATIONS 'Picture Perfect' by Stephanie Hoppen, Published by Jacqui Small Who's Who in Art 2004, published by The Art Trade Press The Dictionary of International Biography, Thirty-Second Edition, published by IBC The Artist Magazine 'Masterclass' Mar 2003, published by The Artist's Publishing Co The Cambridge Blue Book 2005, published by IBC
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