Fuyuka ~ copper etching, hand-coloured with Japanese paints ~ 40 x 30 cm

Gemma Anderson

Recent Work

October 7th -29th

Gemma Anderson is a native of Belfast. She graduated with an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, in 2007, having already obtained a first-class honours degree in fine art. She was one of the stand-out artists in an RCA masters show described by Charles Saatchi as one of the best for years. She has exhibited in London, at the Courtauld Institute, the Whitecross Gallery, the Jerwood Space and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, as well as in Paris, Japan, Newfoundland, Belize, Venice and Belfast (at the Golden Thread Gallery).
She has been awarded a series of prestigious residencies, most recently in the Galapagos Islands. Work drawing on that trip is included in this exhibition, her first in Dublin. She has also collaborated with a forensic psychiatrist on a Wellcome Trust Arts Award project consisting of a series of portraits of psychiatrists and their patients. She is artist in residence at the Jerwood Foundation throughout 2010.

Albemarlensis, Pahoehoe Lava ~ copper etching, hand-coloured with Japanese paints ~ 35 x 30 cm

GEMMA ANDERSON - Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
2005-2007 Royal College of Art, M.A Printmaking
2006 University College London - Anatomy for Artists Cert
2002-2005 Falmouth College of Art, B.A Hons Fine Art, First Class Honors
2001 University of Ulster, Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Distinction

EXHIBITIONS
2010
Skin, The Wellcome Trust, London
Portraits: Patients and Psychiatrists, The Freud Museum, London
The Rooms National Museum, Newfoundland
2005- 2009 Selected
Archipelago, Whitecross Gallery, London
Isolated, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
Drawing Ezo, Nepenthes Gallery, Japan
An Experiment in Collaboration, Jerwood Space, London
Catlin Art Prize, London,
In Bloom, Whitecross Gallery, London
Great Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London
Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy, London

Man Group Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, London
Academia de Belle Arte, Venice

Ezo Owl ~ copper etching, hand-coloured with Japanese paints ~ 40 x 30 cm

RESIDENCIES
2010 ACME Firestation Residency (2010-2015)
2010 Jerwood Foundation- Visual Artist in Residence
2010 Arts Council Northern Ireland New York Residency
2009 Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2009 Ballinskelligs, Ireland
2008 ICC Sapporo, S-AIR Japan

AWARDS AND PRICES
Arts Council Northern Ireland, Individual Artist Award, 2010
Wellcome Trust Arts Award, 2009
RHA Thomas Dummann Award, 2009
Arts Council Individual Artist Award, 2008
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Travel Award, 2008
Corbett Projects and Major of Kensington and Chelsea Award for Drawing, Dec 2007
Man Group Drawing Prize Winner, Royal College of Art, 2007
Royal West of England Student Award, 2006
Man Group Drawing Prize Winner, Royal College of Art, 2006
Franz Zweig Foundation Student Award, 2005
Originals Print Exhibition Student Award, 2005

Snakeman ~ copper etching, hand-coloured with Japanese paints ~ 40 x 30 cm

COLLECTIONS
Wellcome Trust ; Arts Council Northern Ireland; Royal College of Art. London; Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall; Braid Museum and Art Centre, N.Ireland

Plateau in rocky mountain (homage to Hercules Seghers) ~ copper etching, hand-coloured with Japanese paints ~ 20 x 30 cm

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