Anna Falcini
Anna Falcini is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose interests are the female experiences of the world that may be hidden, overlooked or erased. She develops an extensive body of research often through archives, academic materials and primary materials in the field seeking out the more ephemeral and intangible readings of the female experience.
Her work is rendered through surfaces, drawing, text, audio and film. Anna has investigated the poetic traces of the life of the late Welsh artist, Gwen John (1876 -1939) in Paris, Dieppe and Tenby through her letters and notebooks archived at the National Library of Wales and the Musée Rodin. She has long been fascinated with navigating the female relationship to marginal landscapes investigating the post industrial, coastal landscape on the Thames estuary, the subject of her Ph.D. thesis "Stalking the Atmostphere: Journeys into the Hoo Peninsula through a Multi-Disciplinary Fine Art Practice" completed in 2021.
Anna Falcini (b. 1970 Windlesham, Surrey) lives and works between Wales and Kent. She received her PhD in Fine Art Practice from the University of Brighton (2021) and an M.A. in Textiles from Goldsmiths College (2002). Major exhibitions internationally include, Gwen John, Musée de Dieppe (forthcoming group exhibition, 2024); Y Lle Celf, Eisteddfod, Ceredigion, group, 2022; Decoywoman, Zandra Rhodes Gallery, Rochester, solo, 2022; In Between the Folds are Particles, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown touring to Aberystwyth Arts Centre, solo, 2019-22; Stalking the Atmosphere: Journeys into the Hoo Peninsula, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, solo, 2021; Dear Gwen, Janval Cemetery, Dieppe (Curator/Artist) 2019; Louisa Cornford’s Archive of Atmosphere, Brewery Tap Gallery, Folkestone, solo, 2019; Somatic Shifts, Zandra Rhodes Gallery, Rochester, group, 2017;The Spontaneous Association Between Knowledge, Beauty and Pleasure, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, solo, 2013.
Falcini has won numerous awards including; Future Strategies, Arts Council Wales (2023); Research and Development fund, British Council Wales, 2022 and 2019; Creative Wales Award, Arts Council Wales, 2018-19 and an Arts and Humanities Research Council Full Bursary, 2001.
Selected Residencies include; Decoy, Halstow Marshes, Kent RSPB, 2021; Artist in Residence, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 2014 and Group Occupation, New Art Gallery, Walsall & Eastside Projects Birmingham 2013.
Anna Falcini is currently working on new commissions in both Paris and Dieppe to develop work in response to Gwen John in France which will be exhibited in 2024 in France and Wales.
