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Anne Guest

Birmingham
inspired by the beauty, fragility and vulnerability of the natural world

My art is inspired by the beauty, fragility and vulnerability of the natural world.

I am particularly concerned with declining natural habitats and loss of species in the UK which has been exposed as one of the most nature –depleted countries in the world. (State of Nature Report 2023)

My art is sometimes serious, sometimes quirky but always curious.

 

 

 

 

Qualifications

2006 - MA Fine Art (Distinction), Birmingham City University, Birmingham 

2005 - BA Fine Art (First Class Honours), Birmingham City University, Birmingham

Solo exhibitions

2022 -Shadows in the Sun, Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery

2020-21- Under the Sun, Fulham Palace, London

2020 - Shadows of the Sun, The Coach House Gallery, Birmingham

2018 - Awe and Wonder, Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery 

2018 - Fragile, Number 8 Gallery, Pershore

2012 - I have glimpsed the future, Aedas, Birmingham

2011 - I am not myself, VINYL, Birmingham

2 Person Exhibitions

2023 - Wall Stories, Artery Gallery, Worcester

2017 - Foreshadow, Showcase Gallery, Birmingham

2016 - Foreshadow, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

2014 - A Sign of the Times, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

2013 - Shadow, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

2013 - A Sign of the Times, Midland Art Centre, Birmingham

Selected Group exhibitions

2024 - Open24, Old Lockup Gallery, Cromford

2023 - Leamington Open, Leamington Spa

2022- West Midlands Open, New Art Gallery, Walsall

2022- FiftyBees5, ACEarts, Somerton

2021- Prize Photography Exhibition, RBSA, Birmingham

2020 - FiftyBees4, Black Swan Arts, Frome

2019 - PrizePhotography Exhibtion, RBSA, Birmingham

2016 - Ruskin Drawing Prize, Walsall and London

2016 - Wirksworth Arts Festival, Wirksworth

2015 - Shoosmiths Art Prize, Milton Keynes

2015 - The Big Hoot, Birmingham

2014 - Shoosmiths Art Prize, Milton Keynes

2014 - West Midlands Open 2014

2011 - London Group Open, Cello Factory, London

2008 - Jerwood Drawing prize Exhibition, Various, London, Cheltenham, Winchester, Bury St Edmunds, Durham

Residencies and Projects

2018 - Portrait of an Alternative Anatomy; A Turn for the Better, Birmingham

2014 - Soul to Sole, Croome Court, Worcester

2009 - Unnatural Selection, Rea Garden, Birmingham

Public Commissions

2017 - The Big Sleuth, Birmingham

2015 - The Big Hoot, Birmingham

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