The Queue and The Back of The Queue sketchbook has been selected/shortlisted for The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023/2024 UK Tour to Arts University Bournemouth, Plymouth University and Turnpike Gallery, Wigan.
A Crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in has been selected for The Cheltenham Illustration Awards 2023/2024. Exhibition tour.
Two’s Company drawing has been selected for the Kyffin Williams Drawing Prize exhibition 2024
CV Ann Bridges 37A Telston Lane, Otford, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 5NH
07906 310021 email: annbridgesart@btinternet.com
instagram @annbridgesartist
Art Education
1999 BA (1st Class Hons) Design (Illustration) North Wales College of Art and Design (NEWI/Glyndwr)
1996 BTEC Foundation Yale College of Art and Design
Collections
2019 Västra Götaland Regional Council Sweden
2013 FCI Ltd, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2013 Paintings in Hospitals Charity (purchases and commissions)
2000 Royal Cambrian Academy members’ portfolio collection
Grants / Awards / Residencies
2023 Selected for The Cheltenham Illustration Awards (drawing). 2024 Exhibitions and published Annual
2023 Shortlisted. Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. UK Tour 2024 to Arts University Bournemouth, Plymouth University, Turnpike Gallery Wigan
2021 Shortlisted. Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Exhibition Tour London, Trowbridge and Dundee
2017 Artist in Residence (Drawing Day) Seasalt Store Sevenoaks
2017 Our World (Printmaking Residencies) Flintshire County Council/Arts Council Wales
2016 Artist in Residence (Drawing Day) Habitat Store Sevenoaks
2013 Rhymes & Riddles (Printmaking Residency) Flintshire County Council /Arts Council Wales
2010 Art in Nature Drawing/Printmaking Residency Wepre Park, Flintshire CC Arts Council Wales (Apr- June)
2009 Expedition Artist. Visual Diary documentation Voluntary Service Project orphanage South Africa
2008 Artist in Residence Plas Newydd, Llangollen Visual Diary drawing project ‘Ladies of Llangollen’
2006 Arts Council Wales Project Grant ‘Spinning a Yarn’ Drawing the natural history lifecycle of the Silkworm
2000 Arts Council Wales New Visual Artists Grant ‘Scratching the Surface’ Solo Show Oriel CTC, Mold
1999 Artist in Residence Chester Zoo North West Arts Board Arts Council England -2001 (2 years)
2000 Member of the Royal Cambrian Academy (elected council member, served 2007-2010)
1996 Student of the Year Award National Eisteddfod
Solo/ Group Shows/ (Drawing and Printmaking)
2024 Samuel Palmer:Visionary Landscapes. Group Show. Kaleidoscope Gallery (Sevenoaks) and Sir Peter Blake Gallery (Dartford)
Kyffin Williams Drawing Prize exhibition. Oriel Ynys Mon. Anglesey
Editions. Horsebridge Arts Centre. Whitstable.
noFormat Open Drawing SFSA. Deptford
2023 Selected for The Cheltenham Illustration Awards 2023/2024
Shortlisted Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 (UK Exhibition tour 2024)
Haus_a_rest Issue 43 Artists’ Books (The Queue) Online Zine
Turner House Open, Penarth (concertina book Found in the Ground)
SOLO SHOW The Queue & Other Drawings at Kaleidoscope (Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum, artist led space)
noFormat Gallery Open Drawing SFSA & Open Painting. Deptford
Royal Cambrian Academy Winter Show. Conwy
2022 Oxmarket Contemporary Open Chichester (Drawing Category)
Lilford Gallery Winter Show, Canterbury
noFormat Gallery Open Drawing and Open Painting
Ty Pawb Open, Wrexham
Royal Cambrian Academy members’ Summer Show and Winter Show, Conwy
Kaleidoscope Gallery, Print, Mystery and Method Sevenoaks
2021 Shortlisted. Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize London and Drawing Projects, touring to Trowbridge & Dundee 2022 (two drawings)
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Turner Contemporary Open Margate
More Than (group show online) Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum
Kent Printmakers’ Alphabet Sevenoaks Museum
Makings (Print and Clay group show) Adam’s Gallery Reigate
Haus_a_rest Issue 15 The Kitsch Issue (online Zine)
Royal Cambrian Academy Summer Show
Ty Pawb Print International (20th Anniversary Exhibition, invited artist)
no format Gallery Open Deptford
30works30Days (online)
Heritage Paper Trail project (Appletye) Maidstone Museum
Royal Cambrian Academy Summer Show
2020 Hastings Museum and Art Gallery International Open
Print International Ty Pawb Wrexham
Heritage Paper Trail project (Appletye) Maidstone Museum
East Kent Printmakers The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge Canterbury
Contemporary Print Group Show Royal Cambrian Academy
2019 Gallery 6 Mostyn Solo Show ‘The Welcome’
London Contemporary Art LCA Bloomsbury Featured Artist
Wales Contemporary, Mall Galleries London
Royal Cambrian Academy Summer Show, Conwy
Sevenoaks Visual Art Forum Group Show. Algarden (Printfest7) Sweden
Lustre Old Big School Gallery Tonbridge
2018 Printfest (Cumbria) Printfest7 (Sevenoaks)
Beyond War-Visualising Peace The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge Canterbury Kent
Kent Collects (Folkestone Museum)
Lustre Old Big School Gallery Tonbridge
2017 Ffin y Parc Gallery (solo) Llanrwst.
PLAY Kaleidoscope Gallery Sevenoaks
2016 KO-AX Spinning a Yarn Mascall’s Gallery Paddock Wood, Kent
2015 Lustre Old Big School Gallery Tonbridge, Kent
Animal Magic The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge Canterbury, Kent
2014 East Kent Printmakers Whitstable Kent
2013 ‘Choosing a Sarong’ (3 original garment-process prints) purchased by FCI Ltd, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2012 Regional Print Centre ‘Past, Present, Future’ Memorial Gallery Wrexham (group printmaking show)
2011 Boise, Idaho USA The Basement Gallery, (solo)
Halcyon Days MOMA Y Tabernacle, Machynlleth (solo)
‘Pass it On’ South Africa sketch book journal images Denbighshire Arts Services (solo)
The Market Cross (Wetherspoons) Commission Indigoart
2010 The Time for Privacy has Passed. Usher Gallery, Lincoln. Sketchbooks by contemporary artists, architects and designer
North Wales Open First Prize Winner, Oriel Clwyd Theatr Cymru (Rosie Pool, Wepre Park)
Ludlow Summer Show, Ludlow College Summer Exhibition (Locating the Laundry)
2009 Royal West of England Academy Open Print (Mind the Cracks or the bears might get you)
Y Lle Celf, National Eisteddfod Urban Saints series (2) (Locating the Laundry/Chilling Out)
Wrexham Print International
Women’s Work ‘Make Do and Mend’ Artlink Hull
2008 RWS/ The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
Welsh Artist of the Year exhibition at St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Paintings in Hospitals (Wales)
2007 The Hilton, Prague Aquarium Indigoart commission
Educational Printmaking Residencies in association with Wrexham County Borough Council,
Arts Council of Wales, North East Wales NHS Trust, Denbighshire County Council - Arts in Health
2006 Oriel Davies Open (Undercover)
Wrexham Print International touring to Billingham Arts Gallery, Stockton on Tees
2005 Wales Drawing Aberystwyth Arts Centre/Wrexham Arts Centre
Wrexham Print International The Haven Gallery, Boston, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury University
Regional Print Centre, Yale ‘Process’ touring
4th Lessedra World Art Print Annual (RPC guest artists) Sofia, Bulgaria
Energy! Print project for Arts and Kids (Arts &Business Cymru) and BHP Billiton Point of Ayr Talacre
2004 Celebration! Print-based Residency Ysgol Rhiwabon ACW Lottery/Denbighshire County Council,
Arts in Health and Wrexham Arts Agency. 10 pieces of school’s work installed in the Shooting Stars unit.
Senigallia Italy (Chester City Council)
2003 Easton Rooms Rye East Sussex
Artspace Worcester
Selfridges Gallery (InsideSpace) London
2002 Oriel Canfas Cardiff Experiments in Print.
Wales Drawing Biennale
Zoology Henshaws Knaresborough
2001 National Eisteddfod Denbigh
Circus (Object 57) Manchester
Garden Insidespace Burlington Arcade London
2000 Open Biennale, Printmakers Council Whiteleys, London
Ruthin Craft Centre solo show gallery 5