Ann Christopher RA

Born: 4 December 1947, Watford, Hertfordshire, UK
Elected ARA: 21 May 1980
Elected RA: 7 December 1989
Category of Membership: Sculptor

My work is very much a visual diary of my physical and emotional life, an expression of some of the visual experiences stored in my subconscious. Unlike a computer I cannot search and find – the images emerge seemingly at random, it is only once these visual experiences appear in the works that the origins can sometimes be retraced.
Ann Christopher RA

'The Edge of Light'. Height 220 cm. Bronze. ed.of 5 Ann Christopher studied at Harrow School of Art from 1965 to 1966 then went on to the West of England College of Art from 1966 to 1969.

Christopher’s first solo exhibition was held at the Mignon Gallery, Bath in 1969. Subsequent solo exhibitions were held throughout the 1970s and in 1989 she was given a retrospective of work produced between 1969 and 1989 at the Dorset County Museum and Art Gallery. Christopher has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions from 1969, both nationally and internationally. Much of Christopher’s work is from commissions, both public and private.

Christopher won first prize in the Harrison-Cowley Sculpture Competition in 1968. In 1971 she won the Peter Stuyvesant Award and was a prize winner in the Daily Telegraph Magazine Young Sculptors Competition. In 1973 she received a Birds Charity Award and an Arts Council Award, Thornton Bequest, and in 1976 a South West Arts Award. More recently, she was awarded Silver Medal for Sculpture of Outstanding Merit by the Royal Society of British Sculptors (1994) and the Otto Beit Medal of Sculpture of Outstanding Merit (1997). Christopher was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1980, becoming a Royal Academician in 1989 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1992. She is represented by Pangolin London, and lives and works near Bath.

'The Silence of Shadows'. Height 330 cm. Bronze, ed.of 3. Recent solo exhibitions and commissions
2010 Pangolin, London
2004 Medal for the British Art Medal Society
2004 Jubilee Park, London
2002 2.2 m sculpture for private site near Albi, France
2001 Multiple edition sculpture for Wingfield Arts, Suffolk
2000 Towards the Sky - 5.5m corten sculpture at Portmarine, Portishead for Crest 2000 Nicholson (South West)
1999 Courcoux and Courcoux, Stockbridge
Royal West of England Academy
Still Line, 2.5m stone and stainless steel sculpture incorporating water for St Peter’s Hospital, Bristol (funded by John Pontin Trust)
1998 The Silence of Shadows - 3.3m bronze for private garden in Great Barrington, USA
1997 Redfern Gallery, London (solo exhibition)
1997 Royal Academy of Arts, London (Friends’ Room)
Silent Shadow, 2.4m bronze for Linklaters & Paines, Silk St, London
1996 Cutting Line, 4.9m corten steel sculpture at Marsh Mills, Plymouth
Curator of 'A Sculptor’s Choice', Royal Academy of Arts, London (Friends’ Room)
1995 Two industry awards for ATE International
1994 Beyond Silence, 2.3m bronze for a private site in
Washington DC, USA
1993 Line From Within, 4.6m bronze for Royal West of England Academy at Castle Park, Bristol
1990-1 Three industry awards for ATE International
1989 Square Line — 3.2m sculpture incorporating water at 224/226 Tower Bridge Road, London, for Grosvenor Square Properties.

Public collections
Bristol Schools Arts Services
Bristol University
British Museum
Chantrey Bequest
City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Contemporary Arts Society, London
Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC
Evelyn Stefansson Nef., Washington DC
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Granville Holdings Plc, London
Gruss & Co., New York, USA
Linklaters & Paines, London
Prior’s Court School, Newbury
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Royal West of England Academy
Salisbury Art Gallery
Sharjah Art Museum, UAE
Talboys Bequest, Bristol
The John Creasey Museum

Contact details for further information
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