Ann Christopher | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts

Ann Christopher RA (b. 1947)

Ann Christopher attended Harrow School of Art from 1965 to 1966 and went on to study sculpture at the West of England College of Art from 1966 to 1969. Christopher’s first solo exhibition was held in 1969, with subsequent solo exhibitions throughout the 1970s. In 1989 she was given a retrospective of work produced between 1969 and 1989 at the Dorset County Museum and Art Gallery. Christopher has completed numerous public and private commissions both in the UK and USA (see image above) and has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include: All the Cages Have Open Doors, Pangolin London (2016); The Lines of Time, Tennant Gallery, Royal Academy (2016); Marks on the Edge of Space, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough (2014); To Know Without Remembering, Pangolin London (2013); The Power of Place, Sir Hugh Casson Room, Royal Academy (2007); Still Lines, Jubilee Park, Canary Wharf, London (2004). 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.

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Royal Academician

Sculptor

Born: 1947 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Nationality: British

Elected ARA: 21 May 1980

Elected RA: 7 December 1989

Elected Senior RA: 1 October 2023

Gender: Female

Preferred media: Sculpture and Printmaking

Works by Ann Christopher in the RA Collection

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Works associated with Ann Christopher in the RA Collection

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Anne-Katrin Purkiss

Ann Christopher RA, May 2006

Taken on a nikon d300 camera. printed on hahnemühle fine art paper (pearl).

My work is very much a visual diary of my physical and emotional life.

Ann Christopher RA

Ann Christopher RA - Selected CV
- Recent solo exhibitions and commissions
  
  2016 All the Cages Have Open Doors, Pangolin, London
  2016 The Lines of Time, Tennant Gallery, Royal Academy 2014 Marks on the Edge of Space, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough
  2013 Pangolin, London
  2010 Pangolin, London
  2004 Medal for the British Art Medal Society
  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
- Recent group exhibitions
  
  2016 Lines and Colours – The Royal Academicians with Barbara Rae and Anne Desmet, Gustavo Bacarisas Gallery, Gibraltar
- Selected 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

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Ann Christopher on her work and inspirations

Ahead of her 2013 exhibition To Know Without Remembering at Pangolin London, Ann Christopher discusses the objects and images which inspire her practice and the works featured in the show.

- Ann Christopher hardback catalogue
  
  This book looks at the work of Ann Christopher RA, a non-figurative sculptor who works primarily in cast bronze, stainless steel, silver and fabricated corten steel. Christopher’s elegant and understated works reveal connections with a vast spectrum of sources from across the globe, such as rock formations in Israel, fossils from the Cretaceous chalks of Hertfordshire, prehistoric standing stones in Avebury and early Aegean figurines.
  
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