Price: £990
Artist Statement
I’ve always been interested in places where man and nature meet - the overlooked and unloved margins of our landscape. From deconstructed sheds to overgrown greenhouses, clearfell sites and field edges, my paintings explore nature’s opportunistic reclaim of our managed landscapes; celebrating weeds and wildness, and beauty found in the unpredictable tangle of encroaching plant life.
I work in oils on paper pasted onto board, drawing into the wet paint with pencil. This technique results in a sketch-like finished work; the fragility and fluidity of the marks on paper echoing the temporary and peripheral nature of the places I paint.
Biography
Anna King was born in Shetland in 1984 before moving to the Scottish Borders at the age of 4. She studied Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, graduating in 2005 with a sell-out degree show. Awards include the inaugural Jolomo Lloyds TSB Landscape Award (2007) and the Anna Miller Scholarship. Anna has taken part in international residencies and was featured in a BBC2 short film. She lives and works in the Scottish Borders and shows widely throughout the UK.
Education
2005 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
Awards
2016: South of Scotland Visual Artist Award (VACMA)
2012: Creative Scotland Quality Production Funding for a collaborative project with poet Rebecca Sharp
2007: Jolomo Lloyds TSB Landscape Awards 2007 Winner Anna Miller Scholarship
2005: Royal Scottish Academy Landscape Award (Student Exhibition) Ian Eadie Award, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
Residences
2024: BAF residency at Marchmont Creative Spaces
2016: SÍM - The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik. Supported by the South of Scotland Visual Artist and Craftmaker Awards funded by Creative Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway Council and Live Borders.
2013: The Bothy Project, Aviemore
2009: Traon Nevez, Brittany
2006 & 2007: Watch House, Catterline
Solo Exhibitions
2023: Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2019: Resipole Studios Acharacle
2018: Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2016: Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2015: Wall Projects, Montrose
2014: Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
108 Fine Art, Harrogate
2013: RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow: Unmapped, collaborative project with writer Rebecca Sharp
Old Gala House, Christopher Boyd Gallery
2011: Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2010: Beaux Arts, Bath
108 Fine Art, Harrogate
2009: Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Traon Nevez, Brittany
2008: 108 Fine Art, Harrogate
2007: Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Group Exhibitions
2016
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh: W. Gordon Smith Award
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik
2015
Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
Project Gallery, Arundel
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2014
Wall Projects, Montrose
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Medici Gallery, London
2013
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
StAnza International poetry festival, St Andrews
Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Wall Projects, Montrose
2012
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
Green Gallery, Stirlingshire
Wall Projects, Montrose
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2011
The River Runs Through It, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
Green Gallery, Stirlingshire
Young Masters @ Sphinx, Cynthia Corbett Gallery
InFinitum, Wall Projects
2010
Glasgow Art Fair [with Gallery Heinzel]
Art London [with Open Eye Gallery]
Open Eye Gallery [Studio Selection]
Wall Projects, Montrose
2009
Recoat Gallery, Glasgow
Glasgow Art Fair [with Gallery Heinzel]
Wall Projects, Montrose
Beaux Arts, Bath
2008
Glasgow Art Fair [with Gallery Heinzel]
Morris & Spottiswood, Glasgow [commission]
Mellerstain Summer Exhibition
John McCusker 'Under One Sky' CD [commission]
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2007
Glasgow Art Fair [with Gallery Heinzel]
Byard Art, Cambridge
The White Gallery, Dundee
Mellerstain, Scottish Borders
Gallery Heinzel [with Jane Cruickshank and Emily Little]
Recoat Gallery, Glasgow [mixed show]
2006
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, 'Tale of Two
Glasgow Art Fair [with Gallery Heinzel]
Wall Projects, Montrose
Byre Theatre, St Andrews
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
