Annabel Tennyson-Davies (b.2001) is an interdisciplinary artist from Buckinghamshire. She received her Double Distinction UAL Extended Diploma in Art & Design from Buckinghamshire College Group and a First Class BA Honours in Fine Art from the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Annabel graduated with her MA Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2023.

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Annabel was awarded the RIPE residency prize with ‘a space’ arts and completed a six month residency at the Alfred Arcade in Southampton. She was also shortlisted for the CVAN South East Platform Graduate Award and exhibited at The Platform Graduate Award 2022 at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth. Annabel received theCOLAB/Royal College of Art/Yorkshire Sculpture Park Graduate Award 2023 and was in residence at The Artist’s Hut on the roof of Temple tube station, Westminster, London, December 23 - April 2024, where she realised her first outdoor public sculpture alongside a successful solo exhibition.

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Selected solo and group exhibitions:

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• Paperwork, Newhaven Art Space, Newhaven, 2024

• Outcomes, Newhaven Art Space, Newhaven, 2024

• Seed Bomb, Marine Workshops, Newhaven, 2024

• The Whirling World, The Hidden Wardrobe, Southampton, 2024

• Ruins in Contemporary Landscape, Titchfield Abbey, Fareham, 2024

• Second Breakfast, Winchester Gallery, Winchester, 2024

• Vertigo, theCOLAB Artist’s Garden Temple, London, 2024

• Heavy Presence, ZEST collective, Alfred Arcade, Southampton, 2023

• STEADY, Royal College of Art MA Show, London, 2023

• HUNG, DRAWN & QUARTERED, Standpoint Gallery, London, 2023

• Everything is Temporary, 3 Locks Brewery, Camden, London, 2023

• Red, Free and Enemy, Staffordshire St, Peckham, London, 2023

• Toxic Green, Climate Exhibition, Studio Building, Royal College of Art, Battersea London, 2023

• CANYON, RuptureXIBIT, Kingston, London, 2023

• Boiling Point - Practice Post Art School, Open Hand Open Space Gallery, Reading, 2023

• RIPE FIVE: Emergence, God's House Tower, Southampton, 2023

• Platform Graduate Award 2022, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, 2022

• Equilibrium, Winchester School of Art Degree Show, Winchester, 2022

• Glitch, Winchester Gallery, 2022

• Equilibrium II, RIPE Plums, Alfred Arcade, Southampton, 2022

• Boiling Point, Yellow Edge Gallery Portsmouth, 2022

• Rose Garden, Mottisfont National Trust, Winchester Gallery, Winchester, 2021

• Fingerless, The Struwig Miniature Gallery, Winchester, 2021

• Ominous Frog, West Side, Winchester School of Art, Winchester, 2020

• The Beauty of Nature, The Railway Inn, Winchester, 2020

 

Awards & Residencies:

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• Ruins in Contemporary Landscape, Boiling Point Residency with English Heritage, Titchfield Abbey, Fareham, 2024

• theCOLAB / Royal College of Art / Yorkshire Sculpture Park Residency at the Artist’s Hut, Temple, Westminster Dec 2023 - April 2024

• Recipient of theCOLAB / Royal College of Art / Yorkshire Sculpture Park Graduate Award, 2023

• Prick and Stitch, HUNG, DRAWN & QUARTERED, Standpoint Gallery, London, 2023

• FRESH 2: Boiling Point, Open Hand Open Space Gallery, Reading, 2023

• Recipient of the RIPE Residency Prize with ‘a space’ arts Graduate Award 2022

• RIPE, Residency, Alfred Arcade, Southampton, 2022-2023

• CVAN South East Platform Graduate Award 2022, (shortlist), Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, 2022

• Transform Your World, Ars Electronica and Johannes Kepler University, Austria 2021

 

Press/ Talks/ Publications:

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• Ruins in Contemporary Landscape, In Conversation and Exhibition Tour, English Heritage, Titchfield Abbey, Fareham, 2024

• In Conversation, The Whirling World exhibition at The Hidden Wardrobe, Southampton, August 2024.

• Winchester School of Art Symposium, visiting lecturer University of Southampton, June 2024

• In Conversation, COLAB Double Bill at theCOLAB Artist’s Garden, Westminster, March 2024

• Stories of In-Between, The Pluralist Newspaper, 2023

• Panel Discussion- Practice Post Art School, Open Hand Open Space, Reading, 2023

• Transform Your World, Press Conference, Ars Electronica and Johannes Kepler University, Austria, 2021