Christopher, Ann
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 in Bath in 1969, the most recent being held at Pangolin London in 2010 with many between. In1989 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 since 1969, both nationally and internationally. Christopher’s sculptures, mainly in cast metal, range in size from 20 to 600cm, the larger works being commissioned for both public and private spaces in the UK, Europe and the USA.
As an abstract artist the production of a sculpture is the result of my imagination being triggered by an emotional response to a visual stimulus and therefore I consider it essential that the viewer allows themselves to discover their own feelings through contemplation, to feed their own imagination.
Ann Christopher RA
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. She has received numerous awards including a Birds Charity Award and Arts Council Award (1973) and a South West Arts Award (1976. More recent awards include the Frampton Award for sculpture in a public place (1996) and the Otto Beit Medal for Sculpture of Outstanding Merit (1997). Christopher was first elected to the Royal Academy in 1980 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1992. She is represented by Pangolin London, and lives and works near Bath.