Amanda Ansell

Amanda Ansell (born 1976) is an English artist. She studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts between 1995 and 1998 and then at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1998 to 2000.^[1] After living in London for seven years, she returned to her native Suffolk in 2006 to begin an artist residency at Firstsite, Colchester. The same year, a body of work was selected for exhibition at Kettles Yard, Cambridge and she was nominated for Jerwood Contemporary Painters.^[2]

Amanda Ansell
Amanda Ansell in her studio, 2014
Born	1976 Sudbury, England
Occupation	Artist
Website	www.amandaansell.co.uk

Her paintings are abstract and make use of a limited palette to explore the relationship between artist and nature.^[3]

Selected group exhibitions

• “Royal Academy Summer Exhibition” Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018)^[4]
• “Contemporary Masters from Britain: 80 British Painters of the 21st Century” Yantai Art Museum (2017), Jiangsu Art Gallery (2017) and Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (2017 – 2018)^[5][6]
• “Anything Goes” Bermondsey Project Space (2017)^[7]
• “The London Group Open Exhibition” The London Group (2015)^[8]
• “@Paintbritain” Ipswich Museum (2014)^[9]
• “Contemporary British Painting” Huddersfield Art Gallery (2014)^[10]
• “Contemporary British Painting” The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, London (2013)
• “Hiraki Sawa, Tessa Farmer and Amanda Ansell” Firstsite, Colchester (2006)^[11]

Selected solo exhibitions

• “River” The Oasis Gallery, Essex (2018)^[12]
• “Rearranging Curves” Westminster Reference Library (2016)^[13]

Selected collections

• East Contemporary Art Collection, University of Suffolk^[14]
• Jiangsu Arts and Crafts Museum, Artall Nanjing, China^[15]
• Swindon Art Gallery^[16]
• The Priseman Seabrook Collection^[17]

References

1. "Slade Degree 2000, Amanda Ansell". University College London. 2000. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
2. "Ansell, Amanda Louise". Suffolk Artists. 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
3. "Amanda Ansell". www.contemporarybritishpainting.com. 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
4. "Amanda Ansell". Royal Academy of Arts. 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
5. "Contemporary Masters from Britain". www.artrabbit.com. 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
6. "Contemporary Masters from Britain". www.prisema-seabrook.org. 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
7. "Anything Goes". International Association of Art Critics. 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
8. "The London Group Open Exhibition 2015" (PDF). The London Group. 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
9. "Amanda Ansell". Artslant. 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
10. "Amanda Ansell". Artslant. 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
11. "Amanda Ansell". Culture 24. 11 April 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
12. "River". www.amandaansell.co.uk. 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
13. "Rearranging Curves, Amanda Ansell". Slade School of Fine Art. 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
14. "Sail, Amanda Ansell". Art UK. 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
15. "Watercolour joins Artall collection, China". www.amandaansell.co.uk. 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
16. "Swan, Amanda Ansell". Art UK. 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
17. "Rock, Amanda Ansell". Art UK. 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.

External links

• Amanda Ansell website