Background
Ann Christopher was born on 4 December 1947 in Watford, Hertfordshire, and studied at the Harrow School of Art from 1965-1966 and the West of England College of Art from 1966-1969.
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Ann Christopher
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Christopher"s first solo exhibition was at the Mignon Gallery, Bath in 1969. She continued to have solo exhibitions throughout the 1970s and the 80s. In 1989, she had a retrospective of her work produced between 1969 and 1989 at the Dorset county Museum and Art Gallery.
At first glance Christopher"s elegantly understated sculpture seems to be tied to a series of simple formal decisions and aesthetic concerns about form and surface.
However her making process is much more complex and instinctual. Once a basic shape is chosen and a template constructed, often out of material as humble as cardboard, it is built up using resin, giving depth and texture to the form before casting into Christopher"s metal of choice and further worked laboriously by hand.
Later, precise machine milled linear incisions are made to create a tension with the delicate hand finished surfaces. Her commissioned work exist in many locations including the University of Bristol, the City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, the Chantrey Bequest, the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and World Wide Business Centres Incorporated., Philadelphia.
1968: First prize in the Harrison-Cowley Sculpture Competition She lives and works north of Bath.
Achievements
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1968: First prize in the Harrison-Cowley Sculpture Competition 1971: Peter Stuyvesant Award. Prize winner in the Daily Telegraph Magazine Young Sculptors Competition 1973: Birds Charity Award and Arts Council Award, Thornton Bequest 1976: South West Arts Award 1994: Silver Medal for Sculpture of Outstanding Merit by the Royal Society of British Sculptors 1997: Otto Beit Medal of Sculpture of Outstanding Merit Christopher was elected as a Royal Academician in 1989. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1992.
