Abigail Reynolds (artist)

Abigail Reynolds is a British collage artist and filmmaker based in St Just, Cornwall.

Abigail Reynolds, Desert Seeds (2015)

Biography

Based in Cornwall, United Kingdom, Reynolds studied English Literature at St Catherine’s College Oxford University (1990–1994) before pursuing Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts (1997–2000) and then Goldsmiths University (2000–2002). According to the art journal Hi-Fructose, "Using the art of collage, she enhances the original picture by creating intricate assemblages out of repurposed vintage photographs, magazines, encyclopedias, atlases, and other materials she finds."[1]

Career

Reynolds has exhibited at art institutions and galleries in London, Vienna, Los Angeles, Seattle, Berlin, and Eindhoven and is represented by Rokeby,[2] London, as well as Gallery Raum-mit-Licht in Vienna.[3] She has work in the Government Art Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New York Public Library and many private collections.

In 2016 she was awarded the BMW Art Journey prize[4] at Art Basel.[5] As the third artist to take a BMW Art Journey, Reynolds spent four months in late 2016 and early 2017 visiting sixteen locations along the ancient Silk Road, filming historic library sites in Italy, Egypt, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Iran and China. She used a Bolex camera and 16mm film. Reynolds’ art installation is called The Ruins of Time: Lost Libraries of the Silk Road and was shown at Art Basel in Hong Kong in March, 2017. [6][7]

Additionally in 2016, Reynolds was awarded an Arts Council England Grant to produce her first film work ‘The Mother’s Bones’. From 2012-14, Reynolds was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Rambert Dance Company, London.[8]

Reynolds has played an active role supporting the arts in Cornwall, acting as board member for Tate St Ives (2011-) and The Penzance Convention[9] (2012-). Reynolds additionally ran ‘The Slow Time talks’ with her partner at Assembly, St Just throughout 2009-11.

Personal life

Having lived in Oxford and London, she moved to St Just in Penwith in 2004 with her partner Andy Harper. Their two children Otis and Orla were born in 2007 and 2009. In 2014 she was offered one of the 19 studios in the iconic Porthmeor studios in St Ives,[10] and continues to work there.

Lecturing

After lecturing for five years in contextual studies for the Fine Art program at Chelsea, Abigail taught in the sculpture department at the Ruskin school of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University from 2003-2010. This included curating a year-long interdisciplinary talks series titled ‘Doubt’ funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation.

Solo Exhibitions

Lost Libraries, at Art Basel Miami Beach; 8 / ∞, Rokeby Gallery,[11] London; Box A: Accidents,[12] Kestle Barton, Manaccan, Cornwall; A Common Treasury, at Ambach & Rice Los Angeles and The British Countryside in Pictures, Seventeen Gallery London.[13]

Selected Group Exhibitions from the past few years include: The West China Biennial, First Edition, Yinchuan, China; After Photography, Alain Gutharc, Paris; Precarious Balance, CoCA, Christchurch, New Zealand; Select Cuts and Alterations, Foley Gallery, New York; Cities and Other Ruins, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London 2013; Riff /Rift Baltic 39, Newcastle UK; 'The Democracy of Objects, Nettie Horn, London UK; Rituals are Tellers of Us, Newlyn Art Gallery, UK 2012; Inshore Fishing: Peter Lanyon And Contemporary Artists, Rokeby Gallery, London; Dear Aby Warburg, what to do with images?, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, DE; The First Cut, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester: touring SeaCity Museum, Southampton, Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham, UK and There was a Country where They were all Thieves, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary, Amsterdam, NL

References

  1. ↑ Caro (June 8, 2016). "Abigail Reynolds’s Collages of Folded Vintage Photographs". Hi-Fructose. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Rokeby". www.rokebygallery.com. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  3. ↑ "Galerie Raum mit Licht - ABIGAIL REYNOLDS - Werke". www.raum-mit-licht.at. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  4. ↑ "BMW Art Journey". bmw-art-journey.com. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  5. ↑ "Art Basel". bmw-art-journey.com. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  6. ↑ Mun-Delsalle, Y-Jean (June 13, 2017). "BMW Art Journey x Art Basel: Artist Abigail Reynolds Travels To The Lost Libraries Of The Silk Road". Forbes. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  7. ↑ Lazarus, Sarah (12 May 2017). "British artist visits 16 lost libraries along the Silk Road in epic motorbike trip". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Abigail Reynolds | Work | Double Fold". www.abigailreynolds.com. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  9. ↑ "| The Penzance Convention". www.thepenzanceconvention.com. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  10. ↑ "Porthmeor Studio Complex". schoolofpainting.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  11. ↑ "Abigail Renolds, 8 / ∞ | Rokeby Gallery | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  12. ↑ "Box A: Accidents : Kestle Barton". www.kestlebarton.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  13. ↑ "Abigail Reynolds, The British Countryside in Pictures - Seventeen". Seventeen. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
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