CV
Annabel Tilley (b. London 1963)
Education
Open University 2006-2008 MA Literature
University of Brighton 2001-2003 BA [Hons] Fine Art Painting
Hastings College of Art and Design 1999-2001 HND Fine Art Painting
1998-1999 Foundation in Art and Design
Exhibitions & Residencies
2019-2022
A Generous Space, Hastings Contemporary. Curated by Matthew Burrows 2021-2022
I didn't lick it, Bruton Correspondence School, Bruton Museum, Bruton, Somerset, 2021
NEXT (Au Suivant), Cultivate Gallery, Hackney 2021 (online)
Shortlisted John Moores Painting Prize 2020
ING Discerning Eye 2019
Creekside Open 2019. Chosen by Sacha Craddock. APT Gallery, London
The CoLab Body and Place Residency, Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire, 2019
General Practice, Lincoln University. Curated by Andrew Bracey, 2019
Mimesis; Narrative; Against hegemony! Curated by Ian Gonczarow. APT Gallery, London, 2019
2017-18
RCA Secret 2018
The Venice Vending Machine. Tate Exchange Project curated by Marina Moreno at Tate Liverpool, 2018
Mardi Gras Requiem, Project Space Plus Gallery, Lincoln. Curated by Andrew Bracey
RCA Secret 2017
Sluice_fundraiser 2017, Mail Art Exhibition, Division of Labour Gallery, Bethnal Green, London
2015-16
RCA Secret 2016
One Plus One, (Catalyst) Lubomirov Angus-Huges Gallery, London
Catalyst, Husk Gallery, London with Sasha Bowles, Rosalind Davis, Evy Jokhova & Justin Hibbs, London
RCA Secret 2015
No-One Lives in The Real World, Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton, London
Wigs from Old Masters Drawing in Nottingham Castle Exhibition
(detail) Usher Gallery, Lincoln
2013-14
Wigs from Old Masters Drawing in Nottingham Castle Exhibition
(detail) at Transition Gallery, London
(detail) H-Project Space, Bangkok. Curated by Andrew Bracey.
The Distance Between, Zeitgeist Arts Projects, Bond House Gallery, London.
RCA Secret, Dyson Building, London SW11.
First Come First Served, Lion and Lamb
Lion and Lamb at Sluice Art Fair 2013
The Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition, London
Happy Days, Blackwater Polytechnic, Feering Bury Farm Barn, Colchester, Essex
Discernible, Zeitgeist Arts Projects, Bond House Gallery, London
The Reference Section, The Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent
RCA Secret, Dyson Building, London SW11
2012
Crash Open Salon 2012,
First Come First Served, LIONxLAMB, London,
Q-Art 4th Annual Exhibition, APT Gallery, London,
I Remember curated by Harry Pye, A-side B-side Gallery, London,
SLUICE Auction, Hanmi Gallery, London,
Occupy My Time Gallery, Enclave, London, June
Collectible, Zeitgeist Arts Projects, ASC Studios, London
ANSCHLUSSEL: LONDON-BERLIN, - Drawing Survey Show, C4RD, London
(Centre for Recent Drawing)
2011
Home, Core Gallery, Deptford, London,
ANSCHLUSSEL: LONDON-BERLIN, Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawing, Berlin.
Curated by Andrew Hewish C4RD
The Almonry Gardens Drawing Residency, Battle, East Sussex (Residency)
Hackney Hoard Exhibition, initiated by Adam Dant, Galerie8, Hackney, London
Jerwood Project Space, London, (Solo)
In the Current Climate, Core Gallery, Deptford, London
East Sussex Open, Towner, Eastbourne, East Sussex
2010
Relay, Core Gallery, Deptford, London
The Ing Discerning Eye Exhibition, The Mall,
Vanishing Point, Elevator Gallery, Hackney, London
Deptford X, Drawing the likeness of brick, Deptford, London (Award)
Animate: Oriel Open 2010, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales
Agency at agency, Deptford, London
Police & Thieves, The Old Police Station, New Cross, London
2009
Fourdaysonly, Centre for Recent Drawing, C4RD, Islington, London
Brina Thurston's Open Call 09, Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London
Indian Summer Exhibition, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
Is Anyone There? WW Gallery, Hackney, London
Durbar Hall Drawing Residency & Solo Show, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery (Commission)
thecentre:mk Annual Painting Prize 2009, Finalist, Milton Keynes
Travelling Light, WW Gallery, London & Collateral Event at 53rd Venice Biennale
Drawing the likeness of concrete, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne Festival
Drawing Concrete. Five-day drawing Residency, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (Commission)
2005-2008
Anonymous Drawing No 9, Berlin, 2008
O Dreamland, Transition Gallery, Hackney in Greatstone, Kent, 2007
ArtSway Open 2006
The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2005, London & Tour
Sussex Open 2005
Visiting Fine Art Lecturer
West Dean College, Chichester - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
East Sussex College, Hastings – 2019, 2020
Harris Academy Purley, Kent - 2018
University of Chester - 2015
London College of Communications (LCC, UAL) - 2012 & 2013
LCC, University of the Arts, Art Practice Talk, November 2012
In Conversation with Jack Hutchinson on drawing at The Nunnery, Bow Arts, Sept 2012
Art Writing & Drawing for Publication
Catalogue Essay for Sharon Haward's En Place Residency at Chateau de Sacy, September 2017
Book: What they didn't teach you about art school by Rosalind Davis & Annabel Tilley (ILEX/Octopus Books 2016)
Interview with YBA Gary Hume for a-n Magazine at The Jerwood Gallery Sept 2012
www.a-n.co.uk/knowledge_bank/article/2422734/74999
Comment - Sluice Lives On by Michaela Nettell - Sept 2012 - a-n Magazine:
new.a-n.co.uk/news/single/spirit-of-sluice-lives-on
Garageland 6 The Inexorable Rise of Drawing, May 2008
Arty No 30, 2012. Arty No 24, 2008. Arty No 23, 2007. Arty East End, 2004
Drawing Activities & Workshops
West Dean College - Sketchbook, Collage and Drawing Courses, 2015-2023
Hampshire Art Studios - Imaginary Landscapes, 2022
The Almonry Gardens all-age drawing workshop, Battle, East Sussex, 2011
The Museum of Still Life, drawing workshop, Core Gallery, London 2010
Cabinet of Cardboard Curiosities Workshop, Hastings Museum, E. Sussex, 2009
Drawing Nothing, The Big Draw for Adults, dlwp, Bexhill, 2007
The Big Draw, The Drawing Stall London 2007 [Spitalfields & Covent Garden]
Awards
Deptford X Fringe Award, 2010
Alan Davie Memorial Prize 2003
Publications & Other
Enough Is Definitely Enough by Andrew Bracey - Catalogue for exhibition: sixty-two artists interpret a Postcard of Las Meninas, 2021
(detail) Catalogue - Devised and curated by Andrew Bracey, 2014
Drawing Paper 7 - 2014
RE:animate, Oriel Davies Open catalogue, 2010
Ten Years of The Jerwood Drawing Prize, 2007
The Jerwood Drawing Prize Catalogue, 2005
The Cheltenham Drawing Prize Catalogue, 2000
Reviews
FAD Chantelle Purcell interview
www.fadwebsite.com/2011/10/16/interview-with-artist-and-curator-annabel-tilley/
Oriel Davies RE:animate review: In the Darkness of the Wardrobe by Samantha Moore, 2010
www.apengine.org/2010/08/in-the-darkness-of-the-wardrobe-by-samantha-moore/
All the fun without the fair, review by Ben Lewis, London Evening Standard, 15/10/2009
www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/article-23756960-all-the-fun-without-the-fair.do
Collections
Annabel Tilley's drawings are held in several private collections in Britain, Europe, Australia and the United States
AIR Council Member 2012
Project Management, Fundraising and Grants
DIY Educate, Show & Tell Talk Programme 2011 & 2012, London. Co-organiser for artists talks with Susan Collis, Mark Titchner, Delaine Le Bas, Graham Crowley, Cathy Lomax, Sarah Williams, Virginia Verran & Andrew Hewish. Funded by Fenton Arts Trust Grant 2011 & 2012
Talk About The Work, Networking & Peer Critique Group, Hastings, East Sussex - Organiser & Fundraiser, 2007-09. Funded by ACE Grants for the Arts 2007 and Fenton Arts Trust Grant, 2008, 2009
Public Art Commission
Heritage I March 2008. Drawing Commission for East Sussex County Council & SEEDA
3x3m drawing on permanent show in Kings Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.
Zeitgeist Arts Projects (2012-2015)
ZAP was co-founded by Annabel Tilley and Rosalind Davis to support ambitious artists with practical ways to sustain their practice. At the heart of the ZAP philosophy were the questions: How do we survive as an artist? How do we develop and sustain a critically engaged practice over the long term?
Their annual programme: Show & Tell addressed these questions through talks, seminars, art tours and exhibitions that encourage artists to develop networks and learn from other artists. Guest artists have included: Mark Titchner, Ceri Hand, Gordon Cheung, Susan Collis, Phoebe Unwin, Virginia Verran, Graham Crowley and Transition Gallery.
Lectures: The A-Z of Surviving as an Artist with Annabel Tilley & Rosalind Davis
Metal, Peterborough - February 2016
Chelsea School of Art - June 2015
West Dean College - 2015
University of the Arts, Farnham - January 2015
University of Lincoln - June 2014
Anglia Ruskin - June 2014
University of Loughborough - May 2014
University of Hertfordshire - ART Talk 'Impact' - Nov 2013
University of Chester, Nov 2013
BayArt, Cardiff, July 2013
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, July 2013
Firstsite, Colchester, April 2013
Southampton Solent University, Feb 2013
Matt Roberts Arts London, & St Helens. Various other London venues 2011-12.
ZAP Talks, Seminars & Workshops
Clyde & Co, Law Firm, London - 2015
University of Chester - 2015
Articulating Your Practice with Rosalind Davis, ZAP, London, Sept 2013
Exhibitions & Residencies with Rosalind Davis & Nick Kaplony (ArtQuest), ZAP, Sept 2012
Writing & Talking about Your Work with Rosalind Davis & Annabel Tilley, ZAP, June 2012
ZAP Seminars
ZAP Your Practice - 1- Day Seminar at Goldsmiths, University of London, Nov 2015
ZAP It! - 2-Day Seminar at Goldsmiths, University of London, May 2015
Thriving as an Artist - 4-Day Seminar at West Dean, Chichester - April 2015
ZAP Curatorial Projects - Annabel Tilley & Rosalind Davis
2015: No-One Lives in the Real World
2014: The Distance Between - March
2013: The Zeitgeist Open - September/October
2013: The Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition - July
2013: Discernible, 47 artists
2012: The Zeitgeist Open 40 -50 artists chosen from open call
2012: Collectible, 67 artists, 97 artworks
2011: Home, including works by Rose Wylie, Delaine Le Bas, Graham Crowley & Kate Murdoch
Biog
Annabel Tilley has exhibited widely including: Transition Gallery, WW Gallery, C4RD, APT, Standpoint Gallery, Usher Gallery, Nottingham Castle Museum, Oriel Davis, Towner Art Gallery, Hastings Museum, The Jerwood Drawing Prize, RCA Secret and Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawing in Berlin.
Annabel Tilley trained in Fine Art (Painting) at The University of Brighton. She has an MA in literature and lives in Hastings. Her work is held in several private collections in Britain, Europe, Australia and the United States. She has undertaken several residencies and commissions. She has lectured on professional practice for artists at universities and arts orgs around the country, and regularly teaches art workshops at West Dean College.
Annabel Tilley co-founded and ran the London-based arts organisation, Zeitgeist Projects, with Rosalind Davis from 2012-2015 to provide opportunities for artists including their popular talk: The A-Z of Surviving as an Artist, and the annual open exhibition: The Zeitgeist Open (2012-2015). She has co-curated a number of exhibitions including: No-one Lives in the Real World, Standpoint Gallery (2015), The Distance Between (2014), Discernible (2013) and Collectible (2012).
She is co-author of What they didn’t teach you in art school (ILEX/Octopus Books, 2016) which is available from Amazon and all major art galleries: Tate Modern, Tate Britain, The Royal Academy etc.