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Jeremy Annear

1949
(UK) BRITISH

Jeremy Annear is an English painter who was introduced to St Ives modernism in his early formative years. He lives and works in Cornwall.

Education

Annear studied Fine Art Painting and Printmaking at Exeter College of Art in the late sixties.

Technique

Annear works mostly with oil on board and canvas. The shapes, colors and forms are built up in relief-like layers, resulting in alluring textures, surfaces and edges.

"I constantly play at laying paint into paint, wet into wet. I have always wanted to throw lots of paint onto my supports. Part of the deepest satisfaction of painting for me has been to achieve exactly what I want with the paint"

Inspiration

Jeremy Annear was exposed as a young artist to St Ives group and was influenced by the work of Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Roger Hilton and Terry Frost. His paintings share affinities with European Modernists like Braque, Picasso and Miro. Jeremy's abstracted paintings react to the natural geometry and transformations of his beloved Cornish landscape. He has also worked extensively in Germany and Australia and has absorbed influences in his work from both these cultures.

Relevant Quotes

Annear's work has been widely acclaimed and commented by numerous art critics, curators, art writers, artists and historians, such as Andrew Lambirth (The Spectator), Graham Boyd (Artist), Mercedes Smith (Writer and critic), Ian Collins (Art writer and curator), Nicholas Usherwood (Art writer and publisher), Dr. Jane Hamilton (Art activist and Historian) or Rachel Barnes (Lecturer at the Tate and writer at the Guardian and The Independent).

One of the most eulogistic (but not untrue) comments about Annear comes from Caroline Georgiadis, an art consultant previously head of sales for British paintings at Christie's: "Jeremy Annear (...) is a European Modernist painter in the vein of great artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque."

Exhibitions

Annear has mostly and regularly exhibited in the UK, but his work was also displayed in Germany, France and The Netherlands.

Galleries

Messums, London, UK
Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire, UK
Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, UK

Education

1973 - 1976 Rolle College, Exmouth, Devon (B Ed)
1966 - 1969 Exeter College of Art, Painting and Printmaking

Solo Exhibitions

2018 Messum's, London
2016 Lemon Street Gallery, Truro – Two-fold with Judy Buxton
2014 Campden Gallery
2013 Messums London – New Craftsman St Ives with Judy Buxton and Terence Coventry
2012 Campden Gallery
2011 Messums London
2010 Campden Gallery
2009 Messums London
2007 New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2004 New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2002 David Messum Gallery, London
2001 New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2000 David Messum Gallery, London
1998 David Messum Gallery, London; New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
1997 David Messum Gallery, London; Artco Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
1993 Porthmeor Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
1992 International Celtic Festival, Lorient, France; Galerie Passage, Berlin, Germany
1991 Galerie Maeder, Berlin, Germany; Galerie Altes Rathaus (with Margaret Kelly/Wolfgang Lehmann); Galerie Haus Martin, Bremen, Germany
1989 The Salthouse Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall; The Underground Gallery, Bath

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016 London Art Fair, Islington – Lemon Street Gallery, Edgar Modern Gallery, Gray M.C.A
2015 Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, UK (two-person exhibition)
2005 - 2014 Numerous group and mixed exhibitions
2004 New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall; ART 2004, Islington Business Design Centre, London
2003 - 1998 ART 2003, David Messum Gallery, Islington, London
2002 Art & Spirituality, Truro Cathedral, Cornwall
2002 - 1996 Kunst uit Cornwall, Amersfoort, Reina de Weyer, Holland
2000 Twenty Years of Contemporary Art, Falmouth Museum and Art Gallery
1999 The Next Generation of Cornish Painters, David Messum Gallery, London; Aspects of Abstraction, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
1999/98 Innocent Fine Art, Bristol; The British Show, Lemon St Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
1998 5 Leipzig er Jahresausstellung, Leipzig, Germany; Panel Paintings, Rosanna Wilson, Stephens Fine Art, London; Newlyn Now, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1998/97/96 Now and Then, David Messum Gallery, London; London Olympia Art Fair; The Little Picture Show, The Rainy Day Gallery, Penzance
1997 Limelight II, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn; Quality of Light, St Ives Tate Peninsula Programme, Open Studio
1996 Cadogan Contemporaries, London; Critic’s Choice, Newlyn Art Gallery
1995 Online Gallery, Southampton
1994 Galerie Plein 1, Zeist, Holland; G12, Amersfoort, Holland
1993 Demarco’s European Art Foundation, The Edinburgh Festival; G12, Salthouse Gallery, St Ives; Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London; Newlyn Fish Festival, guest artist with Ralph Freeman
1992 Crossing the Boundaries, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (4 Cornish Artists in Europe)
1992/91/90 Bath Contemporary Art Fair, Ogle Fine Art; Contemporary Art Fair, Islington, London, Ogle Fine Art
1990 Art London 90, 5th International Art Fair; Six Porthleven Painters, The Porthmeor Gallery, St Ives
1989 St Ives 89, New Street Gallery, Plymouth; From Cornwall, The Park Gallery, Cheltenham College
1989 - 1998 Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn
1998 - 1992 The Penwith Society of Artists, Penwith Gallery, St Ives

Publications

2013 Exhibition Catalogue, New Craftsman St Ives – Essay by Mercedes Smith (ISBN: 978-0-9926590-2-8)
2013 Exhibition Catalogue, Messums London – Essay by Andrew Lambirth (ISBN: 978-1-908486-37-0)
2012 Exhibition Catalogue, Campden Gallery – Essay by Ian Collins (ISBN: 978-1-908753-07-6)
2011 Exhibition Catalogue, Messums London – Essay by Andrew Lambirth (ISBN: 978-1-905883-93-6)
2010 Exhibition Catalogue, Campden Gallery – Essay by Andrew Lambirth (ISBN: 978-0-9562719-4-5)
2009 Exhibition Catalogue, Messums London – Foreword by Nicholas Usherwood; Essay by Dr Jane Hamilton (ISBN: 978-1-905883-44-8)
2007 Exhibition Catalogue, New Millennium Gallery – Foreword by David Falconer
2006/07 Interview on European Modernism and Cornish Art, www.artcornwall.org
2004 Exhibition Catalogue, New Millennium Gallery – Foreword by James Aitchison; Poem by Robert Vas Dias
2002 Catching the Wave: Contemporary Art and Artists in Cornwall by Tom Cross (Published by Halsgrove)
2002 Exhibition Catalogue, New Works, Messums Contemporary
2001 Galleries Review, “Showing in St Ives,” by Petronilla Silver
2000 Exhibition Catalogue, Messum Contemporary – Foreword by Norbert Lynton
1998/97 Exhibition Catalogue, David Messum Gallery – Foreword by John Russel Taylor
1996 Drawing Towards the End of the Century, Newlyn Society of Artists Publication
1994 St Ives Revisited – Innovators and Followers by Peter Davis (Bakehouse Publications)
1991 Award Kreissparkasse, Bremen, Germany
1991/92 DAAD Scholarship (Atelierhaus Worpswede), Germany

Projects

2013 Co-ordinator and Curator of IMS Charity Auction at Sotheby’s London with exhibitions at Falmouth Museum and Art Gallery
2005 - 2007 Continuing studio-based collaboration with composer Jim Aitcheson
2003 - 2005 Artsound.co.uk – Collaboration with composer Jim Aitcheson, Coleridge Productions, Andy Russo, The Coull Quartet, and The Secconi Quartet

Teaching

1982 - 1984 Lecturer, South Devon College
1997/1998 Visiting Lecturer, Cheltenham College of Art

Collections

Lazard Bros.
Ionian Trust
The Royal Holloway Collection
The Royal West of England Academy

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