Biography
Annabelle was born in South Devon England and studied Fine Art at Coventry University graduating in 1996. After which, she moved to Belfast Northern Ireland where she has worked ever since. Annabelle is represented by the Adam Gallery in London and Bath, England, and The Battletown Gallery in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. She has exhibited throughout the UK and in the USA; has received a number of awards from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and been awarded residency fellowships in the USA.
Proposal
Sanctuary will be pictured as ‘Semblances’. Through the concept of the work sanctuary will be evoked in familiar and universal terms: as precious yet in certain instances contrived; as fragile yet foundational; as located and yet disconcertingly shifting, but as semblances the momentary recognition will be followed by a sense of loss - the loss of the real sanctuary. A Sanctuary whilst innately secure and safe is vulnerable. It is made up of many parts that create a boundary between inside and outside. Hence, the form and construction of the work will be as ‘Assemblages’ - the bringing of parts together to depict ‘Home’ as sanctuary. The materials that I will use have been chosen because they have a semblance in their quality and attributes of materials experienced in homes in Neryi Kenya, making a tension between the familiar and the unfamiliar – I propose to use soil, cord, Chinese paper, rag paper, ink, cardboard, oil paint, linen, charcoal, photography and magazine imagery. There will be four main pieces of work, each made up of varying multiples of smaller works based on the subheadings: Precious, Fragile, Located and Secure. Whilst the main focus is on the theme ‘Home’ as Sanctuary, I will examine it from differing view points: from within the Home, away from Home and endeavouring to find the familiar in the unfamiliar as a form of common ground.
