Anna B. Sexton current artist CV at January 2018
Find out more via my evolving website
http://www.annabsexton.com
Please email me if you want to find out more about co-creating work, commissioning a piece of work
anna@opentocreate.com
07941 655 856
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Ongoing Sensory Essex - socially engaged research project
Across Essex, UK
Ongoing Creativity & Sustainability - socially engaged research project
in partnership with RSA across the UK
Nov 2017 – Feb 2018 Ten 2 One – Playing House suite of works
Group mixed media end of year 1 TOMA show
Beecroft Gallery, Southend on Sea, Essex
July 2017 100% Southend - Group mixed media show
Twenty One, Focal Point, Southend on Sea, Essex
June 2017 Essex Women - Group mixed media show
with Emma Mills and Laurence Harding
Paul Robinson Solicitors, Westcliffe, Essex
May 2017 Find Your Creativity walks – performative ‘unguided’ walks
with Fanny Martin
Wandsworth Fringe Festival, London
February 2017 Disrupting The Archive - Group mixed media show
Beecroft Gallery, Southend on Sea, Essex
July 2016 Metal presents FLUX - Group mixed media show
Southend Pier, Southend on Sea, Essex
June 2016 Get Lost Artist Walk
Human Organising Festival 2016
Get Lost Artist Walk
London Creativity & Wellbeing week 2016
March 2016 Our Stories - Group mixed media show Curator
Hackney Museum with Advance as part of Disabled Access Day 2016
Nov - Dec 2015 Open Up – collage included within group mixed media show
Idea Store Canary Wharf, London
Nov 2015 Mini Festival of Making, Ideas & Conversation Curator
A group creative happening
Antiuniversity, Hackney Museum
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June 2015 Get Lost Artist Walk
London Creativity & Wellbeing week 2015
June 2014 Cathja Curates - Group mixed media show Curator
Friends of Cathja @ Hermitage Moorings – Anxiety Arts Festival
May 2014 TEN - Group mixed media show Curator
The Creativity Centre, London
February 2014 A Carriage Through Time – Group mixed media show Curator
Exterion Media Gallery, London Transport Museum
Nov 2012 – ongoing Artshare-tastic – online mixed media blog Co-curated
with Ritch Partridge artshare-tastic.tumblr.com
July 2011 Deep – photography group show
Departure, London
June – July 2011 BAT Pack II – photographic montage in mixed group show
Mile End Pavilion, London
June – Sept 2011 Faces Round Here – estate photographer Co-curated
Brownfield Estate, Poplar, London
February 2011 Bank of Knowledge – mixed media installation
Parlour Gallery and Project Space, London
October 2010 14th
Floor – photographic publication Co-curated
Story of London Festival, Tower Hamlets, London
June – July 2010 P1/10 - Group mixed media show
Bow Arts Trust Open, London
June 2010 Walk The Line project – guerilla book give away
Stroudley Walk shopping precinct, Bow, London
May 2010 Pistols & Pollinators – an Accident & Emergence group show of visual
artists and writers. Stoke Newington Library, London
November 2009 Collabor-Arting with Miriam Nash; poet & performer Co-curated
- April 2010 http://collaborarting.wordpress.com/
February 2010 Memories Are Made Of This – an exhibition inspired by a Curator
group of over 50’s in the Burcham Street Over 50’s Centre, London
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August 2009 Random Acts of Art – photographic intervention/
performance with people currently street homeless, Exeter, UK.
June – July 2009 P1/09 - Group mixed media show
Bow Arts Trust Open Studios, London
Jan 2009 – Aug 2011 Balfron International Arts Residency Co-curated
Simon Terrill /William Raban/Corinne Felgate/ Rob Crosse/Said Adrus
Falt 123, Balfron Tower, East London
July 2008 We Love Shop Arts - selected photos Curator
Semaphore, We Love Marlborough, Marlborough
Sept – Nov 2007 What Haunts You? – Group photography show
Photographers Gallery, London
June 2007 Shooting Pictures – Group photography show
Salisbury Arts Centre, Wiltshire
Aug 2006 – Oct 2008 Small Pictures – Group mixed media show
Salisbury Arts Centre, Wiltshire
Oct 2004 - ongoing RCA Secret - Group mixed media show
Royal College of Art, London
Feb 2004 Love - Group mixed media show Co-curated
Domino Gallery, Liverpool
Feb 2003 Communication - Group mixed media show Co-curated
Domino Gallery, Liverpool
Nov – Dec 2002 IX - Group painting show
SevenSeven Gallery, London
Oct 2002 LAB02 - Collaborative bookwork
London Artist Book Fair, London
Oct - Nov 2002 Snapshot - Group photography show
SevenSeven Gallery, London
May - June 2002 Return - Group mixed media show Co-curated
Domino Gallery, London
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June 1997 Waiting Room Co-Curated
BA (Hons) Fine Art group mixed media show
The Liverpool School of Art,John Moores University
Publications
2017 Ten 2 One – TOMA end of year show newspaper and postcards
2017 Disrupting The Archive – TOMA at Beecroft Gallery
2011 7’s Cs for Growing your own community
2011 14th
Floor – A history of social housing in Tower Hamlets
2010 All Around Our Houses
2010 Little Sparks – a collection of brain thinking ideas
2008 Parents Get Arts
2007 Lost & Found – a community of elders
1997 BA (Hons) Fine Art Final Show catalogue
1993 BTEC Fine Arts Final Show catalogue
1991 Newstead Poetry Anthology
Selected Projects
2014 – 2016 Re:present @ Hackney Museum & Hackney Archives
A range of community arts projects working with disabled adults, carers,
family & friends i.e.
UK Disability History Month 2014 / Disabled Access Day 2015 /
2016
Yinka Come Home – win Yinka Shonibare MBE as part of Museums at
Night
Yinka inspire supper club as part of Black History season 2015
Museums and Wellbeing Week 2016
Re-labelling the Archive – connecting communities film with Martha
McApline
2013 – 2014 Anxiety Arts Festival London 2014
A range of community projects working with arts, health care, criminal
justice, mental health and gallery settings
i.e. Strength Within – exploring resilience with men in Brixton Prison to
challenge the ideas of what types of communities are included in arts
festivals http://www.anxiety2014.org/
2013 – 2014 The Otherside Gallery
Working with artist members, steering group and Trustees to celebrate
10 years of the UK’s first online gallery for marginalised/’outsider’
artists. http://theothersidegallery.blogspot.co.uk/
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2013 – 2014 A Carriage Through Time
Working with over 10 community and education groups across London
to curate an exhibition as part of the 150 anniversary of London
Underground to celebrate Carriage 353 and all the creative work
brought to life by the groups inspired by the carriage.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ltmuseum/sets/72157642543379383/
http://actionspace.org/a-carriage-through-time
2011 – ongoing Open To Create…
My own SME running creative supper clubs, artist walks, retreats and
mentoring programmes
http://www.opentocreate.com/
2010 14th
Floor – the story of social housing in Tower Hamlets
A newly commissioned documentary, postcard pack, series of walking
tours, panel debate and public film premiere as part of Story of London.
http://storiesofsocialhousingtowerhamlets.blogspot.co.uk/
Education
TOMA (The Other MA) Alternative Arts School MA – Passed 2016 - 2018
Mastery of Sustainability Andrews & Warrener 2012 - 2013
Photo image capture - Distinction City & Guilds 2010 - 2011
Leadership Unleashed Completed – CLP/MLA/ACE 2010 - 2011
The Journey Embercombe 2009
Creative Coaching Certificate Completed – CLP/MLA/ACE 2009
Community Arts Management Wiltshire Council 2007
AS Photography – B Completed –Salisbury College 2006 – 2007
Fine Art BA Hons 2:1 Liverpool Arts School, LJMU 1994 - 1997
Art BTEC Diploma - Pass Ravensbourne College 1993 – 1994
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