Echo: A New Sculpture was launched on the Trail on Sunday 20th July 2008.
When Annie was first appointed in January 2007 to create a new sculpture for the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, she was given a fairly open brief – to respond to the Forest of Dean. The site was simply the ‘sculpture trail’, although there was a preference to install a new work in an area contained within a triangle of land between Beechenhurst Lodge, Speech House car park and Neville Gabies sculpture, Raw. With eighteen works already scattered around this woodland location, a 4km circular route, we rather felt the world was our oyster – the forest offering up a huge number of choices to which Annie could respond……………come and see Echo soon
Echo was commissioned to commemorate the untimely death of one of the trail founders, Jeremy Rees and we wish to thank the Arnolfini Collections Trust and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation for funding this new work. We also wish to thank Bombay Sapphire and the Speech House Hotel for their generous sponsorship. There are many individuals that have contributed to the success of the project and our thanks go to them all.
A catalogue is available with a text by Charles Darwent.
Cattrell was recently selected as joint winner of the Bombay Sapphire Glass Prize. She also had work in a show at the V&A in London in which her work clearly demonstrated her commitment to exploring complex details of structures and light. Echo, Annie’s new sculpture for the Trail, will provide another interpretation of the forest, responding to the geological history and the material nature of the landscape.
Located in, and cast from, Kensley Quarry, Echo nestles opposite its source. Like a 3D photograph, a moment in the life of the 310million year lifetime of pennant sandstone has been frozen in time, every detail is there to discover in the surface of the sculpture.
EDUCATION
1996-99 M.A. Royal College of Art, London
1995-96 International Glass Centre, Birmingham
1984-85 M.A. Fine Art, University of Ulster, Belfast
1980-84 B.A. Hons Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS AND RESIDENCIES
2007-08 Commission, Biochemistry Department, Oxford University, Oxford
2007-08 Commissions, Glaxo Smith Klein Beecham, Hammersmith Hospital, London
2007-08 Commission Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Gloucestershire
2005-06 Commission Lewisham Hospital, London
2005-06 AHRB Art, Science and Technology Research Fellow at de Montfort University
2004 Commission, Royal Institution of Great Britain, London
2003 Commission, Centre for Life, Newcastle
2002-03 Northern Arts Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, Berwick upon Tweed
2002 Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence at The Royal Institution, London
2000-01 A.C.E. Helen Chadwick Fellowship, Ruskin School of Fine Art/British School at Rome
2000 Gulbenkian Residency, Camden Arts Centre
1999 Pilkington Scholarship, Royal College of Art
1996-98 Solar Glass Scholarship, Royal College of Art
1994 Millay Colony for the Arts, Residency, New York State, U.S.A.
1994 McGrigor Donald, Artists Trust Award
1992 Dundee District Council Major Purchase Prize (Paperworks International 111)
1990-01 Scottish Arts Council Artist-in-Residence, Royal Edinburgh Hospital
1990 Hope Scott Trust Travelling Scholarship to the U.S.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Arresting, Anne Faggionato Gallery, London
2003 From Within, Faraday Museum, Royal Institution of Great Britain, London
All or Nothing, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick upon Tweed
2001 Anne Faggionato Gallery, London
Werner Klein Gallery, Cologne
British School at Rome
1998 Clear, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
1992 Cognition, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
1991 Artist-in-Residence, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Projectability
Glasgow; Chessel Gallery, Edinburgh
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007-09 Out of the Ordinary, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (touring)
2006 Invisible Worlds, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany
2005 The Body Art and Science, National Museum of Stockholm
Einfach Complex, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich
Festival Connections, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Sea, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2004 Magic within Reason, curated for the Domo Baal Gallery, London
2002 Head On (art with the brain in mind) Science Museum, London
British Art Group Show, Allain Le Gauillard Gallery, Paris
Diversion, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, Museum of the History of Gardening, London
2001 Royal Institution, London
Planet Earth, The City Gallery, Leicester
Not What It Seems, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
Wir, Werner Klein Gallery, Cologne
Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding, Letterberg, Germany
2000-01 Group Exhibition, Anne Faggionato, London
2000 Psycho, Anne Faggionato, London
The Blue Chamber, Duff House, Banff, Scotland
Sculpture Exhibition, Gloucester Cathedral & Malmesbury Abbey
Open To View, Crichton Museum, Dumfries
1999 Pause, C.A.S., The Economist Building, London
The New Anatomists, 210 Gallery, Wellcome Trust, London
Out Of Mind, Standort Ausstellungshalle, Frankfurt
1998 Detectable, Real Gallery, New York
Festival Exhibition, Miracles Gallery, Edinburgh
1998 The Big Picture, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
1997 Group Show, Cable and Wireless Building, London
1996 Pace (the distance covered by a step), The Gasworks, London
Viewfinder, The Grange, Linlithgow
1995 Clot, London Art Forms, London
Next?, City Art Centre, Edinburgh; Stirling Smith Gallery, Stirling;
Lilley Art Centre, Glasgow
Scandex, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen; Stavanger Kulturhus, Stavanger,
Norway; Konstens Hus, Lulea, Sweden; Kemi Taidenmuseo, Kemi, Finland
Nine, Talbot Rice Art Centre, Edinburgh
Works On Paper, Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham; Wimbledon College of Art,
London; University of New South Wales, Australia
1994 Light Fantastic, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall
Tin, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
1993 Oriel Mostyn 5, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
21 prints, Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews; City Art Centre, Edinburgh
1992 Paperworks International III, Seagate Gallery, Dundee
1991 Inquiry Into, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh
Mary Queen Of Scots, A Feminist Tradition?, Ash Gallery, Edinburgh
1990 Artists’ Choice, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh
COLLECTIONS
Imperial College, London
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum
Collins Gallery, Glasgow
City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
Wellcome Trust, London
Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries
MacManus Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee
Peter Moores Foundation, Liverpool
Private collections, UK, US
VISITING LECTURER
Chelsea School of Art
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Ulster
Edinburgh School of Art
Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art
Sunderland University
Grays School of Art
Central St Martins
Goldsmiths College
De Montford University, Leicester
Coventry University
Staffordshire University
Nottingham University
Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing
Surrey Institute of Art and Design
CURRENT AND PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
2006- Senior Research Fellow, Fine Art, DeMontfort University
2006- External Examiner, Bath Spa University
2000- Royal College of Art, tutor
2004-06 MA Sculpture Wimbledon School of Art, tutor
2004 Acting Course Leader Sculpture, Wimbledon School of Art
2003-05 External Examiner, University of Staffordshire
2000-03 External Examiner, B.A. Fine Art, University of Central England
2001-03 Scottish Arts Council, Dundee Visual Artists Award Panel
1992-99 Senior Lecturer Sculpture (0.5) University of Gloucestershire