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Biography
ANNA
WIMBLEDON was born in Swansea in 1974 and educated at Central St.
Martin's College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art. In 1996 she
participated in Yale University Summer School of Music and Art,
going on to win Andrew Grant Travel Scholarship to the United States.
Subsequent prizes include John Kinross Travel Scholarship and Sir
Robin Phillipson Memorial Medal. Esteemed since graduating as a
portrait painter, with many commissions of single and group portraits
to her credit, Anna Wimbledon sees herself as a painter of figures
in the broadest terms, working with energy and bravura preferably
on a large scale to create compositions around friends and acquaintances
characterised by a sense of drama and latent tension and sometimes
an ironic homage to master painters of the past. Represented by
Francis Kyle Gallery since 2001, she participated in the theme exhibition
Roma in 2003, Lair of The Leopard: Twenty artists go
in search of Lampedusa's Sicily in 2005 and Everyone Sang:
A view of Siegfried Sassoon and his World by twenty five painters
today in 2006. First one-person exhibition with Francis Kyle
Gallery 2004.
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