Anita Ford
Anita Ford
Anita Ford
Anita Ford was born in London in 1948. She studied sculpture at Loughborough College of Art where she received a first class honours degree in 1969. Since then, her prolific output has covered all aspects of printmaking, paperworks, ceramics and painting.
‘Process is of great importance not only as a manner of executing an art work, but also as a manner of pacing my thoughts and allowing myself to get in touch with my intuition.’
Over the years, Anita has travelled extensively, notably throughout India, Japan and Europe and has been inspired by diverse cultures and contradictions. Much of her work is anchored in the duality of creativity and destruction. Personal experiences of other cultures, or concerns about the environment often fuel this continuing enquiry.
‘The 'Coloursquare' paintings and prints refer to my discovery of the wayside shrines of Tamil Nadu. They were usually square with a painted edge containing a sacred area on which were placed various objects, flowers, designs, drawings or simply scratches and stains which bore witness to the activities of the people who honoured them. Above all the shrines were bathed in colour, sometimes intensely brilliant sometimes earthy, always arresting in their natural richness.
Five months of every year are spent on a 32’ yacht visiting unexpected places, searching for inspiration. Her current journey through France and Southern Europe will feed her artwork throughout the winter months when she returns to her studio to interpret her travels.
Colourworks India Red
The starting point of the series 'Colourworks India Red' can be located in Udaipur. The colours of my first days in India have remained with me:- the magentas and scarlets, the vibrant activity of the market place where vegetables, spices, brilliant cloths and tiny glittering things were bought and sold. There was noise, shouting, bicycles, horns and cows - and all was brilliantly coloured. The colour was energy, electricity, my first day, my first view, of India. There are 10 in this series.
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1948 Born in London
1966-69 Loughborough College of Art - Dip AD 1st class hons (fine art)
1970-71 Italian State Scholarship - Academia di Belle Arti, Venice
1986 Isetan, Tokyo, Japan - Artist in Residence
1988 SW Arts Project Award (fine art)
1989 Arnolfini, Bristol - Ballet Rambert Inter Arts Collaborative Project
1999 Dostoyevsky Foundation, St Petersburg, Russia. Selected artist invited to Dostoyevsky Museum
Teaching (abridged)
1974-86 Camden Adult Education Institute: Lecturer - Screenprinting.
1986-87 Gwent College of Higher Education - Project Lecturer screenprinting / paperworks
1990-92
1991-96 City of Bath College of Further Education - Lecturer textiles / paperworks /printmaking
Exhibitions (abridged)
1986 Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany - International Biennale of Paper Art
1986 The Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea - Fifth Seoul International Print Biennale
1987 Park Gallery, Cheltenham - The Hackney Monoprints (solo show)
1987 Portfolio Gallery, Aukland, New Zealand - New Work (solo show)
1987 Anna Bornholt Gallery, London -Scorched Lands and Flying Peonies (solo show)
1989 Victoria Rooms, Bristol - The Plight of the Bird (solo show)
1991 Osaka, Japan - Osaka Triennial of Print
1992 Isetan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan - Three British Artists
1993 Taipei, Taiwan, ROC - 6th International Print and Drawing Exhibition
1993 Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Glos - Prints (solo show)
1994/96/98 Mall Galleries London - Federation of British Artists National Print Exhibition
1994 Torun Museum, Poland - Colour in Graphic Art
1996 Hot Bath Gallery, Bath - Evolution of the Bird (solo show)
1996 Huddersfield Art Gallery-'Boundless', Exhibition of Innovative Printmaking
1997 4th Royal West of England Open Printmaking Exhibition, Bristol (prizewinner)
1998 Oriel Gallery, Mold,Clwyd, Wales - The Graphic Link II
1999 Gallerie Vlasblom, Arnhem, Holland - 'Screenprints' (solo show)
1999 Dostoyevsky Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia - 'Notes from Underground'
2000 New Academy Gallery, London W1 'Regeneration' (solo show)
2001 ann's art, Groningen, Holland - Grafiek
2001 Yale College, Wrexham - Wrexham Print International (invited artist)
2002 Inside Space Gallery - London W1 'Bike Cut Up By'
2002 Stroud House Gallery, Stroud - It's all in the Text
2002 Inside Space Gallery, London W1 - Bike Cut Up By
2003 Wetpaint Gallery, Cirencester - Spirit of Place
2003 Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, USA - New Prints
2004 Sailing - novice sailor coast of Brittany
2005 Swindon Arts Centre, Swindon - Madurai (solo show)
2005 Blackheath Gallery, London - Spring Exhibition
2006-7 Sailing - Been round Finisterre, coped with the Atlantic swell down the coast of Portugal, boat presently near Seville. This is feeding the artwork - but no time for exhibitions, they will come later.
2008 Exhibitions! Japan touring exhibition instigated and curated by Contemporary Art Holdings
2008 Salon de Yutaka (15-23 March) Tokyo Store Yutaka Bldg 3F, 1-3-10 Katamachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
2008 Art de Art (1-20 April) 14-4 Kitazono-cho,Takatsuki-shi, Osaka
2008 Artzone (25 Apr-6 May) 4 Yoshida-kaguraoka-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
2008 Gallery Kaoru (19-24 May) 4-15-13 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
2008 Orie Gallery (19-24 May) 2-9-16 Kita-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
2008 Gallery Accostage (10-20 July) 1803-2 Yashima-higashi-cho, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa
2008 Gallery Atos (12-21 Sept) 3-4-15 Maejima, Naha-shi, Okina
2009 Taking Reveller to the Azores
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