Annabel Shilliday

annabelshilliday@hotmail.co.uk

Annabel Shilliday is an aspiring artist with a diverse range of skills, working in acrylic, oil and mixed media on canvas. After experimenting with detailed sketches and life drawings, she applied her hand to this varied medium which has grown to be a particular interest of hers. Annabel has pursued her art within the territory of abstract expressionism, to expand on her painting skills; this has now led to her paintings consisting of both a detailed and abstract style.

Spirituality, space and psychology can be elements of consideration for Annabel. Her exploration of the physical world, making work that considers space, is married to the immaterial world of faith and religion, a major passion that fuels her practice and appropriate to her curiosity of the human mind. Working beneath the masks of individual personality and different personas, looking into the depths of the ‘inner self’ or ‘second self’ is an important subject matter within her work. She has concentrated her current work on Jungian theory that each person has an alter ego, or wears alternative masks according to different social situations.

Annabel has recently graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes University, and has since shown her work at Free Range, a group show in London’s Old Truman Brewery.

Education

Higher Education

Sept 2006 to May 2009

Oxford
Brookes University,
Oxford

Fine Art BA Honours,

Sep 2005 to May 2006

Amersham Wycombe
College, Amersham,
Buckinghamshire

Art & Design Foundation
Degree

Sept 2003 to May 2005

Ashlyns School,
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire

A Level - Drama, Art, Technology

Sept 1998 to June 20003

JFK School, Hemel Hempstead

GCSE - English (double),
Science (double), Maths, History, Art, Textiles, Religious Education, and GNVQ
French


Exhibitions       

06/09 – Free Range Art and Design Show (group show)
05/09 – Oxford Brookes Degree Show (group show)
05/06 – Amersham Wycombe graduation show (group show)

I was involved in the organisation of the Oxford Brookes Fine Art degree show. As well as working on the design team for the website and catalogue, I have worked hard in the fundraising and sponsorship responsibilities and communicated with the printers on behalf of the team.