Annemarie works in collaboration with Tina Carr.
We are lens based artists who work collaboratively on issue and researched photography projects. We also work with video and make three dimensional installations, gardens and land art often in partnership with voluntary organisations and community groups. We have exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and have made art in public places. We have created several substantial bodies of work about Wales, where we have lived and worked for the last twenty years, two of which, ‘Pigs & Ingots, the Lead/Silver Mines of Cardiganshire’ and ‘Coal Faces, Life After Coal in the Afan Valley’ have been acquired by the National Library of Wales.
The tenets of our work are coherence, intensity, accessibility and personal accountability. Our photography tries to go beyond superficial photographic accuracy, surface naturalism, and habitual seeing to where the spirit of the picture becomes retrospective, contemplative, and not only a document but also a talisman or relic.
The subjects we have chosen to focus on reflect our engagement with the wider issues such as the destruction of the environment – ‘River Tyne, from Sources to sea’ (Kodak Bursary): the effects on people of the erosion of feelings of belonging and participating in a community – Same Street as Us’ (Greater London Council Photography Prize’ and ‘Brent, the Eighth Most Deprived Borough in the Country (GLC and Brent Trades Council): the destruction of the coal industry in Wales and it’s effects on people living in isolated ex- coal villages – ‘Coal Faces, Life After Coal in the Afan Valley’ (ACW & Gulbenkian Foundation.)
Our latest body of work, ‘The Interior,’ represented here, is a still life series, intimate studies of abandoned homes, barns and places depicting a rural way of life in Wales that has almost disappeared. These images evoke the minutely detailed devotional imagery contained in Medieval ‘Books of Hours.’ In the same way as the artists who made those illustrations explored the laws of vision in their world, often drawing directly from Nature for the first time, so we are exploring the physical world around us with similar, almost forensic intensity.
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Annemarie graduated from Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich 1972, Munich Academy of Fine Art 1973, and was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma by Saddler’s Wells Stage Design Course in 1974.Tina studied photography at Harrow College of Technology and Art gaining a College Diploma with Distinction in 1972.
Together they have won many prizes and awards such as a Kodak Bursary 1982 for ‘The Tyne from Sources to Sea,’ the Greater London Council Photography Prize 1984 for ‘The Same Street as Us,’ a Photographers Trust Bursary and Wales Travel Grant (ACW) for ‘Pigs & Ingots,’ and awards from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, The Welsh Writer’s Trust and the Arts Council of Wales 1987 & 1995 etc.
In 2003 they were awarded the prestigious ‘Creative Wales Award’ by the ACW and in 2005 were short listed for the Gold Medal in Fine Art at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
They have exhibited widely both nationally and internationally at Ffotogallery Cardiff, the Mostyn Open, the National Portrait Gallery, the Photographer’s Gallery, the Westphalisches Industrie Museum Zeche Zollern Dortmund, Deutsches Bergbau museum, Bochum, and Association Lavalette, France etc.
In 2004 they formed ‘Simply Solar’ a creative partnership designed to investigate and experiment with renewable energy in combination with landscape and photographic art and video.
Their latest body of work ‘The Interior’ is currently on tour in Wales and will be shown at the Foster Art Gallery in London in 2006.
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