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Anne Bean has undertaken numerous solo and collaborative projects worldwide in a range of media from light and sound to performance, sculpture and drawing. Born in Zambia and resident in the UK, she studied Fine Art at Cape Town and Reading universities and started to make work in the early 1970s.
In 2007, she was the International Fellow at Franklin Furnace Archives, New York and she has just returned from Kurdistan-Iraq where she worked with 20 women to develop and produce a performance MASS which referenced recent Kurdish history.
A founder member of the legendary Bow Gamelan Ensemble, she was twice awarded the Time Out Award for performance art.
They serve up adventures in music, sculpture and performance that dazzle the eyes, astonish the ears and stimulate the imagination of viewers with unorthodox magic.
In an essay commissioned for Anne’s publication Autobituary (2006), the art critic and curator Guy Brett wrote:
Reading Anne Bean’s CV is like following a continuous performance, a continuous response to the world... a “magification” of the world. The panoply of places she has worked, times of the day or night, interiors, exteriors seasons, publics, materials, concepts, tools, is astonishing: all shifting but all attuned to unique situations.
Autobituary (2006)
- Anne Bean
PAVES
- Poshya Kakl, Anne Bean, Vlasta Delimar, Efi Ben-David, Sinead O’DonnellDocumentation of the PAVES year
Edited by: Anne Bean and Chris Bishop
Length: 30 mins
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