Abigail Reynolds (born 1970) is a British artist who lives in St Just, Cornwall, and has a studio at Porthmeor in St Ives.

Abigail Reynolds, Tre, Kresen Kernow (2022)

Biography

Based in Cornwall, United Kingdom, Reynolds studied at St Catherine's College, Oxford, Chelsea College of Arts, and Goldsmiths University.[1] In March 2016 she was awarded the BMW Art Journey prize at Art Basel, to travel to lost libraries along the Silk Road.[2] In 2020 she received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation award for visual art.[3] Several of her works were selected for British Art Show 9 touring 2021-22.[4]  

Career

In 2016 Reynolds was awarded the BMW Art Journey prize[5] at Art Basel.[6] As the third artist to take a BMW Art Journey, Reynolds spent five months visiting fifteen locations of Lost Libraries along the ancient Silk Road, filming historic sites in Italy, Egypt, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Iran and China with a Bolex camera on 16mm film. Reynolds’ book titled Lost Libraries detailing her journey, was published by Hatje Cantz[7] in Nov 2017. [8][9]

In 2016, Reynolds was awarded an Arts Council England Grant to produce her first film work ‘The Mother’s Bones’. From 2012-14, Reynolds was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Rambert Dance Company, London.[10]

In 2022 Reynolds was commissioned to make a permanent artwork for Kresen Kernow the Cornish archive. Her window,Tre celebrates the narratives woven into the Cornish landscape over time.

Reynolds has played an active role supporting the arts in Cornwall. She was commissioned by Tate St Ives to create a work to mark the opening of TSI2 (October 2017). This was a live work titled We Beat The Bounds.[11]

Reynolds has work in the Arts Council Collection, the Government Art Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New York Public Library and many private collections. She is represented by Michael Hoppen Gallery in London.

Personal life

Having lived in Oxford and London, Reynolds moved to St Just in Penwith in 2004 with her partner Andy Harper and their two children. In 2014 she was offered one of the 19 studios in the iconic Porthmeor studios in St Ives,[12] and continues to work there.

Lecturing

After lecturing for five years in contextual studies for the Fine Art program at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, Reynolds taught in the sculpture department at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University from 2003-2010. This included curating a year-long interdisciplinary talks series titled ‘Doubt’ funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation.

References

  1. ↑ "Abigail Reynolds". ESMoA. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  2. ↑ "BMW Art Journey Third Winner". Art Basel. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Background". Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  4. ↑ "British Art Show 9: 'A Scene At Once Thriving and Struggling To Survive'". Art Review. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "BMW Art Journey". bmw-art-journey.com. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  6. ↑ "Art Basel". bmw-art-journey.com. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  7. ↑ Abigail Reynolds The Ruins of Time. Szántó, András, Hatje-Cantz-Verlag Ostfildern. Berlin. 2017. ISBN 9783775743051. OCLC 987571994.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. ↑ Mun-Delsalle, Y-Jean (13 June 2017). "BMW Art Journey x Art Basel: Artist Abigail Reynolds Travels To The Lost Libraries Of The Silk Road". Forbes. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  9. ↑ Lazarus, Sarah (12 May 2017). "British artist visits 16 lost libraries along the Silk Road in epic motorbike trip". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  10. ↑ "Abigail Reynolds | Work | Double Fold". www.abigailreynolds.com. 18 January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  11. ↑ Tate. "Launch Weekend Event: We Beat The Bounds – Special Event at Tate St Ives | Tate". Tate. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  12. ↑ "Porthmeor Studio Complex". schoolofpainting.co.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
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