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Annie Giles Hobbs
web: http://www.anniegileshobbs.com
Specialist Subject Areas
FINE ART
The full visual experience of the language of Fine Art and its associated issues involving contemporary, traditional and historic references.
PRINTMAKING
High level experience , expertise and research in relief and intaglio forms of printmaking, in particular etching, collagraph, woodcut and mono print.
PAINTING
Understanding its various interrelated interdependent component elements of line, shape, colour, tone and texture. With particular emphasis on the use of water colour with a contemporary and innovative approach.
Qualifications
1988-89 Foundation Cardiff School of Art & Design
1989-92 BA (Hons) Fine Art
1994-96 PGCE Cardiff
Biography
Annie Giles Hobbs is a practicing artisit and lecturer in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design.
She has taught since 1992 at The Cardiff Print Workshop where she was Head of Printmaking until 2008, stepping down due to other commitments. She is now coordinator and continues to give masterclasses in specialist areas.
Annie is a member of Butetown artists, a group of artists who work from a studio and Gallery complex in Bute street, Cardiff Bay. She is also a Director of the Gallery and Studios.
She is a member of Virtually Six Contemporary Printmakers and has exhibited widely with them both nationally and internationally. At present she is taking part in collaborations with artists showing in Australia and India.
Annie is supported by the Arts Council of Wales
Her work is print based but breaks with the traditional expectations of printmaking. Each piece is unique and takes many months to complete. The density of these works is impressed by multi plate etching, collagraph and monoprinting whose qualities build up a richly worked top surface , whilst partially revealing underlying areas of texture and imagery.
Current research
At present I am working on a new body of work to be included in summer shows in Llangollen and Machynlleth and for showing next year. I have just finished an extremely intense period of research culminating in three solo shows.
Touring exhibitions in Australia and Hawaii are ongoing as is the India Wales Exchange.
Principal Publications and/or Exhibitions
2011
Solo exhibition, Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff
Female Frame Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Artemesia, St Davids Hall, Cardiff
Wales Rajasthan exchange, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff
Ten Years in Bayart Gallery, Cardiff
2010
Solo exhibition, Denbigh Gallery & Library
Vario touring exhibition, Bayart Gallery Cardiff
WAVE Borders and Edges, Edmonton , Canada
Solo exhibition: Recent Works, Museum of Modern Art, Wales
Welsh Artist of the Year, St Davids Hall, Cardiff
Tallin print Treinnale Kumu, National Gallery , Estonia
Intaglio, St Davids Hall, Cardiff
Vario touring wxhibition, University if Honolulu, Hawaii
2009
Open Print Royal West of England and Academy Bristol
In Response Newport Museum and Art Gallery
Vario touring exhibition Woollangong Gallery Tasmania
Gouturi Regional Museum, Queensland, Australia
Spring Exhibition Y Capel Gallery Llangollen North Wales
2008
WAVE Blurring Boundaries, Seoul
Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff
Y Capel Gallery, Llangollen
Summer Show The Art Shop, Abergavenny
The Next Step, Open Art Competition 1st Prize Winner MOMA, Wales
Siggraph Digital Eyes Municipal art Gallery, Los Angeles
Edinburgh Book Fair, Scotland
Three Sum, St Davids Hall, Cardiff
Bodyworks, Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff
Intaglio, St Davids Hall, Cardiff
2007
Print Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Summer show Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff
Summer show Museum of Modern Art, Wales
The Art Shop, Abergavenny
Welsh Artist of the Year, St Davids Hall, Cardiff
2006
Centre Parcs, Longleat
MOMA Wales
Summer exhibition, Art Shop, Abergavenny
Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Brecon house, Cwmbran
University of Glamorgan Purchase Prize
2005
St Davids Hall, Cardiff
Museum and Art Gallery, Aberdare
Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff
The Art Gallery, Abergavenny
Theatre Brychyniog, Brecon
MOMA, Wales
Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff
The Gate, Cardiff
Artists in Wales in Stuttgart, Germany
2004
The Gate, Cardiff
Kooywood Gallery, Cardif
Essence of Wales, St Davids Hall, Cardiff
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Classic IV International Biennale Koltricke, Belgium
Solo exhibition, Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant
Gregynog, Powys
Welsh Artist of the Year, First Prize Winner, Cardiff
Tenby Museum & Art Gallery, Tenby
Collections
Department of Trade and Commerce, Warwick
Deutche Bank
Centre Parcs, Longleat
The Halifax
Lord Chancellors Dept, London
Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend
Royal Gwent Hospital
Neville Hall Hospital, Abergavenny
Tenby Museum and Gallery
Museum of modern Art, Machynlleth
National Museum of Wales
National Gallery of Australia
Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, India
Awards
2008 Arts Council of Wales, Development Grant
2008 MOMA 1st Prize Winner
2008 Arts Council of Wales award granted to V6 in support of international exchange
2006 Arts Council of Wales, Development Grant
2004 Arts Council of Wales grant awarded for Cardiff Print Shop equipment
1997 First Prize Open Competition Ben Uri Gallery, London
1995 Regional Winnerm Laing Landscape competition
1993 Post Office/ S4C Fine Art Competition First Prize