Anna Marrow

Anna Marrow has been working as a printmaker, illustrator and image-maker for 20 years. She studied Fine Art in Bristol and then Communication Design at Central Saint Martins, specialising in illustration. She now draws at home and make prints at Spike Print Studio, Bristol, working with household paints, biros, fine liners, pencil crayons and screen print. Most of her prints begin as biro and ink drawings in my sketch book.  They are developed into collages, and later become screen prints.

Anna makes surprising, sometimes humorous or alarming images by combining mundane objects and environments with exotic creatures and characters. Pin pointing a specific moment in time, she is often often drawn to objects from her childhood such as 70s televisions, radios and cars which all feature heavily in her work, as do urban and suburban landscapes.

' I love architecture, particularly Victorian and contemporary brutalist buildings.  A combination of the two seems to echo most of the places I have lived; Liverpool, London and Bristol. My main concerns are detail, specific drawing, surprising colour, composition, and believable story telling. I love the craft of drawing and think it is more important than ever in our fast paced digital age -  to take time out and observe carefully. I enjoy the innocence and romance of old musicals and like to draw the characters from them. Birds also  feature in my work I am drawn to them because of their contrasting features of soft feathers and sharp beaks, and their fascinating details.  More recently I have been looking at people who are attempting to fly.  Divers, wing walkers, synchronised swimmers and evil kenievel will all be appearing soon so watch this space…'

SELECTED FOR THE FOLLOWING EXHIBITIONS

Woolwhich Contemporary Print Fair, curated hang, Oct 2023

'Small but Mighty' RE Painter Printmakers at Bankside Gallery, Nov 2023

The Other Art Fair, London edit, Oct 2023

ING Discerning Eye, curated hang, Nov 2022

The Other Art Fair, London edit, Oct 2023

London Illustration Fair, Nov 2022

Woolwhich Contemporary Print Fair, curated hang, Nov 2021

The Other Art fair, London edit, July 2021

CLIENT LIST

Illustrations for Aspects Magazine / Building Magazine / The Guardian / The Financial Times / Heals / BBC / Go Beats / Polydor Records / Match of the Day Magazine / Baku Magazine / Occupational Health Monthly

Prints and Originals for Gas Gallery, London / Rostra Gallery, Bath / Soma Gallery, Bristol / CCA Galleries, Farnham

Corporate Commissions for Luxury Family Hotels / Alias Hotels / Martinhal Resort, Portugal / Aldi, UK

EMPLOYMENT

Spike Print Studio, Bristol ,Screen Print Tutor (2002 to present)

Bath Spa University Illustration & Graphic Design Department, Visiting Lecturer (2011-2016)

Mary Redcliffe School, Bristol, Visiting Art Tutor (Oct 2014)

CCA Galleries, Farnham, Print designer, maker, editioner (2002 - 2007)

QUALIFICATIONS

MA Communication Design (Illustration), Central Saint Martins (Distinction)

POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA Fine Art Printmaking, UWE Bristol

BA (Hons) Fine Art, UWE Bristol

LIST OF SUPPLIERS

IRL SUPPLIERS

Gina Cross www.ginacross.co.uk

For Arts Sake, www.forartssake.com, 45 Bond Street Ealing, London, W5 5AS

Sarah Wiseman Gallery www.wisegal.com 40-41 South Parade, Summertown, Oxford, 0X2 7JL

Of Cabbages and Kings ofcabbagesandkings.co.uk, 5 Cork Street, Frome BA11 1BL

Wychwood Gallery wychwoodart.com, Town Hall, Market Pl, Deddington, Banbury OX15 0SE

Electric Gallery electricgallery.co.uk, 12 High Road, London E18 2QL

Folkestone Art Gallery, 31 East Cliff, Folkestone, Kent, CT19 6BU

Fig, 206 Gloucester Road, Bristol, BS7 8NU

ONLINE SUPPLIERS

SOMA www.somagallery.co.uk

Chalet Store www.chaletartstore.com

Aunt Joy www.auntjoy.com

Murus www.murus.art Art Republic artrepublic.com

Saatchi Art www.saatchiart.com