Lifelines
- Lifelines
My work is an ongoing drawing from life.A life drawingA drawing lifeA layeringA delayeringA reachingA breachingA nettingAn unnettingA mergingAn emergingAn imaginingAn ImagingA wordingAn unwording [End Page 26]
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Now and Then, 1970/1997. Charcoal drawings on paper. Photo: Courtesy the artist.
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Drawing Life, 1970 /1999. Colored pastels and ink pen on paper. Photos: Courtesy the artist.
These three works were initially created in the seventies. I then used these Shadow Deeds to make filmed performances (reformations), finally resulting in thirty different video installations, for Autobituary, a work commissioned by Matts Gallery, London, and shown in 2006.
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No Matter, 1971, 1976/1997. Charcoal drawings on paper. Photos: Courtesy the artist.
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Anne Bean has been working in installation and performance for over forty years. In 2007, she was awarded a Franklin Furnace International Fellowship in New York where she worked with several artists to produce Drawn Conversations. In 2009 she received a British Council Creative Collaborations and Visiting Arts award to bring together and create work with women from Iraq, Croatia, Israel, and Northern Ireland, resulting in an ongoing project PAVES. More recently the Tate Gallery Research department and Live Art Development Agency granted her a Legacy: Thinker in Residence Award, which resulted in a major work, TAPS, in which she invited over eighty sound and visual artists, all of whom have been engaged in improvisatory experimental practice, to contribute to a collaborative piece. This award also has inspired A Transpective, an ongoing work about one’s own legacy to oneself, which was shown in Venice 2013.
