Jennifer Anderson

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Biography
Jennifer Anderson
Jennifer Anderson was born in Glasgow and grew up just outside the city, in rural Stirlingshire. She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee in 1997 with a first class honours degree in Fine Art Painting.
Since then she has returned to Glasgow and continues to live and work in the city’s West End. She has exhibited widely throughout the UK, and has also shown work internationally in New York, Singapore, Florida, Zurich, and Toronto. During her career Jennifer has received a number of awards including the HSBC Investment Management Award for artists under 35 at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and the David Cargill Award at the Royal Glasgow Institute.  She has been regularly selected for the BP Portrait Award and has also been invited to exhibit in the main collection at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Jennifer writes that her paintings are informed by both visual aesthetic- carefully considering the application of paint, colour, and composition- as well as ‘the emotional experience of one person looking at another.’ Her portraits explore the intimate connection between viewer and subject, referencing a rich art historical lineage of portrait painting and the study of the gaze. But unlike traditional portraiture, almost all of Jennifer’s subjects do not directly confront the viewer, they look away into the distance, lost in thought, or sometimes a part of their face is obscured or unfinished, lost into the background. Jennifer focuses on the subtle details of light, shade and colour to depict the faces of her subjects, and this highly detailed three-dimensional aspect of the portrait is contrasted with often only ambiguous suggestions of background, or a flat use of colour and pattern. She writes that her work seeks to achieve ‘emotional complexity amplified by visual simplicity.’ Her work is ethereal, deeply emotional, haunting, suggesting a fleeting moment or thought in time.
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Jennifer Anderson

Education

1993-97 Duncan of Jordanstone Collage of Art, Dundee, BA (Hons) Fine Art – First Class

Prizes

The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Windsor and Newton Non-Member Award
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters HSBC Investment Management Award
The Royal Glasgow Institute David Cargill Award
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Arts Club Prize
The National Open Art Competition Regional Prize for Scotland and the North
The George Duncan of Drumfork Travel Scholarship
The Ewan Mitchell Award for Figurative Painting
The Royal Glasgow Institute Strathearn Gallery Prize
The Paisley Art Institute Miller’s Creativity Award
The Paisley Art Institute Glasgow Arts Club Award
The Lady Artist’s Club Trust Award

Art Fairs

The London Art Fair 2002, 2004, 2006-07, 2018-19
The Affordable Art Fair, London 1999, 2000, 2004-05, 2011-13, 2015, 2018-19
The Edinburgh Art Fair 2018
The British Art Fair, London 2003, 2011-12, 2015
artLondon Art Fair 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011-12, 2015
The Affordable Art Fair, Bristol 2011-13
The Glasgow Art Fair 1998-2006, 2010-12
The Affordable Art Fair, Singapore 2012
Toronto International Art Fair 2007
The Affordable Art Fair 2002

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

2020 Beaux Arts Bath
2020 Contemporary British Portrait Painters Inaugural Exhibition, CASS Art London
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London, 2019
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham, 2014, 2019
The BP Portrait Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London 2001, 2004-05, 2009, 2019
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London, 2005-06, 2014, 2016, 2018
The Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London, 2018
The Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London, 2018
The Royal Scottish Academy , The Mound, Edinburgh, 1998, 2000-01, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016,
2017, 2019
2015 Flying Colours Gallery, London
2007 Skin Deep, Maclean Fine Art, London
The Royal Academy Summer Show, Piccadilly, London, 2006
The Royal Glasgow Institute, Maclellan Galleries, Glasgow, 2001/06
1998 The Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow

Publicly Commissioned Portraits

Sir Curtis Price, Warden of New College, Oxford
Professor Dame Frances Kirwan, Magdalen College, Oxford
Professor Dame Hermione Lee, President of Wolfson College, Oxford
Mr Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum
Dr Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, for New College, Oxford
Mr Mervyn Rolfe, Lord Provost of Dundee
Dr Wilson Sutherland, Acting Warden, New College, Oxford
Dr Ian Graham-Bryce, Principal of Dundee University

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