Abigail Reynolds (artist)

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

She will be exhibiting in British Art Show 9, Touring Wolverhampton, Aberdeen, Plymouth and Manchester.

Abigail Reynolds, Desert Seeds (2015)

Biography

Based in Cornwall, United Kingdom, Reynolds studied English literature at St Catherine’s College Oxford University (1990–1994) before pursuing Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts (1997–2000) and then Goldsmiths University (2000–2002). In March 2016 she was awarded the BMW Art Journey prize at Art Basel, to travel to lost libraries along the Silk Road. In 2020 she was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Foundation award for visual art. She is one of 47 artists selected for British Art Show 9 touring 2021-22.  

Career

In 2016 Reynolds was awarded the BMW Art Journey prize[1] at Art Basel.[2] As the third artist to take a BMW Art Journey, Reynolds spent four months in late 2016 and early 2017 visiting fifteen locations along the ancient Silk Road, filming historic library sites in Italy, Egypt, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Iran and China. She used a Bolex camera and 16mm film. Reynolds’ book titled Lost Libraries detailing her journey, was published by Hatje Cantz[3] in Nov 2017. [4][5]

Additionally 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.[6]

Reynolds has played an active role supporting the arts in Cornwall. She was a board member for Tate St Ives (2011-2017) and The Penzance Convention[7] (2012). Reynolds has additionally taken part in a series of projects convened by Teresa Gleadowe from the Cornwall Workshops[8] (2011–17) to the conventions (The Falmouth Convention[9] (2010), The Penzance Convention (2012) and the succession of Cornwall Workshops held at Kestle Barton[10] since 2011), culminating in Groundwork summer 2018.[11] 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.[12]

Reynolds has work in the Government Art Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New York Public Library and many private collections.

Personal life

Having lived in Oxford and London, she 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,[13] and continues to work there.

Lecturing

After lecturing for five years in contextual studies for the Fine Art program at Chelsea, Abigail 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.

Solo exhibitions

Taken in a few seconds // By the reflection of light, The Harris Museum Preston 2020; The Universal Now and Further Episodes, PEER UK London 2018; we beat the bounds, Tate St Ives 2017; Lost Libraries, at Art Basel Miami Beach 2016; 8 / ∞, Rokeby Gallery,[14] London; Box A: Accidents,[15] Kestle Barton, Cornwall; A Common Treasury, Ambach & Rice Los Angeles and The British Countryside in Pictures, Seventeen Gallery London.[16]

Selected Group Exhibitions from the past few years include: Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery (at the former Women’s Library); Dream Libraries, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany; Speech Acts: reflection, imagination, repetition, Manchester Art Gallery; The West China Biennial, First Edition, Yinchuan, China; After Photography, Alain Gutharc, Paris; Precarious Balance, CoCA, Christchurch, New Zealand; Select Cuts and Alterations, Foley Gallery, New York; Cities and Other Ruins, Sir John Soane’s Museum; Riff /Rift Baltic 39, Newcastle UK; 'The Democracy of Objects, Nettie Horn, London UK; Rituals are Tellers of Us, Newlyn Art Gallery; Inshore Fishing: Peter Lanyon And Contemporary Artists, Rokeby Gallery, London; Dear Aby Warburg, what to do with images?, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, DE; The First Cut, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester: touring SeaCity Museum, Southampton, Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham, UK and There was a Country where They were all Thieves, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary, Amsterdam, NL

References
  1. "BMW Art Journey". bmw-art-journey.com. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  2. "Art Basel". bmw-art-journey.com. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  3. Abigail Reynolds The Ruins of Time. Szántó, András, Hatje-Cantz-Verlag Ostfildern. Berlin. 2017. ISBN 9783775743051. OCLC 987571994.CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. "Abigail Reynolds | Work | Double Fold". www.abigailreynolds.com. 18 January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  7. "| The Penzance Convention". www.thepenzanceconvention.com. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  8. "The Cornwall Workshop". thecornwallworkshop.com. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  9. "The Falmouth Convention | Art – Time – Place". thefalmouthconvention.com. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  10. "Kestle Barton". www.kestlebarton.co.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  11. "Solstice Walk - Groundwork". Groundwork. 30 May 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  12. Tate. "Launch Weekend Event: We Beat The Bounds – Special Event at Tate St Ives | Tate". Tate. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  13. "Porthmeor Studio Complex". schoolofpainting.co.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  14. "Abigail Renolds, 8 / ∞ | Rokeby Gallery | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  15. "Box A: Accidents : Kestle Barton". www.kestlebarton.co.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  16. "Abigail Reynolds, The British Countryside in Pictures - Seventeen". Seventeen. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
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