23/27 February 2007
James Crabb and Anna Thackray
at The Nolias Gallery, 60 Great Suffolk Road,
SE1 0BL
Behind The Tate Modern

-December 2006
Group Show at:
The Residence Gallery
168a Victoria Park Road
Hackney
E9 7HD

-23 June 2006- 1 July 2006
Winchester School of B.A Hons Degree Show

-18 February 2006 - 25 March 2006
Black Swan Arts Gallery & in the Rook Lane Chapel Frome, Somerset

-3 Apr 2002 - 1 May 2002
Group exhibition, Primrose Hill, Camden, London with Lea Orgad, Mark Kaiser & Leanda Thackray, Artistic License Gallery
Primitive work by Lea Orgad, naive oils full of colour, vibrancy & wit from Mark Kaiser and kaleidoscopic wildlife paintings by Leanda Thackray.

-27 July 18 August 2001
Repeat Repeat
Phoenix Gallery & Studios, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton, BN2 9NB, United Kingdom 01273603700

-Resident artist, Street Gallery 1995-2000,

-Various group exhibitions at the Visual arts Association, Cape Town South Africa

Competitions:

-2006- Short listed for the Celeste Painting Prize.

-Finalist in the Gaulause Blondes, Freedom of expression art Competition, Grahams town South Africa 1996

Publications:

-19/04/2002 More than meets the Eye in the following publications: Highbury and Islington Express and the
Hampstead and Highgate Express.

Nature vs. nurture, but what happens when nurture who has to bring normality to a child are fuelled with neurosiss and atypical behaviours.
Anna Thackrays work comes from the perspective of a child seen and processed by a grownup. An uncomplicated item such as a piece of cloth or piece of leather gets transformed into an object latent with metaphors and symbolism.
The objects I constructed are equivalent to painting an impasto canvas, traversing the two dimensional into the three dimensional, yet still being rooted in the discipline of painting. Piercing, lacerating and then stitching through the semi-precious canvas is as raw as perforating the skin, self harm to its most personal logic.

The fragile and sensitive nature of my work contains a strong narrative, authenticating memory into physical objects.