Anika Carpenter

Dearest,
Have you noticed, cups? Some cups are gifts, hold memories of weddings as well as tea. Others have left ring after ring on a writing desk. ‘Oh!’ some say ‘your mother loves you’ they say, and ‘Oh!’ your friend too'.
There is nothing that we can hold, not even the most commonplace object, and each feel the same way about it.
Sincerely Yours

Kingston University, 2010 - 2011
MA Fine Art & PGcert Teaching Qualification, distinction

The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, London, 2009 - 2010
Advanced Diploma in Professional Development: The Therapeutic & Educational Application of the Arts

Bath School of Art and Design, Bath, Somerset, 1994 – 1997
BA(hons) Fine Art Sculpture

Kent Institute of Art and Design, Maidstone, Kent, 1993
Fine Art Foundation Course

Solo
2013 Selected Cafe Gallery Artist, The Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
2009 A Guarded Hush, Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery

Group
2015 Thinking/Making, Curious Projects, Eastbourne
2013 East Sussex Open, The Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
2012 Trans-Art, Cavan, Ireland
2011 Thank You & Goodbye, The Old Truman Brewery, London
2011 BAT Back, Mile End, London
2011 The Watcher of Beautiful Form, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Kent
2010 BAT Back, Mile End, London
2010 Sanctuary, St. George's Lutheran Church, London
2010 Fowle Hall Features IV, Accident & Emergence, Kent
2010 Pistols & Pollinators, Stoke Newington Library Gallery, London
2009 Fowle Hall Features III, Accident & Emergence, Kent
2008 The Big Day, Arch 635, London
2008 Final Fling, Vyner Street Studios, London
2008 Fowle Hall Features II, Accident & Emergence, Kent
2008 Ko-Ax, Mascalls Gallery, Kent

AWARDS
2014 - 2015 a-n New Collaborations Bursary
2010 – 2011 Bow Arts Trust Live/Work Residency

COMMISSIONS
2009 The 326 Days Lament, a piece commissioned by Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery

ARTIST-LED PROJECTS
2007 – 2013 Accident & Emergence,