Abbi Torrance

Abbi Torrance is interested in the human condition. Simple full length portraits explore our relationships with nature and animals. Isolated figures, with a direct gaze, dreamlike, quirky or unusual, describe her work well. She is currently exploring totemism and myth as a way the soul can escape the minds rational embrace.

Her previous drawings explore issues of free will and control. In these drawings Torrance uses performance to highlight how people connect to each other, the systems around us and space. Graph paper backgrounds make a statement about how human beings are increasingly seen as data, markets and demographics. Does the individual still have agency?

Torrance has been exhibited widely. Including the Royal Academy Summer exhibition, the ICA, Discerning Eye and a solo show in Galerie Nivit-Curzone, Paris in 2015.

2009 - 2011 MA Wimbledon School of Art, London.
1997-2000 BA (Hons) 2.1 Fine Art, Middlesex University, London. 1995-1997 Art & Design, Shepperton Art School, London.
1993-1995 Photography & darkroom techniques, Hommerton Art Centre, London

2021-3 exhibiting with Birdhouse gallery, Totnes.
2017 - January My Body is a cage, pop ups Think, Nottingham.
2015 - November 19th 6pm MY BODY IS A CAGE, galerie nivet-curzon, Paris.
2014 - THIS SCIENCE LIFE, London Art Fair - Bearspace Gallery, London.
2013 - ANONYMOUS DRAWING, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Galerie Nord, Berlin.
2013 - RA SUMMER EXHIBITION, selected by Humphrey Ocean, London.
2013 - CREEKSIDE OPEN, selected by Ceri Hand, APT Gallery, Deptford.
2013 - PAPER THIN, Bearspace Gallery, London.
2012 - BREAD & ROSES, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol.
2012 - FORM VS FORM, Bearspace Gallery, London
2011 - HUNG DRAWN AND ALTERED: DRAWN IN, curated by Baylors & Diamond, London.
2011 - FUTURA BOLD FUTURA OBLIQUE, Nunnery, London
2010 - MONSTER, 242 Gallery, Cambridge Heath Rd, London
2010 - BY APPOINTMENT AT THE ICA, London
2010 - I SWORE I SORE, Nunnery, London
2009 - NATIONAL OPEN COMPETITION, Chicester
2009 - CHANGE, Art's complex, Edinburgh Art Festival
2009 - THE LIVING SWAMP, Quartair Art Gallery, The Hague, Holland
2008 - ING DISCERNING EYE EXHIBITION, The Mall Galleries, London
2008 - AWAPBALOBOP, Transition Gallery, London
2007 - NEW DAWN, The Castle Gallery, Isle of Sheppey
2006 - EMERGING ART...