Anne Bean

Artist / Performer (London, UK)

Anne Bean has undertaken numerous solo and collaborative projects worldwide in a range of media from light and sound to performance, sculpture and drawing. Born in Zambia and resident in the UK, she studied Fine Art at Cape Town and Reading Universities and made her first performance work outside Africa in 1970.

“Her performance was carried out with irresistible conviction and honesty without reserve, temporarily closing the performer/audience gap to a millimeter breadth. I was riveted and so was almost everyone else.” – Performance Magazine

Anne has twice been awarded the Time Out Award for performance art, once for her long-standing contribution to live art and then as a founder member of the legendary Bow Gamelan Ensemble with Paul Burwell and Richard Wilson.

“They serve up adventures in music, sculpture and performance that dazzle the eyes, astonish the ears and stimulate the imagination of viewers with unorthodox magic.”

Anne Bean travels constantly and extensively for her work. In 2007, she was the International Fellow at Franklin Furnace Archives, New York and in Summer 2008 she visited Croatia and Kurdistan-Iraq where she worked with local people to develop and create performances and installations referencing their recent history.

Painings and Rawings, Art in Time, Cardiff, 2007 (Photo by Tim Freeman & Matt Skelly)

www.annebean.net