Anna Falcini is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose interests are the female experiences of the world that may be hidden, overlooked or erased. She develops an extensive body of research often through archives, academic materials and primary materials in the field seeking out the more ephemeral and intangible readings of the female experience.
Anna Falcini is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose interests are the female experiences of the world that may be hidden, overlooked or erased. She develops an extensive body of research often through archives, academic materials and primary materials in the field seeking out the more ephemeral and intangible readings of the female experience.
Her work is rendered through surfaces, drawing, text, audio and film. Anna has investigated the poetic traces of the life of the late Welsh artist, Gwen John (1876 -1939) in Paris, Dieppe and Tenby through her letters and notebooks archived at the National Library of Wales and the Musée Rodin. She has long been fascinated with navigating the female relationship to marginal landscapes investigating the post industrial, coastal landscape on the Thames estuary, the subject of her Ph.D. thesis "Stalking the Atmostphere: Journeys into the Hoo Peninsula through a Multi-Disciplinary Fine Art Practice" completed in 2021.
2022-23
Commission with British Council Wales for the Wales/France Season to develop new work about Gwen John in France (2022-23).
Pairings; Gwen John and Ursula Tyrwhitt, Research Project Development with Neil Lebeter at NMW, Cardiff
Decoywoman Solo exhibition, Zandra Rhodes Gallery, UCA, Rochester. 11 July -12 August 2022
Archive Thinkers: How Artists and Researchers use Archives, Programme Organiser and Speaker, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 27 January 2022
PhD Doctoral Thesis (2021) Doctorate Awarded by The University of Brighton
Supervised by Prof. Terry Perk (UCA, Canterbury), Prof. Andrew Kötting (UCA, Canterbury) & Dr. Mary-Lou Barratt (UCA, Canterbury). Examined by Dr. Clare Qualmann (UEL) & Prof. Jean Wainwright (UCA)
Selected Solo Shows
Decoywoman Solo exhibition, Zandra Rhodes Gallery, UCA, Rochester. 11 July -12 August 2022
In Between the Folds are Particles Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 08 December 2021 – 10 Feb 2022
Stalking the Atmosphere: Journeys into the Hoo Peninsula Herbert Read Gallery 7-25 September 2020
Dear Gwen Janval Cemetery, Dieppe and Musée de Dieppe 18 September 2019
Louisa Cornford’s Archive of Atmosphere Brewery Tap Gallery, Folkestone 8-18 June 2019
In Between the Folds are Particles Oriel Davies Gallery, 06 April – 05 June 2019
Talking to Gwen, Oriel Davies Gallery, 14 November 2015 – 27 January 2016
The Erasure of John Baskerville University of Birmingham, March 2015
The Spontaneous Association Between Knowledge, Beauty and Pleasure
New Art Gallery, Walsall 2013
Selected Group Shows
Y Lle Celf Selected for Eisteddfod, Ceredigion 5-12 August 2022
Estuary Festival 2021 Associated Programme 22 May – 13 June 2021
Making Time (Theoretical Archaeology Group) Cardiff University, 18-20 Dec 2017
Harbouring Memory (Blackened) [Somatic Shifts Group Exhibition] Zandra Rhodes Gallery, UCA, Rochester, 13 March – 05 April 2017
Material Immaterial Herbert Read Gallery, UCA, Canterbury 4-13 April 2016
Residencies
Decoy Halstow Marshes, Hoo Peninsula with RSPB 24-28 May 2021
The Erasure of John Baskerville University of Birmingham, March 2015
Artist in Residence University of Aberystwyth 2014
Group Occupation New Art Gallery, Walsall & Eastside Projects, Birmingham with artists Chris Clinton and Michelle Carruthers 2013
Writing about Falcini’s Artwork
Imagining Gwen John Prof.Maria Tamboukou (UEL) 2019
Blotting Out The Light: Two Letters (Talking to Gwen) Anneka French 2015
Listening Posts: Essay by Dr Sally Payen 2010
Mentoring & Awards
Research and Development, British Council Wales In Between the Folds are Particles, 2019
Creative Wales Award, Arts Council Wales, In Between the Folds are Particles, 2018-19
Grant for Creative Professional, Arts Council Wales Talking to Gwen 2015
Grants of the Arts Award for Listening Posts Project 2009
Elmley Foundation Award for Listening posts Project 2009
AHRC Full Bursary In support of MA Contemporary Textiles at Goldsmiths College 2001-02
Work in Collections
Corrections Nos, 18, 21 Private Collections
Code 10, Video National Library of Wales 2014
Conference Presentations
Walking New Movements University of Plymouth, 2019
Modernist Art Conference University of Nottingham, 2019
Creative Image University of Manchester, 2018
CREST Ph.D. Research Event Mary Ward House Conference Centre, London, 2018
Landscape Now Conference Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2017
Material Immaterial Symposium UCA, Canterbury, Kent 2016
Strata; Art/ Science Collaborations in the Anthropocene Aberystwyth University 2016
Performing Places 3 Conference at Chichester University 2015
