Annie Whiles : Beggars Belief

8 Apr-15 May 2011

Overview

For her second solo show in the gallery, Annie Whiles will be bringing together woodcarving and embroidery. The drawing of an encounter with a donkey on Blackheath Common has lead Whiles to carve the same donkey in wood in life size form. Its head is turned towards a new audience to ask new questions. A series of hand-stitched embroideries depict figurative presences in the landscape simultaneously arrested and lost. A bird made from hair wears an embroided portrait of the artist on its breast mirroring the moment of encounter looking up into a high branch. Annie Whiles completed her MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in 2000 where is now a lecturer in Art Practice. Selected exhibitions include Pile, Chapter, Cardiff, 2011; The Peckham Experiment, Camberwell Space, 2009; The Fabric of Myth, Compton Verney, 2008; Sideshow, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, 2007; Metropolis Rise, New Art from London, Shanghai and Beijing, 2006. She lives and works in London.