Works by Jeremy Annear
Jeremy Annear is an English painter who was introduced to St Ives modernism in his early formative years. He lives and works in Cornwall.
Education
Annear studied Fine Art Painting and Printmaking at Exeter College of Art in the late sixties.
Technique
Annear works mostly with oil on board and canvas. The shapes, colors and forms are built up in relief-like layers, resulting in alluring textures, surfaces and edges.
"I constantly play at laying paint into paint, wet into wet. I have always wanted to throw lots of paint onto my supports. Part of the deepest satisfaction of painting for me has been to achieve exactly what I want with the paint"
Inspiration
Jeremy Annear was exposed as a young artist to St Ives group and was influenced by the work of Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Roger Hilton and Terry Frost. His paintings share affinities with European Modernists like Braque, Picasso and Miro. Jeremy's abstracted paintings react to the natural geometry and transformations of his beloved Cornish landscape. He has also worked extensively in Germany and Australia and has absorbed influences in his work from both these cultures.
Relevant Quotes
Annear's work has been widely acclaimed and commented by numerous art critics, curators, art writers, artists and historians, such as Andrew Lambirth (The Spectator), Graham Boyd (Artist), Mercedes Smith (Writer and critic), Ian Collins (Art writer and curator), Nicholas Usherwodd (Art writer and publisher), Dr. Jane Hamilton (Art activist and Historian) or Rachel Barnes (Lecturer at the Tate and writer at the Guardian and The Independant).
One of the most eulogistic (but not untrue) comment about Annear comes from Caroline Georgiadis, previously head of sales for British paintings at Christie's and currently running her own art consultancy practice: "Jeremy Annear (...) is a European Modernist painter in the vein of great artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque."
Exhibitions
Annear has mostly and regularly exhibited in the UK, but his work was also displayed in Germany, France and The Netherlands.
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Messum's London
2016
Lemon Street Gallery, Truro ‘Two-fold’ with Judy Buxton
2014
Campden Gallery
2013
Messums London
New Craftsman St Ives with Judy Buxton and Terence Coventry
2012
Campden Gallery
2011
Messums London
2010
Campden Gallery
2009
Messums London
2007
New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall.
2004
New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall.
2002
David Messum Gallery, London.
2001
New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall.
2000
David Messum Gallery, London.
1998
David Messum Gallery, London.
New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall.
1997
David Messum Gallery, London.
Artco Gallery, Leipzig, Germany.
1993
Porthmeor Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall.
1992
International Celtic Festival, Lorient, France.
Galerie Passage, Berlin, Germany.
1991
Galerie Maeder, Berlin, Germany.
Galerie Altes Rathaus (with Margaret Kelly/Wolfgang Lehmann).
Galerie Haus Martin, Bremen, Germany.
1989
The Salthouse Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall.
The Underground Gallery, Bath.
Group Exhibitions
2016
London Art Fair, Islington
Lemon Street Gallery
Edgar Modern Gallery
Gray M.C.A
2015
Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, UK (t wo person exhibition)
2005 - 2014
Numerous Group and Mixed exhibitions
2004
New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, winter 2003/4
ART 2004 Isling ton Business Design Centre, London
2003 - 1998
ART 2003 , David Messum Gallery , Islington, London
2002
Art & Spirituality , Truro Cathedral, Cornwall.
2002 - 1996
Kunst uit Cornwall , Amersfoort, Reina de Weyer, Holland.
2000
Twenty Years of Contemporary Art’, Falmouth Museum and Art Gallery.
1999
The Next Generation of Cornish painters , Jeremy Annear and Kurt Jackson, David Messum Gallery, London.
Aspects of Abstraction, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall.
Cornish Painting , The City Gallery, London.
Cornish Art in the Nineties, Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh.
1999/98
Innocent Fine Art, Bristol.
The British Show Truro , Lemon St Gallery, Truro, Cornwall.
2002/01/00/99
Wenlock Fine Art, Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
1998
5 Leipzig er Jahresausstellung 1998 , Leipzig, Germany.
Panel Paintings , Rosanna Wilson, Stephens Fine Art, London.
Newlyn Now , Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
1998/97/96
Now and Then , David Messum Gallery, London.
1998/97
London Olympia Art Fair.
The Little Picture Show , The Rainy Day Gallery, Penzance.
1997
Limelight II , Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn.
Quality of Light , St Ives Tate Peninsular Programme, Open Studio.
1997/96
Cadogan Contemporaries, London.
Critic’s Choice , (Sasha Craddock), Newlyn Art Gallery.
1995
Online Gallery, Southampton.
1994
Galerie Plein 1, Zeist, Holland.
1994/93
G12 , Amersfoort, Holland.
1993
Demarco’s European Art Foundation, The Edinburgh Festival.
G12 , Salthouse Gallery, St Ives.
Summer Exhibition , The Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Demarco’s Choice , Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall.
Newlyn Fish Festival, guest artist with Ralph Freeman, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall.
1992
Crossing the Boundaries Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, (4 Cornish Artists in Europe).
1992/91/90
Bath Contemporary Art Fair, Ogle Fine Art.
Contemporary Art Fair , Islington, London, Ogle Fine Art.
1990
Art London 90 , 5th International Art Fair.
Six Porthleven Painters , The Porthmeor Gallery, St Ives.
1989
St Ives 89 , New Street Gallery, Plymouth.
From Cornwall , The Park Gallery, Cheltenham College.
1989 - 1998
Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn.
1998 - 1992
The Penwith Society of Artists, Penwith Gallery, St Ives.
1986
Louise Hallett and Vanessa Deveraux, London.
Louise Hallet Gallery, London.
2013
Exhibition Catalogue. New Craftsman St Ives. Catalogue Essay ‘Jeremy Annear’ Mercedes Smith. ISBN: 978 - 0 - 9926590 - 2 - 8
Exhibition Catalogue. Messums London. Catalogue Essay ‘Encounters with Beauty’ by Andrew Lambirth. ISBN: 978 - 1 - 908486 - 37 - 0. Publication No: CCCXLV
2012
Exhibition Catalogue. Campden Gallery. Catalogue Essay ‘A Kind of Music’ Ian Collins. Art Writer and Curator. ISBN: 978 - 1 - 908753 - 07 - 6
2011
Exhibition Catalogue. Messums London. Catalogue essay ‘the Eye of the Spirit’ by Andrew Lambirth, Writer Critic and Curator. ISBN: 978 - 1 - 905883 - 93 - 6. Publication . No: CCCI
2010
Exhibition Catalogue. Campden Gallery. Catalogue Essay ‘Forensic Traces’ by A ndrew Lambirth. ISBN: 978 - 0 - 9562719 - 4 - 5
2009
Exhibition Catalogue. Messums London. Forward by Nicholas Usherwood.
Catalogue essay ‘Silent Harmonies’ Dr Jane Hamilton. ISBN: 978 - 1 - 905883 - 44 - 8. Publication No:CCXLXII
2007
Exhibition catalogue, New Millen nium Gallery (foreword by David Falconer).
2006/7
Interview ‘Jeremy Annear on European Modernism and Cornish Art in the Eighties’, www.artcornwall.org
2004
Exhibition catalogue, New Millennium Gallery (foreword by James Aitchison and ‘The Meeting’, a poem written for the catalogue by Robert Vas Dias).
Catching the Wave: Contemporary Art and Artists in Cornwall by Tom Cross (Published by Halsgrove 2002).
2002
Exhibition catalogue, ‘New Works’, Messums Contemporary.
2001
Galleries R eview, ‘Showing in St Ives’, Petronilla Silver.
2000
Exhibition catalogue (foreword by Norbert Lynton), Messum Contemporary.
1998/97
Exhibition catalogue, David Messum Gallery (foreword by John Russel Taylor).
1996
Drawing Towards the End of the Cent ury, Newlyn Society of Artists Publication.
1994
St Ives Revisited – Innovators and Followers, by Peter Davis (Bakehouse Publications).
1991
Award Kreissparkasse, Bremen, Germany.
1991/92
DAAD Scholarship, (Atelierhaus Worpswede), Germany.
1991/92
Atelierhaus Worpswede (Worpswede Verlag).