Anne Ryan
“I was pleased to be invited to exhibit at Turner Contemporary with Sophie, we are friends and long-time admirers of each other’s work. The plan for the Sunley Gallery is to bring the whole space to life, making the seascapes and skies outside the huge window act like the third person in the show, captivating visitors to the gallery like the Sirens of the exhibition title.”
Anne Ryan was born in Limerick, Ireland and lives and works in Margate and London.
Solo exhibitions include The City Rises at Dilston Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK (2021), Earthly Delites at Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK (2020), Euoi, Euoi, Euoi at Ribot Gallery, Milan, Italy (2019), The Cowboy Paintings, Turps Gallery, London, UK (2017), Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick, Ireland (2002), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany (2001) as well as seven one-person exhibitions at greengrassi gallery, London since 2001.
Group exhibitions include A Body Apart, Larsen Warner, Sweden (2020), They catch feelings, I catch bodies, Sim Smith Gallery, London (2019), Jean-Luc Blanc, ‘Opera Rock’, CAPC Bordeaux, France, (curated by Alexis Valliant) (2009).
Ryan teaches painting at Central Saint Martins and Camberwell Schools of Art and is visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools and the Turps painting programme in South East London. She curated How small a thought which was part of Margate Now 2019.