Nicolson Annabel

Born 1946. Studied at Hornsey College of Art, 1964-65; Edinburgh School of Art, Drawing and Painting 1965-69 and St Martins School of Art post graduate film-making 1970-1. From 1969-70 she ran the gallery at the New Arts Lab, London and was cinema programmer at the London Film Maker’s Co-op in 1974, 1976-77 and 1992/3. Nicolson is a founder member of Circles – Women’s Film in Distribution, 1979, Editorial contributor for Musics magazine 1976-79, co-editor and publisher, Readings magazine 1977. She was awarded the John Brinkley Fellowship at Norwich School of Art, 1980-81. She has been a part-time and visiting lecturer at art colleges including; Cheltenham, Chelsea, Falmouth, Ravensbourne, Glasgow, Wolverhampton and St Martins, London.

Her film works and performances have been seen at museums and galleries nationally and internationally and her artworks have been widely exhibited, from the London Film-makers Co-op and the Acme Gallery, London to the Stedelijk, Amsterdam and the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna. Her work is in the collection of the Belgian National Film Archive, British Film Institute, Canterbury University, Women Artists’ Slide Library, her artists book ‘Escaping Notice’ is the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum.

‘Annabel Nicolson,’ Lux Online, 2005. https://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/annabel_nicolson/index.html

  • Exhibitions:

    *1976 Arte Inglese Oggi, Milan.
    *1978 Escaping Notice, Palazzo Reale, Milan.
    *1980 Camera Incantate, Palazzo Reale, Milan.
    *1980 A Room of One’s Own, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell.
    *1981 Concerning Ourselves, Norwich School of Art, Norwich.
    *1982 Tents, A Quiet Place, London.
    *1982 Reflections, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth,
    *1983 Women’s Work in Fibres and Textiles, Battersea Arts Centre, London.
    *1986 Works in Cloth, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth.
    *1988 Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
    *1988 Museum of the Moving Image, London.
    *1988 Of the Cloth, Chelsea School of Art Gallery, London.
    *1990 European City of Culture staff/student exhibition, GSA, Glasgow.
    *1993 London Film Maker’s Co-Op, London.
    *1994 Papermaking Exhibition, Intaglio Gallery, London.
    *1994 The Nowness of Everything, Minories Gallery, Colchester.
    *2000 Whitechapel Gallery, London.
    *2002 Shoot Shoot Shoot, Tate Gallery, London.
    *2002 Photographer’s Gallery, London.
    *2002 On General Release, Norwich Gallery, Norwich.
    *2003 A Century of Artists’ Films in Britain, Tate Gallery, London.
    *2004 Lumiere Cinema, London.
    *2004 MUMOK, Vienna.
    *2016 Chelsea Space, London.
    *2016 University of the Arts, London.
    *2017 Raven Row, Spitalfields, London.

    Film Festivals
    Films selected for screening at the following film and media festivals:

    *1992 London Film Festival.

  • Videography:

    1969
    Abstract No 1

    1970
    Anju
    Shapes

    1971
    Slides

    1971/2
    Fez
    Market
    Mill Film
    Spaced

    1972
    Black Gate
    Spanish Banks

    1972/3
    Flavia

    1973
    Depth of Filmed
    Frames
    Jaded Vision
    Reel Time
    Sky for the Bird on the Roof of my Mind
    Depth of Field
    Precarious Vision

    1974
    Lost for Words
    Doorway
    Out of Sigh
    Screenplay

    1975
    To the Dairy
    Matches

    1976
    Piano Film

    1979
    Susan at the Hayward

    1981
    Fire Film

    1983
    Stock Exchange – Women’s Peace Action

    1992
    Xiao Bing

  • External Links:

    Annabel Nicolson page on Lux Online

    Annabel Nicolson page on Where I Am, Lux Scotland

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