Ann
Noël (born in 1944 in Plymouth, England); her wide-ranging
talents as painter, graphic designer, printmaker, photographer
and performance artist bear witness to a rare combination of creative
ingenuity, bold experimentation, and up-to-date technical skills.
In addition, she has had the good fortune to know and work with
some of the more interesting artists of our time.Her career began
in earnest in 1964 at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, where
she worked on projects with such artists as Ian Hamilton Finlay
and John Furnival. After graduating with a diploma in graphic
arts and design in 1968, she was invited to Stuttgart, Germany,
to work with Hansjörg Mayer, a former mentor at the academy
and one of the first publishers of artists' books by Robert Filliou,
Richard Hamilton, Dieter Roth, André Thomkins, Emmett Williams
and so many others.
This experience with the avant-garde more than prepared her for
the job offered her in 1969, to work in New York as assistant
to Dick Higgins, publisher of the now legendary Something Else
Press, where she met Emmett Williams, editor-in-chief of the press
(and future husband) and such press regulars as George Brecht,
John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Richard Kostelanetz, Daniel Spoerri and
a plenitude of Fluxus artists. During the seventies, in addition
to developing her own creative work, she was graphic workshop
supervisor at the California Institute of the Arts, lecturer in
printmaking at the nova Scotia college of Art and Design, and
Visiting Artist at the Carpenter Center for the visual Arts at
Harvard University. In 1987 she was guest printer at the Machida-shi
Museum of Graphic Arts in Tokyo. Her work has been exhibited internationally,
and includes recent projects at the Biennales in Venice, Liverpool
and Lodz, Poland. She is also author of six artist's books published
by Rainer Verlag in Berlin. She exhibited artworks in Germany,
USA, Australia, Spain, Holland, Poland, Swiss, Italy, Canada,
England, Korea, Israel, Finland, Has lived and worked in Berlin
since 1980.
Website:
www.ann-noel.com
Exhibitions in AT Gallery:
individual:
1990 - "Mała kolekcja"
2000 - "Okna
na świat"
group:
2004
- "Alphabet" (Książka
i co dalej 5)