Annabel Elgar

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Born: 1971
Lives: London

Education
1999-2001 MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London
1991-94 BA Hons. Film, Video & Photographic Arts, Central London Polytechnic

Solo Exhibitions
2012 MIA, MIlan, solo presentation/Metronom
2011-12 Metronom, Modena, Italy
2010 Wapping Project Bankside, London
2008 MONA, Detroit, USA
2007 Nepente Gallery, Milan
2007 Gallery F7, Month of Photography, Bratislava
2006 'We were until we weren't', Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
2006 'Secrets and Mysteries', (with Anne Kathrin Greiner), Zephyr, Mannheim, Germany
2004 'Black Flag', The Wapping Project, London (The Jerwood Commissions 2004)
2004 Upstream Gallery (two person show), Amsterdam

Group Exhibitions
2011 The Wapping Project Bankside
2011 'Please drive slowly through our village', Fold Gallery, London
2010 The Wapping Project Bankside, London
2010 Beasts Royale, Viktor Wynd Inc, London
2010 'Exquisite Trove', House of Fairy Tales, Millenium Gallery, St Ives
2009 'Exquisite Trove', House of Fairy Tales, New Art Gallery Walsall
2009 'Theatres of the Real' FotoMuseum, Antwerp
2009 Creekside Open (selector: Jenni Lomax)
2009 'No End in Sight' Vegas Gallery, London
2008 Error One, Extra City, Antwerp
2008 'Refuge', The Wapping Project, London (Elina Brotherus, Annabel Elgar & Ailbhe ni Bhriain)
2008 'No End in SIght', Galerie Polaris, Paris
2008 'In Our World: New Photography in Britain' Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy curator: Filippo Maggia
2007 ArtSway Open 07, Say, UK
2007 'The Joy', Nettie Horn Gallery, London
2007 Lodz Art Centre, Poland
2007 Creekside Open, London (selector: Victoria Miro)
2007 Off Programme, Krakow, Poland
2006 'Plug' County Hall, London
2005 'Narratives of the Presumed Invisible', Kunsthalle Lophem, Belgium
(Annabel Elgar, Anthony Goicolea and Kristof Vrancken)
2005 'The Madness of Paradise',Pannell Gallery,Sweet Briar College,USA
(Gregory Crewdson, Annabel Elgar and Justine Kurland)
2005 'Fashion, Film and Fiction' The Wapping Project, London
2005 'Locus Loppem', Kunsthalle Lophem, Loppem, Belgium
2004 'Adolescenz', Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna
2003 Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2003 'Twenty White Chairs', The Wapping Project, London
(Jerwood Commissions 2003), touring to the Jerwood Space, London
and The Design Centre, Leeds
2002 'Urban Raw', Millais Gallery, Southampton
2001 '14 x 14', Mafuji Gallery, London
2001 'Miniature Madness', Winkley Street Studios, London
2000 'Assembly', Jubilee Street, Whitechapel, London
2000 Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
1997 Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge
1996 Zone Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1994 The Faberge Photography Awards, Victoria and Albert Museum, London








Bibliography
2011 'Please Drive Slowly Through Our Village' Art Review, Rebecca Geldard (October)
2010 'Top 10 London Photographers' Spoonfed (online), 4 August 2010
2010 Time Out, 'In The Studio', Helen Sumpter (April 29- May 5 2010) p.43
2009 EXTRA, FotoMuseum Antwerp, Summer 2009, p. 34-37
2009 Cent, p.39, Spring/Summer 2009
2008 Exibart, Emanuele Beluffi (25 January 2008
2007 Highlights, # 29, p. 200-205, Greece
2006 Portalkunstgeschichte.de, 'Finstre Idyllen' (8 June 2006)
2006 Die Rheinpfalz,�Theater der Dinge�, Kai Scharffenberger, �Secrets and Mysteries� (1 June 2006)
2006 Zoom, �Vision Germany�, Cristina Franzoni (p.16, 07-08/06)
2006 Mannheimer Morgen, �Geheimnisvolle Spuren� (30 May 2006)
2006 Le Monde Diplomatique, �British Photography�, Steffen Moestrupp (March 2006, no.3. p.13)
2005 �De Tijd�, Belgium, Marc Ruyters, (28 October 2005)
2004 'Broken Boiler' Helen Sumpter, The Big Issue, November 22-28th 2004, p30-31
2004 Next Level, no.5, 2004
2003 Camera Austria, no.82, Forum
2003 Art Review, volume L1V, December-January 2003
1999 The Independent, The Review, 4-9 October 1999
1995 Women's Art Magazine, September/October 199

Grants/Awards
2009 Shortlisted for Creekside Open, London (selector: Jenni Lomax)
2007 Shortlisted for ArtSway Open 07, Sway, UK
2007 Shortlisted for Creekside Open, London (selector: Victoria Miro)
2006 Winner, 8th Portfolio Review, Month of Photography, Bratislava
2004 Jerwood Commission
2004 Arts Council Award
2003 London Arts Award
2000 Winner, National Magazine Award (in association with the Royal College of Art)

Publications
2011 Source Photographic Review, Winter Issue 69
2011 'Please Drive Slowly Through Our Village' Catalogue
2009 'Theatres of the Real' Photoworks/FotoMuseum Antwerp
2008 'In Our World: New Photography in Britain' (Skira)
2006 �Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour� (V&A;: Merrell, London/ New York, 2006, Martin Barnes & Kate Best) p21
2006 'We Were Until We Weren't' catalogue (text by Anne Mette Laursen)
2005 'The Madness of Paradise' catalogue
2001 Still moving still, RCA Photography MA Publication
1996 Words & Pictures, Issue 4, Glass Shelf Show, ICA, London