Inside Gwyneth Paltrow's Love Affair With Art
Ann Carrington
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Ann Carrington studied at Bourneville College of Art, Birmingham and The Royal College of Art graduating in 1987. In 1988 she received The Herbert Read Award, followed by the Commonwealth Fellowship for Sculpture in 1992. Two major Arts Council of Great Britain awards followed in 1994 and 1997. In 2008 she was the winner of a national competition to produce a major new artwork for Margate sea front.
In 2010 Ann was invited by the United Nations to help raise awareness of current issues through her artwork - her first art work for The UN was presented at the UN Human Trafficking conference in Luxor Egypt, December 2010. She has exhibited worldwide and fulfilled many private and public commissions including the large scale public artwork - Manhattan Mettle - which was unveiled at The W Hotel, Hoboken, USA. in 2011.
Ann was commissioned to make The Royal Jubilee Banner for the Queen in celebration of her diamond Jubilee. The Royal Jubilee banner hung from the stern of the Royal Barge 'The Spirit of Chartwell' as it made its journey up the River Thames from Battersea to London Bridge on the historic occasion of the Thames Diamond Jubilee procession 3rd June …
Ann Carrington studied at Bourneville College of Art, Birmingham and The Royal College of Art graduating in 1987. In 1988 she received The Herbert Read Award, followed by the Commonwealth Fellowship for Sculpture in 1992. Two major Arts Council of Great Britain awards followed in 1994 and 1997. In 2008 she was the winner of a national competition to produce a major new artwork for Margate sea front.
In 2010 Ann was invited by the United Nations to help raise awareness of current issues through her artwork - her first art work for The UN was presented at the UN Human Trafficking conference in Luxor Egypt, December 2010. She has exhibited worldwide and fulfilled many private and public commissions including the large scale public artwork - Manhattan Mettle - which was unveiled at The W Hotel, Hoboken, USA. in 2011.
Ann was commissioned to make The Royal Jubilee Banner for the Queen in celebration of her diamond Jubilee. The Royal Jubilee banner hung from the stern of the Royal Barge 'The Spirit of Chartwell' as it made its journey up the River Thames from Battersea to London Bridge on the historic occasion of the Thames Diamond Jubilee procession 3rd June 2012.
Permanent Collection
Thames Diamond Jubilee Foundation, United Nations
Royal Mail, Rothschild
Guinness
Issey Miyake
Lilly Saffra
Duke of Westminster
Levi Strauss
Dunhill
DAKS
Elton John
Paul Smith
Lulu Guinness
Agent Provocateur
The Commonwealth Institute
Fred Segal
Gwyneth Paltrow
Mercury Telephones
Patricia Glenn
David Tang
Citibank
Clarks
National Trust
Mars
W Hotels
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