Anna Dumitriu

Artist's Statement  ::
The paintings on canvas are highly textured using foreign substances introduced into gloss paint and then worked into using acrylics. I also use metallic paints, varnishes and interference acrylic paints which change color depending on the angles of light and the viewer.
My work deals with an interest in medical photography, microscopy and cell biology. Recent new paintings look at Vitamin 'C' molecules and question just how much we know about this commonly self administered supplement, its benefits and dangers.
I have worked on drawings and watercolors in the Genetics Department of St Georges Hospital in London, looking at cells through a microscope and at cell death. I have also collaborated with a Neurologist from St Thomas’s Hospital on a project about Encephalitis, which led to a series of paintings based on brain scans.
I also undertook a successful “Year of the Artist” residency involving photography and digital printmaking which was exhibited as part of the Brighton Festival (England’s largest Arts Festival). Subsequently I won The Brighton Festival Arts & Business Award to work with their corporate sponsors during the festival itself. Most recently I have created an installation for The TwoTen Gallery in Euston Road, London.

Selected Exhibitions:  ::
2001:New Paintings, Seven Worldwide, London (Feb/Mar) - solo
2001:“Unsung Heroines” The Science Museum, London (Jan-April) - group
2000:“Hybrid” New Greenham Arts, Newbury (Nov) - group
2000:“The Art and Science Open” New Greenham Arts, Newbury (April) - selected group show
2000:“The Invisible Body”, Whiteleys Atrium Gallery, London (Jan/Feb) - curated group show
1999:Summer Open Exhibition, St Mary in Castle, Hastings (August) - group
1999:New Paintings, Willesden Artists Gallery, London (June) - solo
1999:“Phoenix Art Trail 99”, various venues in Brighton, organiser and exhibitor (May) - group
1999:Artability One to One (Artists and Students), Worthing Museum (April) - group
1999:Raw Art Launch Show, London (April) - group
1999:“Deepwater”, curator and artist, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton (April) - group
1999:“One the Cards”, Catalyst 5, Mountbatton Gallery, Portsmouth (March) - group
1999:“Hayvend” 150 multiples sold through Whitechapel Gallery, ICA etc
1999:The White Gallery Launch Show, Brighton (January) - solo
1998:“One Week”, Public artwork for Brighton Open Market, funded by Brighton Council (November)
1998:Summer Open Exhibition, St Mary in the Castle Arts Centre, Hastings (August) - group
1998:Chance, Catalyst 4, Mountbatton Gallery, Portsmouth & British Council, Kaduna, Nigeria - group
1998:“Phoenix Art Trail 98”, various venues in Brighton, organiser and exhibitor (May)
1998:Gallery Artists, Utopia Gallery, Hastings (June) - group
1998:“Chimera”, Mary Ward Centre, London (March) - solo
1998:“Art in the Station”, Brighton Station - two person show (featured on BBC TV Breakfast News)
1998:“The Queen of a Thousand Years”, The Coffee Company, Brighton - solo (Artemis Commission)
1998:“Now it’s Dark”, Bobos, Camberwell, London (January) - Three person show
1998:“Network AD”, Candid Gallery, The Angel, Islington, London
1997:“New Horizons”, NRG, Hastings (August) - group
1996:“The Museum of Hygiene”, curator & exhibitor, Bank, Underwood Street, London - group
1996:“Revelations”(UEL teaching staff), East London Gallery (August) - group
1996:MA Degree Show, University of Brighton (July) - solo
1996:“Skirt”, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton (January) - solo
1994:Degree Show, University of Brighton (June) - solo
1991:“Small Works”, Smiths Gallery, Covent Garden, London (February) - group
1990:Hastings Arts Summer Exhibition, Hastings Museum (July) - group

Selected Awards:  ::
2003:Personal Development Award, Southern and South East Arts
2001:The Brighton Festival Arts & Business Award
2001: Liquitex Excellence in Art University Award in Acrylic Painting
2000: Year of the Artist Award from South East Arts