Over the years I have come to prefer the title “storyteller”, I like the possibility that narrating grounds human life in what is specific to it. Early on, though, I left painting. I wanted to break open the edge of a painting, to enter it, and extending its narrative space outwards I made works which take cinematic form through video, drawing, literary texts, filmed staged scenarios, and live voice-over - together proposing a form of theoretical fiction that dramatises the boundary between narrative and thought.
Over the years I have come to prefer the title “storyteller”, I like the possibility that narrating grounds human life in what is specific to it. Early on, though, I left painting. I wanted to break open the edge of a painting, to enter it, and extending its narrative space outwards I made works which take cinematic form through video, drawing, literary texts, filmed staged scenarios, and live voice-over - together proposing a form of theoretical fiction that dramatises the boundary between narrative and thought.
For me stories are always complexly entangled in place. And I reach for this through a tenacious attitude towards research, burrowing with enough intensity into occluded histories I aim to then surrender to chance. This results in highly scripted narratives, featuring a muscular use of sound, which are melancholic but wry, corporeal, often intense. Increasingly, like Russian Dolls each work is nested within another as subject-matter undergoes adaption and translation. But BEWARE - even as my projects migrate across mediums and formats I lay claim to the gifts of building work around the event of a haunting; albeit that my work is also carefully constructed around the lingering phantoms of lost artefacts, adrift protagonists, and failed historical projects.
My latest, and most major project to date, ‘Treatment for Six Characters’, is based on an unrealized film Italian writer Luigi Pirandello’s wished to make about a fictionalized, ethically ambivalent, portrayal of the creative process leading to his seminal 1921 play ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’ – using a text found in a drawer in Vienna about 25 years ago I adapted Pirandello’s plans making a film that explores the imaginative possibilities of his absent film. Most recently, I have made “The Passing of the Keepers of Salento” with organizations Progetto GAP and PepeNero, Italy as part of the ‘Moving Landscape project’, documenting and dramatizing a filmed declaration with the the train Keepers of Puglia about the moment their role fell into obsolescence in 2014, as well as “Dear Anne-Marie...” (forthcoming), a staged scenario in which a fictional character invades public events.
My work is regularly exhibited internationally at galleries and museums such as: Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum (Norway), Palm Springs Art Museum, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim (The Netherlands), The Sir John Soane’s Museum (London), Apex Art (New York) Draiocht Arts Center (Dublin), Sagacho bis (Tokyo), Galerie der Künstler (Munich), and Spacex Gallery (Exeter). Publications that feature my work include The Drawing Book, edited by Tania Kovats (Black Dog Publishing, 2006). I received the Derek Hill Scholarship in Drawing at British School at Rome, 2012. I was one of a number of a group of artists responsible for the London based artist-run Cubitt Gallery in the 1990‘s. I still occasionally curate exhibitions & projects, most recently in Norway, with Lars Sture & Kjetil Berge for the Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum in western Norway. I was educated at Middlesex University & the Royal College of Art and live in London, where I am a Lecturer on the MFA course at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London.
Qualifications and training
1988 - 1990 - MA Fine Art, painting, Royal College of Art, London
1985-88 - Middlesex University, Ba (Hons) Fine Art
Solo Exhibtions
2006 - ’Flying Through Amber: the last wish of Vladimir Šlapeta’, with Andrew Grassie. FORMAT festival, Derby, UK
1999 - ’My Dark Places - Anne-Marie Creamer’, Gallery Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
1995 - ‘Interference’, James Brook & Anne-Marie Creamer, curated by Alex Farquharson, The Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK ©
Group exhibitions
2013 - The world in a box (a bittersweet salon), The Old Cinema, Margate, UK, curated by Peter Fillingham and Francesco Pedraglio
2013 - Emergency6, Aspex Gallery, UK, selected by Simon Morrissey, Dir WORKS | PROJECTS; Donna Lynas, Director of Wysing Arts Centre; S. Mark Gubb & Joanne Bushnell, Director, aspex Gallery, UK.
2013 - The Life and Times of the Oldest Man in Sogn og Fjordane, Maloy Fretag, Norway. Funded by Sogn og Fjordane Fylkeskommune, Maloy, Norway
2013 - Spazi Aperti 2013, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy
2012 - I Have Lived, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
2012 - Close to Home: artists reconsider the local, A collaboration between Land2, East Street Arts and the School of Design, University of Leeds., East Street Arts, Leeds, UK
2012 - Golden Rain, , artist project curated by Michael Petry, Palm Springs Art Museum, USA
2012 - Kome til deg i Tidende – a meta newspaper, Co-editor & artist-curator, with Lars Sture & Kjetil Berge, Hosted by Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Norway
2012 - Nordic Models; 'Publish and Be Damned', Swedish Art fair, Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm. Exhibiting Kome til deg i Tidende meta newspaper project, (co-curated with Lars Sture and Kjetil Berge)., Stockholm, Sweden
2011 - Drawing Centre Diepenheim, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, The Netherlands. Curated by Arno Kramer, with Hans Op de Beeck, Peter Morrens, Hans de Wit, Jochem van der Spek and Anne-marie Creamer, Diepenheim, The Netherlands
2011 - Outcasting: A Century of Artists Film, curated by Michael Cousins, Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan, Wales
2010 - All Over the Place, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK 2010 - DRAW - Turning Thoughts into Lines, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2010 - Inspired by Soane, The Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK
2010 - Vitamin Sandnes, Norway, a city-wide project curated by Kjetil Berge & Bernhard Ostebo. With Turi Gramstad, Oliver, Alex Schady & Hadas Kedar, Bashar Alhroub, Anne-Marie Creamer, M, Supported by Rogaland Kunstsenter, Sandnes Kunstforening, and Sandnes Sentrum AS., Sandnes, Norway
2009 - All Over the Place; Drawing Place: Drawing Space, University of the West of England Bristol Gallery, UK
2009 - Hosted by the Alyans Project, Ellipses...telling the tale of the rings, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2009 - Interrupted Correspondence/ Vice-Versa: Five Years Fragments, Five Years Gallery / JTG Project ’09, london, UK
2009 - Migrations, Dance Film series, Royal Cambrian Academy. Tour to: Oriel Mostyn & Venue Cymru Llandudno, Galeri Caernarfon, Oriel Pendeitsh Caernarfon, Rhyl Arts Centre. Screening ‘Meeting the Pied Piper in Brasov. Curated by Karine Décorne, (througout 2009/10)
2008 - Bad Year Blimp, Alma Enterprises Gallery, London and Norway 2008 - F O U N D / G E V O N D E N / T R O U V É, Voorkamer gallery, Lier, Belgium, Lier, Belgium
2008 - Golden Rain, On the Edge project, Eigeroya lighthouse, Egersund, Norway. Curated by Michael Petry. Organized by Ha Gamle Prestegard as part of Stavanger 2008, (European Union city of culture 2008), Stavanger
2008 - The Walls in Three Places, White Nave, Dover, UK. Curated by Peter Fillingham, Dover, UK 2007 - Malé etudy, Skolska 28 Communication Space, Prague, Czech Republic, with CAS FAMU, Prague Film School, Prague, Czech Republlic 2007 - Most Curatorial Biennial, , Apex arts, New York, USA
2007 - Selective Affinities, Outpost Gallery, , Norwich, UK
2007 - Territorien, München, Germany. Jan Mladovsky / Jost - H. Hecker, Andreas Wutz, Anne-Marie Creamer, Tomas Svoboda, Sabine Kammerl, Hanus Burger, Robert Barta, Toni Crabb & Martin Zet. Curated by Pavel Zelechovsky, BBK Galerie de Kunstler, München, Germany
2006 - X-MASS The Spot: Sweet-Shop Labour Force Elves. Draiocht Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland. Curated Nevan Lahart.
2005 - Oriel Mostyn 25, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK ©
2005 - ‘Freecamp’, Cultural Hall of the Syndicates, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2003 - ‘Videoformes’, International festival d’arts video et Multimedia de Clermont-Ferrand, France.
2003 - ‘Rencontres Internationales PARIS-BERLIN’, Paris, France. 2003 ©
2001 - ’Video art Exhibition’, AD&A Gallery, Osaka, Japan (supported by the British Council)
2001 - ’The Ghost in the Mirror’, collaboration with filmmaker Keiichi Ogata, Omotesando Gallery, part of British Artist Now Festival, Tokyo, Japan ©
2001 - ‘In Your Head Film Night’, One-in-the-Eye Film Club, selected by David Harrison, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK.
2001 - ’East International’, selected by Mary Kelly & Peter Wollen, The Norwich Art Gallery, UK ©
2000 - ’British Art Now’, Sagacho bis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan ©
Artist Public talks
2013 - ‘Uncertain Glances’ symposium (organized by LAND2), Southampton City Art Gallery, UK
2011 - Drawing Symposium, with Professor Deanna Petherbrigde, Clare Woods & Anne-Marie Creamer, Hereford College of Art, UK, Uk
2010 - Drawing, Memory and Place, A symposium/debate, Brighton University. With Emma Stibbon and Dr. Iain Biggs. Part of ‘Art Practices and Performance Research Institute',, Brighton Univversity, UK
2010 - Exposure ’10’, Panel talk, Parasol unit foundation London. Co-moderator with Professor David Rayson, Royal College of Art,with Leah Capaldi, Lea Provenzano & Kate Liston., Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London , London, UK
2009 - DRAW session, ‘Love and Theft’, Royal College of Art, , London, UK
2009 - The End of the Line, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol. Panel discussion, with Hayward Gallery Touring exhibitions, Roger Malbert Emma Stibbon Anne-marie Creamer, Roger Conlon, and Philip Walke, Bristol, UK
2008 - All Over the Place; Drawing Place: Drawing Space, symposium, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
2008 - 'Drawing, an other way of learning', Symposium at Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst, Departement Saint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst, Gent, Belgium. With Thierry de Duve, Michaël Borremans, The Drawing Room, Anne-Marie Creamer, Lieve Dehasque, Peter Morrens, William Ploegaert & Stef Van Bellingen. , Ghent, Belgium
2008 - Public Interview of Norwegian artist Kjetil Berge, Foundation Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, Norway 2006 - FORMAT photography conference. including Dan Hays, Lisa Le Feurve, Jonathan Harris, John Goto, Angela Grauerholz, Sarah Jones & Edwin Zwakman, Derby University, Derby, UK
2003 - Drawing Quarters 1, including Deanna Petherbridge, Grenville Davey, Humphrey Ocean, Paul Gough, Caroline Broadhead, Tania Kovats, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
2001 - ‘The British Art scene in the 1990’s’, Open Studios NOPE, Tokyo, Japan
2001 - ‘Hand-Made Film- East conference’, chaired by Marjorie Althorpe-Guyton. Cinema City, Norwich, UK
2000 - ’Artist Run Galleries,’ panel speaker at symposium, Spacex Gallery, UK
Programming Artists talks, events, screenings and symposia
Anne-Marie was the Head Talks & Events at the Cubitt Gallery, London in the 1990’s & in 1999 was the Programmer of Talks, Delflna Studios Trust.
2008-11 - Adjunct Education & Events Programmer at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London programming contemporary art talks, events, interviews & symposiums.
Residencies
2012 - Derek Hill Scholarship, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
2003 - Evelyn Williams Drawing Fellowship, University of the West of England Bristol Gallery, Bristol, UK
2003 - 'International-artist-in-residence-award', Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
1991 - Artist residency, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
1991 - The Union of Soviet Art Critics Residency, U.S.S.R- Russia, Latvia, Uzbekistan & the Crimea, The Union of Soviet Art Critics Residency, U.S.S.R
1990 - The Delfina Studios Trust Award, The Delfina Studios Trust, London
Prizes and Awards
2013 - European Regional Development Fund Award - New Creative Markets Programme with Space Studios.
2013 - Sogn og Fjordane Fylkeskommune, Norway, for post-production & exhibition costs of ‘The Life and Times of the Oldest Man in Sogn og Fjordane’.
2012 - Derek Hill Scholarship, British School at Rome, Rome
2012 - CCW Graduate School Staff Fund, Awarded by Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon Colleges of Art, University of the Arts London, London and Norway
2003 - Arts Council of England, awards to artists, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK
2003 - Evelyn Williams Drawing Fellowship, University of the West of England Bristol Gallery, Bristol, UK
2003 - 'International-artist-in-residence-award', Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 - Small Grants Awards, AHRC, Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK
2001 - London Arts Development Fund: London Visual Arts Artists Fund, London Arts Board, London, UK
1997 - Award to Individual Artists, London Arts Board, London, UK
1992 - European Travel Award, Berlin, The Princes Trust, London/ Berlin
1990 - The Delfina Studios Trust Award, The Delfina Studios Trust, London
Collections
Royal College of Art Collection, Coopers & Lybrand Delloitte, London, Delfina Studios Trust, London, & in private collections in London, Switzerland & Paris.
Publications
2013 - British School at Rome, ‘fineARTS 2012-13’.
2012 - Kome til deg i Tidende – a meta newspaper. Co-editor & artist-curator, with Lars Sture & Kjetil Berge. Hosted by Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum this publishing project is distribute
2010 - All Over the Place; Drawing Place: Drawing Space, University of the West of England Bristol, published by Caseman Press at the University of Lincoln.
2008 - Golden Rain, for “On the Edge” Project, Eigeroya lighthouse, Egersund, Norway. Texts by Michael Petry. Organized by Ha Gamle Prestegard as part of ‚Stavanger 2008‘, European City of Culture
2008 - LICC, London International Creatice Competition '01, Text by Hossein Farmani & artists. Published by Asterix Press.
2006 - 'The Drawing Book, a survey of drawing, the primary means of expression'. Edited by Tania Kovats. With texts by Charles Darwent, Kate Macfarlane & Katherine Stout, Black Dog Publishing, London
2005 - Basil H Alkazzi Foundation & The Royal College of Art. Published by the Basil H Alkazzi Foundation & The Royal College of Art
Consultancy Work
Has worked in a consultative position for the Arts Council of England, London, on the Advisory Board for Visual Arts funding in London and was a consultant to development of ‘Artquest’ for London Arts Board, an on-line and event based support resource project for artists within London. In 2006 Anne-Marie was on the judging panel for the Alkazzi Foundation Awards, Royal College of Art, Fine Art Department, London.
Curatorial/ Exhibition work
Has previously worked within the Cubit Gallery London (1994-99), on the gallery advisory committee at Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK in 1999.
2012 - ‘Kome til deg i Tidende – a meta newspaper’, Co-editor & artist-curator, with Lars Sture & Kjetil Berge. Hosted by Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum. Featuring also in: Nordic Models; 'Publish and Be Damned', Swedish Art fair, Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Bergen Kunsthalle, Museum Stavanger, and Donlon Books. ©
Lecturing
Teaching qualification and recognition
2012 - Post graduate certificate in Teaching and Learning, University of the Arts London
2013 - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2013 - White Square Award, Students Union Teaching Awards at University of the Arts London
Previous Visiting Artist-Lecturer
Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst, Saint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst, Gent, Belgium; Sunderland University, Middlesex University, University of Central England, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University; Leeds Metropolitan University; KIAD, Canterbury College of Art; Nene College. Northampton University; Surrey Institute of Art & Design; University of Northumbria at Newcastle; Chelsea College of Art & Design; Leeds University; Royal College of Art & Central Saint Martins School of Art, Ba Fine Art.
Previous Part-time Lecturer
Loughborough College of Art; Central Saint Martins School of Art. Cultural Studies Department; Central School of Speech & Drama, Post-Graduate Diploma Course, Acting Course Tutor, MA, Painting & Installation Art; Royal College of Art, Centre for Drawing Research; University of Plymouth, Exeter School of Art; Norwich University College of the Arts on Ba Fine Art Painting, MA Fine Art & MA Photography; Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, MA in Drawing/ Fine Art; Central Saint Martins, Lead Tutor in Painting.
Currently
Associate Lecturer, Camberwell College of Art, Ba Fine Art, Drawing, University of the Arts London.
Visiting Practioner at Central Saint Martins, Ba Fine Art course, University of the Arts London.
