Annabel Tennyson-Davies

3D printed figurative sculpture of multiple female figures being supported by scaffolding.

Annabel Tennyson-Davies (b.2001) is an interdisciplinary artist, originally from Buckinghamshire, now living and working in London. She received her Double Distinction UAL Extended Diploma in Art & Design from Buckinghamshire College Group and her First Class BA Honours in Fine Art from the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, graduating in 2022. Annabel was awarded the RIPE residency prize with ‘a space’ arts and completed a six month residency at the Alfred Arcade in Southampton. She was also shortlisted for the CVAN South East Platform Graduate Award and exhibited at The Platform Graduate Award 2022 at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth. Annabel is currently studying MA Sculpture at the RCA.

Selected solo and group exhibitions:

HUNG, DRAWN & QUARTERED, Standpoint Gallery, London, 2023
Everything is Temporary, 3 Locks Brewery, Camden, London, 2023
Red, Free and Enemy, Staffordshire St, Peckham, London, 2023
Toxic Green, Climate Exhibition, Studio Building, Royal College of Art, Battersea London, 2023
CANYON, RuptureXIBIT, Kingston, London, 2023
Boiling Point - Practice Post Art School, Open Hand Open Space Gallery, Reading, 2023
RIPE FIVE: Emergence, God's House Tower, Southampton, 2023
Platform Graduate Award 2022, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, 2022
Equilibrium, Winchester School of Art Degree Show, Winchester, 2022
Glitch, Winchester Gallery, 2022
Equilibrium II, RIPE Plums, Alfred Arcade, Southampton, 2022
Boiling Point, Yellow Edge Gallery Portsmouth, 2022
Rose Garden, Mottisfont National Trust, Winchester Gallery, Winchester, 2021
Fingerless, The Struwig Miniature Gallery, Winchester, 2021
Ominous Frog, West Side, Winchester School of Art, Winchester, 2020
The Beauty of Nature, The Railway Inn, Winchester, 2020

Awards & Residencies:

Prick and Stitch, HUNG, DRAWN & QUARTERED, Standpoint Gallery, London, 2023
FRESH 2: Boiling Point, Open Hand Open Space Gallery, Reading, 2023
RIPE, 6 Month Residency, Alfred Arcade, Southampton, 2022-2023
Platform Graduate Award 2022, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, 2022
Transform Your World, Ars Electronica and Johannes Kepler University, Austria 2021

Press/ Talks/ Publications

Stories of In-Between, The Pluralist Newspaper, 2023
Panel Discussion- Practice Post Art School, Open Hand Open Space, Reading 2023
Transform Your World, Press Conference, Ars Electronica and Johannes Kepler University, Austria 2021

Annabel is seen working in the metal workshop sanding a bronze sculpture.

Annabel works from a phenomenological perspective, abstracting phenomena from her everyday experiences of living. She documents this sculpturally, thinking through making. Annabel develops her ideas towards metaphor where her sculptural outcomes take on narratives which can resonate with us all.

She has recently been exploring the phenomena of balance and stability, her interest arising from her personal experiences of the spinning sensation resulting from constant vertigo. Annabel often produces figurative sculptures, experimenting with ways of keeping them stable in a spinning world with shifting gravities. Her figurative work is also informed by classical figurative sculpture, an interest sparked from living in London. She is fascinated by the visible support structures such as drapery, as used by classical sculptors and in the way old statues decay over time.

Annabel works in whatever medium best conveys her ideas, frequently using recycled materials. She innovates with new technologies and improvises with the traditional, moving freely between methods and materials. This year, she has produced 3D prints, bronzes, films, performances, installations and paper pulp sculptures.

Her figurative sculptures usually begin with 3D scans of her own body. In this work, Annabel performs, scans, 3D prints, rescans and digitally manipulates the forms. She chooses to leave in computer generated physical support scaffolding created during the 3D printing process, then rescans to merge the figure and scaffolding, sometimes putting her sculptures back through the process many times during her experimental process.

INNER STABILITY INSTALLATION VIEWS

A paper pulp abstraction of the inner ears’ semi-circular canals which are responsible for attaining balance. The sculpture took a walk around the RCA studio building!

Medium:

Paper Pulp, Steel, Glue and Household Paint.

Size:

70 x 150 x 40 cm approx.

Medium:

Bronze

Size:

31 x 29 x 11 cm approx.

body bronze female figurative figure sculpture stability

Medium:

PLA Filament 3D Print

Size:

23 x 32 x 30 cm approx.

3d-modeling 3d-printing 3d-scan abstract-figurative body details female figurative figure scan sculpture stability

Medium:

PLA Filament 3D Print

Size:

32 x 32 x 15 cm approx.

3d-modeling 3d-printing 3d-scan abstract abstract-figurative body details female figurative figure sculpture stability

Medium:

PLA Filament 3D Print

Size:

20 x 30 x 28 cm approx.

3d-modeling 3d-printing 3d-scan abstract abstract-figurative body details female figurative sculpture stability

Medium:

PLA Filament 3d Prints

3d-modeling 3d-printing 3d-scan abstract body details female figurative figure installation sculpture stability

Medium:

Paper Pulp, Steel, Wood, Glue and Household Paint.

Size:

125 x 30 x 25 cm approx.

abstract blue bodily body everyday everyday-life figurative figure sculpture stability textural wood

Emergence - Portal To Future Self is a site-specific installation situated in a disused lift, conceived during Annabel’s Festus residency at Standpoint Gallery. It contemplates a future self, starting in the present it poses many possibilities beyond the control of the lift operator. Linking the past with the future, it is left open to interpretation as to what each of the sculptural figures represents and where the destination might be. The sculptural selves spinning represents a journey through time and space. The lift buttons no longer work and have been replaced with new destinations which appear on the lift wall to replace them and seemingly now operate the portal.