Anna King 2008

I love to explore empty, feral places: wastelands, abandoned buildings and barren pieces of scrub-land.

I find myself in a no-mans land. Unclaimed territory, that, for a while anyway, I can have as my own. It’s an adventure playground that nobody meant to build, a desolate, wild
expanse of cracking concrete and decaying structures. Once a hive of human activity, these forgotten places have no purpose left –
but no rules either – and nature is slowly and relentlessly taking the land back.

Anna King

Since graduating in 2005 Anna King has proven herself to be one of the most promising artists to have emerged from Scotland in recent years. She has won several major art awards including The Anna Miller Scholarship, Ian Eadie Award for drawing and painting, and the Royal Scottish Academy Landscape Award. She is winner of the prestigious Jolomo Lloyds TSB Award 2007, and plans to use the award to travel through Eastern Germany in late 2008/ 2009. Her current series of paintings, produced specifically for her first Harrogate exhibition, focus on deserted buildings and disused industrial landscapes.

She has exhibited widely in Scotland, and we are delighted that her first solo exhibition in England can be seen at 108 Fine Art, Harrogate, until 26th April 2008.

"This gifted young artist has spent the past two winters working at Joan Eardley's clifftop studio at Catterline. The results are very different from Eardley's wild, densely painted seascapes: cooler, more cerebral, with an almost icy range of colours. Yet something of Eardley's response to nature as an untameable force is echoed in King's bleakly attractive images of post-industrial landscapes: empty feral places where nature is slowly reclaiming the land."

FINANCIAL TIMES REVIEW 12th April 2008

Disused Cinema,Bradford
Oil and pencil on paper and board
36 x 51cm
SOLD

Blinkbonny Quarry
Oil and pencil on paper and board
50 x 150cm
SOLD

Containers, Bradford
Oil and pencil on paper and board
36 x 51cm
SOLD

Deserted Marketplace, Bradford
Oil on panel
240 x 50cm
SOLD

From The M8
Oil and pencil on paper and board
36 x 51cm
SOLD

Gas Bottles at Rent a Rek
Oil and pencil on paper and board
36 x 51cm
£750

Joiners Shed - Interior (II)
Oil and pencil on paper and board
50 x 80cm
SOLD

Joiners Shop Interior (I)
Oil on panel
50 x 110cm
SOLD

Mark II Astra
Oil and pencil on paper and board,
51 x 36cm
£750

Old Joiners Shed, Greenlaw
Oil and pencil on paper and board
50 x 150cm
SOLD

Rolls of Paper
Oil and pencil on paper and board
55 x 40cm
£825

Security Video Recording Cameras in Operation at All Times
Oil and pencil on paper and board
36 x 51cm
SOLD

Silage Pit
Oil and pencil on paper and board
50 x 150cm
£1850

Suitcase
Oil and pencil on paper and board
80 x 50cm
£1250

Skip, Dunottar
Oil and pencil on paper and board
50 x 150cm

Wasteland, Glasgow
Oil and pencil on paper and board
50 x 150cm
SOLD

West Coast Trees
Oil and pencil on paper and board
50 x 150cm
SOLD

No-Mans Land
Oil and pencil on paper, on board
80 x 240cm
£3900

White Containers
Oil and pencil on paper, on board
50 x 150cm
SOLD