{{Short description|British sculptor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Use British English|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox artist | name = | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1947|12|04}} | birth_place = Watford, Hertfordshire | death_date = | death_place = | training = {{unbulleted list|Harrow School of Art|West of England College of Art}} | movement = | works = | website = }} '''Ann Christopher''' RA (born 4 December 1947) is a British sculptor known for her large-scale abstract works.
==Early life and education== [[File:Lines from Within by Ann Christopher (1993) Castle Park Bristol.jpg|thumb|''Lines from Within'' (1993), Castle Park, Bristol]]
Ann Christopher was born on 4 December 1947 in Watford, Hertfordshire.<ref name=Sculpture.org>{{cite web|title=Ann Christopher |url=http://www.sculpture.org.uk/artist/157/ann-christopher |publisher=Sculpture.org |accessdate=1 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402104224/http://www.sculpture.org.uk/artist/157/ann-christopher |archivedate=2 April 2015 }}</ref> She studied at the Harrow School of Art from 1965 to 1966 and the West of England College of Art in Bristol from 1966 to 1969.<ref name="Royal Academy">{{cite web|title=Ann Christopher RA|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/artist/ann-christopher-ra|publisher=Royal Academy|accessdate=1 March 2015}}</ref><ref name=RA>Royal Academy of Arts: [https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/artist/24 Ann Christopher RA | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts], accessdate: 29/08/2014</ref><ref name="BuckmanVol1">{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}}</ref> She lives and works north of Bath.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ann Christopher|url=http://www.pangolinlondon.com/artists/ann-christopher|publisher=Pangolin London|accessdate=1 March 2015}}</ref>
==Career== Christopher's first solo exhibition was at the Mignon Gallery, Bath in 1969. She continued to have solo exhibitions throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In 1989, she had a retrospective of her work produced between 1969 and 1989 at the Dorset County Museum.
==Works== Christopher's commissioned work exist in many locations, including the University of Bristol, the City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, the Chantrey Bequest, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and World Wide Business Centres Inc., Philadelphia.<ref name=Sculpture.org /> A 1990 bronze by Christopher is located on Tower Bridge Road in London while her 1993 work ''Lines from Within'' is situated in Bristol's Castle Park.<ref name="BuckmanVol1"/><ref name="Public">{{cite book|author=Douglas Merritt & Frances Greenacre with Katharine Eustace|publisher=Liverpool University Press |year=2011|title=Public Sculpture of Britain Volume 12: Public Sculpture of Bristol |isbn=978-184631-481-0}}</ref>
==Awards and honors== *1968: First prize in the Harrison-Cowley Sculpture Competition<ref name="BuckmanVol1"/> *1971: Peter Stuyvesant Award; prize winner in the Daily Telegraph Magazine Young Sculptors Competition<ref name="BuckmanVol1"/> *1973: Birds Charity Award<ref name="BuckmanVol1"/> and Arts Council Award, Thornton Bequest *1976: South West Arts Award<ref name="Royal Academy" /> *1977: Arts Council Grant *1994: Silver Medal for Sculpture of Outstanding Merit by the Royal Society of British Sculptors<ref name="Royal Academy" /><ref name="Gallery Pangolin">{{cite web|title=Ann Christopher|url=http://www.gallery-pangolin.com/artists/ann-christopher|publisher=Gallery Pangolin|accessdate=1 March 2015}}</ref> *1996: Frampton Award for sculpture in a public place *1997: Otto Beit Medal of Sculpture of Outstanding Merit<ref name="Royal Academy" /> *Christopher was first elected to the Royal Academy in 1980 (ARA) becoming Royal Academician in 1989.<ref name=RA/> She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1992.<ref name="Royal Academy" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Art UK bio}}
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