Sara Annwyl is an artist, writer, performer and curator who works primarily with video, performance and the written word.
Annwyl is drawn to the concealed and repressed and is interested in notions of honesty. Her practice revolves around communication and reciprocity; the transmission and exchange of mood and thought. Her work often expresses her longing for a universe that responds directly to her state of mind.
Increasingly Annwyl is fascinated with confessional acts of emotional disclosure, and associated notions of dignity or its loss.
Annwyl is a process-led curator, usually working collaboratively outside the institution and at a grassroots level, often supporting artists in the creation of new work.
From 2012-2013 she co-founded and creatively directed ATTIC, a Cardiff gallery situated in a disused attic on Albany Rd and dedicated to developing new work about personal, cultural or scientific understandings of the mind . http://www.atticblogsite.wordpress.com
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Exhibitions Include:
TATE MODERN Tweet Me Up August 2012 (25><28 collaboration)
ABC GALLERY Moscow Infinite Longing May- June 2006
TATTON PARK BIENNIAL Manchester Sep 2008
ICA London April 2005
FACT Liverpool March 2005
PHOENIX ARTS Leicester March 2005
SIDE CINEMA Newcastle March 2005
CASTLEFIELD GALLERY Manchester Feb 2005 / Nov 2004
G39 Cardiff If You Build It They Will Come Aug 2008
CYWAITH CYMRU Cardiff, Say A Little Prayer May 2006
MAC Birmingham March 2006
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WALES Cardiff Dec 2005
CHAPTER Cardiff Experimentica Nov 2000
MRC Centenary at BAY ART How The Light Gets In July 2013
GOAT MAJOR PROJECTS The Witching Hour Oct/Nov 2012
ART IN THE WAREHOUSE The Crying Counsellor (performance) Dec 2012
Film Festivals:
Fresh Film Festival (Winner of Best Live Action Drama)
International Welsh Film Festival, Cardiff
Clermont-Ferrand, France
Festival L’Etrange, Paris
Int’l Short Film Festival Kracow, Poland
Critics Fortnight (Cannes), France
Cinema Jove, Valencia, Spain
Vila Do Conde Short Film Festival, Portugal
Melbourne Int’l Film Festival, Australia
Sao Paulo Int’l Film Festival, Brazil
Molodist Int’l Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
Cork Int’l Film Festival, Ireland
Uppsala International Film Festival, Sweden
Puchon, Korea
Almeria Short Film Festival, Spain
Dead by Dawn Film Festival, Scotland
Umea International Film Festival, Sweden
Berlin Interfilm Festival, Germany
Leeds International Film Festival, England
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