Annie Kevans
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Annie Kevans is an English artist. She was named number 19 in Harper's Bazaar magazine's Forty Under 40 chart of hot new British talent, September 2007 and was named number 32 in New Woman magazine’s Brit Hit List and was described as the "new Tracey Emin
". She is represented by Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York and is married to the cartoonist and singer-songwriter Will Kevans
.
Kevans attended boarding school in Staffordshire
from the age of 7 to 15 and spent her half-terms staying with elderly relatives from her mother's family. She was greatly influenced by her Great Aunt, Eleanor Allden, and adopted Great Aunt, Eileen Trubody (OBE). Kevans' Great Aunt Eleanor was one of the first female heads of industry and was made a Major during WWII and sent to Germany after the war to help rebuild the country. Kevans' Great Aunt Tru worked as a spy for MI6 and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal
by the US Government for "outstanding bravery in Casablanca
".
Kevans' mother and sister live in Grasse
, France.
, finishing her A'levels. After a 3-month secretarial course, she moved to London where she worked as a secretary in Lewisham
for a year before deciding to study languages at University of Westminster
which she did in order to see the world. During her Modern Languages degree, Kevans spent six months in Mexico and six months in Martinique
in the Caribbean. After her degree, Kevans moved to Barcelona
where she lived for one year, painting and teaching English. After moving back to London, Kevans worked as a secretary for a book publishing company and took an evening course in sculpture at the Camden Arts Centre
. She was encouraged to go to art school by a teacher there and applied and was accepted onto the Foundation course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
(CSM).
Kevans subsequently took her BA at CSM (1999–2004). While studying there, Kevans worked at the V&A Museum of Childhood
in London's East End. During this time, she also studied part-time for an MA in Museum & Gallery Management at City University in London.
in 2004. These paintings showed 20th Century tyrants, dictators and war criminals such as Adolf Hitler
, Pol Pot
and Radovan Karadžić
as young children.
Kevans' second series, Girls, dealing with the sexualisation of childhood and exhibited at London's Studio 1.1 gallery in 2006, was an installation of a girl's bedroom complete with bed, a lampshade, teddy bears and other childhood toys and memorabilia. Kevans' brightly coloured painting of Shirley Temple
hung on the wall above the bed.
Kevans' next series, entitled Swans, shown in June 2007 at 319 Portobello Road, focused on the 'American Dream' and included an image of Jessica Dubroff
, a seven-year old pilot who was attempting to become the youngest person to fly an airplane across the United States. Dubroff was killed 24 hours into the flight when her plane crashed. She was, "Inspired by an American makeover programme called The Swan where women of low self esteem are transformed by plastic surgery. For me it exemplifies societies obesession with youth and beauty." The exhibition included paintings of Mouseketeers Doreen Tracey and Britney Spears. All 27 paintings in the Swans exhibition sold out as soon as it opened and Kevans was therefore able to give up her day job as a secretary to focus on her art full-time.
Her One Child series (2005) looked at China's 'One Child' policy which forces many families to have only one child in order to keep China's population growth under control. Gods and Aliens (2004) looked at the human need to believe.
One of Kevans’ paintings appeared on Have I Got News For You
in late April 2007.
In September 2007, Kevans exhibited a new series of paintings she'd been working on called Vamps and Innocents, for a solo show in Vienna, based on the silent films of the 1920s and its stars. The entire show sold out in its first week. Kevans said,
"the portraits are of the '20s female movie stars who were forced to either play the role of the virgin or the whore."
Fellow artists Marc Quinn
and Stella Vine
are noted as being fans of her paintings. Quinn has Kevans' work in his art collection.
In October 2007, Kevans was shortlisted for a Women Of The Future award in the Art and Culture Woman of the Future category.
In September 2008, a Kevans painting of star Brooke Shields
sold for a record price at the charity auction for the Macmillan De'Longhi Art Auction in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support
. Whilst in October 2008, Kevans donated a surfboard with a painted image of 1940s actress Esther Williams
, who was known as the "Hollywood Mermaid", to the charity auction for Surfers Against Sewage
. Other artists involved included Tracey Emin
, Gavin Turk
, Sir Paul McCartney and Ben Eine
.
In November 2008, Kevans contributed a painting, originally used as the sleeve art for her musician husband Will Kevans
' record Dialing Tone in 2007, to an exhibition Awopbopaloobop in London, where artists had made works inspired by a favourite song lyric. The painting had been banned in November 2007 by online music store iTunes
who operate a "strict "no nipples" rule" forcing the artist to crop the image in order for iTunes
to stock the song. Kevans said: “The picture’s now cropped, so you just see the face. I didn’t worry about it, because painting isn’t usually thought of as pornographic.” In December 2008, Kevans sold a further 12 paintings at the Scope art fair
stand in Miami, USA.
In January 2009, Kevans was a judge for the Daler Rowney international art competition Make Your Mark. The winner of the Further Education category won a two night stay in London and the opportunity to spend a day with Annie Kevans.
In March 2009, Kevans had her first USA solo exhibition All the Presidents Girls at Volta NY in New York. The International Art Newspaper reviewed the exhibition of "beautifully executed paintings" depicting all the mistresses of US presidents including Monica Lewinsky
and Marilyn Monroe
, and commented the show was "pulling in the crowds". All 11 pieces relating to JFK sold before the fair opened, with around 12 other works purchased within an hour of the event launch. One US couple commented "as Americans, we find it mildly offensive".
During Summer 2009, the gallery presented a selection of Kevans' work taken from a new series inspired by the WAMPAS Baby Stars
. A range of Kevans' work was also exhibited by the gallery at Art Basel
Miami Beach in December 2009.
In July 2009, Perry Rubenstein Gallery in New York (now based in LA), announced it was representing Kevans worldwide. Her first large-scale US solo exhibition, Manumission, took place in February 2010. The works focused on the illegitimate slave children of early US Presidents such as Thomas Jefferson
. The word 'manumission
' means the freeing of a slave.
In 2010, Kevans began a series of works entitled Collaborators which looked at Nazi collaborators. The works look at how personal histories are rewritten and forgotten. Kevans painted Coco Chanel who was a well-known nazi collaborator during WWII. After the war, Chanel was forced to flee France and live in exile for ten years and this was well-documented at the time. When Kevans' work was exhibited in Paris in 2010, Kevans was accused of 'making it up' by several French people who were completely unaware of Chanel's real past, as this has been gradually removed from Chanel's story.
In 2011, one of Kevans' paintings was chosen for the book cover of Elvira Lindo
’s new book entitled ‘Don de Gentes’. Elvira Lindo is an award-winning Spanish writer who writes for El Pais.
Also in 2011, another of Kevans' paintings, 'Mary Miles Minter
', appeared in a book by fashion designer, Peter Jensen. The book looks at the role of the muse.
Kevans' series, Boys, is to be shown in 'The Power of Paper' exhibition in the Saatchi Gallery
in London in 2012.
Tracey Emin
Tracey Karima Emin RA is a British artist of English and Turkish Cypriot origin. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs ....
". She is represented by Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York and is married to the cartoonist and singer-songwriter Will Kevans
Will Kevans
Will Kevans is an award-winning singer-songwriter and cartoonist. He is signed to Judy Collins' New York label, Wildflower Records and is married to the artist, Annie Kevans.- Musical career :...
.
Early life
Kevans was born in 1972 in Cannes, France, to British parents. She believes that her unusual upbringing has had a great influence on her work. Her father, whom Kevans describes as "an East End existentialist traumatised by war" was a man with no past or family who suffered from mental illnesses. She describes her childhood as being full of fantasy as her father would talk to, and box with, his imaginary friend. He would eventually disappear for 17 years before resurfacing in a hospital, having been confined for shooting a gun in the middle of Cannes.Kevans attended boarding school in Staffordshire
Staffordshire
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...
from the age of 7 to 15 and spent her half-terms staying with elderly relatives from her mother's family. She was greatly influenced by her Great Aunt, Eleanor Allden, and adopted Great Aunt, Eileen Trubody (OBE). Kevans' Great Aunt Eleanor was one of the first female heads of industry and was made a Major during WWII and sent to Germany after the war to help rebuild the country. Kevans' Great Aunt Tru worked as a spy for MI6 and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal
Bronze Star Medal
The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military decoration that may be awarded for bravery, acts of merit, or meritorious service. As a medal it is awarded for merit, and with the "V" for valor device it is awarded for heroism. It is the fourth-highest combat award of the...
by the US Government for "outstanding bravery in Casablanca
Casablanca
Casablanca is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Grand Casablanca region.Casablanca is Morocco's largest city as well as its chief port. It is also the biggest city in the Maghreb. The 2004 census recorded a population of 2,949,805 in the prefecture...
".
Kevans' mother and sister live in Grasse
Grasse
-See also:*Route Napoléon*Ancient Diocese of Grasse*Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department-External links:*...
, France.
Education
Kevans was expelled from her English school when she was 15 and spent one year at Cherwell College in OxfordOxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, finishing her A'levels. After a 3-month secretarial course, she moved to London where she worked as a secretary in Lewisham
Lewisham
Lewisham is a district in South London, England, located in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is situated south-east of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.-History:...
for a year before deciding to study languages at University of Westminster
University of Westminster
The University of Westminster is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. Its origins go back to the foundation of the Royal Polytechnic Institution in 1838, and it was awarded university status in 1992.The university's headquarters and original campus are based on Regent...
which she did in order to see the world. During her Modern Languages degree, Kevans spent six months in Mexico and six months in Martinique
Martinique
Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados...
in the Caribbean. After her degree, Kevans moved to Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
where she lived for one year, painting and teaching English. After moving back to London, Kevans worked as a secretary for a book publishing company and took an evening course in sculpture at the Camden Arts Centre
Camden Arts Centre
Camden Arts Centre is a contemporary visual art gallery, dedicated to engaging living artists from across the world. Positioning the artist at the centre of the programme, Camden Arts Centre strives to involve the public in the ideas and work of today's artists.The exhibition and education...
. She was encouraged to go to art school by a teacher there and applied and was accepted onto the Foundation course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. The school has an outstanding international reputation, and is considered one of the world's leading art and design institutions...
(CSM).
Kevans subsequently took her BA at CSM (1999–2004). While studying there, Kevans worked at the V&A Museum of Childhood
V&A Museum of Childhood
The V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green in the East End of London is a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum , which is the United Kingdom's national museum of applied arts.-History:...
in London's East End. During this time, she also studied part-time for an MA in Museum & Gallery Management at City University in London.
Work
The 30 paintings from the series Boys, from Kevans' BA Degree show at CSM, were bought in their entirety by Charles SaatchiCharles Saatchi
Charles Saatchi is the co-founder with his brother Maurice of the global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, and led that business - the world's largest advertising agency in the 1980s - until they were forced out in 1995. In the same year the Saatchi brothers formed a new agency called M&C...
in 2004. These paintings showed 20th Century tyrants, dictators and war criminals such as Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
, Pol Pot
Pol Pot
Saloth Sar , better known as Pol Pot, , was a Cambodian Maoist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until his death in 1998. From 1976 to 1979, he served as the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea....
and Radovan Karadžić
Radovan Karadžic
Radovan Karadžić is a former Bosnian Serb politician. He is detained in the United Nations Detention Unit of Scheveningen, accused of war crimes committed against Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats during the Siege of Sarajevo, as well as ordering the Srebrenica massacre.Educated as a...
as young children.
Kevans' second series, Girls, dealing with the sexualisation of childhood and exhibited at London's Studio 1.1 gallery in 2006, was an installation of a girl's bedroom complete with bed, a lampshade, teddy bears and other childhood toys and memorabilia. Kevans' brightly coloured painting of Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple Black , born Shirley Jane Temple, is an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, autobiographer, and former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia...
hung on the wall above the bed.
Kevans' next series, entitled Swans, shown in June 2007 at 319 Portobello Road, focused on the 'American Dream' and included an image of Jessica Dubroff
Jessica Dubroff
Jessica Whitney Dubroff was a seven-year-old pilot trainee who died attempting to become the youngest person to fly an airplane across the United States...
, a seven-year old pilot who was attempting to become the youngest person to fly an airplane across the United States. Dubroff was killed 24 hours into the flight when her plane crashed. She was, "Inspired by an American makeover programme called The Swan where women of low self esteem are transformed by plastic surgery. For me it exemplifies societies obesession with youth and beauty." The exhibition included paintings of Mouseketeers Doreen Tracey and Britney Spears. All 27 paintings in the Swans exhibition sold out as soon as it opened and Kevans was therefore able to give up her day job as a secretary to focus on her art full-time.
Her One Child series (2005) looked at China's 'One Child' policy which forces many families to have only one child in order to keep China's population growth under control. Gods and Aliens (2004) looked at the human need to believe.
One of Kevans’ paintings appeared on Have I Got News For You
Have I Got News for You
Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been broadcast since 1990, currently the BBC's longest-ever running television panel show...
in late April 2007.
In September 2007, Kevans exhibited a new series of paintings she'd been working on called Vamps and Innocents, for a solo show in Vienna, based on the silent films of the 1920s and its stars. The entire show sold out in its first week. Kevans said,
"the portraits are of the '20s female movie stars who were forced to either play the role of the virgin or the whore."
Fellow artists Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn is a British artist and part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs . He is known for Alison Lapper Pregnant , Self , and Garden .He is one of the Young British...
and Stella Vine
Stella Vine
Stella Vine is an English artist, who lives and works in London. Her work is figurative painting with subject matter drawn from either her personal life of family, friends and school, or rock stars, royalty and celebrities.After a difficult relationship with her stepfather, she left home and in...
are noted as being fans of her paintings. Quinn has Kevans' work in his art collection.
In October 2007, Kevans was shortlisted for a Women Of The Future award in the Art and Culture Woman of the Future category.
In September 2008, a Kevans painting of star Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields
Brooke Christa Shields is an American actress and model. Some of her better-known movies include Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon, as well as TV shows such as Suddenly Susan, That '70s Show and Lipstick Jungle....
sold for a record price at the charity auction for the Macmillan De'Longhi Art Auction in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support
Macmillan Cancer Support
Macmillan Cancer Support is one of the largest British charities and provides specialist health care, information and financial support to people affected by cancer....
. Whilst in October 2008, Kevans donated a surfboard with a painted image of 1940s actress Esther Williams
Esther Williams
Esther Jane Williams is a retired American competitive swimmer and MGM movie star.Williams set multiple national and regional swimming records in her late teens as part of the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team...
, who was known as the "Hollywood Mermaid", to the charity auction for Surfers Against Sewage
Surfers against Sewage
Surfers Against Sewage is a campaign for clean, safe recreational water free from sewage effluents, toxic chemicals, nuclear waste and marine litter. SAS also campaigns to protect surf spots from environmental damage, negative impacts on wave quality and to safeguard wave riders right of access....
. Other artists involved included Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin
Tracey Karima Emin RA is a British artist of English and Turkish Cypriot origin. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs ....
, Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists . He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people.-Life and work:...
, Sir Paul McCartney and Ben Eine
Ben Eine
Eine is a prolific street artist based in London, England.-Life and career:Eine is most notable for his alphabet lettering on shop shutters in London's Shoreditch, Brick Lane and Broadway Market areas. Some of these letters have been mapped for ease of finding...
.
In November 2008, Kevans contributed a painting, originally used as the sleeve art for her musician husband Will Kevans
Will Kevans
Will Kevans is an award-winning singer-songwriter and cartoonist. He is signed to Judy Collins' New York label, Wildflower Records and is married to the artist, Annie Kevans.- Musical career :...
' record Dialing Tone in 2007, to an exhibition Awopbopaloobop in London, where artists had made works inspired by a favourite song lyric. The painting had been banned in November 2007 by online music store iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
who operate a "strict "no nipples" rule" forcing the artist to crop the image in order for iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
to stock the song. Kevans said: “The picture’s now cropped, so you just see the face. I didn’t worry about it, because painting isn’t usually thought of as pornographic.” In December 2008, Kevans sold a further 12 paintings at the Scope art fair
Scope art fair
SCOPE Art Show is one of several global contemporary art fairs. The first fair featured 28 booths of galleries representing emerging artists. The art fairs are now held annually in New York, Miami, East Hampton, London, and Basel, each presenting between 60 and 100 exhibitors...
stand in Miami, USA.
In January 2009, Kevans was a judge for the Daler Rowney international art competition Make Your Mark. The winner of the Further Education category won a two night stay in London and the opportunity to spend a day with Annie Kevans.
In March 2009, Kevans had her first USA solo exhibition All the Presidents Girls at Volta NY in New York. The International Art Newspaper reviewed the exhibition of "beautifully executed paintings" depicting all the mistresses of US presidents including Monica Lewinsky
Monica Lewinsky
Monica Samille Lewinsky is an American woman with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996...
and Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
, and commented the show was "pulling in the crowds". All 11 pieces relating to JFK sold before the fair opened, with around 12 other works purchased within an hour of the event launch. One US couple commented "as Americans, we find it mildly offensive".
During Summer 2009, the gallery presented a selection of Kevans' work taken from a new series inspired by the WAMPAS Baby Stars
WAMPAS Baby Stars
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States which honored thirteen young women each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. They were selected from 1922 to 1934, and annual...
. A range of Kevans' work was also exhibited by the gallery at Art Basel
Art Basel
Art Basel is an international contemporary art fair held each June in Basel, Switzerland. Similar to the Venice Biennale, it has been called "the Olympics of the art world". Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa...
Miami Beach in December 2009.
In July 2009, Perry Rubenstein Gallery in New York (now based in LA), announced it was representing Kevans worldwide. Her first large-scale US solo exhibition, Manumission, took place in February 2010. The works focused on the illegitimate slave children of early US Presidents such as Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...
. The word 'manumission
Manumission
Manumission is the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves. In the United States before the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished most slavery, this often happened upon the death of the owner, under conditions in his will.-Motivations:The...
' means the freeing of a slave.
In 2010, Kevans began a series of works entitled Collaborators which looked at Nazi collaborators. The works look at how personal histories are rewritten and forgotten. Kevans painted Coco Chanel who was a well-known nazi collaborator during WWII. After the war, Chanel was forced to flee France and live in exile for ten years and this was well-documented at the time. When Kevans' work was exhibited in Paris in 2010, Kevans was accused of 'making it up' by several French people who were completely unaware of Chanel's real past, as this has been gradually removed from Chanel's story.
In 2011, one of Kevans' paintings was chosen for the book cover of Elvira Lindo
Elvira Lindo
Elvira Lindo is a Spanish journalist and writer.At the age of 12 Lindo moved to Madrid, where she studied journalism. She did not get her degree, as she began to work in television and radio as a speaker, actress and scriptwriter...
’s new book entitled ‘Don de Gentes’. Elvira Lindo is an award-winning Spanish writer who writes for El Pais.
Also in 2011, another of Kevans' paintings, 'Mary Miles Minter
Mary Miles Minter
Mary Miles Minter was an American film actress of the silent film era.-Early life and rise to stardom:Born Juliet Reilly in Shreveport, Louisiana, Minter was the daughter of Broadway actress Charlotte Shelby...
', appeared in a book by fashion designer, Peter Jensen. The book looks at the role of the muse.
Kevans' series, Boys, is to be shown in 'The Power of Paper' exhibition in the Saatchi Gallery
Saatchi Gallery
The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art, opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985 in order to exhibit his collection to the public. It has occupied different premises, first in North London, then the South Bank by the River Thames and currently in Chelsea. Saatchi's collection, and...
in London in 2012.
Solo exhibitions
- Manumission at Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, USA (12 February - 16 March 2010)
- Ship of Fools at Fine Art Society, London, UK (26 November - 23 December 2009)
- "All The President's Girls" at Volta, New York, USA (5–8 March 2009)
- Vamps and Innocents at Galleria Antonio Ferrara, Vienna, Austria (September 2007)
- Swans at 319 Portobello Road, London, UK (1–23 June 2007)
- Girls at Studio 1.1, 57a Redchurch Street, London, UK (7 April - 7 May 2006)
Collections
- Saatchi GallerySaatchi GalleryThe Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art, opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985 in order to exhibit his collection to the public. It has occupied different premises, first in North London, then the South Bank by the River Thames and currently in Chelsea. Saatchi's collection, and...
, UK - Jean PigozziJean PigozziJean Pigozzi is a businessman, art collector, philanthropist and photographer. He was born in Paris as the son of Henri Pigozzi, founder of the French car maker Simca. Pigozzi studied in Paris and at Harvard University before working for the Gaumont Film Company and 20th Century Fox...
, US - 21c Museum, US
- Nunzia & Vittorio Gaddi, Italy
- Robert Diament, UK
- Paula & Leonard Granoff, US
- Marion & Guy Naggar, UK
- Marc QuinnMarc QuinnMarc Quinn is a British artist and part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs . He is known for Alison Lapper Pregnant , Self , and Garden .He is one of the Young British...
, UK - David RobertsDavid Roberts (art collector)David Roberts is a multi- millionaire commercial property developer and is considered as one of the UK's most important art collectors.-Early life:David Ian Roberts came from a family who worked in shipbuilding in Greenock, Scotland...
, UK (David Roberts Art Foundation) - Lord Rothermere, UK
- Private collections, UK and international
External links
- Annie Kevans' official website
- Annie Kevans' page at 'Perry Rubenstein Gallery', her New York gallery
- Annie Kevans' work at Artnet
- Annie Kevans' Girls images at Studio 1.1
- Laura K Jones reviews Kevans' show Swans for Saatchi Online in 2007
- The Independent newspaper article about Kevans and Charles Saatchi, 2006
- Interview with Annie Kevans at Foggy Grizzly web blog
- Annie Kevans nominated at Women Of The Future awards 2007