b. 1962
Ann Carrington is a multidisciplinary artist who centers discarded found objects as a fundamental element of her practice, with a particular focus on object multiples such as coins, buttons, and stamps. She works with elements of the mundane – silverware, barbed wire, pins and paintbrushes – which she transforms into busts, still lifes, vases, and tapestries. Carrington manipulates metal using laborious techniques such as soldering and welding, unraveling and rearranging the readymade associations and cultural histories of the material to give it new life in celebratory sculptural forms.
Carrington studied at The Royal College of Art, graduating in 1987, the Trent Polytechnic (1985), and the Bourneville College of Art (1981). In 1988 she received The Herbert Read Award, followed by the Commonwealth Fellowship for Sculpture in 1992 and two Arts Council of Great Britain awards in 1994 and 1997. She has created commissions for the United Nations and the Royal Family as well as having works in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal College of Art, and numerous private collections. She lives and works in Margate, England.
