About Anna Alcock

Event: LOOP 2019

Dates: 18 Sep 2019 - 12 Oct 2019

LOOP2019
Wed 18th September – Sat 12th October 2019

The LOOP2019 exhibition will showcase recent work by nationally and internationally exhibiting artists, including accomplished and established printmakers, some of whom are also founders of print workshops.

LOOP has presented some of the best in new printmaking through annual exhibitions since 2005, and up to now always in London. This year the exhibition is venturing out of London for the first time to Chapel Arts here in Cheltenham.

LOOP is an informal co-operative of artists, the majority of whom have a background in print. Creative freedom is encouraged; artists show their individual ideas in their choice of approach, from the oldest print technology through to the most recent digital developments, offering an inspiring variety of imagery and technique, and diversity in selected media.


MEET THE ARTISTS: Sat 28th Sept 2 – 4pm & Sun 29th Sept 12 – 4pm

SUNDAY OPENING: Sun 29th Sept & S

Event: Out of the Woods

Dates: 1 Aug 2019 - 31 Aug 2019

Solo exhibition

Event: SWARM: Artists respond to pollinator crises

Dates: 14 Jun 2019 - 26 Jan 2020

Bees are in serious decline in the UK and across the world. Other pollinators such as hoverflies, moths and butterflies are also in trouble – since 2000 British butterflies have declined by 58% and over 75% of Europe’s insect population has been lost in the last 30 years. The biggest single threat to pollinating insects is intensive farming: its vast monocultures have shrunk pollinators’ foraging habitats, while heavy reliance on pesticides has a devastating impact on their health. Meanwhile, home and garden stores sell a wide range of pesticides for use by amateur gardeners that are toxic to bees.

In Swarm artists Anna Alcock, Hannah Ford, Miyuki Kasahara, Alke Schmidt and Sandie Sutton respond to this crisis with new work that draws on the latest research into the causes of the alarming decline of pollinators. Featuring painting, printmaking, textiles, sculpture and installation, the exhibition is both a call to arms and a celebration of these wondrous and hard-working insects.

Event: LOOP @Bankside Gallery

Dates: 13 Sep 2016 - 19 Sep 2016

LOOP is an informal co-operative of artists with a background in print. Some of these artists have exhibited internationally, set up print studios, or pursued teaching careers, while others have continued to work in their own studios. A few newcomers have recently completed a Printmaking MA at Camberwell College. LOOP is an evolving platform that has presented some of the best in new printmaking.

The focus of the exhibitions has always been print, with creative and experimental use of the oldest to the newest technologies. The variety and vitality of contemporary print has been evident in all LOOP exhibitions.

Event: Bestow

Dates: 1 Sep 2012 - 15 Sep 2012

Etching for Bestow. Winning Image for E17 Art Trail Guide publicity exhibited
Walthamstow, London

Event: PRINTATHON

Dates: 8 Jun 2012 - 15 Jul 2012

East London Printmakers

Event: Lady of the Forest Exhibition

Dates: 5 May 2012 - 24 Nov 2012

Travelling Exhibition curated by Anna Alcock: London and South Africa
24 international artists exhibited at the following venues in 2012: Inky Cuttlefish Studios, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, Jack Heath Gallery (South Africa), Vestry House Museum (London)

Event: 8th British Miniprint Exhibition

Dates: 6 Apr 2012 - 28 Feb 2014

Venues for touring exhibition: londonprintstudio Opening Show, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Ropewalk Gallery, Barton on Humber, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, The Gallery at Gateshead Library, Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum, Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood, Kent, The Gallery at the Civic, Barnsley

Event: Mythology in London

Dates: 15 Mar 2012 - 31 Mar 2012

Anna Alcock’s love stories and mythology started when she was young and continued to grow through her studies in South Africa when she majored in Classical Civilisations as part of her BA Fine Art (Hons) degree. She completed a MA Printmaking in London in 2004. She exhibits regularly and her art is in private and public collections around the world.

Anna Alcock uses Greek and Roman mythological images and populates them with modern day narratives that are of significance to her living in London now. The exhibition will also include an exclusive bound suite of 15 etchings, which will be exhibited alongside etching collages and tabloids of myths with personal modern day stories that she imbues with her unique style and bold colours.

By using her experience of London and applying ancient Greek and Roman cultural thinking the theme of mythology is applied to everyday events for example bankers loss of status during the recent recession is illustrated by the myth of “Icarus”. Archetypes are found in our unconscious daily lives as shown in “Demeter”, the story of a mother’s search for her daughter “Persephone” and the resulting winter of her grief.

Event: LOOP at Bankside

Dates: 19 Apr 2011 - 25 Apr 2011

Gallery of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers