Anne-Marie Watson’s drawings are handwritten, flowing texts which describe memories and reflections of past events and thoughts on present experiences. They answer urgent, interesting questions or repeat the same word over and over again. Their creation is an absorbing, time consuming process which necessitates commitment and patience.

Akin to one off performances the works are highly charged documents imprinted with the intimacy of this personal, repetitive act. Words are transformed into a newly charged material for producing abstract, intricate images.

Anne-Marie Watson lives and works in St. Leonards-on-Sea.

Sep 99 – May 02 Glasgow School of Art: BA (Hons.) Fine Art: Environmental Art
Sep 96 – May 99 Leeds College of Art and Design: Foundation BTEC in Art and Design

Solo/two person

July 25 HOW, Hypha Studios, NAS gallery, Priory Meadow, Hastings
Feb 23 – May 24 seen and heard, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings
Nov 18 – Dec 18 Irgendwas mit Space, Galerie Herold, Bremen, Germany   (with Barbara Rosengarth)
Jul 18 – Sep 18 Broken circles, broken squares, Some Great Reward, Leeds   (with Mick Welbourne)
Feb 18 – Mar 18 Revolutions, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre
Oct 16 – Nov 16 This is my revolution, Project 78, St Leonard’s on Sea

Group

Aug 25 Bottle Alley Art Market, St Leonard’s on Sea
Aug 25 In Praise of Darkness, Unit 2, St Leonard’s on Sea
July 25 Homebodies, Unit 2, St Leonard’s on Sea
May 24 End of Term Review, Hastings Art School
Mar 24 Spring and Coil, Hypha Studios, Hastings
Feb 23 Hastings Open, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Aug 22 Open Plan, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
July 21 Aonis Gallery
Sep 19 Overton Open, The Ship, Overton
Sep 18 Open Studios, Project Art Works, Hastings
May 18 POWERCUT, Bermondsey, London
May 18 Hard Graft, St Nicholas Arcade, Lancaster
Mar 18 – Jun 18 Hummadruz, Newlyn Art Gallery
Feb 18 Structures, Newlyn Art Gallery (residency)
Dec 17 Editions, Project 78, St Leonard’s on Sea
Sep 17 Alfest, Alfred St, St Leonard’s on Sea

Monthly on-going Artist Facilitator: Carers O’ Clock, Culture Shift
Supporting monthly creative workshops for adult carers in Eastbourne and Uckfield, assisting lead artist to devise simple, varied, accessible activities

Sept 2025 Artist Facilitator, Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne
Weaving Words, creative workshop for adults based on own creative practice

Aug 2025 -Aug 2025 Artist support, HAF, Tide Tables, Towner Eastbourne

Jul 2024 – Sep 2024 Artist support, HAF, A World We Could Live In: Towner Eastbourne
Supported artist on a series of summer holiday creative workshops for children, six open to all and four for children with special educational needs

Aug 2024 Artist Facilitator, Circles, Towner Eastbourne
Writing, sound and projection family workshop with artist Babalola Yusuf.

May 2023 – Jul 2023 Artist facilitator: Hastings Community of Sanctuary
Devised and facilitated a series of creative workshops for a group of people from migrant backgrounds to co-produce a welcome banner for Hasting’s library and a public bunting making workshop at Sanctuary Festival

Dec 2022 Artist Facilitator: De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
Devised art, writing and mindfulness workshop for adults based on own creative practice

Aug 2025 Artist Support, HAF, Sewing the Seed, Towner Eastbourne

Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 Artist Facilitator: Project Art Works, Tate Liverpool, Fabrica
Working with children and adults with complex support needs on various projects, supporting them to create their own artwork and group drawings.

On-going Project Manager: Women’s Voice
Curate, organise and co-ordinate programme of events, including annual festival for International Women’s Day

Apr 2024 – Jul 2024 Curator, Promise Me Tomorrow: INIVA
Curated and organised an exhibition of the Co-lab project for Stuart Hall Library, London

Sep 2023 – Apr 2024 Project Manager, Co-lab Eastbourne: INIVA
Organised a series of workshops at Eastbourne Academy with artist Arpita Shah and therapist for students

Dec 2022– Dec 2023 Project Manager, Children and Young People’s Progamme: Cultureshift
Overseeing co-ordination of Space to Create, an artist led Holiday Activity Food and after school club provision combining creativity and wellbeing

April – June 2023 Interim Curator: VOLT Gallery, Devonshire Collective
Supported the organisation of Arpita Shah’s exhibition, From one dream to another and Community Takeover, including work by four different community projects based in Eastbourne.

August 2022 Project Coordinator: GROW/Towner
Supporting lead artist with activities for holiday provision for children on free school meals.

Sep 17 – Dec 18 Project Coordinator: Project Art Works, Explorers Project
Worked with galleries and social care organisations to organise events and exhibitions

May 15 – May 16 Research residency: India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia

Aug 14 Freelance artist facilitator: I’ll be your mirror, workshop and tutorials for artists

Mar 13 – Mar 14 Co-curator/originator: HOUSE
Co-curated and produced events in five houses in London with five new commissions, lectures and film screenings.

Nov 13 – Mar 14 Curator: Deplacement, École Nationale Supérieure D’Arts de Paris and Central St Martins
Experimental one week residency for students

Mar 12 – Mar 14 Curator: No Working Title
Worked with artists Jo Addison and Natasha Kidd on a collaborative project for student artists from four UK art schools.

Jun 13 – Oct 13 Curator: In Transit, Glasgow School of Art Master of Letters
Developed exhibition opportunity for students in London during Frieze

Mar 13 – Oct 14 Visiting Lecturer:
Christies Education, Bath Spa University, Glasgow School of Art, Goldsmiths University, Kingston University, Norwich University of the Arts

May 13 – Oct 13 Curator: Invisible Dust
Worked with artists on off-site exhibitions and new commissions in UK exploring the relationship between art and science.

Aug 07 – Apr 13 Curator: Camden Arts Centre
Worked directly with artists, external curators and academics commissioning new work, producing exhibitions, publications and generating partnership/international touring opportunities. Strategic planning and funding for future programme, developing new exhibitions, residencies and projects.

May 04 – Jul 07 Curator: Dundee Contemporary Arts
Worked with artists on the production of solo and group exhibitions, including production of new commissions and publications.