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 (residency)
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 26 MASS, Stitch for Change, DLWP, Bexhill
July 26 Odour, Electro Studios, St Leonard’s on Sea
May 26 – Jun 26 The Thinking Hand, Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne (residency)
Feb 26 Floorplan, Unit 2, St Leonard’s on Sea
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

Aug 2026 Artist support, HAF, A Future Archaeology, Towner, Eastbourne
Supporting artist on a series of summer holiday creative workshops for children on free school meals and with SEN.

May 2022 – Jul 2026 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.

Jul 2026 Artist Facilitator, Drawing with Words, Hastings Contemporary
Creative workshop for adults based on own creative practice.

Jun 2026 Artist Facilitator, The Words I Return To, Volt, Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne
A creative workshop for counsellors and therapists exploring words relating to their practice.

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

Aug 2025 Artist support, HAF, Tide Tables, Towner Eastbourne
Supporting artist on a series of summer holiday creative workshops for children on free school meals and with SEN.

Jul 2024 – Sep 2024 Artist support, HAF, A World We Could Live In: Towner Eastbourne
Supporting artist on a series of summer holiday creative workshops for children on free school meals and with SEN.

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 Hastings 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 2022 Artist Support, HAF, Sewing the Seed, Towner Eastbourne
Supporting artist on a series of summer holiday creative workshops for children on free school meals and with SEN.

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.

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 2023 – 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.

Sep 2017 – Dec 2018 Project Coordinator: Project Art Works, Explorers Project
Worked with galleries and social care organisations to organise events and exhibitions.

May 2015 – May 2016 Research residency: India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

Aug 2014 Freelance artist facilitator: I’ll be your mirror, workshop and tutorials for artists.

Mar 2013 – Mar 2014 Co-curator/originator: HOUSE
Co-curated and produced events in five houses in London with five new commissions, lectures and film screenings.

Nov 2013 – Mar 2014 Curator: Deplacement, École Nationale Supérieure D’Arts de Paris and Central St Martins
Co-curated and developed experimental one-week residency for students.

Mar 2012 – Mar 2014 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 2013 – Oct 2013 Curator: In Transit, Glasgow School of Art Master of Letters
Developed exhibition opportunity for students in London during Frieze.

Mar 2013 – Oct 2014 Visiting Lecturer: Christies Education, Bath Spa University, Glasgow School of Art, Goldsmiths University, Kingston University, Norwich University of the Arts.

May 2013 – Oct 2013 Curator: Invisible Dust
Worked with artists on off-site exhibitions and new commissions in UK exploring the relationship between art and science.

Aug 2007 – Apr 2013 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 2004 – Jul 2007 Curator: Dundee Contemporary Arts
Worked with artists on the production of solo and group exhibitions, including production of new commissions and publications.