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Anne Bevan RSA
RSA Select 200th
Saturday 5th September - Saturday 24th October 2026
Lower and Upper Galleries
Anne Bevan was born in Orkney, where she now lives and works. A central interest throughout her career has been a creative engagement with the marine environment; flow, wave forms and tides informing her interest in cultural connectivity and environmental change.
She explores these ideas through a range of media including sculpture, photography and video. Her interest in interdisciplinary practices has seen her collaborate with many people from different specialisms, including archaeology, anthropology, geology, marine science, creative writing, film and music. This dialogue brings new connections and conversations, along with new ways of understanding our relationship to place and the environment.
Anne Bevan
Light Erratic II, 2025
Jemonite, aluminium leaf
33 x 36 x 30cm
Anne Bevan studied Fine Art and Sculpture at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art (1983-88) and has undertaken numerous national and international exhibitions, residencies and commissions. This includes solo exhibitions at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2000), Hunterian Museum, Glasgow (2004) and the Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (1997, 2017); group exhibitions include Ocean Imaginaries at RMIT Melbourne, Australia (2017); Here and Now, Scottish Art 1990 – 2001, Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Residencies include the IAAB International Artists Residency Programme in Basel (2000), Hoherweg Studios Dusseldorf (2004) and RSA residencies for Scotland in Shetland (2010) and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (2025). Public art commissions include Source, Pier Art Centre (2001), Moon Pool, Tyrebagger Forrest, Aberdeen (2002), and Tang, Stromness Primary School (2015). She is Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy.
For more information see: www.annebevan.co.uk
The project ‘Light Erratic’ is developed in collaboration with archaeologist Mark Edmonds.
Light Erratic I, 2025
Archival digital print
(signed edition of 30)
60 x 42cm
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