Media Type
Allen makes intricate collages, meticulously created using layer upon layer of tiny paper cuttings. The subjects are landscapes, epic in scope with a detailed aesthetic.
Biography/Details
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2021 In Conversation: Part III, Ambrosine Allen, Copeland Gallery, London 2018 What Remains, bo.lee, London 2017 Visions and Vistas, bo.lee HQ, London 2016 The Art of the Small. Dolph Projects, London 2015 After the Ascent, Anima Mundi, St Ives 2012 Compendium to the New World, ROOM Artspace, London EXHIBITIONS (selected) 2022 New Mythologies, King & McGaw Curated Editions, Osh Projects, London 2021 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show, London 2021 Amikam Toren, Greta Alfaro and Ambrosine Allen, postROOM, London 2018 Collaborators 5 - The Hand of the Artist, Roaming Room, London 2018 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show, London 2017 Nature's Alchemy, bo.lee Gallery, London 2016 Romanticism and the Sublime, Lubomirov Angus-Hughes. London 2016 Petrichor, 19 Greek Street, London 2016 Mono No Aware, bo.lee Gallery, London 2015 Winter Exhibition. Anima Mundi, St Ives 2015 Collaborators 4, Roaming ROOM, London 2015 The Tragedy of Landcape, Griffin Gallery, London 2014 All Visual Arts Collection, 1 Horse Guards Avenue, London 2013 Group Exhibition, All Visual Arts at 2 Omega Place, London 2013 The Viewing Room, No.1 Marylebone, London 2012 Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Being, 33 Portland Place, London 2012 Collaborators 3, ROOM Artspace, London 2012 Compendium to the New World, ROOM Artspace, London 2011 The Lie of the Land, ASC Gallery, London 2011 Through Hills and Valleys, Bristol Drawing School, Bristol ART FAIRS 2021 London Art Fair Edit, bo.lee Gallery 2020 London Art Fair, bo.lee Gallery 2019 London Art Fair, bo.lee Gallery 2018 Pulse Art Fair, Miami, USA 2018 London Art Fair, bo.lee Gallery 2017 Art Central Hong Kong, bo.lee Gallery 2017 London Art Fair, bo.lee Gallery 2016 Art 16, London. bo.Lee Gallery 2016 London Art Fair. Antlers Gallery 2015 Sluice Art Fair, London 2015 Art 15, London. Anima Mundi, St.Ives 2014 Art 14, London. All Visual Arts, London 2011 Volta 7, Basel. ROOM Artspace, London 2010 Liste Art Fair, Basel 2010 AAF, London, New York, Amsterdm PRIZES AND AWARDS 2012 Generation Next, Quintessentially Magazine 2007 UDP Residency Award, in Association with 30 Thornhill Road, London 2005 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Finalist EDUCATION 2004 - 2005 MA Fine Art: Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art 2000 - 2003 BA Fine Art: Drawing, Lancaster University RESIDENCIES AND PROJECTS 2014 Finding Your Identity project for Arts Emergency 2008 – 2010 Artists in Schools 2007 Residency, UDP Architects, London 2007 Graduate Advisor for Axis MAstars PRESS AND EDITORIAL 2013 Flaunt Magazine, The Fabrication Issue 2012 YBA Spirit, Quintessentially Magazine 2012 Book Arts No.71 2011 W.I.R.E Ideas, Facts and Fictions 2007 World Making and Fictional Landscapes, Dialogue, axisweb.org COLLECTIONS 21c Museum Hotel Collection, USA All Visual Arts, London BlueCrest Capital, London