ANNE-KATRIN PURKISS                                                PHOTOGRAPHY

NATIONAL PARKS

AONBs

NATURE RESERVES

Cuba - People and Places (2006-2007)

Pallant House People (2003-2006)

Faces of the South Downs (2002-2005)

Local Faces - Richmond (1999-2001)

Days Before Monday - Leipzig (1981-1983)

Changing Streets - Chemnitz (1978-1979)

October 2007:
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
PORTRAITS OF SCULPTORS
www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk

2005-2006:
Touring Exhibition:
FACES OF THE SOUTH DOWNS
- a photographic diary -

January 9 to March 11, 2006:
The Museum of English Rural Life, The University of Reading
www.ruralhistory.org

October 29 to November 28, 2005:
Queen Elizabeth Country Park
www.hants.gov.uk/countryside/qecp

September 3 to September 29, 2005:
Gilbert White’s House & the Oates Museum, Selborne
www.gilbertwhiteshouse.org.uk

July 30 to August 28, 2005:
Foredown Tower, Brighton
www.foredown.virtualmuseum.info

June 25 to July 9, 2005:
West Sussex County Library, Worthing
www.westsussex.gov.uk

March 8 to April 11, 2005:
Haslemere Educational Museum, Haslemere
www.haslemeremuseum.co.uk

2001 - 2002:
Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham
LOCAL FACES - the people of Richmond and its Borough

1993:
Guildford Cathedral
LANDSCAPES OF LINDISFARNE

1991:
Epsom Playhouse
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS II

1987:
St. Leonard’s Photo Gallery, East Sussex
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS I

1983:
Information Center, Leipzig
DAYS BEFORE MONDAY

1979:
Galerie am Bruehl, Chemnitz
CHANGING STREETS

Anne Purkiss was born in Chemnitz, Germany in 1959 and graduated from Leipzig University in 1983 with a degree in photography and journalism.

She worked for an advertising agency before moving to England in 1984.

After four years at the London bureau of Associated Press, she became a freelance photographer in 1988.

Her commissions include regular work for government departments and agencies such as the Countryside Agency.

She had held several exhibitions of her work both in Germany and England. Public collections keeping her photographs include the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Archives in Windsor, the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and the University of Reading’s Museum of Rural Life.

Qualifications
1983 Degree in Journalism and Photography, Leipzig University, Germany
Interpreters’ Certificate German/ English

Employment history
1978-1979
Newspaper “Freie Presse”, Chemnitz , Germany
1983-1984 Advertising agency “Dewag”, Leipzig - photographer
1984-1988 Associated Press, London bureau - editorial assistant
1988-Freelance regular commissions from government departments:(Cabinet Office, Foreign Office, DfH, DFES several contracts with the Countryside Agency)
2004-2005 Project manager/photographer for photography workshops, curating five exhibitions at museums in south east England

Work in public collections
National Portrait Gallery, London;
Royal Academy of Arts library, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds;
University of Reading; Museum of Rural Life

Book illustrations
Mary Glasgow, Educational Publ.1992
Euromoney Books: Poland ,1994 and Finland 1996
Orleans House Gallery, exhibition catalogue, 2001

Exhibitions of own work
1979
Chemnitz;
1983 Leipzig;
1987 St.Leonards, Sussex (Arts Council sponsorship);
1991 Epsom Playhouse;
1993 Guildford Cathedral;
2001/02 Orleans House Gallery, Richmond;
2005/06 South Downs touring exhib. (Arts Council sponsorship)

SCIONIX, chromium plating, Leicester University London International Futures Exchange, trading floor Sibelius Monument, Helsinki, Finland Prof. Colin St.John Wilson, architect, London
Metsa-Serla papermill, Finland Boeing 747 turbine blades, GEC, Wales UNIPART, Coventry  Outokumpu steelworks, Kemi, Finland
NUOVOOPTIFICO, coloured glass, London London Skyline with Post Office Tower University Library, Helsinki, Finland TRAKA key safety systems, Olney, UK
Tatra National Park, Poland Stane Street near Bignor Hill, Sussex Wood for Finland\'s paper industry Trug Makers, Herstmonceux, Sussex
South Downs Way, Birling Gap, Sussex South Downs near Ditchling, West Sussex Thatchers at West Burton, Sussex Eco-project at Nottingham University
Newtimber Limeworks, Sussex Chromium Mining, Kemi, Finland Singleton Oilfield, Sussex Tatra National Park, Poland
Prof. Dame Julia Polak, Imperial College, London Viscount Cowdray, Cowdray Park, West Sussex Prof. Sir Harry Kroto, University of Sussex, Nobel Prize winner, Chemistry Dame Elizabeth Frink, sculptor
LORD HAILSHAM and LORD DENNING(r) Lord Windelsham, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford Baroness Boothroyd, former Speaker of the House of Commons James Baldwin, playwright
Richard E. Grant, actor Wilfred and Jeanette Cass, founders of Sculpture at Goodwood Sir George Solti, conductor Prof. Sir Aaron Klug, University of Cambridge, Nobel Prize winner, Chemistry

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