ANNIE MORGAN SUGANAMI
ARTIST/MUSICIAN
Annie Suganami
Annie Morgan Suganami born in Aberystwyth , Wales in 1952 . An artist, musician and performer, she has lived and travelled worldwide and is currently based in Aberystwyth after graduating from Cardiff School of Art and Design in 2014.
Informed among other things by photography and abstraction Suganami aims to explore the human condition and make figurative painting speak with a contemporary voice where the personal suggests the universal.
She is currently working on her bi-lingual, multi-disciplinary, autobiographical show and will begin her tour of Wales/UK with with an opening show at MOMA, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth, Wales on June 5th 2015 and will also open her solo exhibition in the Tannery Gallery on the same night. Her exhibition runs for three weeks.
She
She is a working portrait artist and takes commissions.
Studied flute at Royal Academy of Music, London/performer/composer/singer-songwriter/artist/painting,drawing.
Lived in NSW, Queensland, Aus., Labrador, Yukon, Canada, Kuwait, Vienna. Toured extensively in Britain, Norway,USA and Canada.
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Education
2014 BA Fine Art (Hons), Cardiff School of Art and Design
2011 BTech, (D*), Coleg Ceredigion, Aberystwyth
2009-10 studied composition with John Metcalf MBE
1974 Cert Ed (A+) University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
1973 LRAM (performer’s) flute Royal Academy of Music, London
Music 1976- current
Self-employed musician, Canada, UK
Recording, performing, festivals
Cusan Tan – acoustic music group-1990-2006
Recordings
Cusan Tan – Fflach 1998
Esgair – Sain 2000
Touring
1995-2009
acoustic music group,Two Rivers, Canada, USA
acoustic music group, Cusan Tan, Canada, UK, USA, Norway
Art 2010- current
Exhibitions
2011, August, - Tobermoray Arts Centre, Scotland – group exhibition
2012 August - Llinell/Line –Morlan Centre, Aberystwyth, joint exhibition
2012 November- Modern Alchemists, group exhibition, Capitol Arcade, Cardiff
2013 June– unit 4, group show, Cardiff
2013 September– ZapOpen, London – group exhibition
2013 October- Cardiff Open, group exhibition
2013 November– Modern Alchemists, Capitol Arcade, Cardiff
2014 January - BIT studios group exhibition, Milgi, Cardiff
2014 April/May– solo exhibition, ‘fi, fi a fi, gan fi (a mwy)- Gas Gallery Aberystwyth
2014 October/November - Degree 2014, Cardiff Millennium Centre, Cardiff, group exhibition
2014 October/November - BeepWales 2014, Swansea
2014 November/ December – solo exhibition, Morlan Centre, Aberystwyth
Up-coming Exhibitions
2015 June - MOMA, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth, Wales, solo exhibition
Performance
1995 - Beth Sydd I Mi -two-woman show, with Sue Jones-Davies, various venues throughout Wales
2010 - August/October - 're:' -two-person show with Cai Tomos, venues in Wales and London
2014 September - Dwr-Episode 1 - one-woman show, work in progress showing, Q&A, MOMA, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth
Up-coming Performance
2015 - Dwr - one-woman show, MOMA, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth, Wales
2015 -'re:' - two-person show, dates tba, from July onwards
Awards, Grants
2013 - Helen Gregory Bursary, CSAD – travel bursary - £300
2009 - 2010 – ACW – project grant - £17,800 – two –person show ‘re:’ – with dancer, body movement artist, choreographer, Cai Tomos
2007 – ACW administered/PRSF £4,700 composition grant–for Attitude Youth Dance Company, Hereford, ‘Crossing Borders/ Croesi Tirwedd’
2006- ACW – study grant, travel bursary - £800 – voice workshop, Catherine Sadolin, Oslo, Norway
2005 – ACW, Arts Grants for Individauls - £5,000 – song composition
1995 – ACW – project grant –£7,600 - two-person show ‘ Beth Sydd Imi’, with singer, actress Sue Jones- Davies
Reviews/Links
The Living Tradition , issue 19, Henry Peacock
http://www.folkmusic.net/htmfiles/webrevs/scd2115.htm
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-09-16/entertainment/ca-39334_1_cusan-tan
‘re’: cai tomos, annie morgan Suganami – two person show
http://www.whatsonwales.co.uk/dawns/i/18781/
Llinell/Line - joint exhibition wth Karen Robbie, Morlan Centre, Aberystwyth
fi, fi a fi, gan fi, (a mwy), me, me and me, by me (and more), Gas Gallery solo exhibition, Aberystwyth
http://www.walesartsreview.org/me-me-and-me-by-me-and-more-by-annie-morgan-suganami/
http://celfceredigionart.org/tag/annie-morgan-suganami/