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Annie Morgan Suganami (b.1952) is a Welsh artist and musician currently living and working in Machynlleth, Wales. Suganami trained at the Royal Academy of Music and Cardiff School of Art & Design.
Suganami’s parallel musical and artistic pursuits share a vocabulary; rhythm; texture; composition and improvisation. Painting is experienced as a form of musical expression in her figurative and abstract practice. Suganami’s paintings are often worked and re-worked, returned to and painted over. New painting is layered over old resulting in a complex tonal arrangement that is imbued with emotion. Borrowed from observation or imagined, her images search to understand the human condition. It is human body language and most particularly the face that is central to Suganami’s work. Suganami is compelled to paint characters emanating honesty, tenacity, perseverance, resistance, tenderness and kindness– personal icons of endurance in uncertain times.
Lived in NSW, Queensland, Aus., Labrador, Yukon, Canada, Kuwait, Vienna. Toured extensively in Britain, Norway,USA and Canada.
1973 LRAM flute Royal Academy of Music, London
2014 BA Fine Art (First Class Hons), Cardiff School of Art and Design
Permanent Collections
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales
portrait - Catrin Finch
portrait - Cerys Hafana
self-portrait - Portrait Of The Artist As An Entertainer
TV
2020 March Cymry Ar Gynfas S4C documentary, painting portrait of harpist Catrin Finch
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Gallery TEN. Cardiff, Wales, 'Gwaith Diweddar/ Recent Works' September 9th - October 15th
2022 May11- June 19 'Annie Morgan Suganami 2020 – 2022, Ar Wal/ On The Wall, Rhuthin Craft Centre
2020 'Enaid, Gwaed, Ysbryd' Galeri Theatr Clwyd April 26-June 29 (postponed/covid lockdown)
2018 'Gwyneb/ Faces' November/December Morlan Centre, Aberystwyth
2018 July29-Sept 2, 'Paradwys Goll-Golau Benthyg/ Paradise Lost-Borrowed Light' Oriel Brondanw, Garreg Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, Wales
2015 August 'portreadau+patrymau 3' Fforest Cafe Gallery, Cardigan
2015 June 'portreadau+patrymau 2' Y Tabernacl, MOMA Wales, Machynlleth
2014 November/ December 'portreadau+patrymau 1', Morlan Centre, Aberystwyth
2014 April/May ‘me, me and me, by me (and more)/ fi, fi a fi,gan fi (a mwy) Gas Gallery, Aberystwyth
Residencies
2018 May 19 - July 1, Oriel Brondanw, Garreg Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, Wales
Group Exhibitions
2023 Feb-April MOMA, Machynlleth,Wales, PAX
2022 May-June, Gallery Gwyn, Aberaeron – 'Pwy Sy'n Rhedeg y Byd/ Who Runs The World
2021 - TEN, Cardiff, Summer/Winter shows (continuing annually)
2016 - Plâs Glyn Y Weddw, Summer/ Winter Shows, (continuing annually)
2019 March 10-April 17, MOMA, Machynlleth, Wales
2018 Wells Art Contemporary 2018, 6-21 October Bishop’s Palace & Gardens in Wells, Somerset, England
2018 Vis-à-Vis July to October Oriel Y Bont Gallery, University of South Wales
2018 March 1-12, Mercer Chance Gallery, Hoxton, London
2017 Dec 6-17 21st National Open Art Winners' Exhibition, Pallant House, Chichester
2017 November/December The Local Artisan Pop-Up Shop, Highstreet Arcade, Cardiff
2017 November NOA2017, The Bargehouse, Oxo Building, London
2017 August Y Lle Celf, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru, National Eisteddfod of Wales
2016 - Plâs Glyn Y Weddw, Summer/ Winter Shows, continuing annually)
'TAITH / A JOURNEY:i / for JAN MORRIS
2014 July – Abacus Gallery, Cardiff, Modern Alchemists, Half Bound
2014 July Abacus Gallery, Cardiff, Modern Alchemists, The Sum of its Parts
2014 June CSAD Degree Exhibiton, Cardiff
2014 January BIT studios, Milgi, Cardiff
2013 November Modern Alchemists, Capitol Arcade, Cardiff
2013 June Unit 4, Cardiff
2012 November Modern Alchemists, Capitol Arcade, Cardiff
2012 August Llinell/Line, Morlan Centre, Aberystwyth, joint exhibition
2011 August, Tobermoray Arts Centre, Scotland
On-line Exhibitions
2017 - November, Artist Of The Month, PLEAT Gallery, pleatgallery.com
Art Fairs
Roy's People Art Fair - 2017, September 14-17, Candid Arts Trust, Islington, London
Art Competitions
2018 Wrexham Open 2018, Wrexham, N. Wales
2018 Wells Art Contemporary, Wells, Somerset, England
2018 Longlisted, JOPP 2018, Jackson's Open Painting Prize
2017 November winner of NOA/ National Open Art 2017 'Wales Artist of the Year'
2017 August Selected for NOA2017 Bargehouse, OXO Building, London Nov 16-24
2017 August Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru/ The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Anglesey
2017 shortlisted for Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2017
2016 October WAC, Wells Art Contemporary, Wells, Somerset
2014 October/November BeepWales 2014, Swansea, Wales
2014 October/November Graduate 2014, Millennium Centre, Cardiff
2013 October Cardiff Open, Cardiff
2013 September ZapOpen, London
Performance
2022 April, Concert Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/ National Library of Wales, Cerys Hafana and Annie Morgan Suganami
2015 August 'Dŵr' one-woman show, Fforest Cafe, Cardigan
2015 June 5th 'Dŵr' one-woman show MOMA, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth, Wales
2014 September Dŵr one-woman show/ work in progress performance with Q&A Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth
2010 September/November ‘re:’ two-person show with Cai Tomos, various venues Wales, London (video here)
1995 March/September Beth Sydd i Mi two-woman show with SueJones-Davies, various venues Wales
Awards/Grants
2017 National Open Art 2017 'Wales Artist of the Year'
2013 Helen Gregory Bursary, CSAD travel bursary
2009 2010 ACW project grant, two-person show ‘re:’ with dancer, body movement artist, choreographer, Cai Tomos
2007 ACW administered/PRSF, composition grant for Attitude Youth Dance Company, Hereford, ‘Crossing Borders/ Croesi Tirwedd’
2006 ACW study grant, travel bursary, voice workshop, Catherine Sadolin, Oslo, Norway
2005 ACW Arts Grants for Individauls, song composition
1995 ACW project grant, two-person show ‘ BethSydd Imi’, with singer, actress Sue Jones-Davies
Music 1976 - current
Recording, performing, festivals, Canada, USA, UK, Norway
Recordings
2000 Esgair Sain Recordings
1998 Cusan Tan Fflach Recordings
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