Anna Mossman explores aspects of line and duration through the hand-made, using repetition, pattern and variation. Her work focusses on the extended field of ‘Drawing’, foregrounding finely-wrought, long-term line drawings alongside large ink and watercolour works on paper. Her current practice emerged during the mid-2000s from an extensive body of photographic work exploring recorded action and the extended moment.
Selected recent exhibitions include ‘TRANSFER: Korean and British Abstract Painting and the Digital Document’ curated by Daniel Sturgis, Simon Morley and Jung-Ah Woo at the Korean Cultural Centre UK (2023); ‘Lines of Empathy’ at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art London and CLOSE, both 2023, produced by Giulia Ricci, including an interview in the accompanying book ‘Lines of Empathy’; ‘Frequency’ at OHSH Projects South, 2023, curated by Imogen Wetherall and ‘Shivers | Shifts | Overlays’, her Solo Show at CLOSE, 2021 https://www.closeltd.com/exhibitions/10-shivers-shifts-overlays-anna-mossman/. An extensive, recent interview with Mossman by Ben Gooding can be found at https://www.saturationpoint.org.uk/Anna%20Mossman.html. Mossman’s work was recently selected for ‘Parallax’ at ‘Drawing Now Art Fair’, Paris, 2024.
Mossman has exhibited across Europe, in America, Canada and China. She studied painting at Camberwell College of Arts UAL and Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College University of London, followed by a Rome Award at The British School at Rome, Italy. Mossman is currently a Lecturer in Drawing at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, lives and works in London and is represented by CLOSE Ltd.
Mossman’s work can be further explored at www.annamossman.com and at https://www.closeltd.com/
CURRENT:
’Time’ ArtMoorHouse London https://www.artmoorhouse.com/
Sunny Side Up, Close, Somerset https://www.closeltd.com/
UPCOMING:
Photo London:14-18.5.25 Somerset House, London https://photolondon.org/
RECENT:
DRAWING NOW ART FAIR PARIS 2024
Anna Mossman selected for PARALLAX
RECENT:
Drawing Now Art Fair Paris 2024 – Anna Mossman selected for ’Parallax’
GOLD, CLOSE Ltd: 2.12.23 – 22.12.23 and 4.1.24-20.1.24
Frequency OHSH Projects South to 2023 curated by Imogen Wetherell
Lines of Empathy, curated by Giulia Ricci CLOSE Ltd, Somerset UK 2023
Interview Anna Mossman by Ben Gooding: https://saturationpoint.org.uk/Anna%20Mossman.html
Transfer 갈아타다. Korean and British Abstract Painting and the Digital Document curated by Daniel Sturgis at the Korean Cultural Centre UK London 2023
Symposium: Painting in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Art Sonje Centre Theatre, Seoul, Korea, May 2023
Lines of Empathy, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art London, curated by Giulia Ricci, 2023
Lines of Empathy, 2023 – a book of interviews conducted in lockdown between Giulia Ricci and 16 artists working with drawing, including an extensive interview about the large work ’Curved Lines’ 2012-15
Interview: Anna Mossman by Jason Gylen:
https://www.northwestdrawingcollective.com/post/q-a-anna-mossman
Shivers | Shifts | Overlays: Exhibition Review by Claire Scanlon
””:http://www.closeltd.com/exhibition-review-shiversshiftsoverlays
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2025
Photo London
‘Time’ ArtMoorHouse, London
Sunny Side Up Close, Somerset, UK
2024
Drawing Now Art Fair, Paris – +selected for Parallax 2024
GOLD CLOSE Ltd UK
2023
GOLD CLOSE Ltd UK
Frequency OHSH Projects South,London, curated by Imogen Wetherell
Lines of Empathy CLOSE Ltd UK
Transfer 갈아타다. Korean and British Abstract Painting and the Digital Document curated by Dan Sturgis, Korean Cultural Centre, London
Lines of Empathy curated by Giulia Ricci, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art London from and Lines of Empathy a book of interviews conducted in lockdown between Giulia Ricci and 16 artists working with drawing
2021
‘Shivers|Shifts|Overlays’ CLOSE Ltd UK - solo show
2020
Drawing Beyond Itself, Air Gallery Manchester UK- “http://www.airgallery.space/expandeddrawing”
2019
LINE - FIELD – INTERALIA, CLOSE Ltd http://www.closeltd.com curated by Freeny Yianni
‘From Line to Surface’ Raum X curated by Martina Geccelli
Carry On Fold Gallery London
Return of Come Kiss a Stranger, curated by Alison green and Lucky Soni Art Licks weekend
2018
Why Patterns? No 20 Arts London curated by Martyn Simpson and David R. Watson
Peripheries, Why Don’t You? ArtLicks weekend London
The Secret Charter, Dulwich Picture Gallery London
2012 prozesse – ‘curated by’_2012, curated by Alexander Streitberger, Galerie Raum mit Licht , Vienna
Linear, Vigo Gallery, London
2011 In – and outside – writing, Voorkamer, Belgium
Scope, New Photographic practices , Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2010 Hands On, curated by John Hilliard , Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna
Visibly Evident, Central Space, London
2008 Chain Reaction, Phillips de Pury, London
2007 Anna Mossman, One in the Other, London solo show
2003 adddiction, curated by Susan Morris and Christopher Kuhl Want, 15, Micawber St, London
2002 Photography Transformed , The Metropolitan Bank and Trust Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art , Ohio, USA
2000 A Shot in the Head, Lisson Gallery , london
Eat Fuck Die, Platform, London
Wonderworlds, Konstakuten, Stockholm
Manufacturers, Childer Street, London
1999 One in the Other, Tenter Ground, London solo show
1998 Internality/ Externality, Galerie Lelong , New York
Filtre , Almine Rech Gallery , Paris, France
What is a Photograph? Five Years, London
Out of Frame, Hamiltons , London
From Within, Juliet, Trieste, Italy
Host, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland.
The Road, Espace Cultuel Francois Mitterand, Beauvais, France
Near, Sharjah
Whitechapel Open, London
1997 Urbane Legenden, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden , Germany
Shot Reverse-Shot, curated by Catherine Crowston, Walter Phillips Gallery , Banff, Alberta, Canada
Performance Festival Odense 1997, Denmark
The Big Blue, Coins , Talbot Road, London
Boredom, CD Rom produced by Cambridge Darkroom
Words and Pictures, issue 9
1996 “Anna Mossman”, Lisson Gallery , London solo show
Video Myths, Bank T.V., London, Manchester, Glasgow
Close Very Very Close, Thinking Alien, Leeds University
Between Patients, Swan Yard, London N1
1995 Postscript, Lisson Gallery , London
Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery , London.
I Confess, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Glass Shelf Show, ICA, London
50X50X50X50, F.R. – E.S.P., London
Cocaine Orgasm, Bankspace, Curtain Road, London
FotoMassen, Gothenburg, Sweden solo show
1994 Dirty Holes, Modern Art, Columbia Rd, London
Whitechapel Open, London
1993 Western Exposure, Riverside Studios, London
1992 Hit and Run, Tufton St, London
Simple Twist of Fate, Riverside Studios, London
1990 Post Morality, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
Rome Scholars 1980-1990, Royal College of Art, London
1989 John Moores 16 Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Mostra 1989, British School at Rome , Italy
PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS/FEATURES
RECENT:
2024
Some Light in the Shadows: Touch, Time and Movementin Real and Digital Space – in The Journal of Art Theory and Practice 36, published by The Korean Society of Art Theorie, a paper given in May 2023 at Art Sonje Centre, Seoul Korea, in ‘Painting in the Age of Digital Reproduction’ symposium.
Korean and British Abstract Painting and the Digital Document – catalogue with essays by Woo Jung-Ah, Simon Morley and Daniel Sturgis
Interview Anna Mossman by Ben Gooding for Saturation Point, Spring 2023: https://www.saturationpoint.org.uk/
Symposium: Painting in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Art Sonje Centre Theatre, Seoul, Korea
2023+
Lines of Empathy a book of interviews conducted in lockdown between Giulia Ricci and 16 artists working with drawing
2021 Shivers | Shifts | Overlays: Exhibition Review by Claire Scanlon
””:http://www.closeltd.com/exhibition-review-shiversshiftsoverlays
2020 Interview: discussing Drawing in relation to my practice:
https://www.northwestdrawingcollective.com/post/q-a-anna-mossman
2018 Why Patterns? catalogue to accompany the exhibition.
2017 ARTIST | WORK | LISSON 50th Anniversary Lisson Gallery , Cornerhouse Publications
2012 prozesse, catalogue, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna, essay by Alexander Streitberger
Drawing – in and outside – Writing, RGAP/ Sint-Lucas Visual Arts Ghent, p.72
2011 Anna Mossman, Source , The Photographic Review, Winter 2011, Issue 69, Featuring 8 images and an accompanying essay by Daniel Jewesbury
Scope, New Photographic Practices , Camberwell Press
2010 The Drawn and Written Photograph, essay by John Hilliard, Hands On catalogue for exhibition at Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna
2007 ‘On the Blank’, Susan Morris PhD, includes discussion of work by Anna Mossman
2002 Photography Transformed , (book), The Metropolitan Bank and Trust Collection, Kertess, Abrams, 2002
1999 Anna Mossman, solo exhibition review, Mark Currah Time Out no. 1494
1999 From Within, Paolo Cecchetto, Marina Wallace, Juliet, Trieste, Italy, catalogue
1998 Host, Elisabeth Mahoney, Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 19
What is a Photograph? Sarah Kent, Time Out No. 1458
The Chosen Few, Hero Brown, party on, Independent on Sunday, 5.7.98
1997 Reports on the Adventures of Photo Genesis Dr. Jochen Poetter, catalogue essay on Anna Mossman catalogue for Urbane Legenden – London, Kunsthalle, Baden – Baden, Germany
Performance Festival Odense 1997, Catalogue
1996 Anna Mossman, Paolo Cecchetto, Juliet No.78, Summer, Trieste, Italy
Between Patients, publication to accompany exhibition, London
1995 Self/ Non-Self – Subjectivity Beyond the Open Canvas: I Confess, Simon Sheikh,
catalogue, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
1994 Real Life in London, David Lillington, Paletten no.219, Sweden
Dirty Holes, Tania Guha, Time Out, March 9-16
1991 Modern Icons, Ian Gale, The Independent, 19.2
1989 Back for Moores, Sarah Kent, 20/20, London, November
AWARDS
1988 Rome Award, The British School at Rome
EDUCATION
1981-1985 Camberwell College of Arts, London, (BA)
1986-1988 Goldsmiths, University of London, (MA)
TEACHING
CURRENT:
Lecturer in Drawing – Camberwell College of Arts UAL 2019 - present
RECENT:
Lecturer in Photography – Camberwell College of Arts UAL 1999-2019
VISITING TEACHING:*
Slade School of Fine Art, London (Media MA), Goldsmiths University of London (MA Fine Art), Byam Shaw School of Art (MA), School of Art and Design UWE
Selected recent exhibitions include ‘TRANSFER: Korean and British Abstract Painting and the Digital Document’ curated by Daniel Sturgis, Simon Morley and Jung-Ah Woo at the Korean Cultural Centre UK (2023); ‘Lines of Empathy’ at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art London and CLOSE, both 2023, produced by Giulia Ricci, including an interview in the accompanying book ‘Lines of Empathy’; ‘Frequency’ at OHSH Projects South, 2023, curated by Imogen Wetherall and ‘Shivers | Shifts | Overlays’, her Solo Show at CLOSE, 2021 https://www.closeltd.com/exhibitions/10-shivers-shifts-overlays-anna-mossman/. An extensive, recent interview with Mossman by Ben Gooding can be found at https://www.saturationpoint.org.uk/Anna%20Mossman.html. Mossman’s work was recently selected for ‘Parallax’ at ‘Drawing Now Art Fair’, Paris, 2024.
Mossman has exhibited across Europe, in America, Canada and China. She studied painting at Camberwell College of Arts UAL and Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College University of London, followed by a Rome Award at The British School at Rome, Italy. Mossman is currently a Lecturer in Drawing at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, lives and works in London and is represented by CLOSE Ltd.
Mossman’s work can be further explored at www.annamossman.com and at https://www.closeltd.com/
CURRENT:
’Time’ ArtMoorHouse London https://www.artmoorhouse.com/
Sunny Side Up, Close, Somerset https://www.closeltd.com/
UPCOMING:
Photo London:14-18.5.25 Somerset House, London https://photolondon.org/
RECENT:
DRAWING NOW ART FAIR PARIS 2024
Anna Mossman selected for PARALLAX
RECENT:
Drawing Now Art Fair Paris 2024 – Anna Mossman selected for ’Parallax’
GOLD, CLOSE Ltd: 2.12.23 – 22.12.23 and 4.1.24-20.1.24
Frequency OHSH Projects South to 2023 curated by Imogen Wetherell
Lines of Empathy, curated by Giulia Ricci CLOSE Ltd, Somerset UK 2023
Interview Anna Mossman by Ben Gooding: https://saturationpoint.org.uk/Anna%20Mossman.html
Transfer 갈아타다. Korean and British Abstract Painting and the Digital Document curated by Daniel Sturgis at the Korean Cultural Centre UK London 2023
Symposium: Painting in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Art Sonje Centre Theatre, Seoul, Korea, May 2023
Lines of Empathy, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art London, curated by Giulia Ricci, 2023
Lines of Empathy, 2023 – a book of interviews conducted in lockdown between Giulia Ricci and 16 artists working with drawing, including an extensive interview about the large work ’Curved Lines’ 2012-15
Interview: Anna Mossman by Jason Gylen:
https://www.northwestdrawingcollective.com/post/q-a-anna-mossman
Shivers | Shifts | Overlays: Exhibition Review by Claire Scanlon
””:http://www.closeltd.com/exhibition-review-shiversshiftsoverlays
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2025
Photo London
‘Time’ ArtMoorHouse, London
Sunny Side Up Close, Somerset, UK
2024
Drawing Now Art Fair, Paris – +selected for Parallax 2024
GOLD CLOSE Ltd UK
2023
GOLD CLOSE Ltd UK
Frequency OHSH Projects South,London, curated by Imogen Wetherell
Lines of Empathy CLOSE Ltd UK
Transfer 갈아타다. Korean and British Abstract Painting and the Digital Document curated by Dan Sturgis, Korean Cultural Centre, London
Lines of Empathy curated by Giulia Ricci, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art London from and Lines of Empathy a book of interviews conducted in lockdown between Giulia Ricci and 16 artists working with drawing
2021
‘Shivers|Shifts|Overlays’ CLOSE Ltd UK - solo show
2020
Drawing Beyond Itself, Air Gallery Manchester UK- “http://www.airgallery.space/expandeddrawing”
2019
LINE - FIELD – INTERALIA, CLOSE Ltd http://www.closeltd.com curated by Freeny Yianni
‘From Line to Surface’ Raum X curated by Martina Geccelli
Carry On Fold Gallery London
Return of Come Kiss a Stranger, curated by Alison green and Lucky Soni Art Licks weekend
2018
Why Patterns? No 20 Arts London curated by Martyn Simpson and David R. Watson
Peripheries, Why Don’t You? ArtLicks weekend London
The Secret Charter, Dulwich Picture Gallery London
2012 prozesse – ‘curated by’_2012, curated by Alexander Streitberger, Galerie Raum mit Licht , Vienna
Linear, Vigo Gallery, London
2011 In – and outside – writing, Voorkamer, Belgium
Scope, New Photographic practices , Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2010 Hands On, curated by John Hilliard , Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna
Visibly Evident, Central Space, London
2008 Chain Reaction, Phillips de Pury, London
2007 Anna Mossman, One in the Other, London solo show
2003 adddiction, curated by Susan Morris and Christopher Kuhl Want, 15, Micawber St, London
2002 Photography Transformed , The Metropolitan Bank and Trust Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art , Ohio, USA
2000 A Shot in the Head, Lisson Gallery , london
Eat Fuck Die, Platform, London
Wonderworlds, Konstakuten, Stockholm
Manufacturers, Childer Street, London
1999 One in the Other, Tenter Ground, London solo show
1998 Internality/ Externality, Galerie Lelong , New York
Filtre , Almine Rech Gallery , Paris, France
What is a Photograph? Five Years, London
Out of Frame, Hamiltons , London
From Within, Juliet, Trieste, Italy
Host, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland.
The Road, Espace Cultuel Francois Mitterand, Beauvais, France
Near, Sharjah
Whitechapel Open, London
1997 Urbane Legenden, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden , Germany
Shot Reverse-Shot, curated by Catherine Crowston, Walter Phillips Gallery , Banff, Alberta, Canada
Performance Festival Odense 1997, Denmark
The Big Blue, Coins , Talbot Road, London
Boredom, CD Rom produced by Cambridge Darkroom
Words and Pictures, issue 9
1996 “Anna Mossman”, Lisson Gallery , London solo show
Video Myths, Bank T.V., London, Manchester, Glasgow
Close Very Very Close, Thinking Alien, Leeds University
Between Patients, Swan Yard, London N1
1995 Postscript, Lisson Gallery , London
Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery , London.
I Confess, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Glass Shelf Show, ICA, London
50X50X50X50, F.R. – E.S.P., London
Cocaine Orgasm, Bankspace, Curtain Road, London
FotoMassen, Gothenburg, Sweden solo show
1994 Dirty Holes, Modern Art, Columbia Rd, London
Whitechapel Open, London
1993 Western Exposure, Riverside Studios, London
1992 Hit and Run, Tufton St, London
Simple Twist of Fate, Riverside Studios, London
1990 Post Morality, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
Rome Scholars 1980-1990, Royal College of Art, London
1989 John Moores 16 Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Mostra 1989, British School at Rome , Italy
PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS/FEATURES
RECENT:
2024
Some Light in the Shadows: Touch, Time and Movementin Real and Digital Space – in The Journal of Art Theory and Practice 36, published by The Korean Society of Art Theorie, a paper given in May 2023 at Art Sonje Centre, Seoul Korea, in ‘Painting in the Age of Digital Reproduction’ symposium.
Korean and British Abstract Painting and the Digital Document – catalogue with essays by Woo Jung-Ah, Simon Morley and Daniel Sturgis
Interview Anna Mossman by Ben Gooding for Saturation Point, Spring 2023: https://www.saturationpoint.org.uk/
Symposium: Painting in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Art Sonje Centre Theatre, Seoul, Korea
2023+
Lines of Empathy a book of interviews conducted in lockdown between Giulia Ricci and 16 artists working with drawing
2021 Shivers | Shifts | Overlays: Exhibition Review by Claire Scanlon
””:http://www.closeltd.com/exhibition-review-shiversshiftsoverlays
2020 Interview: discussing Drawing in relation to my practice:
https://www.northwestdrawingcollective.com/post/q-a-anna-mossman
2018 Why Patterns? catalogue to accompany the exhibition.
2017 ARTIST | WORK | LISSON 50th Anniversary Lisson Gallery , Cornerhouse Publications
2012 prozesse, catalogue, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna, essay by Alexander Streitberger
Drawing – in and outside – Writing, RGAP/ Sint-Lucas Visual Arts Ghent, p.72
2011 Anna Mossman, Source , The Photographic Review, Winter 2011, Issue 69, Featuring 8 images and an accompanying essay by Daniel Jewesbury
Scope, New Photographic Practices , Camberwell Press
2010 The Drawn and Written Photograph, essay by John Hilliard, Hands On catalogue for exhibition at Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna
2007 ‘On the Blank’, Susan Morris PhD, includes discussion of work by Anna Mossman
2002 Photography Transformed , (book), The Metropolitan Bank and Trust Collection, Kertess, Abrams, 2002
1999 Anna Mossman, solo exhibition review, Mark Currah Time Out no. 1494
1999 From Within, Paolo Cecchetto, Marina Wallace, Juliet, Trieste, Italy, catalogue
1998 Host, Elisabeth Mahoney, Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 19
What is a Photograph? Sarah Kent, Time Out No. 1458
The Chosen Few, Hero Brown, party on, Independent on Sunday, 5.7.98
1997 Reports on the Adventures of Photo Genesis Dr. Jochen Poetter, catalogue essay on Anna Mossman catalogue for Urbane Legenden – London, Kunsthalle, Baden – Baden, Germany
Performance Festival Odense 1997, Catalogue
1996 Anna Mossman, Paolo Cecchetto, Juliet No.78, Summer, Trieste, Italy
Between Patients, publication to accompany exhibition, London
1995 Self/ Non-Self – Subjectivity Beyond the Open Canvas: I Confess, Simon Sheikh,
catalogue, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
1994 Real Life in London, David Lillington, Paletten no.219, Sweden
Dirty Holes, Tania Guha, Time Out, March 9-16
1991 Modern Icons, Ian Gale, The Independent, 19.2
1989 Back for Moores, Sarah Kent, 20/20, London, November
AWARDS
1988 Rome Award, The British School at Rome
EDUCATION
1981-1985 Camberwell College of Arts, London, (BA)
1986-1988 Goldsmiths, University of London, (MA)
TEACHING
CURRENT:
Lecturer in Drawing – Camberwell College of Arts UAL 2019 - present
RECENT:
Lecturer in Photography – Camberwell College of Arts UAL 1999-2019
VISITING TEACHING:*
Slade School of Fine Art, London (Media MA), Goldsmiths University of London (MA Fine Art), Byam Shaw School of Art (MA), School of Art and Design UWE