Anna Freeman Bentley (b. Freeman, 1982) is a painter based in
London. Her practice explores the built environment, architecture,
and interiors, inviting emotive, psychological, and semiotic
readings of space. With an intense, regularly dark palette and
energetic yet often intricate brushwork, her paintings depict all
manner of places - derelict factories and warehouses, baroque
buildings, shops, cafes, and modern industrial and corporate
architecture. With a particular focus on the relationships between
the design of architecture, its function and use, how these uses
change over time, and how streets, areas, communities, and cities
decline, regenerate, and gentrify, Freeman Bentley's practice
documents the changing vocabulary of architecture and captures some
of the complex dynamics, atmospheres, politics, and states of mind
that these places engender. This, the artist's first monograph,
features over forty paintings spanning her career to date, offering
a journey through the built environment that takes the viewer into
realms as diverse as psychogeography and heteropias, romanticism
and modernism. From the needs and desires of individuals to those
of the different communities that make up urban life in cities and
towns today, her paintings open up questions about displacement and
replacement, decay and rebirth, change and transformation, public
and private, social and economic mobility, aspiration and desire,
buildings and people. Seeking to go beyond the visible and tangible
and to explore ideas of faith and the sacred within space, Freeman
Bentley's work looks through the fabric of our physical environment
to ask about what lies behind, into the dialogue between matter and
spirit. The publication features newly commissioned texts by
London-based curator and writer Michele Robecchi, New York-based
art writer and editor Marina Cashdan, and Ben Quash, Professor of
Christianity and the Arts at King's College London. Edited by Matt
Price and designed by Joe Gilmore / Qubik, this hardback monograph
presents the arresting and engaging work of one of the UK's most
promising emerging painters. Freeman Bentley studied painting at
Chelsea College of Art and Design before graduating with an MA from
the Royal College of Art in 2010. She has had solo exhibitions in
Berlin, Venice, and California, residencies in London with the
Florence Trust and with Pied a Terre Michelin-starred restaurant,
and participated in group exhibitions including the Prague Biennale
and the inaugural East London Painting Prize, 2014.
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