Emily Andersen is a London-based artist and graduate of the Royal College of Art. Her work has been exhibited in galleries including: The Photographers’ Gallery, London; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London; The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; China Arts Museum, Shanghai; BOOKMARC Gallery, Tokyo; and LOWW Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
A number of her portraits are in the permanent collection of The National Portrait Gallery, London. She has won awards including the John Kobal prize for portraiture. Her third book Another Place was published in 2023. She is a Senior lecturer in theory and practice of photography at Nottingham Trent University.
Exhibitions
Bibliography
2023
Another Place, 62 pp book published by LOWW.Co.Ltd, Tokyo, Japan
2021-23
Portraying Presence, Women in Arts and Culture, (photograph of Zaha Hadid), Chanel and the National Portrait Gallery, London
2021
d-Revolution, Catalogue, Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2021
Museum in Modern Times, Charles Sumarez-Smith, Nicholas Serota (photograph) Thames and Hudson UK and USA. p.124.
2020
Death of a Mermaid [photograph], Lesley Thomson, Head of Zeus
G Stands for Go-Betweens, Anthology Vol 2, Exclusive Box set (photograph) Domino Records, December 2020
2019
209 Women. Bluecoat Press, Liverpool
The Playground [photograph], Lesley Thomson, Head of Zeus
2018
Mud Girl in collaboration with Lotte Andersen. NiiJournal, London
100 Heroines Instagram takeover
Association of Photographers interview, September
Feature in Royal Photographic Society Journal, In Focus, Volume 158, November
Press for Portraits: Black and White by Pelham Communications Art PR Agency. London and New York
Somewhere else entirely (front cover and author photograph). Ruth Fainlight, Bloodaxe books, Hexham
30 Artists 30 Prints in collaboration with Lotte Andersen, Riposte in Aid of Amnesty International 70th Anniversary of the declaration of human rights. London.
Portraits: Black and White including an essay by Jonathan P. Watts. Anomie Publishing, Swindon UK.
The Death Chamber [photograph], Lesley Thomson, Head of Zeus.
2017
Peter Blake with his daughters [photograph], Catalogue “At work with Peter Blake” at Frieze Masters. Waddington Custot.
The Dog Walker [photograph], Lesley Thomson, Head of Zeus.
Eduardo and Anna Paolozzi [photograph], from the NPG Collection, used to promote Sir John Soane's Museum, London bid Museum of the Year.
Loretta Napoleoni [photograph], ISIS: The Terror Nation. (USA: Seven Stories Press and Penguin Random House, New York, Australia, Italy, Denmark, UK, Spain and Germany)
2016
Loretta Napoleoni [photograph], Merchants of Men (USA: Seven Stories Press and Penguin Random House, New York, Australia, Italy, Denmark, UK, Spain and Germany)
The House with no room [photograph], Lesley Thomson, Head of Zeus.
2015
Lucian Freud [photograph], Naked Portrait on a Red Sofa Dedicated Catalogue for Muse sale 3789 Christies New York - November.
2014
Ghost Girl [photograph], Lesley Thomson, Head of Zeus.
2013
A kind of Vanishing [photograph], Lesley Thomson, Myriad editions.
The Detective's daughter [photograph], Lesley Thomson. Head of Zeus.
2012
Marie-Claire, September, illustration and interview. G and V at Home: China, p. 172.
She-Bop-a-Lula 2012, Group exhibition catalogue, illustration and interview, The Strand Gallery, London. 7 March to April 1,Pp 16-17.
2011
Photography Monthly, Emily's people [photographs, articles and column]
“My best shot” Emily Andersen's best shot [photograph and interview] The Guardian (G2 Section) (26 September 2011), p. 23. London [online]
“My best shot” Emily Andersen's best shot [photograph and interview] [online], http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/25/photography-emily-andersen-best-shot
2010
Photography Monthly, "Emily's People", monthly column from April (Archant Specialist publ.)
Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris, by Lucian Randall, Simon and Schuster, pp132/133
Baking with Passion, by Dan Leppard and Richard Whittington, 23 ill., Quadrille
2009
The Jackson Twins, Intelligent Life (The Economist), Lithuanian edition, December, p55
Matchbox magazine, online review
Artdesk.com, best photographic book 2009 for Paradise Lost & Found; theartsdesk.com
Paradise Lost & Found, book launch, Hotshoe Publications / Mumford Fine Arts, London
Hotshoe Magazine, Aug/Sep 09, p4 text, essay / pp30-39, 5 ill.
Intelligent Life, The Economist, London, Sep 09, p65, ill. & text
2008
Digital Photography, London, Aug 08, pp62-65, 4 ill. & interview
Matchbox Magazine, June 08, ill. & interview
2007
Nottingham Trent University Postgraduate prospectus,
Image Magazine, Nov 07, p18, ill. & text
Emotion Magazine, Jul 07, pp36-43, 9 ill. & text
Travels of a Bothy Boy, cover illustration; Potting Shed Publications, England (author R.J. Corbin)
Baker and Spice - Exceptional cakes, Quadrille Publishing Ltd, London; 17 pages ill. and inside front cover; (authors: D. Lepard and R. Whittington) London
2006
Inside Out Magazine, launch issue (April), pp92-96, 6 ill.; News International, London
Inside Out Magazine, May 06, p27, 1 ill.; News Internation, London
Versteckte Paradiese, Süddeutsche Zeitung Nr 112, 16/05/06, p.56, 1 ill.
2005
Bird's Eye View, exhibition catalogue, Jenny Kerr (Ed) London, Medici Gallery, pp3/4, 3 ill.
Foto Pozytyw, 04, Poland, 5 ill., essay by D. Dmitruk (pp49-53), Poland
2003
Korean Photography, Fine Art section, pp 59-67, 13 ill., front cover, essay & interview w Jung A. Yang
Baking with passion, 2nd ed.; D. Lepard/R. Whittington, Quadrille, London
2002
She Bop 11, by Lucy O'Brien, Continuum, 2nd edition
National Portrait Gallery Collection, 14 ill.
2001
Naked Women, Quarto, London
Elle Deco, Japan, pp126-129, 12 ill.
2000
Black & White Photography: A Manifest Vision, by James Luciana, Rockport
Domus, issue 828, News IV section
1999
Baker & Spice, Quadrille
1997
Independent on Sunday, 02/02, Review
The Times, 27/09, Metro section, Kobal Winners
The British Journal of Photography, 5 years of John Kobal, Julian Rodriguez
1996
Our Mothers, Stuart, Tabori & Chang, New York
1995
ABSEA magazine, regular contributor
She Bop by Lucy O'Brien published by Penguin,
1994
Good Taste - Does Mother Know Best?, Sunday Telegraph 13/03, interview & ill.
The Guardian, The Guide, September
Time Out, Critic's Choice, Disrupted Borders review by Tania Guha
The Sexual Perspective, by Emmanual Cooper; Routledge, London
1993
Emily Andersen, - Black and White Photographs, exhibition catalogue
Francis Graham Dixon Gallery, London; essay by Fenella Crichton
The Independent, Photography section (illustrated)
Portraits of an Exhibition, Daily Express/Review, by Sam Taylor (illustrated)
1992
Artist of Colour, The Independent, by Dalya Alberge (illustrated)
1991
Ecstatic Antibodies, Rivers Oram Press, London/Boston
1990
Time Out, Dec.15/29, review by Sue Hubbard (illustrated)
On the beach, Treville Press, Tokyo
1989
Time Out, Preview/Art - ed. Sarah Kent
Time Out, Daily Telegraph, Aspects of Architecture (illustrated)
The Compelling Eye, Royal College of Art, London
Ten 8, issues 28/29
1987
City Limits, July, review by Nick Kimberly (illustrated)
Time Out, Critic's Choice, Disrupted Borders, review by Tania Guha
NME, July, review by Stuart Cosgrove (illustrated)
The Face, Aug, Bulletin (illustrated)
1986
Creative Camera, 8/9, The Body in Question, by Emmanuel Cooper
A Day in the Life of London, Jonathan Cape, London
The Sexual Perspective, by Emmanual Cooper, RKP, London
1982
Art Monthly, New Contemporaries 1982, by Betty Einzig
Awards
2009
Lottery funding through Arts Council of England Award for book publication 'Paradise Lost and Found'
2003
Millennium Award
2002
Millennium Award
1998
Independent on Sunday Black & White Photographic Award, runner-up
1997
John Kobal Portrait Award Winner for Innovative Portraiture
1994
The British Council Grant for exhibition in Canadian Museum of Photography, Ottawa
1991
Arts Council Award for Great Britain for 'The Ladies' Cabinet'
1990
Greater London Arts Award for 'The Ladies' Cabinet'
1988
GLAA award (work-in-progress) 'Women and their Fathers'
1987
The Photographer's Gallery Award for 'The Body Politic'
1983
Chesterton's Prize
3M Colour Prize
J Walter Thompson Award
Clients and Collaborators
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
LOWW Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
BOOKMARC gallery Tokyo,Japan
The Economist “Intelligent Life"
Marie Claire
Quadrille Publishing
Simon and Schuster
Farrow & Ball
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Oxford University Press
Heritage Lottery Fund
National Trust
John Brown Publishing
Hachette Publishing (Elle, Elle Decoration)
BBC World Service
Associated Newspapers
Daily Telegraph / Sunday Telegraph
News International
Random House Inc.
Harper Collins
Lectures and Teaching
Kingston University
Architectural Association
Nottingham Trent University
National Media Museum
Hull College of Art
Photographers’ Gallery
Links
Portfolio for the Association of Photographers
Babylon Falling (T La Rock Photograph)
Exhibition at the Strand Gallery
Exhibition at The Photographers Gallery
Public Collections
The Palace of Westminster
Tsinghua University Library, Beijing
The Contemporary Arts Society, London