Ann Kopka is a multidisciplinary visual artist. She has exhibited her work extensively in art galleries, art centres, museums, hospitals, churches, libraries, virtual galleries and non-conventional spaces in London, the UK, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, Slovenia and the USA. Ann has also been selected for several solo exhibitions including at The Cavendish Conference Centre London and the Barbican Centre Library London. Her work is held in private collections in the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, the USA and Australia.
Her work has been used to inspire students of all ages, from primary school children to art college students and has been the subject of GCSE art projects. She has participated in collaborative exhibitions with jazz musicians, poets, writers, architects, and designers. Ann also makes work for, exhibits in and donates work to charity fund raising exhibitions.
Ann’s art practice encompasses painting, 2D and 3D mixed media, digital art, photography and installation. Her current interests are informed by her fascination with the relationships between geometry, design, and architecture in both the urban landscape and natural world. With a visual emphasis on exploring the relationships between structure and scale, repetition and pattern, colour and rhythm, her artworks hover between the representation of recognisable images and the non-traditional formal repetition of shapes and structures prevalent in abstract art.
Ann studied Fine Art at Central St Martins College of Art and Design and The City Lit London. She graduated from the Open University with First-Class Honours, studying The Practices and Debates of Modern Art for part of her degree. Ann studied Museum Curating at The Tate Modern and contemporary curating at The City Lit London.
Ann’s numerous volunteering roles included organising and curating exhibitions at the Heath Robinson Museum London, curating fundraising exhibitions for the museum, organising all aspects of publicity for Pinner Sketch Club exhibitions for many years, publicity work for Harrow Open Studios, curating exhibitions in the local community including for Pinner Arts Week and Pinner Parish Church.
Ann is a member of The Free Painters and Sculptors, an independent artists co-operative, and is an artist Friend of Harrow Open Studios.