Lot 428 - Anne Carney Raines - Gobo

Oil on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Hannah Tilson

About
Anne Carney Raines' practice is rooted in her background in scenic painting. Her canvases often depict staged spaces filled with curtains, murals, doorways, blocked passages, and rooms within rooms. Raines completed an MA in painting at the RCA in 2021 and is the three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.

Recent exhibitions include: ‘Drawing Biennial 2024’ (Drawing Room, London), ‘Drawing Attention’ (British Museum touring exhibition), Hopscotch (Soho Revue, London), ‘Pleasure Zones’ (Wilder Gallery, London), ‘Window,’ (Dans les Yeux, Paris). She currently lives and works in the UK.

Education
2019-2021
The Royal College of Art, London, MA Painting

2009-2014
Indiana University Bloomington, BFA Painting
History of Art Minor

Solo Exhibitions
2025
Kudzu Blue, Wilder Gallery, London, UK

2023
Hopscotch, Soho Revue Gallery, London, UK

2022
Pleasure Zones, Wilder Gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibitions
2024
Mind to Hand, Incubator Art Projects, London
Inside/Outside, Soho Revue, London
Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Room, London
Mi Basta Uno Scorcio, Rubedo Arts, Milan

2023
A British Museum Touring Exhibition, Drawing Attention, York Art Gallery, York, UK
Aggregate, Soho Revue Gallery, London
Window, Dans Les Yeux D’Elsa, Paris
Positions 1, Alma Pearl Gallery, London

2022
Uprising, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Gorne, Germany
New Contemporaries 2021, South London Gallery, London, UK

2021
London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Incubator 21 Duo Show, Marylebone, London, UK

Awards
2024
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 3

2021
Bloomberg New Contemporaries; Bloomberg Philanthropies, London, UK
Hine Painting Prize

2020
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 2

2019
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 1

Gallery Representation
Soho Revue Gallery, London, UK

Public Collections
British Museum – Department of Prints and Drawings, London, UK
Government Arts Collection, London, UK
Hine Collection, Jarnac, France
Soho House Collection, Nashville, USA, and London, UK

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
My background in scenic painting has drawn me to the stage and its many layers of reality. My paintings are similarly staged spaces that change with either the presence or absence of the figures inside them. There is an obsession with shadow in my work that has its root in Trompe L’oeil painting. In this way, I embrace the lies of painting and the fabrications of theatre to build a world within the works. I’m currently interested in ideas around collective memory of space, exterior/interior environments, and transitional places.