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Annabel Tilley

20 Scenes From My Bedroom Window

Annabel Tilley worked in design journalism and then in the City before she went back to train as an artist at Hastings College of Art and Design and University of Brighton. Tilley is interested in contemporary drawing practice, and drawing objects that suggest the banality of life, like a radiator valve or aspects of a hotel room copied from the internet using the 360 degree viewing device. She is currently studying for an MA in colonial studies with the Open University.

Tilley now lives in Hastings but as a ten-year-old in the 70s she lived in Littlestone-on-Sea for a year . She recently discovered some local guidebooks dating back to the 50s & 60s amongst her parents books and became fascinated by their indexes. These lists contain all the possibilities, potential dreams, places to go, places to escape to and things to see. Inspired by this Tilley has made drawings influenced by the 'index' of Kent travel guides that list Greatstone.

Annabel Tilley's recent exhibitions include ArtSway Open 2006 and The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2005 in 2003 she was awarded the Alan Davie Memorial Prize.