b. 1966 UK
Permanent residence: London UK
Awards
2019 1st Prize Single Portrait, Sony World Photography Awards – ‘BIRTH, a portrait of the artist Grayson Perry’
2018 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize: ‘Danel, 9, Children of Grenfell Tower’ & Erin, 13, Manchester Bombing’
2018 People’s Choice – Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize – ‘Danel, 9 from Children of Grenfell.’
2015 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize: ‘Women in the Street’
2014 1st Prize Moscow International Foto Awards/Politics ‘Ron & Roger’
2013 Overall Winner Photography Arte Laguna Prize ‘Boy #1, Boys in a City Park, Donbas, Ukraine’
2013 1st Prize Fine Art Documentary Prix de la Decouverte ‘Bather#5, from series Bathers UKR’
2011 Gold Award Prix de la Photography ‘Fat’
2009 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize: ‘Woman with Electrode Cap’
2008 Overall Winner Creative Review Photography Annual ‘Girl Standing in the Mud’
2008 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize: ‘Antony Gormley, London Studio’
2007 National Portrait Gallery Photographic Portrait Award: ‘Woman in Backyard with Rocking Horse’ from series ‘FAT’
2005 Schweppes Portrait Prize – National Portrait Gallery: ‘Peter Mandleson & Alistair Campbell’ & ‘Step Children in Love’
2003 Schweppes Portrait Prize – National Portrait Gallery: ‘Mary Archer’ and ‘Omar & Betty Swallocks’
2002 John Kobal Award – National Portrait Gallery: ‘Pedro Rizzo, from series Cage Fighters, Las Vegas’ and Chris & David, from series ‘Ron & Roger.’
Solo Exhibitions
2023 MUSE – A Portrait of Grayson Perry – Iconic Images Gallery
2023 Lewis – SELFIE – MOTHER London
2021 No Place Like Home, Elysium Gallery, Swansea / UWTSD Swansea School of Art / Swansea Fringe
2021 The Tale of Austin Callaway, Coventry Cathedral / Coventry City of Culture
2021 Love On Parade – Lucy Bell Gallery/ Hastings – St Leonards Esplanade
2020 Behind The Brutal Facade – The Aylesbury Estate
2019 BIRTH – Fitzrovia Chapel
2017 ‘Queers’ – National Portrait Gallery (projection)
2017 Toilet doors, Serpentine Gallery ‘Grayson Perry’
2017 Are You My Mum? – Hull UK City of Culture
2014 Toilet Doors, Grayson Perry ‘Who Are You’ National Portrait Gallery
2013 Tenderpixel Gallery, London – PORTRAITS ‘Untitled’ and ‘Lion Hunting in Essex’
2011 One For Sorrow – Amsterdam
2009 Tenderpixel Gallery ‘Richard Ansett’
2007 Tenderpixel Gallery ‘Richard Ansett’
2002 ‘Ron & Roger’ Candid Arts Trust
Group Exhibitions
2023 Take One A Day / *inc. MAN UP Zine, Spout Yard Park Gallery, Louth, Lincs.
2023 PhotoLondon – Iconic Images Gallery ‘American Road Trip: Portrait of Grayson Perry
2023 Photo North Festival / Leeds City of Culture – FAT
2022 Royal Photographic Society IPE 163 – SELFIE (collaboration with Lewis Fisher)
2022 PhotoLondon – Lucy Bell Gallery ‘Land of Hope & Glory’ / ‘American Dream’ – portraits of the artist Grayson Perry
2020 2020 Vision Project – Behind The Mask – an NHS Tribute
2019 SWPA – Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin – ‘BIRTH, a portrait of artist Grayson Perry’
2019 Photo North Festival – -Portrait ~Salon -“David and Benson, Hartlepool, 2019′ and ‘Peter and his Trains, 2019’
2019 Portrait Salon, Royal Photographic Society – ‘David and Benson, Hartlepool, 2019’ and ‘Peter and his Trains, 2019’
2019 Inspiring Photographs: Collecting For the Future, National Portrait Gallery, Room 29 ‘Laura Kuenssberg, 2019’
2019 Open Walls, ‘Home & Away’ Galerie Huit, Les Rencontres d’Arles
2019 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Somerset House, London
2019 FORMAT19 – ‘Forever/Now’, Derby, UK
2018 State of the World, Espace Beaurepaire, Paris. Curator: Hossein Farmani. ‘Mothers 2 Mothers, Malawi’
2018 Queer Arts Weekender, Shortwave Gallery, London – ‘Muybridge is a Queer.’
2017 Begira Photo Festival, Basque Country (Euskadi), Spain – ‘Der Hotchstfen, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria’
2017 The Male Gaze from Van Dyke to Lucian Freud, Scottich National Portrait Gallery ‘Grayson Perry, 2013’
2017 Foto Leggendo Festival, Rome* – ‘Geoff & Tina, Essex, 2016’
2017 Retina Festival, Edinburgh** – ‘Paul with Otto and Lucian, 2016’
2017 Belfast Photofestival ‘Geoff & Tina, Essex’* / ‘Paul with Otto & Lucian’ **
2017 Voies Off Festival, Arles* ‘Geoff & Tina, Essex’
2017 Arte Laguna Prize ‘Geoff & Tina, Essex’
2017 Gender, Transgender and Psychoanalysis – An exhibition ‘Geoff & Tina, Essex’
2017 Lens Culture Exposure Award exhibition* – ‘Geoff & Tina, Essex’
2016 RPS International Print Exhibition 159** ‘Paul with Otto & Lucian’
2016 UNICEF “What is Your Name?”, Arsenal, Kiev, UKR ‘Mother & Child, 2011’
2016 Uncertain States Annual, MileEnd Pavillion – ‘Paul with Otto and Lucian’.
2016 Arte Laguna Prize exhibition: ‘Mother & Daughter, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.’
2016 Tomorrow’s Child 1001 Critical Days, Houses of Parliament, London ‘Mother & Child #1’
2016 Scottish National Portrait Gallery – ‘Women in the Street, Page Hall, Sheffield, England, 2015’
2015 Uncertain States Annual – ‘Responsibility Is Yours, 2015’
2014 FotoBook Festival Dummy Award exhibition: ‘FAT’
2014 Impermeables, Serendipia Gallery, Madrid ‘Image_EPV0116, Woman with Sofa and House Plant
2014 UCS 5th Annual Exhibition ‘Image_4605 from series Doll’s House’
2014 National Portrait Gallery, London Contemporary Portraits ‘Grayson Perry, 2013’
2014 Candid Arts Trust Summer Exhibition ‘Image_4706 The Other Room’
2013 Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenale, Venice
2013 AUT3, National Museum Taras Shevchenko, Kiev, UKR ‘Boy #2 and Boy#4 from series Boys in a City Park, UKR’
2012 PARTLY CLOUDY, Izolyatsia Foundation for Cultural Initiatives, Ukraine Factory installation.
2012 Foto8 Summer Show ‘Boy with Head Injury #2, UKR’
2011 ALTERED STATES, Foley Gallery, NY ‘Laura, (girl fitting a wig)’
2011 Beyond Likeness: Contemporary Works, Portrait Gallery of Canada/Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Canada ‘David Cronenberg’
2011 The Open West ‘Woman with Dogs’ ‘Woman with Bandages’
2011 Project Basho Onward ’11 USA/Japan ‘NoCoatOn Fatal Attraction #9’
2011 ‘The Bottom Line’ Tenderpixel Gallery
2010 Renaissance Photography Prize exhibition: ‘NoCoatOn Fatal Attraction #9
2010 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition ‘NoCoatOn Fatal Attraction #9’
2010 DC FotoWeek International, USA ‘Woman with Electrode Cap #1’
2010 The Art of Photography, San Diego, USA – ‘Michael & Juegen, from series Ron & Roger’
2009 Russian Art Week St Petersburg / Moscow ‘Woman with Electrode Cap #1’
2002 Tate Modern Turbine Hall – ‘Ron & Roger’
Media
2022 Royal Photographic Society Journal – Lewis – SELFIE
2021 Reasons To Be Cheerful – ‘Richard Ansett’
2019 New Monsters – Zoom On Fashion Trends Magazine
2018 Royal Photographic Society Journal – ‘Children of Grenfell Tower’
2018 Portraits by Richard Ansett – Dodho Magazine
2018 Interview with Wake Up Screaming – Lynching in America
2018 Series of Dreams / Russell Joslin (Skeleton Key Press) – David Lynch.
2017 Ortzadar, Basque Country (Euskadi), Spain ‘Der Hotchstfen, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria’ (Cover)
2017 Sunday Express – “Message of love for my unknown mother.”
2016 Huffington Post – Discussion with Clair Rees, Adoption, Connection and Place – ‘Mother and Child’
2016 Interview “I Laughed, Loved, Cried..” – Bird In Flight
2016 Hunger Magazine – Helmut Newton – Master Gun for Hire
2016 The Guardian ‘My best Shot’ – Mother & Child #1
2016 Yield Magazine ‘Fracture & Healing..’ (incl. audio)
2016 Der Greif Magazine #9 ‘Jeremy & Grayson’
2015 Another Magazine ’20 Things you Didn’t Know About the Greatest Photographers’
2014 Photographer in Focus – National Portrait Gallery, London
2014 Hunger Magazine: ‘Film is Dead’
2014 Photographer’s Sketchbooks Thames & Hudson ‘Marie Louise with Toys’
2013 Hunger Magazine: Get to Know Richard Ansett
2012 Beyond Contemporary Art, Vivays Publishing ‘Woman with Electrode Cap #2’ ‘NoCoatOn Fatal Attraction #9’ ‘Woman in Backyard with Rocking Horse’
2012 Uncertain States 08 Cover – Woman with Electrode Cap #1
2012 Shots no.117 ‘Man in Camoflage with Sofa’
2011 Shots no.111 ‘Daniel, r.i.p.’
2011 Vice Magazine vol.9/no.11 ‘Dixie with Pistol’
2010 Washington Post ‘Spark of Humanity…’
2010 fotoMagazin, Germany ‘Thirteen Star Photographers and their Concepts’
2010 British Journal of Photography: How to Light People
2010 Vision Magazine, China ‘Ron & Roger’
2008 Shots no.100 ‘David Lynch’ (reverse cover b/w)
2008 Creative Review Photography Annual – ‘Girl Standing in Mud’
2007 FotoMagazin Cover interview ‘Pride and Vulnerability’
2004 British Journal of Photography Cover Interview ‘Hard Faced’
2002 Observer Magazine ‘Ron & Roger’
Collections
2023 National Portrait Gallery – Chris Packham (& Scratchy), New Forest, 2017 _CF011995
2022 National Portrait Gallery – Hilary Mantel 2017 _Cf010403
2022 Martin Parr Foundation – ‘Behind The Brutal Facade’ original posters (x9)
2022 National Library of Wales – ‘No Place Like Home’ and miscellaneous archive
2019 National Library & Archives of Canada – Professor Margaret MacMillan
2018 National Portrait Gallery, London ‘Barry Davies’
2018 Huntingdon Library, CA. Hilary Mantel archive / Hilary Mantel 2017 _Cf010403
2018 Equal Justice Initiative, AL. ‘Lynching in America’
2017 National Portrait Gallery, London ‘Martin Parr’
2017 National Portrait Gallery, London ‘Liz Smith, Brighton Seafront’
2017 National Portrait Gallery, London ‘Louis Theroux, Studio’
2016 Brighton Museum & Art Gallery ‘Grayson Perry’
2016 National Portrait Gallery, London ‘Stephen Hawking, Cambridge University’
2014 National Portrait Gallery, London ‘Grayson Perry, Tate Modern’
2013 Bibliothèque Nationale de France ‘Bather #5, from series ‘Bathers, Donetsk, Ukraine’
2012 Bibliothèque Nationale de France ‘Boy with Head Injury #1, Donbas, Ukraine’
2010 Musee de la Photographie, Belgium ‘Mirriam & Alf’
2010 National Portrait Gallery, London ‘Andrew Gilligan’
2008 National Portrait Gallery, London ‘Charlie Hill’
2008 National Portrait Gallery, London ‘Alistair Campbell & Peter Mandleson’
2006 Smithsonian Institute, USA ‘David Lynch’
2006 National Archives of Canada ‘David Cronenberg’
2006 National Portrait Gallery, London ‘Alison Lapper’ ‘Mary Archer’ ‘Nigel Slater’ ‘Darcus Howe’
2006 Hall Carpenter Archive, British Library of Political & Economic Science ‘Ron & Roger, 2001 -2002’
Education
1984 HND Editorial & Advertising Photography. Rochester School of Art & Design
Lectures, Talks, Presentations
2024 Folio Friday / The Photographers Gallery
2023 MUSE: A Portrait of Grayson Perry – In Conversation with Carrie Kania/Iconic Images Gallery
2023 Lewis SELFIE – Talk with Lewis Fisher at MOTHER London
2023 FAT – In conversation with Philippa Perry – Photo North Festival
2023 In conversation with Sir Grayson Perry with Janet Hardie, senior specialist modern British/Irish art, Bonhams, London.
2022 – Royal Photographic Society – SELFIE (with Lewis Fisher)
2022 An American Lynching – Leicester History Festival
2021 What Does Photography Mean to Me? – A photographic Life The UN of Photography
2021 No Place Like Home / Ethics in Photographic Practice & the Artists Gaze – Elysium Gallery
2021 Photojournalism Hub -How has Covid-19 and Brexit impacted the LGBTQ+ communities?
2020 Richard Ansett Interview – Summer Shutdown Fest
2020 Swansea College of Art, University of Wales, Trinity St David
2019 World Photography Organisation, The Photography Show, NEC, Birmingham
2019 Negotiating with the Heteronormative State – Fitzrovia Chapel
2019 Can Photography really be Art? – Fitzrovia Chapel
2017 Hull City of Culture (film): Richard Ansett – the artist behind Are You My Mum?
2017 BBC Radio Humberside “Are You My Mum?”
2016 Artist Talk / Portrait Workshop IZOLYATSIA FOUNDATION, Kiev, UKR
2016 ‘Mother & Child’ UNICEF “What is Your Name?”, Kiev Arsenal, UKR
2016 OCADU & University of Guelph-Humber, Toronto – Portraiture
2015 ‘Marie Louise with Toys and Flowers’, Photographer’s Sketchbooks, Photographer’s Gallery, London
2011 Izolyatsia Foundation, UKR
2011 The Open West
Residencies
2023 Take One a Day, Lincs.
2021 Coventry Cathedral – The Tale of Austin Callaway
2021 UWTSD Swansea School of Art
2011 IZOLYATSIA Foundation for Cultural Initiatives, Ukraine
Books / Zines
2023 Muse – A Portrait of Grayson Perry / ACC Art Books
2023 MAN UP (Zine) Edition 100 / Designer: Berenice Guzzo
2018 American Road Trip (Zine) /Designer: Dima Sergev) SOLD OUT
2013 FAT 2x dummy / designed by Boris Kajmak
Curatorial Projects
2012 ‘I LOVE YOU’ Tenderpixel Gallery, London