pastel and ink drawing of a rusty hole in Thames barge  2022


                                    
​                        Artist Statement    
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    Angenita Teekens is an established artist with 25 years of experience in facilitating community art projects. She studied at the Art academy in Tilburg, Netherlands gaining a teaching qualification in Art, Design and Dutch. Later she  gained a Master’s degree in Sculptural Practice from the University in Essex, England. Her own practice  revolves around the  Blackwater Estuary.

   Her work as a community artist spans 3 decades, she has worked with Essex galleries, schools, local community groups and charities.
   She is convinced that the way forward to a socially and environmentally sustainable world can be achieved by using creative expressions to connect  people of all backgrounds  to their communities and natural environment. 

    The restoration project, “Coastal Park “by Angenita at the Othona Community was highly commended by Maldon District Council in their conservation and design award scheme 2016.

   In 2021 she received a grant from the Arts Council to look at the relationship between the ocean and old industries and in particular the Nuclear Industry. 
  In 2022 she successfully applied for a National Heritage Lottery Grant on behalf of Acorn Villages to design a garden and  heritage walk and Apple pressing space, working with local schools and care homes.

   She a member of Arts Network and has full public liability insurance.  

                                   Commissions, publications, awards​ and exhibitions

  • Commissions
  • May 2022 - Commissioned to produce a artwork for `wrabness Wildlife Garden for the Bee Friendly society working with Acorn Artists
  • August 2022 - January 2025, Successfully Commissioned by Acorn Villages to apply for and implement a National Heritage Lottery Grant to achieve "a closer connectedness to Nature" for their service users. Designing a garden, walk and outdoor Artwork.
  • January – May 2019, A commission for Heritage Solutions, Sanctuary and Surrender, Working with a group of volunteers in Harwich. ‘196 jumpers, a community textile artwork commemorating the kindertransport’
  • July 2017 - September 2018, A commission from Acorn Villages supported by Essex County Council, Acorn Village and Essex & South Suffolk CRP, working with artists with learning difficulties, Manningtree Railway Station ‘On Tracks and Art in the Tunnel’, received 3rd Price for involving diverse groups.
  • July 2015 - June 2016, A Commission for The Othona Community, Redesigning and old Pigsty as an outdoor Classroom, including artworks and redesigning the landscape.
  • Publications and Awards
  • Spring 2021 -  DYCP grant award for research project ' Swimming the Nuclear'.
  • Spring 2018 - publication of 'Anna's Dress' article in The Phycologist Number 94, 
  • January 2018 - Talk and exhibition at The British Phycological Annual General Meeting in Southend
  • July 2017 - received Bursary from the collector’s group First Site to develop the process of blue printing on a large scale.
  • January 2016 - presented a talk about the Othona Coastal Park project at Sir John Cass School of Art, London.
  • 2016 - Othona Coastal Park receives Conservation and Design Award from Maldon District Council.
  • 2016 - Art Exchange, Essex University gallery, the cyanotype, ‘Othona reeds’ awarded first prize in the current student entry.
  • 2015 - First Site Open Exhibition Cyanotype ‘Othona Reeds’ selected for the spectator’s gallery, Colchester
  • Exhibitions
  • 2024 - Between the tides festival , Walton on the Naze, window exhibition "Anna's Dress"
  • 2023 - Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Radiant objects: encounters in the nuclear age
  • 2022 - Pop up exhibition at Bradwell-on-Sea, Swimming the Nuclear.
  • 2018 - The Tower Walton on the Naze, Blue prints, Berm plants.
  • 2018 - Open gardens Exhibition, blue prints, Old House Farm, Great Horkesley
  • 2017 - Tower at Walton on the Naze September 2017, Ode to Anna Atkins Victorian Botanist and Photographer. 
  • 2016 - MA show, The Minories Art Gallery, Cyanotype Prints and presentation of The Othona Coastal Park Project, Colchester
  • 2016 - Art Exchange, Essex University, Cyanotype Print. 
  • 2015 - The Minories gallery, MA show, Cyanotype prints, Colchester
  • 2015 - Firstsite Open Exhibition, ' Othona Reeds ' 
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contact details 
email: [email protected]
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