Annie Kevans 1:
In her first series of paintings, ‘Boys’, Annie recreated tyrants and dictators as wide-eyed toddlers. Her second series, ‘Girls’, questioned our collusion in the deification and commodification of girls such as Britney Spears and Shirley Temple and looked at the continuing media-led sexualisation of childhood. The process of self invention, innocence and culpability touches both series differently. ‘Boys’ was bought by Charles Saatchi from Annie’s graduation show from Central St Martin’s and will be shown in ‘The Power of Paper’ in the new Saatchi Gallery. Annie was a finalist in the Jerwood Drawing Prize and a finalist in the ‘Women of the Future’ Awards. Her work has appeared on ‘Have I Got News for You’ and on BBC1 news.
