CATHERINE HAINES
&
ANA MILENKOVIC
12 April to 13 May 2022
Opening Party: Tuesday 12 April 6 - 8pm
School Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Catherine Haines & Ana Milenkovic. This is the first exhibition in a series of experimental pairings at School for 2022.
Catherine Haines was born in Cornwall in 1979. At 18 she studied for one year at Falmouth School of Art, from there she went onto study fashion at Central St Martins in London. She cut her teeth in the fashion industry working for designers: Copperwheat Blundell, Magnus Magnussen, and Myoung-Hee Zo in London, Milan, Copenhagen and Seoul. Her love of drawing led her to textile design, and she decided to move her studio back to Cornwall. During this phase, she wanted to learn more drawing techniques and learnt how to make etchings under the tuition of John Howard, Master Printmaker in Falmouth. From 2007-2009 she returned to London to complete an MA in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. She won the Villier David Prize in 2007 and travelled to Mexico City to meet Artist and Printmaker Agustin Gonzalez. A year later she returned once again to live and work in Cornwall. Now predominantly a painter and printmaker, she has exhibited at Tate St Ives, Borlase Smart Space, PayneShurvell, Suffolk and London, Invisible Print Studio, London and Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall. Catherine currently lives and works in Newlyn, Penzance.
Ana Milenkovic (b. 1988, Belgrade, Serbia) graduated from Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, and Faculty of Fine Art, University of Arts Belgrade, Serbia. She was winner of The Griffin Art Prize 2016, winner of UAL/Clifford Chance Sculpture Award 2015, and Award for Creative Innovation from the Miloš Bajic Fund. In 2012 Ana was awarded KulturKontakt Austria Scholarship for the Summer International Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria, as well as Dean’s Scholarship for Traunkirchen Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria. Recent exhibitions include The Ingram Collection’s inaugural Purchase Prize Exhibition for Young Contemporary Talent, Griffin Art Prize Shortlist exhibition, Selected Paintings, presented by PayneShurvell and solo exhibition at Clifford Chance headquarters in London.
All the experimental 2 person exhibitions will be archived in a publication with a unique piece of writing for each show.