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= Ann Noël =

Ann Noël born 1944 England, grew up on Jersey, Channel Islands is a British artist associated with the Fluxus movement. Ann Noël has lived and worked in Berlin since 1980 and was married to the American artist and poet Emmett Williams. Noël’s artistic practice integrate performance, sculptures, painting, graphic design, printmaking, and photography.

Early life and career
Ann Noël studied in the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham. Experimental printmaking involving concrete poetry, design concepts and the artist book became important for Noël's work. After graduating with a diploma in graphic arts and design in 1968, she was invited to Stuttgart, Germany, to work with publisher Hansjörg Mayer. End of 1968, she moved to New York to work as an assistant to Dick Higgins at the Something Else Press where Emmett Williams was the editor in chief at that time. From 1970-1972, in addition to developing her own creative work, she was the graphic workshop supervisor at the California Institute of the Arts, LA and became involved with the women’s design-program working with Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and Suzanne Lacy. From 1972-1974 Noël lectured in printmaking at the NSCAD University, Halifax Canada, where she sat up a silk-screen studio. In 1973 she gave birth to her son Garry Williams. From 1978-1980 Noël was a Visiting Artist at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1980 Noël and Williams moved to Berlin with the DAAD program which became their city of residence.

Works
Starting a diary in 1968- a day by day diary up to today - recording all meeting, events, projects and exhibitions, Noël’s writing became a record of an artist life and developments of ideas. Working in graphic workshops Noël started to do editions, Mail-art, large posterprints and artist books. Noël became involved with the Women’s Design Workshop at CAL Arts, a design-group publishing 'broadsheets Nr 1' about feminism and design. Noël printed several editions of prints by Emmett Williams with a grant from the national Endowments of the Arts. Noël worked as a printmaker for the visiting artists in the Cal Arts program and later at Harvard University, among other Jim Dine, Robert Motherwell and Arthur Miller.

In the beginning of the eighties Noël became involved with performance in the Fluxus Movement. In 1984 Noël performed with Williams the work ‘Spirale' at the Academy die Künste, Berlin. In 1985 she took part in the 'Festival of Fantastics' in Roskilde - organised by danish artist Erik Andersen ten international artists all closely associated with Fluxus presented a series of events, performances, concerts and actions all over Roskilde and the surrounding area.

Noël worked with Francesco Conz in Italy making edition on cloth and contributed a design for piano. In 2008 Noel published a book with Conz with a handwritten recording of all the Fluxus events during the 80es and 90es.

Ann Noël graphic work has been exhibited internationally. Ann Noël's Catalogue Raisonné will appear in 2022 with works throughout her life supported by Stiftung Kunstfond in Bonn.

Artists books (in selection)

 * 1982 “You”. Artist book by Ann Noël in Edition A4. Rainer Verlag, Berlin.
 * 1982 “You”. Artist book by Ann Noël in Edition A6 by DAAD gallery and Rainer Verlag, Berlin.
 * 1983 “VINTAGE”. Artist book by Ann Noël. Rainer Verlag, Berlin.
 * 1984 “CONFLUX”. Artist book by Ann Noël. Rainer Verlag, Berlin.
 * 1984 “Spirale”. Performance with Emmett Williams, script by Ann Noël in 1984. Published by Argobooks Berlin 2020.
 * 1985 “CYMBOLS”. Artist book by Ann Noël, Rainer Verlag, Berlin.
 * 1989 “Arabics” Artist book by Ann Noël. Rainer Verlag, Berlin.
 * 1989 “10 lettere da Berolino”. Artist book by Ann Noël. Pari e Dispari, Reggio Eliia, Italy.
 * 1990 The independent book publishing: Edition Noël is founded. These editions encompass graphics, visual diaries, wall works, postcards, boxes and portable art exhibitions.

Exhibitions (in selection)

 * 1999 "GIVE & TAKE" Projekt und Ausstellung, Liverpool Biennale, TRACES, Liverpool, UK
 * 2003 "Hommage à Robert Filliou", performances at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
 * 2004 "FOUR-LETTER WORDS", Biennale of Art in Lodz, Poland.
 * 2005 "Fama Fluxus / Mythos Beuys", with Ben Patterson and Emmett Williams. Kunst + Projekte Sindelfingen eV.
 * 2006 "Fukui Fluxus Festival", Exhibition with Ay-O, Ann Noël and Emmett Williams. City of Ono, Japan.
 * 2008 Ann Noël, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada.
 * 2008 "FLUX-FOLK", museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam with Eric Andersen, Wolfgang Hainke, Ann Noël and Ben Patterson.
 * 2010 "IN AND OUT THE WINDOW", with Alison Knowles, Museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam.
 * 2015 Constellations, Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, Ruskin Gallery at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England
 * 2018 "Umbruch These" at FREEHOME - Artist to Artist, Berlin.
 * 2018 PAO Festival,, 3.days of performances in Oslo, Norway.
 * 2020 Pause: Broken Sounds: Remote Music, prepared pianos from the Francesco Conz Collection, KW-Institute, Berlin