Books & Catalogues
'Green: A Nomenclature for Contemporary Living' in 'Place: Home,' Bath Spa University Art Research Centre, 2022
'Green Truth - the forest as a unique creative space,' in 'Evolving the Forest,'
art.earth publishing,
ISBN 9780995719637, 2020 click here
‘Being with Trees,’ Plato-Beale Productions, ISBN 978-0-9555510-3-1, 2020
'EMPATHY', Canwood Gallery, ISBN 9781527227538, 2018
‘The Arborealists: The Art of Trees/Les Arboréalistes: L’art des arbres’, Plato-Beale Productions, ISBN 9780955551055, 2017
‘Der Baum und ich: meine persönliche Baumgeschichte’, Zentrum Paul Klee, Zurich, Archival Collection 2016
'The Arborealists: The Art of the Tree', (co-author, author of the main essay ‘Why do Artists Paint Trees?’ and featured artist) Sansom & Company, ISBN9781908326867, 2016
’Landscape Painting and the Role of Memory: an Artist’s Approach’ (illustrated catalogue essay) Angela Summerfield, in ‘Affecting Perception: Art & Neuroscience’, O3 Gallery, Oxford, 2013 click here
‘Who’s Who in Art’ (35th and subsequent editions) 2012
Articles
'Experience of Wonder: Wonderment,' in 'Mayfair Life,' November 2021 click here
'Picture This,' Kit Buchan in Broadleaf Magazine (Autumn Issue) 2019
‘Bark with Plenty of Bite: three complementary exhibitions reveal the calming qualities of trees and their rich possibilities’, Rachel Cooke in ‘The Guardian’ and ‘The Observer’, 31st December 2017
‘Feminism and Contemporary Landscape Practice Meets ‘The Art of Trees’, International Association of Art Critics (AICA) UK Website, December 2017
'The Forest's Music (The Life of the Forest)' oil painting reproduced in 'Leaf' Spring Issue, 2017, p4
'Garden History', book review of 'The Arborealists: The Art of the Tree', Winter 2016
'The British Art Journal', book review of 'Arborealists: The Art of the Tree', Autumn 2016
‘The Changing Face of the British Landscape’, Rachel Campbell-Johnston in ‘The Times’, 30th April 2016
‘Landscape Painting to the Fore: Angela Summerfield adds layers of meaning to elevate the genre’, James Brewer in ‘All About Shipping - London’s Maritime Business Forum’, May 2013 click here
‘Striking Exhibition Celebrates Landscape’ (illus.) in ‘The Darlington & Stockton Times’, 20th July 2012
Member of Space Place Practice : a UK artists’ research collective - www.spaceplacepractice.com
Member of the Walking Artists Network - www.walkingartistsnetwork.org
Artist: founder and curator of The Memory Collective, a UK not-for-profit exhibitions and projects-based
organisation: www.thememorycollective.co.uk
Art Critic: Art critic for ‘The Spectator’ (2000-2013). 100+ articles for other publications which include
‘Apollo’, ‘The Art Book’, ‘Art Review’, ‘Cassone: The International Online Magazine of Art & Art Books’,
‘Galleries’, ‘Modern Painters’, ‘Print Quarterly’, ‘RA Magazine’, ‘RSA Journal’ and ‘SCAN Magazine’.
Art Historian: Catalogue essays and extended catalogue entries on contemporary, modern and historical art for public institutions and commercial galleries: these include Leeds City Art Gallery; The Walker Art Gallery (National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside); Royal Academy of Arts (London); Rabley Drawing Centre (Wiltshire), Stephanie Hoppen Fine Art Gallery (London) and AXNS (Oxford). Public Lectures & Talks: (include) National Gallery (History Study Group Lecture), Royal Academy (Gallery Talks), V & A Museum (Symposium Lecture), The Walker Art Gallery (Gallery Talks) and The Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Symposium Lecture).
Art Curator (starting with the most recent): Founder & Curator of The Memory Collective (London); previously Senior Curator (Paintings and Sculpture) Royal Academy of Arts; and Assistant Keeper (British Art), Walker Art Gallery (National Galleries and Museums on Merseyside).
LONDON ART FAIRS
AAF Battersea, Noon Powell Fine Art, March 2022
AAF Battersea, Noon Powell Fine Art, July 2021
Fresh Art Fair, Ascot, Wetpaint Gallery, September 2019
AAF Battersea, Autumn 2015
Art in Marylebone, June 2013
The Fulham Palace Art & Craft Fair, May 2013
The Other Art Fair, November 2012
National Tree Week, The Tree Council 2020, invited speaker
The Times and The Sunday Times, Cheltenham Literature Festival 2019, Woodland Trust Event: The Art of Trees, invited speaker
Being Human Festival, Humanising Medicine exhibition, St Bart’s Hospital, London, November 2019
Changing Times, Little Buckland Gallery, Broadway Arts Festival, Worcestershire 2014
Tudor Barn Arts, Greenwich Arts Festival, London 2011
The Festival of Yorkshire: God's Own Country, Weston Park Museum, Sheffield.
Artist as photographer: photographic stills included in the film launch June 2017
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries 2014, 2002
The Threadneedle Prize (short-listed for exhibition) 2013
John Moores Painting Prize (short-listed for exhibition) 2012
The National Open Art Competition (short-listed for exhibition) 2012
Singer Friedlander/The Sunday Times Competition, Mall Galleries & UK Tour 2004
LONDON COMPETITION-EXHIBITIONS
Chelsea Art Society (Open Section) 2011, 2008
Art Liberating Lives (in aid of the Sue Ryder Charity) Mall Galleries 2009
Cork Street Open 2009
Deptford X 2008, 2007
Southwark Open 2007
LONDON CURATED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Experience of Wonder: Wonderment, Noon Powell Fine Art 2021
Being with Trees, Art Bermondsey Project Space 2021
The Arborealists: The Art of Trees, Art Bermondsey Project Space 2017-2018
Fight for Sight, Menier Gallery 2013
Cold Climate, Occupy My Time Gallery, Deptford 2013
A Walk in the Park: Artworks inspired by Greenwich Royal Park and Blackheath, Studio 61 Gallery 2012
The Landscape of Memory, inaugural exhibition of The Memory Collective, supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy,
NoFormat Gallery 2012
Stairway to Heaven Memorial Trust Charity Auction, RichMix, Shoreditch 2011
Second Floor Studios & Arts, Woolwich 2011, 2010
Arthub, Deptford 2009, 2008
Courtauld Alumni, The Arts Club 2009
Frameworks, Deptford 2007, 2006
UK CURATED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (OTHER THAN LONDON)
In the Open [Arts Council-funded exhibition], The Gallery, Ryedale Folk Museum, North Yorkshire 2021
The Narrative of Trees, Gallery East, Suffolk 2020-2021
The Aborealists, The National Memorial Arboretum (NMA) 2019-2020
The Arborealists and Invited Artists, Fyne Court (National Trust), Somerset 2019
Art in the City, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester 2019
EMPATHY: paintings, prints and sculptures by Angela and Caroline Summerfield, Canwood Gallery, Herefordshire 2018
The Arborealists and Invited Artists, Nature in Art (NIA), Gloucestershire 2017
Arborealists: The Art of Trees, Mottisfont Abbey (National Trust) 2016
The Arborealists, St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Hampshire 2016
A Celebration of Yorkshire, Chantry House Gallery, Ripley 2012
Your Place: 60 Years of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park [Arts Council-funded exhibition], Inspired by Gallery, The Moors National Park Centre, Danby 2012
LONDON SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Tree Lives: a celebration of our Green Canopies, Noon Powell Fine Art 2022
A Sense of Light, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital (London’s flagship “art hospital”) 2010
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany and USA
OTHER COLLECTIONS
Greenwich & Bexley Cottage Hospice, UK