Anne-Katrin Purkiss
Anne-Katrin Purkiss is a photographer, born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germany in 1959 and moving to Britain in 1984 after graduating from University of Leipzig in 1983. Her father :de:Joachim Seyffarth|Joachim Seyffarth was a German curator of monuments and photographer.
Her Sculptors project documented sculptors in their working environment and includes portraits of Elisabeth Frink, Kenneth Armitage, Andy Goldsworthy, Sir Anthony Caro and Lynn Chadwick.
A collection of her portraits of British scientists is held by the Royal Society and was shown in part in a display at the National Portrait Gallery, including portraits of Sir Alec Jeffreys, Lord Darzi, Sir Martin Evans, Sir Tim Hunt and Dame Louise Johnson.
She compiled photographic records of the restoration of the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, between 2008 and 2011 and of J.M.W. Turner’s House Sandycombe Lodge in Twickenham, London, from 2016 to 2017.
Her early work includes a large number of photographs of her childhood and youth in the GDR which is catalogued in the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
She works primarily in black-and-white, using available light and Hasselblad.There are over 100 photographic portraits by Purkiss in the National Portrait Gallery collection including portraits of Denis Thatcher, Enoch Powell, Simon Rattle and Georg Solti. Further images are in the collections of the Library of the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society in London, the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, the Arts Council Archive and in the archives of the Tate Gallery.Publications
Local Faces Orleans House Gallery
Sculptors 1986-2007 Orleans House Gallery
Images of the GDR akg-images
Scientists 1985-2010
Artists at Home and at Work The Gainsborough's House Society
Sculptors 1986-2016 Miriquidi Books ; foreword by Peter Murray and Adrian Glew, archivist at The Tate Gallery.
Anthony Eyton - Studio pictures Miriquidi BooksIllustrations to publications
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
- Poland – European Tiger, Euromoney Books 1993
- Finland – A Coming of Age, Euromoney Books, 1996
- The lost Palace of Whitehall, RIBA, 1998
- Postman's Park: G.F.Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice Watts Gallery, 2008
- Watts Chapel: A Guide to the Symbols of Mary Watts's Arts and Crafts Masterpiece, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2010,
- An Artists’ Village, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2011,
- Paolo Cavinato – Constellation, Royal British Society of Sculptors, 2011
- SKULPTUR, Hatje Cantz, 2015
- "Secrets of the High Woods", South Downs National Park Authority, 2016
- "Sculpture Shock - Site-specific interventions", Black Dog Publishing, 2016
- "J.M.W. Turner’s House - The conservation of Sandycombe Lodge in Twickenham", 2016/17, Turner’s House Trust, 2017
- "John Hitchens - Aspects of Landscape".
Portraits of Purkiss
The National Portrait Gallery collection has a 1994 print of Purkiss by Alan Symes.
